relaxinghobby Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On 11/07/2019 at 20:50, Ruston said: Thanks for showing us this model, it reminds me of a loco body I pickup cheap and thought that needs a chassis making sometime. First step is a drawing so I borrowed your image to trace and sketch one out and when I get home I can check the dimensions. Modelling with just a lap top. Assuming the wheels are 3foot diameter here it is... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted October 4, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 The salt van, which will carry salt for glazing pipes at the pipe works, is finished. I made my own transfers and they're not the best, so the wagon has been heavily weathered in an attempt to blend them in. The transfers were made by printing grey on to clear decal paper. The off-white is paint that was applied to the wagon before putting on the transfers and the grey paint of the rest of the body was touched in around the transfers after they were applied. A coat of clear acrylic varnish went over the paint and a wash of 'soft tone' ink went over that before small touches of weathering powders to finish. 23 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off Tackle Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 This is a really inspiring layout and a great thread. Nice work! (also we were going to call our band 'The Viaduct Looms' - we didn't, but it's a top set of lyrics.....) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Off Tackle said: This is a really inspiring layout and a great thread. Nice work! (also we were going to call our band 'The Viaduct Looms' - we didn't, but it's a top set of lyrics.....) Is your layout set in 1920s Small Heath, Birmingham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-TXr0CbKI Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted October 11, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2019 A few more little jobs have been done, recently. A while back, someone suggested putting a mirror behind the bridge and that's what I have done. I found some styrene sheet with a mirror finish on sale in my local model shop and bought some. Being styrene, it cuts just as easily as expected. To prevent passengers from possibly falling off the path I have made a fence. More wagonry. I've had one of these Hornby wagons for a while but whilst looking on ebay I found that there were at least two slightly different other versions made. I already had No.42 and ordered 39 and 36, from seperate sellers. 39 arrived fine but 36 turned out to be another 42. After a message to the seller it became apparent that they had stolen the photo for their listing from the internet and so they offered my money back if I wanted to return it, or 50% back if I wanted to keep it. I kept it and painted over the number 2, so I now have No.4. No.39 and No.42. All have been fitted with my self-made 3-link couplings and drawhooks. I have also replaced the Hornby straight-spoke wheels with Gibson split-spokes and have cut off the stumpy little moulded buffers and have replaced them with cast whitemetal buffers from Lanarkshire Models. Naturally, they have all been weathered and removable loads of Yorkshire coal added. 19 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off Tackle Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 23 hours ago, Ruston said: Is your layout set in 1920s Small Heath, Birmingham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-TXr0CbKI I read a great quote about Nick Cave - 'at 62, he's still the coolest guy in any room'. The mirror works really well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted October 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2019 This layout just gets better and better! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Fantastic layout, I must go back over it with a notebook. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1722 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 On 11/10/2019 at 18:55, Ruston said: A great scene. Excellent work and the mirror works wonderfully. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 The scratch-built Gloucester coal wagon is now finished and in service. Another scratch-built body, on Ratio frames, coal wagon has also entered service. This livery is intended to be the company's earlier version of livery/lettering. The big Peckett now has a name. 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2019 1 hour ago, Ruston said: The scratch-built Gloucester coal wagon is now finished and in service. Umm, is this an unusual prototype, Dave? Normally the diagonal ironwork runs to the solebar (as indicated on your model, where the end is poking out), per the red line on the attached, and the bolt heads would be more or less where I have indicated in Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 3 hours ago, Regularity said: Umm, is this an unusual prototype, Dave? Normally the diagonal ironwork runs to the solebar (as indicated on your model, where the end is poking out), per the red line on the attached, and the bolt heads would be more or less where I have indicated in Now you come to mention it, you're right. I'll be buffered if I'm changing it now though! It's a "layout" wagon, as are they all. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2019 You have to be a real nerd to notice these things! Happy to wear that badge - but also the one which says, “layout quality is fine”, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 4 hours ago, Regularity said: You have to be a real nerd to notice these things! Happy to wear that badge - but also the one which says, “layout quality is fine”, too. You know that now I know, and despite what I said, I will have to go back and try to scrape those bolt heads off now. They look huge anyway. