Tony Wright Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 I've just received some donated OO RTR locos/stock, of WR origin. As soon as I've tested/checked it, I'll post pictures and see if anyone is interested. All monies to go to CRUK. Thanks Jeremy. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chas Levin Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 On 04/02/2021 at 14:08, westerner said: Thought I would show that my birthday present ( an O gauge Slaters LNER?BR brake van) which arrived a couple of weeks ago on the correct day has turned into. The all the figures are by Modelu painted by moi. Brilliant! I scrolled down the page and thought it was a real life full size photo of a preserved one - then I scrolled back and realised it wasn't but I still did a double take at the man leaning on the lorry (eating an ice cream?) - that's got to be one of the most natural looking figures I've ever seen! 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 With J6s mentioned, here's the latest for Little Bytham................. Regular readers of this thread will know that some months back I finished off a part scratch-built J6, fitting a SE Finecast/Nu-Cast Partners set of frames and a tender. The body and a set of scratch-built frames in OO came from the estate of the late Roy Jackson, but the conclusion was it was not Roy's work. Whosoever's work it was, it was well made, and the chassis was compensated. I've thus built another SEF/Nu-Cast Partners J6 to go on those frames, after I'd fitted wheels and motor/gearbox to them. However, somewhere along the line with all this mixing and matching, I ended up short of a tender. So, I've built this one today, ordered from Branchlines because of the change of ownership with regard to SEF. Branchlines is a partner in the Nu-Cast range. I think this mixing and matching is common with modellers, but it can create a muddle; certainly in my case. 11 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdmjsmith Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I use this tool to help bend etched brass parts: I bought the tool online in Australia, but it says smallshop.com on the box and made in the US. I tried to source some bending bars but haven't found any locally. With pre-rolled boilers, I'm not sure the economics stack up. Would annealing help? Happy modelling! Matthew 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 22 hours ago, dibateg said: Interestingly my J6 will also be 64219! I chose that one also as it was one of the last ones at Colwick. Regards Tony It was *the* last one at Colwick, Tony, not arriving until March 1960. The only other J6 still surviving there by then was 64257 and that went in June1960. 64219 soldiered on alone until November 1961 and with its withdrawal brought to an end an association of the class with the shed of 50 years. That's a terrific model of her! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 My J6 is from a Four Track kit I bought years ago. Its scaled up from the 4mm George Norton etchings. It actually goes together quite well considering. The kit is now marketed by Gladiator. Regards Tony 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ArthurK Posted February 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2021 14 hours ago, sdmjsmith said: I use this tool to help bend etched brass parts: I bought the tool online in Australia, but it says smallshop.com on the box and made in the US. I tried to source some bending bars but haven't found any locally. With pre-rolled boilers, I'm not sure the economics stack up. Would annealing help? Happy modelling! Matthew Annealing does help, but be warned, if you are using 12thou brass the result can be very easily dented! ArthurK 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tony Wright Posted February 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2021 14 hours ago, sdmjsmith said: I use this tool to help bend etched brass parts: I bought the tool online in Australia, but it says smallshop.com on the box and made in the US. I tried to source some bending bars but haven't found any locally. With pre-rolled boilers, I'm not sure the economics stack up. Would annealing help? Happy modelling! Matthew An interesting tool Matthew, I've not seen anything quite like that before. How does one apply pressure to the bars? I don't think I could get on building locos without my rolling bars............... Rolling the smokebox wrapper for a Crownline B17. And for an LRM D2. I also use the rolling bars for creating the tunbleholme in carriage sides. Another piece of kit I find invaluable are my bending bars............... Forming the footplate on the LRM D2 And the splashers. Bending bars can also start a flare, in this case on the top coping of the LRM D2 tender. All of the above examples feature in my Crowood book. Regards, Tony. 8 3 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 A coat of paint on the J6's tender this morning (dodging showers). Obviously, weathering is next. I think this SEF/Nu-cast Partners J6 makes up into an ideal 'layout loco'. Not as crisp as the etched brass version, but easier and quicker to build. 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Showers? We've had nothing but rain (and wind) all day, save for a brief skirmish with a scouting party of hailstones which may indicate even nicer weather to come... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, gr.king said: Showers? We've had nothing but rain (and wind) all day, save for a brief skirmish with a scouting party of hailstones which may indicate even nicer weather to come... Good evening Graeme, Though we live in the same county, it is huge. Mo and I enjoyed a very pleasant walk around the village this early afternoon; bathed in sunshine. It didn't last, though................. By the way, are you still making your resin J6s? Regards, Tony. Edited February 6, 2021 by Tony Wright to add something Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted February 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6, 2021 (edited) I've been absent for some tme from this thread, and noticed a lot of chat about A4 liveries, so here's what I saw when I sneaked into York shed and found Bittern and Blue Peter in similar condition where the lighter grey in the picture was a pale yellow. I didn't see any lining. Edited April 18, 2022 by 96701 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 Mention of Graeme King's resin J6s jogged my memory.................. Graeme brought his prototype some years ago to Little Bytham. Very effective, with a resin chassis as well (I think). He very kindly gave me one to try. I certainly didn't use a resin chassis (though it seemed to work on Graeme's own J6), scratch-building one in brass. I don't think I was diligent enough in my cleaning up of the resin. In the end, I sold it to a friend who was building his first model railway - with 2nd radius Hornby set-track curves and points! Taking off the wheels and filing the outside faces of the bearings down to almost the frames produced enough slop for the thing to go round, but I found the process anathema. 