RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted September 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2023 I've not seen any different grades, the ones I use are sold as graphite pencils by Hobbycraft. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted September 4, 2023 Author Share Posted September 4, 2023 1 hour ago, sb67 said: I've just realised that the Graphite Sticks come in different grades! The one I got is bone hard, do you know if that matters, I'm assuming the softer ones deposit more graphite? That would make sense but I don't know what grade I've got. It was hexagonal, in the shape of a pencil, but fat and without any wood around it, only a paper wrapping that I removed to allow the sides of the stick to be used, so I'm afraid I can't help there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Graphite gradings is probably in line with pencil grading. 'H' grades are harder than 'B' grades. Higher number 'H' is harder, higher number 'B' softer. A regular pencil is usually HB, or right in the middle. I'd probably start there for convenience, then work my way 'up' the 'B' grades. I used a lot of apostrophes there. 1 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 2, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 2, 2023 It's been months since I had a shunt with CY/WL. I took this Peckett out of the cabinet for a play. 30 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted November 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 2, 2023 Dave it's always great to see Charlie Strong Metals layout. The work you put in on your Pecketts is just brilliant. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 3, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2023 Some "errors" have come to light in the scrapyard accounts. The management have decided to come down and find out what's been going on for themselves. 15 3 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 5 hours ago, Ruston said: Some "errors" have come to light in the scrapyard accounts. The management have decided to come down and find out what's been going on for themselves. Looks like they're about to take exception to being photographed, too!!! 😱🤣 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve45 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Peaky Blinders comes to mind 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 4 hours ago, steve45 said: Peaky Blinders comes to mind Intentionally so, I strongly suspect!! CJI. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 9, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2023 The Motor Rail has come out to play, this evening. 19 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted November 10, 2023 Author Share Posted November 10, 2023 I've had these condemned vans sitting on the back siding for months. Yesterday's shunt moved them into the scrapping area. The hand of god will spirit them away to the shelf. 16 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 Very realistic operation, then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 13, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2023 On 10/11/2023 at 19:34, AlfaZagato said: Very realistic operation, then. I think that, in reality, they'd set fire to them to get rid of all the woodwork, but I think I'll pass on that bit. 😁 This evening's shunt included the restored No.1 Ruston and some more condemned vehicles, plus some strip coil action. 22 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 20, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2023 The Hudswell Clarke came out for a shunt, this evening, with it's growly Gardner engine sound. 28 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve45 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Hi Dave, Can I ask where did you get the steel coils from? I especially like the painted markings, they remind me of when I first started work 51 years ago at Ductile Steels Planetary Mill, Wednesfield, West Midlands. If I recall correctly the markings also used to include the details of the metric weight. They used to roll steel billets into hot rolled coil. Sometimes the billets arrived by rail but the coils were always dispatched by road. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 13 hours ago, steve45 said: Hi Dave, Can I ask where did you get the steel coils from? I especially like the painted markings, they remind me of when I first started work 51 years ago at Ductile Steels Planetary Mill, Wednesfield, West Midlands. If I recall correctly the markings also used to include the details of the metric weight. They used to roll steel billets into hot rolled coil. Sometimes the billets arrived by rail but the coils were always dispatched by road. I made them. 5 thou. Plastikard, cut to width and wrapped around a pencil. Seam of glue to prevent it all from unravelling. Painted with Tamiya Gunmetal (or something like that) and strips of insulation tape added as banding. Markings done using white Graphitint pencil. 2 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 You can buy ready made painted steel coils that are quite realistic. I’ve got some, but can’t remember who made them, there some awful cheap ones available too. But those scratchbuilt ones are even better. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted November 23, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 The Ruston 88DS has its day in the sun LEDs. 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted December 10, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2023 And one that came in from an ICI works that ceased to use rail traffic. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted January 22 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 22 I got my old Judith Edge Ruston 165 back. I sold it a year or two ago but bought it back recently and it's been having an outing on CSM. 25 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 14 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 14 Another old 48DS that was of no further use arrives at Strong's yard. This one may spend some time moving wagons about before ending up in one and on its way to becoming a Rover 75. 21 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike morley Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Dare I ask how long it took/how steady a hand/how long an abstinence from alcohol it took to successfully apply those wasp stripes? And, come to that, how long it took to recover from the ordeal afterwards? 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 12 hours ago, Ruston said: Another old 48DS that was of no further use arrives at Strong's yard. This one may spend some time moving wagons about before ending up in one and on its way to becoming a Rover 75. I can only imagine Health & Safety issuing instructions that PPE when working with the above is to include darkened eye protection (sunglasses)! I know that such liveries were applied in real life, but I find myself admiring the modelling skills required to produce such a livery whilst at the same time wishing I’d never seen it! Hats off to @Ruston for modelling industrial railways in all their colours and hues! Steve S 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Because the body can be broken down into cab, engine casing and frames, it wasn't that difficult a task. About 20 seconds to spray a coat of white, leave for an hour, 2 minutes to brush-paint a coat of yellow, leave for a couple of hours and then around 45 minutes for each of the three parts to apply the masking tape. 20 seconds to spray the black. Apply transfer, leave for an hour, 20 seconds to spray matt varnish. Leave a day and weather. Acrylics are a great time saver. I'd still be waiting for the first coat of white to dry if I'd used enamels. The shed would stink, too. 8 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 I'm impressed with the brushed yellow. I tend to find acrylic yellows & reds are difficult to brush evenly, drying very patchy, streaky & almost transparent in places. Mostly Tamiya. I gave up on Humbrol, and years ago had similar issues with enamels, which I haven't used in decades - since being married in fact, by some strange coincidence!! 🙄🤦♂️😂😂😂 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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