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2019 Sorry about that. If it’s any consolation, I have a 6 wheel brakevan where I inexplicably measured the wheelbase off drawing correctly at 11’, then carefully marked out the the outer axles 5’ each side of the centre line. It had steps at each end in addition to running boards, and I had the devil of a job getting them to line up with the body and the axleboxes as per the photo and drawing. Didn’t occur to me to recheck the measurements until after I had painted both the frames and the body, and then permanently glued them together. It has been wrong for 23 years now, and yes, it does bug me still. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Managing Director Ozias Harding looks down from the octagonal tower in his home, Egypt House, views the railway's latest addition to the motive power roster and decides what name it should carry. Build details here - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/146211-scratchbuilding-a-stephenson-long-boiler-4-4-0st-in-4mm/ 11 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Ruston said: Managing Director Ozias Harding looks down from the octagonal tower in his home, Egypt House, views the railway's latest addition to the motive power roster and decides what name it should carry. Build details here - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/146211-scratchbuilding-a-stephenson-long-boiler-4-4-0st-in-4mm/ Hi Dave, If Ozias Harding lives in Egypt House then perhaps his latest acquisition ought to be called Ptolemy. A quality Egyptian name for a locomotive if ever there was one ! Gibbo. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Dave, If Ozias Harding lives in Egypt House then perhaps his latest acquisition ought to be called Ptolemy. A quality Egyptian name for a locomotive if ever there was one ! Gibbo. Thoth. The name plates are now on order from Narrow Planet. So far we have Horus, Osiris, Anubis, Ra, Seth, Sekhmet, Nephthys and Hathor. Isis is a little Manning Wardle that is still in works. I'm thinking of building one of these next. I really need either a turning and milling specialist, or a tame 3D-printing person to make the dome and safety valve cover. Edited October 30, 2019 by Ruston 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Ruston said: I really need either a turning and milling specialist, or a tame 3D-printing person to make the dome and safety valve cover. I think that the dome would be an interesting, but possible, challenge for turining and milling but the safety valve cover with its compound curves and fluting would be a challenge on another level altogether David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Modeller Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 The safety valve cover is probably not as complex as it looked in that image - see this one Or to make life easier do the Manning Wardle version - cover available from RT Models? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 11 hours ago, Armchair Modeller said: The safety valve cover is probably not as complex as it looked in that image - see this one Or to make life easier do the Manning Wardle version - cover available from RT Models? Thank you for posting the photo of COUNTESS as I haven't seen that one before but I think you have it the wrong way around as ALMA is the E.B. Wilson-built one. COUNTESS was built by Castle Mill works, from parts supplied by Manning Wardle, according to the IRS West Midlands handbook. But, yes, it would be easier to do by using the RT Models casting. The dome could possibly be machined in two parts - three if the square base is included. For anyone that doesn't already know, these 0-4-0 engines were an E.B. Wilson design for the Earl of Dudley (Lord Ward until 1860) for use on his Pensnett Railway, which served his various collieries and iron works. The first was ALMA (lower photo on AM's post), built by E.B. Wilson of Leeds, in 1856. More were built under Manning Wardle, these being BRANDON, HIMLEY. VICTORY and WELLINGTON. Others were built at the Earl's Castle Mill works from parts supplied by Manning Wardle, these being COUNTESS, ROUND OAK, EDNAM (the one in the photo in my previous post), and FREDERICK. All of which is according to the previously mentioned book but the E.B. Wilson books, by Clive Hardy has the sole Wilson-built engine down as being named LORD WARD. The last of the Manning Wardle-built engines was built in 1866 (WELLINGTON) butCastle Mill built the type until 1872 (EDNAM and FREDERICK). One of the type was built in 1860, by MW, for Davis & Savin, contractors, for work on the Cambrian Railway. It passed into Cambrian service. All had 14x18-inch cylinders and 4ft. 0in. wheels. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 31, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 31, 2019 Hi Dave i know two 3D print specialist in the Leeds Club. one, Innocentmann is on RMWeb And why not have a model of Asenath aka the god Zen?? Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 (edited) Drawing for the Lord Ward type 0-4-0. The 4-4-0ST, now with footplatemen, oil lamp and a dash of soot, ash, muck and rust. Edited October 31, 2019 by Ruston 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ruston said: Drawing for the Lord Ward type 0-4-0. The 4-4-0ST, now with footplatemen, oil lamp and a dash of soot, ash, muck and rust. Hi Dave, Super work as ever but what a strange looking contraption ! Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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