Judith Edge kits

[PenrithBeacon]

1 hour ago, Michael Edge said:

The LMS Drewry 0-4-0M 7050 is now ready, price is £50 + £4 postage.

... no wheels from Gibson.

Is that because of Covid related supply issues?

[Ruston]

Another one finished.

 

14-inch Hunslet.

 

[PenrithBeacon]

How do you manage to do them so quickly? 

[kandc_au]

On 24/02/2020 at 07:09, innocentman said:

Hi Daddyman,

 

I used my trusty Midland Railway Centre riveting tool.

 

http://www.midrailcentre.com/rivet-embossing-tool

 

Andy

Andy,
I have tried the link but cannot seem to get anywhere!
If I shorten for the midrailcentre.com it also takes me nowhere.
Any suggestions please?

Khris

[innocentman]

2 hours ago, kandc_au said:

Andy,
I have tried the link but cannot seem to get anywhere!
If I shorten for the midrailcentre.com it also takes me nowhere.
Any suggestions please?

Khris

Hi Khris, 

 

Looks like the website isn't there any more. Either he hasn't renewed the lease on the web address or he has ceased trading. I know the link worked when I first posted it. 

 

Sorry

 

Regards

 

Andy

[Marshall5]

2 hours ago, innocentman said:

Hi Khris, 

 

Looks like the website isn't there any more. Either he hasn't renewed the lease on the web address or he has ceased trading. I know the link worked when I first posted it. 

 

Sorry

 

Regards

 

Andy

His contact details on the G0G traders' list:

Midland Railway Centre

Dave Smith
31 Netherfield Rd
Kettering
Northamptonshire
United Kingdom
NN15 6DY

Contact Details

01536 410536

Email: midrailcentre@outlook.com

[Michael Edge]

My former apprentice has been busy almost finishing one of our 7mm Hunslet 67T 0-6-0DH locos. All photos by David Edge.

Body complete apart from some unpainted details and sprayed with primer.

Now all over yellow, he was determined to do the original all over wasp stripe livery.

Masking cut out in vinyl from my CAD drawings - these are the easy bits.

And in place on the loco.

With the drawing developed and laid out flat the position of all the stripes is worked out. This was much more difficult than at first sight, some of the locos differed and it appears that the painters at Jack Lane made it up as they went along.

 

All fitted in place though, ready to spray the black.

All back together now with the masking removed and frames re-fitted. 

The heat shields at each end and the cab roof were painted silver to better reflect the heat, most of the other parts still to be fitted are either bright metal or painted black. The lettering on the cab side defeated the vinyl cutter so that's waiting for some transfers. This will be the first one, No.36 and I am etching some works plates for it.

 

 

 

[Adam]

That's stunning work! A rather more sophisticated technique than dad used for his YEC 0-4-0, but the result is well worth it.

Adam

Edited June 7, 2021 by Adam

[Andy Ross]

That will look well on my layout. Hint hint.

 

I suspect the sign writer that was still around when I started did the strips and he would of defiantly made it up as he went along. 

We need to make one to recreate this..

 

 

 

 

Ansy  

Edited June 7, 2021 by Trams and Locos

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Trams and Locos said:

That will look well on my layout. Hint hint.

 

I suspect the sign writer that was still around when I started did the strips and he would of defiantly made it up as he went along. 

We need to make one to recreate this..

 

 

 

 

Ansy  

As it happens, I was just reading your article in the May Toddler so I can put that photo in context!

[Michael Edge]

The 4mm Stone Faiveley pantograph is nearly ready for production.

I've been fitting two of the production etches to a Bachmann AL5, the holes in the roof don't quite match what I took from the BR GA but near enough to fit. The kit will supply the air motor as well but the Bachmann one looks fine.

Pan at maximum height here, my old Triang AL1 (somewhat modified of course) which was the first test bed for it still looks pretty good for a 1960s model though.

[30368]

8 minutes ago, Michael Edge said:

The 4mm Stone Faiveley pantograph is nearly ready for production.

 

Lovely work Michael.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[Michael Edge]

Not much kit work done recently, we still don't have prices for the Stone Faiveley pantograph and the 7mm 05 but we have everything for them now. Quite a lot out of stock as we wait for an etch order, we'll chase it up this week.

