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RMweb Premium JDW Posted January 11, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2016 Hi, Like you, I've often thought about a workbench thread but then get lazy and can't be bothered taking the pictures and editing them! Plus, I'm never sure what I'm doing is that interesting - 2 Hornby 153s into a 155? Already been done elsewhere on here, for example. Weathering? Lots of examples. An NR 150? Likewise. But anyway, although I'm more an OO man, your projects here look quite interesting, I look forward to seeing the progress, especially on the 117 build. It looks quite simple, almost the reverse of what people have done in OO for many years with 117s. JDW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2016 Paul Sorry that you had an expensive mistake with the stripper. I certainly will remember not to use that make on Farish stuff. Look forward to seeing these coaches and DMU's take shape. If you get them done in time you can test them on Banbury when you are next helping.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted January 13, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2016 Hi The 117 is like mine work in progess - I have made in part the DMS, DMBS, TC and a DTS now have a pile of cabs left over - might end up with a 119 crosscountry set. Also in several bits is a 108 heading towards a 114 parcels unit. Could make a fantasy 121 based parcel unit aka the GWR 34 or gloucester based on a a BG. These should of course see light of day as the major producers vie to make them such is my luck great work so far and look forward to progress. Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted January 14, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hi , Looking very good . TS and TCL are very body hungry! I had in my gloat box several MTK Suburban ends that saved some of the faff on the ends. Your speed of work outstrips mine so thanks for the kick!! Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ianwales Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hi Could make a fantasy 121 based parcel unit aka the GWR 34 or gloucester based on a a BG. These should of course see light of day as the major producers vie to make them such is my luck great work so far and look forward to progress. Robert Hi Robert Not sure wether you're aware but There was a parcels 122 unit Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted January 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2016 Yep - Scottish fellow i recall Sc55009 and the 131 50015 with door mods - more like my imagineered version - I have three double doors and no passenger windows. some plasticard fun to come I think.. Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted January 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2016 Hi BigP, Thanks for the thought! Hope 117 goes well Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 13, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2016 Paul. I meant to talk to you about your progress last Sunday. Looking really good so far. Yet another layout plan involving units like this. Too many ideas and no time or space to do much. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 13, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2016 Well, apart from my Farish tanks, I really dont have much use for the Farish container flats although they have the wrong era containers on them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted February 13, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2016 Paul, Great work on 117 - I too had to cut and mess to get a TCL , not there yet so you are very much ahead... painting seats is dedication so well done on that. How many HAAs do you need ? I guess 72 for a 36 empty and full !! Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted February 14, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi , Sounds like dedication to me, of course at least one coach no lighting due flat batteries would be fun. I think is it Kato who do a connecting coupler and Ben says Pendo is due to have a working electrickery inter car coupler ... Pickup could be fun you could make use of Dapol pinpoints on a mk3 bogie and file off details and fix suitable B4 frames as a thought on several coaches fitted with a chip paired up to a second coach with just lights. Guess consisting or assigning common addresses would allow control of a rake but leave some flexability to actually rail the rake, unlike Blue Pullman or Brighton belle .... Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted February 14, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi Sorry got wrong end of it , I read as if lighting LHCS. Yes I quite enjoy looking at pics of mixed up stock - once the railway started getting shot of pressed steel TCLs then finding trailers or motors with toilets became an art form, I guess an asbestos mitigation thing but did hear of a 117 trailer breaking its back in BHM due overloading. The practice of putting a 121 vice a 117 power car also grew and worth modelling and of course repainting Dapol will allow a good match with a Bachmann 101 TCL. I had fancied a 127 parcels set having got surplus cab ends! have fun Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted February 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hi , L840 also has a soft spot for me, It was under my fleet control at TS in the 90s and was a road learner and traffic unit, it had been in Norwich covering for a dead 153s! It spent a Sunday night at Nottingham and as it passenger miles left on it I ran the Sinfin service with it - it did not have a TCA which would have seen in banned from branch as were sprinters. Service normally a taxi - empty both ways neither advertised or of much use as service intended for Rolls Royce workers. Felt quite proud then got a rollocking as that happened to be the day that the passenger user council were meeting to discuss Closure at Derby and noted it had run.... snigger! By then it was faded and fading away... Viz 104 I was going to mate a BHE end to a 108 as a near enough for a Mexican bean set, looking at Brian Goldings book, but that is years away.. unless you were thinking of a 3D print item?! for the cab front.. I was contemplating a north wales "Daisy" 101 adding yellow panel and headlamp to a 101, but no further than buying unit. Also a chariot I have used on North Wales coast. Good to sort out lighting on here even if not quite in real world! Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Boco_D1 Posted February 18, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2016 I was thinking the other day that we should do a layout together - a big roundy roundy based on the main lines somewhere between Reading & Didcot, just four simple loops, a lot of countryside and a little commuter station on the Reliefs. Between us we'd be able to run it in either FGW or NSE mode! Uh oh, there I go with another idea! Now that is a layout I'd like to see, there are some great spots. Either of the bridges over the Thames at Goring or at Cholsey, the view from the petrol station forecourt was/is just the right height to watch (down) trains travel over the bridge before dissaperaring under the road, always made filling up there that bit more enjoyable. Or if you did Cholsey manor farm bridge you could include the heritage line running round the corner, and you could use the farish cooling towers for didcot power station in the distance... Now I want to make one! On another note I believe 32 wagons was the maximum for the didcot coal trains from the Midlands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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