Popular Post Ruston Posted August 20, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2020 Plenty of metal to cut up in this one. Dapol (exAirfix) kit with the addition of Lanarkshire Models buffers. 19 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Another 16-tonner added to the fleet. I would like to say that I've got enough now, especially as I have enough stock to cover every inch of track but you can never have enough 16-tonners. This latest one is a second hand Bachmann RTR, repainted/weathered. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Ruston said: Another 16-tonner added to the fleet. I would like to say that I've got enough now, especially as I have enough stock to cover every inch of track but you can never have enough 16-tonners. This latest one is a second hand Bachmann RTR, repainted/weathered. Very nice Dave, the layout is looking excellent. Your pic has reminded me I need to make some similar loads for the 7mm 16-tonners I bought from you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 minute ago, 37114 said: Very nice Dave, the layout is looking excellent. Your pic has reminded me I need to make some similar loads for the 7mm 16-tonners I bought from you. Which I guess means that you can have enough 16-tonners, otherwise I wouldn't have sold any to you. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted August 24, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) Many pages back I posted some pics of 16-tonners that I had converted to vac-fitted. I was never really happy with how thet looked and had also made some basic errors with the orientation of the brake gear and vac cylinders. The two that I converted to clasp brakes were terrible and completely wrong! I've gone over them all and the Morton-braked ones are re-worked now, with two vac cylinders each, the brakes corrected and the paint/weathering improved. Rebodied, no top door and body reversed. Another more recently rebodied, no top door and the body reversed. Original body, with top flap. Plated. Original body, with top flap. Edited August 24, 2020 by Ruston 17 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) On 04/03/2020 at 19:13, Ruston said: I have just found another figure from the old layout. He used to be part of a BR track gang but he's now got a job in the scrap yard. Just trying the lorry, that I built a few pages back, for size. More recycling. This 13-t steel high wagon was bought for an EM project that never took off. I regauged it to EM and have now put it back to OO, weathered it and painted the rough white lettering on as something that's come to be cut up. The wagon reminds me of my wagon from 2003. She was a vacuum tanker, six wheeler, with that cab. She was the last of her kind, because the legend SCAMMELL was emblazoned where Leyland is on yours. Sadly, a family emergency meant that our aquaintance was all too brief. Edited August 24, 2020 by Sandhole 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 Another one. This was one of my greatest wagon cock-ups of all time. I stuck this Airfix body on a Hornby 27t tippler chassis, added some extra brake shoes and called it a clasp-braked, vac-fitred16-tonner. Yes, I know! I have reunited the body with the Airfix chassis and have rebuilt it with Morton brakes and extra detailing, plus a complete repaint and renumber. 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simonmcp Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2020 37 minutes ago, Ruston said: Another one. This was one of my greatest wagon cock-ups of all time. I stuck this Airfix body on a Hornby 27t tippler chassis, added some extra brake shoes and called it a clasp-braked, vac-fitred16-tonner. Yes, I know! I have reunited the body with the Airfix chassis and have rebuilt it with Morton brakes and extra detailing, plus a complete repaint and renumber. Wow that show's just how small the Pecket is. Simon 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 When I built the fiddle yard for this layout I built it to an odd shape to clear my second laptop, which sits on my printer, which is in turn on my desk. The resulting shape was, to my mind, something that could have been a dockside and that's what I had ideas of turning it into so I would have two layouts in one. The fiddle yard is shorter than it could be due to clearing the laptop but if I build a shelf for the printer I can put the laptop on the desk and build a longer fiddle yard. That also opens up the possibility of filling a corner and having an even more interesting fiddle yard/layout. So why not go one further and extend the layout onto the adjacent wall? That's now the plan. The existing fiddle yard will become a corner layout, an extension to Charlie's yard, and a completely new fiddle yard will be fitted to the wall. I need to move some pictures from the wall first, and build the printer shelf, but I should have more than double the scenic area and a longer fiddle yard. Well, I do need somewhere to put all these wagons that I keep building... