blueeighties Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 Another 'hacky black' beast shortly to find employment on Simon George's Heaton Lodge Junction...31175. Body mods, including new nose end doors, nose end repaint, sound, detailing and a layer of grime. Lovely. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 27, 2019 Author Share Posted November 27, 2019 A nice pair of weathered and detailed Bachmann 37s. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 Very nice indeed, Lee! Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Bogies shmogies.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 Not my usual 'bag', but recently built some basic gantries with colour light signals for a customers layout. Also installing Heathcote Electronics control boards for automatic operation. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 Adding the additional lamp bracket to 37426 nose ends. Made up from scrap pieces of brass. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 Repainted, detailed and weathered Bachman class 37. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PJ10 Posted November 29, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2019 Really looking forward to Accurascale's version of the 37. But your recent postings of detailed Bachmann offerings show that it's still a very good model. Love the 37/4s and 37012. Pj10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted November 30, 2019 Author Share Posted November 30, 2019 A factory weathered Bachmann 37032 'Mirage' which has been given some further weathering treatment. And Legoman sound 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 37426...Y Lein fecker Heljan 0 gauge, cantrail stripe added, (and yes I have a couple of wee bits to touch up), numbered, detailed and weathered. I think this is the one and only 0 gauge loco that's leaving the workshop this year with no sound fitted. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Work in progress number 1. A Heljan 0 gauge class 20. My customer purchased this numbered and weathered, the weathering is actually a pretty decent job, but unfortunately the transfer application was not, and the numbers were just hanging off. Have re done these, added sound, and a characteristic blue engine room door, some further weathering to blend everything in next. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 nd work in progress number 2! Again Heljan 0 gauge, this time a big Western. The paintwork is being taken back to a very distressed finish, quite tricky, a lot more weathering to go once I'm happy with this first stage. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 This is in relation to a 00 gauge model, but I thought the fault tracing/finding would be useful to share. The Hornby class 56. A really good model, with a few silly faults. I have owned, continue to own, and work on loads of them. One thing has always bugged me, the running. I generally strip them right back to the bare bones, silly Hornby pcb dumped, and re wired with new correct colour lighting units. I thought I had found the running issue by removing the large capacitor on the motor terminals. This week I had a seized drivetrain to sort out, so completely stripped it down. Hornby are known for using a 'concrete' grease, which over time dries and causes the chassis to become stiff, or sometimes seized if not ran very often. So apart it came, and out with the degreaser. Once everything was nice and clean, I decided to check that all of the geartrain was properly free running. It's not. I have discovered that the main drive cogs, which transfer the drive from the motor worm to the wheels, have a tight spot and bind. I checked another chassis...exactly the same. So I'm now thinking I have found the issue. The series of photos show a greased up drivetrain upon disassembly, then cleaned, and then finally marked with paint where the tight spot is. I can't see any visible cracking or gear issues, so this must be down to crap manufacturing tolerances. Going to file the offending teeth down a bit in the hope that this will resuly in a silky smooth running chassis. Only took 5 years to find this!! 6 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Not my absolute favourite flavour, but phooar! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 Ooohhh.... First views of the re tooled Heljan 0 gauge class 47. As always please note THESE ARE FIRST SAMPLES and subject to detail changes. Please find attached the first images of our long awaited O gauge Class 47, which replaces the first version released many years ago. As always, this first sample is far from being the finished article and a number of improvements will be made before production starts (not least the radio aerial, which has been mangled on this sample). However, we know that many of our customers are very keen to see how this project is progressing. The model shown is Version 3b, a later loco with HI headlight, ETH equipment and with the boiler tanks removed. Version 2 will cover the 1960s/70s loco with glazed headcode panels and steam heating boilers and Version 3a is a later no-heat variant with headlights. Details of the types and liveries we will release are shown below. We expect to release these models in late-2020. DUE 2020! Class 47 Version 2 – 1960s/70s 4850: BR two-tone green (small yellow panel) 4851: BR two-tone green (full yellow end) 4852: BR blue (full yellow end) Version 3 – 1980s/90s 4860: BR blue (full yellow end) 4861: BR large logo blue 4862: Railfreight ‘Red Stripe’ grey 4863: Railfreight sector three-tone grey 4864: BR engineers grey/yellow 4865: BR Parcels Sector red/grey 4866: InterCity Executive 4867: Network SouthEast 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 A trio of 0 gauge mk1 coaches in for adding numbers and weathering. Grubby everyday appearance. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 A rather large Heljan 0 gauge 37/4. Afternoon guys. A final loco posting for December, but it's a good un Numbered and weathered by myself. Done as 407, with it's characteristic hand painted numbers, weathered to represent it's first few months of service after conversion from Crewe during the mid eighties. She is for sale if anyone is interested, drop me a pm. Regards, Lee. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 Well folks, it's just about that time of year again when we all get excited for Santa arriving I'm having the luxury of a bit of downtime from the business next week, to spend it with the family, eat relax and be rather merry Thank you to everyone for your friendship and support during 2019, it's been another fantastic year. Lots of exciting developments in store for 2020 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Merry Christmas Lee! I've enjoyed following your exceptional modelling projects throughout this year and I look forward to what's in store next year. Have a nice bit of downtime! Jack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 30, 2019 Author Share Posted December 30, 2019 First job after the festive holiday. Erm.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Happy New Year from the Edmondson clan 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 55020 Posted December 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2019 Lee - Happy New Year to you and yours. Looking at the photo you are blessed with a great family, including the dog 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jcarta Posted January 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2020 Happy New Year To the Edmondson clan I hope you will still inspire us with your projects throughout 2020 Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Not a lot of space to play with here...... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Working from home does make the commute a tad easier, but Buttons generally doesn't. This is the face I was met with when I said "come on then, time to go to work". 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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