Paul Cram Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 on my later builds I have used the MJT bogies and the overlays dfrom the kit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) If I'd been keeping these bogies I'd have thought about using presstuds - it's an obvious fix although there'd be a bit of faffing getting the ride height correct. As it is, with people confirming the dragginess of the setup and the offer of replacements, I think they're going to be surplus to requirements. The build is stalled as I have no brass sheet big enough to make a roof, so I can wait for bogies as well. Edited August 10, 2021 by jwealleans 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 16, 2021 Author Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) Having had a very kind offer of replacement conventional bogies for the D18, so they have been removed. If anyone would like them please let me know. In the meantime I fabricated a roof yesterday. The body had developed quite an alarming twist which was even distorting the floorpan slightly, but adding the roof from brass sheet has allowed it to be straightened and made it satisfyingly rigid. The clerestory simply sits on top and is screwed up through the roof using a pair of captive bolts. This is how I always do these but it's been a while since I showed one. The nut can be seen below. The only thing to be careful of is not putting the bolt directly above a partition. I'll probably use part of the supplied plastic roof to cover the clerestory section as it's only cosmetic. Edited August 16, 2021 by jwealleans 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jwealleans Posted August 26, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 (edited) Bit of an interlude while work goes on in the carriage shops.... York's K3, 17, has been pinched by New England for a short trip across the Fens. Here it sits in the loop at Ramsey awaiting whatever's currently occupying the single line. Bachmann body and tender with Tony Wright frames and mechanism. We did see this on Grantham while unpainted and with a loose cab. Looking back down the train: Pair of SR cattle wagons. I think these are both D & S - the piped one certainly is. Both came to me part build and I've finished them off. Ian Kirk Boplate. This has been in the weathering box as long as I can remember and just keeps being missed. It's had the door springs and the internal end metalwork added. D & S LNWR van, don't recall the diagram but it's the one with doors both sides. I'd wanted one of these for a while, being a sucker for an outside framed van and then two fell into my lap in very quick succession. D & S GN 8T van. I acquired this built and painted as part of a collection so all I've had to do is weather it. Ian Kirk NB van and an L&Y single bolster which I think is a David Geen. Trio of grain hoppers, a very typical East Anglian traffic. The outside two are Parkside, reworking of kits I built a long time ago. The original pattern one is a GK resin casting from a scratchbuilt master I acquired on Ebay. Highly unlikely traffic for East Anglia, a PD sulphate wagon. Shame they saw such limited use as it's a nice looking thing and a decent kit. I built this many years ago and ste it aside when I found there were no LNER transfers for it. Presumably they think everyone who builds one will be using them on the 'Ashburton Pullman'. John Peck printed these from my artwork. The other LNWR van and a GC loco coal wagon. This is a fairly recent kit release from 51L. The guard's usual duty is the Scotch Goods on Grantham, so he might be forgiven for looking bored. His luxury accommodation is supplied by Lima as I recall, with a fair amount of rework. Maybe he could untangle that coupling if he's got nothing better to do? Edited August 27, 2021 by jwealleans 22 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jwealleans Posted August 29, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) Bit of a break from the workbench today as along with Mr. King of this parish and our respective spouses we enjoyed a day out at Gilling East, courtesy of the Ryedale Society of Model Engineers. This was one of their twice yearly Mainline Rallies, where guest locos and stock are on show and working all weekend. There was a great deal on show to be enjoyed as well as some familiar faces to meet up with again. Enjoy. If you've never been (and I hadn't) it's an excellent day out, a very friendly club and event and thoroughly deserving of support. Edited August 29, 2021 by jwealleans 32 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2021 On 08/08/2021 at 21:52, jwealleans said: Hmm. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 hours ago, jwealleans said: That made me chuckle! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2021 22 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: That made me chuckle! Yes. I was a bit worried about the fish van... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 I thought the way the other cows had laid down so that one could stand on them and see out was very organised. What is the apparent significance of my track testing vehicle? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 hours ago, jwealleans said: What is the apparent significance of my track testing vehicle? Merely shock and horror at seeing such a primitive Hornby wagon - couplings and all - loose on the layout! