SOS Junction. If anything happens would someone wake me up please..

[Mallard60022]

19 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

That's looking really good.

Well matey, it isn't quite what you planned, but to get the darkness and access in case of derailment or whatever, you know, young bloke with leg across the track after falling over during the paper chase etc. it needed to be very easily removed, which it is. 

Taken me longer to do this bit then it took the original Navvies to build the whole LSWR!

P

[ian]

17 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Taken me longer to do this bit then it took the original Navvies to build the whole LSWR!

Yes, but they would have taken a little longer if there was only one of them doing it.

[Tim Dubya]

Saw this on the Facebook and thought of you.

 

 

 

 

 

[Oldddudders]

12 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

Saw this on the Facebook and thought of you.

I believe Mr Fleming left this parish some time ago....

[Tim Dubya]

4 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I believe Mr Fleming left this parish some time ago....

 

Alive and kicking on The Clearing House Faceache group 

[Barry O]

Quack!

 

Nice to see some work on the layout Ducky! Long may progress continue! I have a couple of tunnel mouths to do.. the Peco ones will just about fit but will need some major surgery. 

 

Keep up the good work!

 

Baz

[Mallard60022]

4 hours ago, Barry O said:

Quack!

 

Nice to see some work on the layout Ducky! Long may progress continue! I have a couple of tunnel mouths to do.. the Peco ones will just about fit but will need some major surgery. 

 

Keep up the good work!

 

Baz

Thanks Baz, CBA to post much on the actual layout thread; Think that gets a bit daft when nowt is happening except adding Coach Boards to Coaches and fitting Magnetic Couplings to My Herd of Walruses and adjusting when they then all fall off at different places!!!!!!! Such fun.

Have been rationalising stock though so 'Executors' have less to sort when that time comes.

Hope you OK?

Duck.

[bgman]

Yo !

 

Just keep waddling along at your own pace matey, you'll get there when it suits you .

[Barry O]

Been busy with cricket and doing work on my layout..throw in a few coach and wagon builds plus loads repairs and...life is hectic.

 

Baz

[Mallard60022]

35 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Been busy with cricket and doing work on my layout..throw in a few coach and wagon builds plus loads repairs and...life is hectic.

 

Baz

Oh I'd forgotten the Cricket. I've had a quiet Bowls Season due to not bothering with Competitions this year; CBA

[Tim Dubya]

8 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Have been rationalising stock though so 'Executors' have less to sort when that time comes.

Hope you OK?

Duck.

 

Indeed, I have left out the "Information for Executors" EMGS sheet in a prominent position in my train porn library cupboard.

 

I'm taking my piles with me though X

[Oldddudders]

1 minute ago, Tim Dubya said:

I'm taking my piles with me though X

TMI.

[Mallard60022]

Amongst other things I have not been doing! Thinking about couplings on kit build wagons.

Until now.

Hunts have appeared.  I am experimenting!

Ns didn't work that often east of Exmouth Junction, however. First Van has 3 Links (actually in use on this train as well as the Hunts between Van and first Wagon) and was inherited; following Wagons are Tunny and Ling from ex Chivers, wot I built some time ago. Guard's Van is an old Hornby job that is converted to a track cleaner using a Brass Roller. The Wagons have extra weight added and a layer of light Ballast to cover the Liquid Lead. I added this as I was fitting Hunt Elite Swivel Intermediates and the magnetic couplers are great but drag lightweight stuff off the track on curves.

 

Hunt the Hunts! (Please excuse tatty label on the middle front!)

 

Wagons in front left are Cambrian versions of these:

Like this

They are weighted in the well, but no couplings yet. I have shown these before: Covid therapy projects!

 

That's it for now. CBA to take any more pics of my Walruses that have different Hunts attached to the Bogies.

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mulgabill]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Amongst other things I have not been doing! Thinking about couplings on kit build wagons.

Until now.

Hunts have appeared.  I am experimenting!

Ns didn't work that often east of Exmouth Junction, however. First Van has 3 Links (actually in use on this train as well as the Hunts between Van and first Wagon) and was inherited; following Wagons are Tunny and Ling from ex Chivers, wot I built some time ago. Guard's Van is an old Hornby job that is converted to a track cleaner using a Brass Roller. The Wagons have extra weight added and a layer of light Ballast to cover the Liquid Lead. I added this as I was fitting Hunt Elite Swivel Intermediates and the magnetic couplers are great but drag lightweight stuff off the track on curves.

 

Hunt the Hunts! (Please excuse tatty label on the middle front!)

 

Wagons in front left are Cambrian versions of these:

Like this

They are weighted in the well, but no couplings yet. I have shown these before: Covid therapy projects!

 

That's it for now. CBA to take any more pics of my Walruses that have different Hunts attached to the Bogies.

P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you psychic.

 

My current caravan project is a Cambrian Taunton Concrete kit (£3 in Watchet!). And I glanced

at the screen, whilst eating, and saw yours staring back at me.

 

Do you want to share how you got that "very workaday" finish?

 

And I don't want to be picky, but didn't the instructions say that version had the straight lever

brakehandle. But the old one does look nice, and I won't tell. (Nobody would quote me on

accuracy).

