RedGemAlchemist Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 A bit of brown appears to have helped. I'll see when I get home on Sunday how well that worked... To be fair, not much would have looked worse than it did... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Erm, I take it you would prefer Loadhaul livery?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Erm, I take it you would prefer Loadhaul livery?! Lord no! I said not much, not nothing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 Just checking! ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 I actually managed to get some CAD done today! The T3 is progressing, and Derwent will be receiving attention before the day is out. In the meantime, some layout pictures from 'Kimmeridge', my 009 'Tea Tray': 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 (edited) I actually managed to get some CAD done today! The T3 is progressing, and Derwent will be receiving attention before the day is out. In the meantime, some layout pictures from 'Kimmeridge', my 009 'Tea Tray': Nice one! I am, as you know, notoriously 'company blind' and, indeed, 'region blind', as I love the pre-Grouping scene from at least the 1830s to the Great War and beyond, and that includes all counties and companies, though I confess I know much less about Scottish and Irish railways than I'd like. I'm also gauge blind; so I am as interested in Victorian and Edwardian narrow gauge lines as I am in the standard or broad gauge (or Irish broad gauge) ones! So I, for one, have no problem with NG stuff in this part of the website. Edited April 6, 2018 by Edwardian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Well, the South Dorset Narrow Gauge railways had a very complex history, all starting out as independents, some getting absorbed by the GWR, some by the LSWR and some remaining independent. One even went under WD Control! Here is Dorset Railway No.2, which was absorbed into LSWR stock and allocated the number 032. It retained this until BR days, when it simply became No.32, as the front line engine that had caused it to go on the duplicate list was long since gone. The loco is a very poor 3D print that was based on some CAD for an NLR 4-4-0T that was sent to me. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboSnail Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I actually managed to get some CAD done today! The T3 is progressing, and Derwent will be receiving attention before the day is out. In the meantime, some layout pictures from 'Kimmeridge', my 009 'Tea Tray': This has reminded me that I need to make a proper micro roundy-roundy some day... Mainly so I can make up my own wacky and wonderful rolling stock. Would that be a Kato chassis you're using or something more home-made? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 KATO Chassis 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Well, the South Dorset Narrow Gauge railways had a very complex history, all starting out as independents, some getting absorbed by the GWR, some by the LSWR and some remaining independent. One even went under WD Control! Here is Dorset Railway No.2, which was absorbed into LSWR stock and allocated the number 032. It retained this until BR days, when it simply became No.32, as the front line engine that had caused it to go on the duplicate list was long since gone. The loco is a very poor 3D print that was based on some CAD for an NLR 4-4-0T that was sent to me. It's not that bad a print from the photo. I think it's quite sweet actually. Love to see a working version! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 No.32 does run, or at least will run when I fit a chassis to her! Today proved to be very profitable, and only £15 was spent in total! The first haul of today at the Narrow Gauge South show in Eastleigh was a K's LNWR Webb Coal tank finished as No.6874 in LMS black. It is currently lacking a motor and chimney but is otherwise complete. It will at some stage be stripped of its LMS insignia and finished as per the preserved example as I cabbed it at Horsted Keynes last year. Also, as someone who does not yet have any form of LNWR stock, it allows me to run the loco with MK1's. I may contact London Road Models for the chimney. Next haul was a set of four Triang Clerestories, nicely finished in GWR Pre-1928 livery. Two have been fitted with cast Dean Bogies (the two brakes), one bears a single Dean bogie, and the other no bogies or glazing. These were purchased at only £2.50 each as workbench-fodder, but I think I will maintain two as GWR Coaches. They all have three-links too. Finally, I accquired some professionally-constructed baseboards and legs! These were on sale throughout the show, gradually reduced until the owner was offering them for free! Always being one for a freebie, and requiring boards for either Bognor or a larger 009 project, I jumped in and took three of the four boards, the other being nabbed just as I got there. All in all, considering I thought I wouldn't be buying anything significant, a very good day! I don't often strike it lucky like this... Still, there was a beautiful LNWR 2-4-0T and 2-4-2T, running, at £30 each. I didn't have that kind of money, and they went fast. Unfortunately the majority of my model railway budget has been allocated to an Andrew Barclay. I don't regret ordering one, but was a bit miffed. Still, could be much, much, worse! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted April 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2018 That was indeed a good haul Sem. The clerestories and the Coal Tank would be considered good enough, but three baseboards for free really slathers the icing on the cake. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted April 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2018 I actually managed to get some CAD done today! The T3 is progressing, and Derwent will be receiving attention before the day is out. In the meantime, some layout pictures from 'Kimmeridge', my 009 'Tea Tray': Funny you should think of showing off your 009 now. You should keep an eye on Oak Hill this week!! (probably tomorrow!) Gary Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 That was indeed a good haul Sem. The clerestories and the Coal Tank would be considered good enough, but three baseboards for free really slathers the icing on the cake. Agreed wholeheartedly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 I will try and post photos soon, once I have access to a camera. More NG news from Oak Hill, eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 I will try and post photos soon, once I have access to a camera. More NG news from Oak Hill, eh? I look forward to it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 I have still yet to take photographs... In the meantime, the T3 CAD is progressing, I've got mid-way through rebuilding a Fleischmann 'Magic Train' Diesel into an 0-4-0T (Using part of a Hornby NBR D, a scratchbuilt chimney and a Bachmann E4 smokebox door to offer a slight late-LBSCR look.) and have stripped down the Coal tank's chassis ready for the motor to go in once I have a romford screwdriver to sort the wheels out with. I have also put the first coat of white on two of the Clerestory roofs. I'm actually doing some modelling for a change! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 Where do I begin... The T3 had been progressing well - it was almost finished. Then, I went to measure part of the chassis. I applied it to the 3D chassis, and it looked wrong. So I measured another part of the chassis, and another, and soon realised that I had modelled the whole chassis too small, and there was no way a T3 would fit it. So, I've had a re-think. I need to get a 4-4-0 to fit a Hornby Midland Compound chassis by Wednesday at the latest (Anyone who wants to know why should PM me). I am currently looking at doing an LNWR Webb 4-4-0, but if anyone has any suggestions (And, crucially, drawings) please, please, post them here or PM them to me. Thank You. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboSnail Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) The T3 had been progressing well - it was almost finished. Then, I went to measure part of the chassis. I applied it to the 3D chassis, and it looked wrong. So I measured another part of the chassis, and another, and soon realised that I had modelled the whole chassis too small, and there was no way a T3 would fit it. So the T3 is considerably smaller than the Midland Compound? Did the same designer do a larger 4-4-0 that shared common parts like some of the SECR classes that you could rescale bits of it for? X2, T6 etc? Edited April 9, 2018 by TurboSnail Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 What's the wheel size and spacing for the Hornby chassis? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 Umm... 45mm driving wheelbase. 16mm wide chassis block. 110mm long chassis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Could you measure these dimensions for me? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 I've done 'C' (45mm), 'A' = 33mm, 'B' = 40mm, 'D' = 19mm and 'E' = 32mm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Are you measuring the wheels over the flanges? 32mm would translate as 8 foot driving wheels (the same size as the Stirling Single)! I'm struggling to find anything that's very close, but perhaps a Southern L1 class? (Do the opposite of what Triang did when they converted their L1 into a 2P) I'm not sure quite how close it'd be, but the bonus of no outside cylinders... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 I was measuring over the flanges... Without flanges: 'E' = 31, 'D' = 18. The Midland Compound has already got outside cylinders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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