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2021 10 hours ago, St Enodoc said: That made me chuckle! Don't know if it still does but the cattle wagon used to have a walkman and speakers in it playing a cassette of cows mooing, at one point on the tape was the 12 o'clock chimes and dongs from Big Ben... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said: Don't know if it still does but the cattle wagon used to have a walkman and speakers in it playing a cassette of cows mooing, at one point on the tape was the 12 o'clock chimes and dongs from Big Ben... Big Ben is quite appropriate - it goes "Dung!" which is of course cow poo. (With apologies to Bad News for nicking their joke:D) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 23 hours ago, Compound2632 said: such a primitive Hornby wagon - couplings and all - loose on the layout! Doesn't everyone have a few sacrificial vehicles for high speed testing of newly laid track? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2021 13 hours ago, jwealleans said: Doesn't everyone have a few sacrificial vehicles for high speed testing of newly laid track? No, I use a Battlespace Turbo Car.. ask Red Leader for the video!! Baz 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jwealleans Posted September 12, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2021 Back to the workbench now the weather's starting to deteriorate and one or two projects moving along. The D18 BT is now complete and ready for paint. Beautifully free running on the D & S bogies and my thanks to Mark for supplying them. This is for export down under once complete. We saw the K3 at the top of the page. It's now ready for weathering, coaling and crew and then will be on Grantham at the next outing. This is a Bachmann body with a brass chassis and motion (I assume SEF) by Tony Wright and replacement cab from the SEF etch. The tender is the original. I'm not sure whether this has been on here before or not. NuCast O2 from Ebay for £75. As I have an unbuilt kit, I thought it was probably worth that for the wheels alone. It's been stripped so the body could be tidied up - I've removed untold quantities of glue - and had replacement tender frames and wheels. On test, the whitemetal crosshead on this side has worn too far to remain in the slidebar and dropped, bending the piston rod which has now snapped. A new valve gear etch is on the way from the ever-helpful Brian at Branchlines along with a pair of their brass V2 crossheads so we don't end up here again. I'll move the motor while the motion's off as well, try to make it less visible. This week I've been working on this. I doubt it'll be ready for the next Grantham show, but maybe in 2022. LRM J5. Visually similar to the J6 but quite a different kit to construct. You can see the hand of different designers, which is interesting in itself. I started it on Monday, so it's gone together quite well. This is now held up by the fact that the mandrel on my cutting disc broke. Not something I'd have said I used often, but I now have three separate jobs waiting for it on and around this loco and the High Level gearbox which will drive it. i have one of their new coreless motors for it, also a first. We shall see. 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jwealleans Posted September 24, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 24, 2021 Still awaiting a couple of packages, so stuck on some jobs. Did a couple of wagons just to while the time away... These were presented to me by El Jobbo the Merciful of Copmanthorpe. I hope he likes what I've done with them. Although I think I came out ahead, the lettering was a reminder that Powsides products really are the work of the devil himself. I've also been working on this - K3 227 with the Hulburd water treatment gear. It needed a stepped GS tender, so I've robbed one from a kit built K3 which is awaiting refurbishment. I hope to have this ready for Leeds. It would run now, but the colour makes it stand out a little. One thing which did arrive was the motion fret for the O2. I've stripped the existing motion down, so I'll make a start on this when I have a few uninterrupted hours ahead of me. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 36 minutes ago, jwealleans said: One thing which did arrive was the motion fret for the O2. I've stripped the existing motion down, so I'll make a start on this when I have a few uninterrupted hours ahead of me. Should I still bring that cornucopia of crossheads next weekend, just in case? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 25, 2021 Author Share Posted September 25, 2021 Yes, please. I did obtain a pair from Branchlines, but they come as an assortment of small castings which I'm not completely sure I can assemble as strongly as a one-piece item. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 Been a fairly productive day today. There's a Grantham running session next weekend, so I've been preparing some locos which have a serious chance of being ready by then. That's K3s in the main. Other than the two already seen in these pages, I acquired this at the start of the month. Nicely built, big Portescap and a Larry Goddard paint job. Bargain. It's turned into a bit of a conundrum, though. 