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Well the bugs finally bitten, so to start off this thread here's some shots of a few Parkside Wagon kits i picked up at the weekend. 

 

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The only digression from the instructions so far was the addition of some springing on the axels. As supplied he axel boxes slide nicely in the W irons but i don't see the point if theres nothing to stop them just sitting on the end stops. So some 0.5mm phosphor bronze wire was bent up and attached to the chassis via four 0.5mm holes and a spot of epoxy to support the axels.

 

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Bodies have been given a quick spray with some Halfords primer before adding buffers.

I'll try out the sprung wagon on some track before deciding to do the others but it looks Ok to me and was simple to do. Adding a bit of additional weight might be beneficial as well.

 

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Excellent Ray, Glad you've got a thread running now mate.

 

One of our Club Members just puts the wire across the centre of the axel to allow it to pivot side ways as well.

 

I do like your idea though. I bought some 80's / 90's period Heljan VAA's at the weekend and their all sprung as well.

 

It seems with the Senior Scale, it's the way to go.

 

With my Parkside 16T Minerals I added 4 X 1/4 UNF Nuts I've had since I was a mechanic in the 60's before Metric came in, and put them under the Chassis plus some liquid lead, that gave them some real weight. But I've never tried compensation / springing on them myself.

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Excellent Ray, Glad you've got a thread running now mate.

 

One of our Club Members just puts the wire across the centre of the axel to allow it to pivot side ways as well.

 

I do like your idea though. I bought some 80's / 90's period Heljan VAA's at the weekend and their all sprung as well.

 

It seems with the Senior Scale, it's the way to go.

 

With my Parkside 16T Minerals I added 4 X 1/4 UNF Nuts I've had since I was a mechanic in the 60's before Metric came in, and put them under the Chassis plus some liquid lead, that gave them some real weight. But I've never tried compensation / springing on them myself.

 

 

Thanks Andy,

I have some lead shot somewhere that i was going to use for additional weight glued in with PVA but i've heard reports that the pva reacts with the lead and swells up so i think i'll try and get some liquid lead at the Wigan Show.

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I believe Lead and PVA can be problematic as the images of a GWR 45xx model on Raymond Walley website will confirm

 

 

Thanks Andy,

I have some lead shot somewhere that i was going to use for additional weight glued in with PVA but i've heard reports that the pva reacts with the lead and swells up so i think i'll try and get some liquid lead at the Wigan Show.

I used UHU.

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The three wagons more or less complete apart from a bit more paint, transfers and weathering. Not sure what couplings to go with at present so will leave the three links in place for now.

 

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A parcel arrived with 10 yards of track yesterday from Marcway, ordered from the show last weekend.. This can bee seen in the above photo sitting in front of a length of Peco track. Sleeper spacing is slightly wider and are about 3mm longer as well as a slightly bigger gap between the rail and the webbing between sleepers. The sleeper spacing seems to be to the same standard as that from a Templot O Gauge printout.

The track plan is still in progress so nothing will be laid for a bit.

 

Made a start on a Bedford Coal Lorry from a resin kit also picked up last weekend. Can't say that i'm particularly impressed with some of the mouldings, the worst being the chassis which has quite a few trapped air bubbles making it a bit fragile in places.

 

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Still, its gone together fairly well with just the cab interior and scales to complete,

 

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and of course painting and weathering. Will be on the look out of a 7mm scale coal man.

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I'll try out the sprung wagon on some track before deciding to do the others but it looks Ok to me and was simple to do. Adding a bit of additional weight might be beneficial as well.

 

Have you done a test run with the wagons to test the springs.  I'm quite keen to try it.  Where did you get your wire?

 

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Have you done a test run with the wagons to test the springs.  I'm quite keen to try it.  Where did you get your wire?

 

Thanks

 

 

Well its early days for me with O gauge so i've only been able to push the wagon through a bit of point work by hand, but it certainly seem to be an improvement over the non sprung wagons. 

I have a decoder sound chip arriving today so will be able to get a loco chipped and running shortly to do a bit more testing.

The phosphor bronze wire was from Eileens Emporium.

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Made a start on the first of the buildings for the new layout.

This will be the Parcels Office, made from laser cut/engraved MDF and Ply parts.

 

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Next job is to paint the building (that's a job for her in doors) before adding the roof boards, slates, windows and doors.

 

 

 

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While waiting for the painting to be done on the Parcels office (could be a long wait), I've made a start on the Station building roof and canopy, again using laser cut MDF and ply parts.

 

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The glue pots nearly empty now so will have to wait for a refill to arrive before any more progress.

 

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Hi Ray,

That looks suspiciously like Tetbury station canopy :-)

I built all the Timbertracks Tetbury range and they are excellent kits and beautiful buildings. The goods shed is huge!!

Shame he’s retiring.

BTW, I used One bottle of De-Luxe Rocket card glue for all of them:-)

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Hi Ray,

That looks suspiciously like Tetbury station canopy :-)

I built all the Timbertracks Tetbury range and they are excellent kits and beautiful buildings. The goods shed is huge!!

Shame he’s retiring.

BTW, I used One bottle of De-Luxe Rocket card glue for all of them:-)

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Nice Richard, I really like the goods shed interior. I'm using the Tetbury building as representative of the GWR, the layout won't be a model of Tetbury.

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