David Bell Posted June 23, 2023 Author Share Posted June 23, 2023 35 minutes ago, David Bell said: Heaven Forbid! Not that I ever drink the stuff, honest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 The shed is finished! 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Back on the model I have started extending the scenic section above the tunnel mouth. The original plan was to have a low relief tenement but I have since decided to model a full tenement, front and back and to extend the street further back to include a further building. Brian at Braeside is working on the tenement now so I thought I should complete the base on which it will stand. Cheers David 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 3, 2023 Author Share Posted July 3, 2023 I have started to put the full size signal together. They are bigger than you think! The semaphore arm is 4 ft x 11 inches. The length of the whole thing including the spectacle plate is 70 inches. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 The street extension is complete and primed ready for painting. The white paper is the footprint of the tenement. Cheers David 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted July 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 03/07/2023 at 20:03, David Bell said: I have started to put the full size signal together. They are bigger than you think! The semaphore arm is 4 ft x 11 inches. The length of the whole thing including the spectacle plate is 70 inches. For some that’s a decent baseboard. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 The spectacle plate for the signal, made of laminated ply and MDF 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 10, 2023 Author Share Posted July 10, 2023 The signal is all in one piece now. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Big old thing isn't it! It' 4 minutes ago, David Bell said: The signal is all in one piece now. Big isn't it!! It always amazed me that semaphores were pulled by cables, pulleys and man-power. Signalmen must have been high in the list of people you wouldn't challenge to a bar-room arm wrestle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 10, 2023 Author Share Posted July 10, 2023 22 minutes ago, brylonscamel said: Big old thing isn't it! It' Big isn't it!! It always amazed me that semaphores were pulled by cables, pulleys and man-power. Signalmen must have been high in the list of people you wouldn't challenge to a bar-room arm wrestle. I think you are right. I remember there was a lever in the Fouldubs box I could not even move. The signal was a long way from the box. The signalman seemed to move it quite easily. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 5 hours ago, David Bell said: I remember there was a lever in the Fouldubs box I could not even move Funnily enough some high-res images of the interior at Fouldubs box popped up on a Facebook group this week. You weren't in-shot, wrestling with a heavy lever. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 Just back from nearly a month away in Canada and the USA. Had a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer, which was fabulous. Now finished the signal arm. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 You can see the spectacle glass better in this one 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted August 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2023 That’s going to take more than a 5v servo or Seep solenoid to move it. Looks good. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 Brian is making good progress with the Glasgow tenement and I hope to have the street scene ready for its arrival. One thing I hope to have in the scene is a Glasgow tram. My quick fix is to use a Leeds tram which sort of looks the part, pending something better! It is not prototypical, not the right number of wheels for a start, but it has the look of an early Glasgow bogie tram. The first task is to take it apart. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 11, 2023 Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 Although the task is basically a repaint and reassembly i have done two things which i think will improve the look. I cut out the folding doors and I have removed the destination blind box so I can replace it lower down on the front below the level of the upper windows. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 11, 2023 Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 In the meantime i have started preparing the base for the coach. There will be 14 posts in all, 5 each side and 4 down the middle 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 13, 2023 Author Share Posted October 13, 2023 The tram body splits into three bits and each has had its first colour. It is already starting to get the Glasgow look! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted October 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2023 On 11/10/2023 at 19:25, David Bell said: In the meantime i have started preparing the base for the coach. There will be 14 posts in all, 5 each side and 4 down the middle Having built quite a few sheds and buildings on legs over the years I would have preferred to put it on metal stilts. I used to get them fabricated by a local engineering company (they were usually a time filler) and were simply a large bottom plate(8" square) with a 4" box section leg and topped with a 6" square plate. We would dig a footing which was not much bigger than a post hole and after squaring the base up bolt them down. Might sound like a lot of faffing about but It avoided any rot in pressure treated posts which have lasted barely the 10 year guarantee. Looking forward to seeing progress, I'm currently arranging the pick up of a railway van for the garden but that's just for lounging in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 On 13/10/2023 at 19:30, David Bell said: The tram body splits into three bits and each has had its first colour. Fantastic colour scheme and you're king of the rattle-can finish! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) Which of the original route colours would have served Queen Street / George Square? The colour banding did change with time, so probably historic. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-tram-map-stunning-history-16286090 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.6&lat=55.86155&lon=-4.25020&layers=168&b=1 also at https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/46734214652/ Looks as if the 1 / 1A green band might be appropriate, at least in 1938. Edited October 16, 2023 by Dunalastair 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, brylonscamel said: Fantastic colour scheme and you're king of the rattle-can finish! This is where we have got to. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Looks lovely and clearly needs a suitable backdrop .. on which note, check your latest messages. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 hour ago, David Bell said: This is where we have got to. I need to change the colour of the truck to red oxide rather than black and sort the roof . I had a bit of a disaster with that due to some interaction between paint layers which turned it to orange peel but all not lost! Having taken one of these apart i think i will use the other one to produce a single deck works tram , will require some extensive surgery but i think it will work! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 4 hours ago, Dunalastair said: Which of the original route colours would have served Queen Street / George Square? The colour banding did change with time, so probably historic. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-tram-map-stunning-history-16286090 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.6&lat=55.86155&lon=-4.25020&layers=168&b=1 also at https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/46734214652/ Looks as if the 1 / 1A green band might be appropriate, at least in 1938. I have gone with green on the basis that by the fifties they had given up on the route colours and settled on green as a standard. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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