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2021 1 hour ago, 96701 said: I've been absent for some tme from this thread, and noticed a lot of chat about A4 liveries, so here's what I saw when I sneaked into York shed and found Bittern and Blue Peter in similar condition where the lighter grey in the picture was a pale yellow. I didn't see any lining. Humbrol zinc phosphate primer, obviously. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Humbrol zinc phosphate primer, obviously. This may have been during to process when they made Bittern into a mock up of Silver Link, even with a false single chimney. Edited February 7, 2021 by Woodcock29 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Woodcock29 said: This may have been during to process when they made Bittern into a mock up of Silver Link, even with a false single chimney. The photo above was when they were first preserved in the late 1960s. Bittern ended up as 19 in LNER post war Garter Blue. Whilst the A2 was in the famous but fictional 532 Blue Peter in LNER Apple Green guise. They were both stored at York shed before restoration. They then spent a while moving about various places in the North East until finding a permanent home at Dinting. I just about remember them in steam at Dinting where they used to give footplate and brake van rides, before both of their boiler tickets ran out and then didn't steam again for years. If you scroll down here you can see the yellow on Bittern. https://www.steamlocomotive.info/valbum.cfm?display=4919 Jason 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 43129@stainmore Posted February 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2021 Here is my LRM 521 series J6 effort, its Hitchin's 64175 built over 30 years ago in OO for Biggleswade. I also built an EM chassis for it and it ended up hauling the engineers train on Roy Jackson's Retford. It's looking a wee bit tired in this October 2019 view, it's last ever run on Retford. Happy days, I was very proud to have built a loco deemed worthy to regularly run on Retford! Richard Nice 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: They were both stored at York shed before restoration. They then spent a while moving about various places in the North East until finding a permanent home at Dinting. I just about remember them in steam at Dinting where they used to give footplate and brake van rides, before both of their boiler tickets ran out and then didn't steam again for years. If you scroll down here you can see the yellow on Bittern. https://www.steamlocomotive.info/valbum.cfm?display=4919 Jason Bittern was never steamed at Dinting. Blue Peter was ... until one day there was a bad leak from one of the large tubes and that was that (until the subsequent NELPG restoration) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 14 hours ago, Tony Wright said: Good evening Graeme, Though we live in the same county, it is huge. Mo and I enjoyed a very pleasant walk around the village this early afternoon; bathed in sunshine. It didn't last, though................. By the way, are you still making your resin J6s? Regards, Tony. Yes, the county is huge, and we seem to get an "estuarial" twist on the weather, no matter what the forecast. The resin J6 loco parts could probably still be made to an acceptable standard, but there's a snag with the tenders because "somebody" hasn't yet got round to making a new mould to replace the failed one for the tank / bunker... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Bittern was never steamed at Dinting. Blue Peter was ... until one day there was a bad leak from one of the large tubes and that was that (until the subsequent NELPG restoration) I was questioning myself on this one as I had footplate rides on a blue A4 at dinting. Just found some very faded instamatics and it Sir Nigel Gresley. Mike Wiltshire 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headstock Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 On 05/02/2021 at 09:43, Tony Wright said: What a beautifully-natural loco Matthew, Thanks for showing us. On the four LRM ex-GN six-coupled locos I've built in OO, I've filed down the outside faces of the bearings almost until they're flush with the frames (otherwise there's no sideplay). The minimum radius on the GN for Little Bytham is 3' on the main lines and 2' 6" in some of the sidings. On the MR/M&GNR bit it's down to 2', though none of the LRM six-coupled locos operate on there (as yet; I have a J3 to build). Regarding a crease in the smokebox wrapper around the chimney aperture, how are you rolling it? Without rolling bars, a crease is probably inevitable, because it's the weakest point. All is not lost, however. Once it's securely soldered in place to the smokebox itself, you'll end up with a slight 'peak', right at the top. Just carefully file this down to the same round profile as the rest. Once the chimney's on, you won't notice. As I can't notice on your model................. Here's my LRM J6, built to represent one of the earlier Ivatt 521 Series...... Can one have too many J6s for a latter day ER steam depiction? I have this one, four Nu-Cast/SEF ones and an ancient WSM example. It's been mentioned on here before, but wouldn't an RTR J6 be feasible? It's certainly a popular loco type, if the number I've built for others is anything to go by. Regards, Tony. Good morning Tony, lovely locomotive, elegant signals, lovingly installed point rodding and track, nice scenery..... That Guards van though, ugh, I thought LB was finished? Better get a Parkside kit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 On 04/02/2021 at 09:17, Tony Wright said: Good morning John, Would you care to pen some lines about your wonderful layout for BRM, using your photographs and mine? A sort of 'progress report'? Regards, Tony. Hi Tony, Do you have an email address so we can discuss this 'off board'? John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Headstock said: Good morning Tony, lovely locomotive, elegant signals, lovingly installed point rodding and track, nice scenery..... That Guards van though, ugh, I thought LB was finished? Better get a Parkside kit. Or either of the very nice current Hornby rtr ones. The Mainline/Bachmann van is definitely showing its 1970s ancestry nowadays. John Edited February 7, 2021 by Dunsignalling 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 15 minutes ago, Headstock said: Good morning Tony, lovely locomotive, elegant signals, lovingly installed point rodding and track, nice scenery..... That Guards van though, ugh, I thought LB was finished? Better get a Parkside kit. Fear not, Andrew, The picture was taken some little time ago, and the brake van has long gone........................ Regards, Tony. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, johndon said: Hi Tony, Do you have an email address so we can discuss this 'off board'? John I do John, But how do I PM you? I used to be able to do it with ease, when there were two buttons under the avatar. Regards, Tony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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