Meanwhile last week saw the second test etch of the oil fired Sentinel 0-6-0 finished.

Complete now except for most of the handrails, this little loco has no less than 32 utility handrail pillars and this would deplete our stocks too much at the moment.

This one is built as one of the three normal height ones supplied to GKN, much better looking in my opinion. They didn't work very long in South Wales, soon going to join the others at Dorman Long.

It splits in the usual way, access to the inside of the cab is quite good especially as these locos were so hot inside that they normally ran with everything open.

 

[Adam]

What a magnificent beast, Mike. I’ll start saving for this missing link in my post-war Sentinel collection.

 

Adam

[Down_Under]

Very nice Mike, put me on the list for one of those sentinels please 

 

James 

[AlfaZagato]

Now that thing is properly ugly.

[Wagonmaster]

Well, I have finished Michaels kit of LMS 7050. Great little addition to the fleet and something different. My version is DCC powered and has a working cab light. I don't know if the real thing had, but it's nice to see the cab interior detail!

 

Be nice to see the LMS Hunslets, original Armstrong-Whitworth or even the Vulcan-Frichs! (Please).

 

 

[Michael Edge]

Very nice, thanks for the photo. This has been out of stock for a while but we're expecting more next week. I would like to do at least one of the other LMS Hunslets (probably 7054) but I've not found any drawings yet.

[Simon Moore]

On 31/10/2021 at 15:06, Michael Edge said:

Not much kit work done recently, we still don't have prices for the Stone Faiveley pantograph and the 7mm 05 but we have everything for them now. Quite a lot out of stock as we wait for an etch order, we'll chase it up this week.

Meanwhile last week saw the second test etch of the oil fired Sentinel 0-6-0 finished.

Complete now except for most of the handrails, this little loco has no less than 32 utility handrail pillars and this would deplete our stocks too much at the moment.

This one is built as one of the three normal height ones supplied to GKN, much better looking in my opinion. They didn't work very long in South Wales, soon going to join the others at Dorman Long.

It splits in the usual way, access to the inside of the cab is quite good especially as these locos were so hot inside that they normally ran with everything open.

 

 

I am looking forward to this release although the chassis is a bit scary.

[Michael Edge]

It's really the same as the 0-6-0DH, although the crank discs make it mire difficult to set the angles and there isn't much clearance behind the cab steps.

[cornelius]

The Sentinel looks fantastic, I'd love a DL cab version. I have a little concrete miniature of the recently demolished Dorman Long tower which is probably too small to work as a backscene but I'm sure I'd find a way...

[Michael Edge]

We will be ordering production etches this month - but no idea when they will actually arrive.

[Simon Moore]

On 12/11/2021 at 11:20, Michael Edge said:

We will be ordering production etches this month - but no idea when they will actually arrive.

Count me in Mike when they arrive

[Dagworth]

Just a quick message to put my thanks in public for the very efficient service from Michael and Judith, cross-arm pan kits arrived less than 24 hours after ordering. 
 

Andi

Edited November 15, 2021 by Dagworth
can't spell my own name it seems

[Michael Edge]

Back to the SR 350hp 0-6-0DE today.

Outside frames on this afternoon, there will be several options for these. I've put them on at scale distance apart which allows plenty of room for 00 Romford/Markits wheels but there is another construction option to space them out a bit wider. In full size there is very little clearance between the wheels and the frames, certainly not enough for EM Markits wheels and not much for P4. These wheels are on ordinary Romford extended axles with a threaded bush to take our normal pressed on cranks, alternatively Gibson wheels and plastic cranks will fit as will the excellent Markits ones - 08 cranks are nearly the right shape. I had originally intended to use the Markits axles/cranks but forgot that the set I had were for EM - until I had assembled the frames at the scale spacing. The kit will include our usual three layer etched cranks.

The axleboxes are a bit peculiar on these locos, they are not symmetrical so I've had to make two patterns, LH and RH. The axleboxes and hornstays are included on the etch, it is possible to assemble the outside frames on to the inner ones at the expense of trapping the wheels and brakes in there as it is built. Another alternative might be to separate the hornstays and tack them on the the bottom of the horns after painting to fill in the gap.