4005 did run with a GS tender in the 1930s, so good for Grantham. However it did not have vac braking for the loco at that time, so the top reservoir on the tender had to go, Larry or no Larry. There's no coal, so the paintwork scar will be covered up by a spill. Then the tender lining was wrong - it had been done as panels, rather than the top and bottom lines continuing round the corners and across the back. Now we're seriously interfering with a Larry paint job, but after a few days contemplating I took the lines off with cellulose thinners and a cocktail stick and made good the gaps. The other problems are the smokebox door rivets, which are wrong for the LNER period. I have drawn the line there as we might get into serious respray territory and they aren't that conspicuous. As well as Larry's signature underneath, it's marked (in his writing) 'Alton Model Centre'. Unfortunately they don't have records so can't tell me who built it. Whoever they were was a very good builder. It has a representation of the conjugated gear and plunger pickups, which I've never been able to make work. I don't think it's ever been used - the wheels were spotless and there were no couplings or any sign of any ever having been fitted. I'm not sure it had ever pulled a train - until today. It hadn't lived entirely in a cabinet, though - there was damage to the front guard irons and vac upstand and a number of paint chips, suggesting a drop or some rough handling. When I tested it on the layout, the sandpipes touched the track and the loco-tender gap was way too tight for 3' curves, suggesting it had not been run to any great extent. I've added worksplates and glazed the spectacles, touched in the chips and bare metal and extended the tender drawbar. It has now done a few laps on Ramsey with the Scotch Goods stock and works as well as it looks. If I can find a crew to fit in the very restricted cab it will get one, but certainly coal, fire irons and a light weathering are in view. Here is is with 17, which also did some more test running today, as a result of which the tender will have some ballast added. 227 is still having final paintwork done on the tender, but it'll have its own gallop round tomorrow. While the Scotch Goods was out, I added this to photograph - Riley now suitably protected for its journey. 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2021 On 24/09/2021 at 18:53, jwealleans said: Although I think I came out ahead, the lettering was a reminder that Powsides products really are the work of the devil himself. Harsh. One of his lesser minions, perhaps. Were these two pre-printed or rub down? I've had fun with rub-down - not using the layout always as intended. Lo-tac clear tape is a key tool here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 These were rub down. I'm not sure they do any preprinted in 4mm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, jwealleans said: These were rub down. I'm not sure they do any preprinted in 4mm. Pretty much the whole range - at least where there's a suitable kit. I was wrong to say pre-printed though; their website describes them as pre-lettered kits which may mean that there's no difference in the transfer manufacturing process but simply that they've done the rubbing-down for you. Given that they're a cottage industry that seems likely. Their RTR wagons are only in 7 mm. Edited September 27, 2021 by Compound2632 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Their RTR wagons are only in 7 mm. That's what I was thinking of. Funnily enough not to long after typing that I found some 4mm ones on Mikkel's blog and they were clearly just pre rubbed down, not printed. I have to say that I can generally manage them when I'm in the right frame of mind, but you do get some - like these - which slide about on the backing so no matter how firmly and accurately they're taped down, they still end up skew or creased. Then there was the set which refused to stick to anything no matter how hard I rubbed (as opposed to the usual behaviour, which is to stick to everything as soon as they touch it - the packet, fingers, the wrong part of the wagon.....) 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2021 19 minutes ago, jwealleans said: I have to say that I can generally manage them when I'm in the right frame of mind, but you do get some - like these - which slide about on the backing so no matter how firmly and accurately they're taped down, they still end up skew or creased. Then there was the set which refused to stick to anything no matter how hard I rubbed (as opposed to the usual behaviour, which is to stick to everything as soon as they touch it - the packet, fingers, the wrong part of the wagon.....) I have the impression - not fully quantified - that the more recent designs are better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted September 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2021 All the Powsides wagon kits I have built over the last twelve months seem to have rub down transfers on them. Most are good, one or two a bit crinkly but, 9nce weathered, they look just the job. Baz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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