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, Ruston said: When I built the fiddle yard for this layout I built it to an odd shape to clear my second laptop, which sits on my printer, which is in turn on my desk. The resulting shape was, to my mind, something that could have been a dockside and that's what I had ideas of turning it into so I would have two layouts in one. The fiddle yard is shorter than it could be due to clearing the laptop but if I build a shelf for the printer I can put the laptop on the desk and build a longer fiddle yard. That also opens up the possibility of filling a corner and having an even more interesting fiddle yard/layout. So why not go one further and extend the layout onto the adjacent wall? That's now the plan. The existing fiddle yard will become a corner layout, an extension to Charlie's yard, and a completely new fiddle yard will be fitted to the wall. I need to move some pictures from the wall first, and build the printer shelf, but I should have more than double the scenic area and a longer fiddle yard. Well, I do need somewhere to put all these wagons that I keep building... Hi Dave, Have you perchance been indulging in a spot of, "over thinking" ? Gibbo. PS. It takes one to know one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Keep on this train-of-thought, and you'll have the Manchester Ship Canal system, complete with your prints coming out of a Clyde Puffer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) Can you have enough 16-ton minerals? Probably, by the time I've worked my way through this lot. Even after buying wheels and brake parts they work out a lot cheaper than Bachmann RTR and they are easier to modify. A clasp-braked one on the way to completion. The under gubbins may not be 100% correct but you wouldn't notice riding by on a galloping horse. Besides, if I see it like this anywhere but the workbench then something's gone seriously awry. The right way up and with base coat of rustification in place. Edited August 27, 2020 by Ruston 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullygrainey Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 That's very fine indeed! Where do you source your various detailing bits and pieces Dave? Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said: That's very fine indeed! Where do you source your various detailing bits and pieces Dave? Alan Buffers are from Lanarkshire Models, the brake blocks/hangers are Wizard/51L, as are the yokes and the vac pipes. Everything else, including the couplings, are home-made. Edited to add that the brake lever ends and guides are chopped from spare parts from Parkside kits. Edited August 27, 2020 by Ruston 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ruston Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 I've got a production line going. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted August 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Ruston said: I've got a production line going. There's a lot to be said for this, as you tend to be consistent with paint etc. Although, with 16 tonners, perhaps the less consistent, the better! I think I have, in various stages of completion - from unmade kits to various examples from job lots best described as "spares or repair" - about twenty of them. The Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol 16t mineral must be the highest production model railway kit ever made. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2020 11 hours ago, Ruston said: I've got a production line going. Good to see another exponent of the 2L method of wagon body building! Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted August 31, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) The production line idea seemed good but it was boring. After I had separated all the parts from their sprues, sanded off the pips and sanded off the huge hinges, I built the bodies up and that was as far as that Idea was going. I picked out a set of parts and, this morning, I set about building a wagon. It was an easier build, being unfitted. Six hours later and it's done. Some of the paint isn't quite dry yet though. Edited August 31, 2020 by Ruston 16 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I'm finding these wagon builds really inspiring, seems like there's so many things you can do with a plain ole' 16 ton wagon. I must build up a supply of scrap too! Apologies if I've missed it but are your wagon loads removable? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 3 hours ago, sb67 said: I'm finding these wagon builds really inspiring, seems like there's so many things you can do with a plain ole' 16 ton wagon. I must build up a supply of scrap too! Apologies if I've missed it but are your wagon loads removable? Yes, they are removable. Rectangles of plasticard or card, supported on smaller rectangles as a base for the "scrap". I never fix loads in wagons. I can't see any reason to do that - after all, mineral wagons spent at least half their lives empty. By not fixing them, the same wagon can be used for other loads. These will also be used on the Calder Grove layout, if and when I build it, but will have coal in them. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Sometimes you stumble upon some really good threads. Ian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 .....although Colour film was invented any chance of trying some B&W images? Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted September 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) Just for a bit of fun, reproduced from 'Charlie Strong - a lifetime as an honest businessman' by Wild Goose Publishing. Edited September 2, 2020 by Corbs 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted September 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Corbs said: Wild Goose Publishing Famous for their felt book covers... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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