 

Good to see you back in action,

All the best

 

TONY

[Mallard60022]

On 18/10/2021 at 17:54, Mulgabill said:

 

Are you psychic. Possibly?

 

My current caravan project is a Cambrian Taunton Concrete kit (£3 in Watchet!). And I glanced

at the screen, whilst eating, and saw yours staring back at me.

 

Do you want to share how you got that "very workaday" finish?     ACRYLICS!! Various fine brushes and Acrylic Thinner and or water. Think it is/was War Gamer type?

And I don't want to be picky, but didn't the instructions say that version had the straight lever

brakehandle. But the old one does look nice, and I won't tell. (Nobody would quote me on

accuracy).  Oops, Instructions? I just copied the picture from Mr Bartlett; didn't know if it was the same diagram? I did do one of each though!

 

Good to see you back in action,  Thanks

All the best.......and to you

 

TONY

 

[LNER4479]

On 18/10/2021 at 17:54, Mulgabill said:

 

Are you psychic.

 

I once got an A-level in that. Solids, liquids, gasses, that man Newton and his laws of motion ... all good stuff

[Oldddudders]

6 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

I once got an A-level in that. Solids, liquids, gasses, that man Newton and his laws of motion ... all good stuff

Was it Newton's 7th law that said how ever many times you shake it, the last drop still goes down your trouser leg? 

[Mallard60022]

6 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

I once got an A-level in that. Solids, liquids, gasses, that man Newton and his laws of motion ... all good stuff

I once got one Physical question correct in one test in about 6 years; what is the part of a Railway rolling stock wheel that enables the wheel to remain on the track? I think the Spotters in the Group all got that correct? The master was a real b#####d; hanged himself one Summer Holiday, not because of me I hope.

P

 

[Mallard60022]

2 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Was it Newton's 7th law that said how ever many times you shake it, the last drop still goes down your trouser leg? 

That's why Ladies sit down I am told and infrequently offer to do your shaking, again I am told.

 

On ANTB the other day I posted a pic of my 63XX when it was still 7310 and it didn't have the Lamps for its' appearance on WR Diversions.

So here is the 7311 version (Modelmaster Plates) with Modelu SR Lamps to show they are pretty well to scale.

What I have yet to do is blank off that daft NEM hole and check the Fittings, Screw Coupling etc; sorry about that.

If anyone has 'improved' that not very nice Chimney, I'd appreciate any info.

 

 

P

[LNER4479]

I have my physics master to thank for one of the great 'put down' lines. My mother (who has never ever quite 'got' the way I roll) once said to said physics master at a parents' evening, with a fair degree of exasperation:

"He's 15 and he still plays with Meccano!"

To which Mr Blamphin's reply (God bless him) was:

"Mrs Nicholas - all the great engineers have a Meccano set under the bed"

[Dunsignalling]

10 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

That's why Ladies sit down I am told and infrequently offer to do your shaking, again I am told.

 

On ANTB the other day I posted a pic of my 63XX when it was still 7310 and it didn't have the Lamps for its' appearance on WR Diversions.

So here is the 7311 version (Modelmaster Plates) with Modelu SR Lamps to show they are pretty well to scale.

What I have yet to do is blank off that daft NEM hole and check the Fittings, Screw Coupling etc; sorry about that.

If anyone has 'improved' that not very nice Chimney, I'd appreciate any info.

 

 

P

Hate to say it, but would SR lamps face the right way on a GWR loco?

 

I always thought GWR lamp irons were mounted at right angles to everyone else's so that other railways wouldn't "borrow" their lamps.

 

John

Edited October 25, 2021 by Dunsignalling

[Mallard60022]

4 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

I have my physics master to thank for one of the great 'put down' lines. My mother (who has never ever quite 'got' the way I roll) once said to said physics master at a parents' evening, with a fair degree of exasperation:

"He's 15 and he still plays with Meccano!"

To which Mr Blamphin's reply (God bless him) was:

"Mrs Nicholas - all the great engineers have a Meccano set under the bed"

Brilliant.

[Mallard60022]

Just now, Dunsignalling said:

Hate to say it, but would SR lamps face the right way on a GWR loco?

 

I always thought GWR lamp irons were mounted at right angles to everyone else's?

 

John

Correct, but those were stuck on with glue in 1960 so it doesn't matter.

However now you have made me need to change them for BR ones that had slots, both back and side IIRC? Thanks.

P

 

[Tim Dubya]

26 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

I once got one Physical question correct in one test in about 6 years; what is the part of a Railway rolling stock wheel that enables the wheel to remain on the track? I think the Spotters in the Group all got that correct? The master was a real b#####d; hanged himself one Summer Holiday, not because of me I hope.

P

 

 

My physics teacher (not master), also a complete psychopath (and general all round reknaw), used the blackboard rubber to inflict his version of pain upon us.  I think he must have had a bad trip in the '60s?  Although to be fair he did bring in his copy of Days of Future Past to play along with his guitar to explain sound waves to us (well, those that didn't have a concussion).

 

 

Edited October 25, 2021 by Tim Dubya
sense

[bgman]

16 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

used the blackboard rubber to inflict his version of pain upon us. 

 

Ah ! Those were the days, Duckin' and Divin" ......bit like Ducky's thread really ! 

 

FWIW .....My Physics teacher came from Liverpool.....nuff said !