Caley Jim Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 28 minutes ago, CKPR said: I am actually part Scots so I'm allowed to make the observation that presumably the sub-6" planking was to save the NBR the odd bawbee or two per van... They were, after all an Edinburgh concern. A city of lawyers and accountants! Jim 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 ive got something similar i made, when working out drawings for scratchbuilding and getting fed up with having to work out every measurement on a calculator every time so i made a simple inch to mm list 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2022 Both very useful to someone who has only just stared any 7 mm work, for a club layout, after working in EM for decades. My next question is how one cuts 6.4166666667?! Another issue is that although in 4 mm 40 thou can be taken as 3 inches (and I use 30 though to represent 2.5 inch thick planks!) when one gets to 7 mm the various imperial sizes of plastics sheet and strip don't match very will. Jonathan PS I don't think it was only the Scots who were "careful" with their wood. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 i dont work to that accuracy its only for the drawings, i would work to 6.5 for 11 inch, i can only work quarter of a mm accuracy so i round up or down to the nearest quarter or half 1 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium magmouse Posted April 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2022 10 hours ago, corneliuslundie said: Both very useful to someone who has only just stared any 7 mm work, for a club layout, after working in EM for decades. I’ve been on the same journey - one of the things I’ve found odd working in 7mm is that some things things are too small. I’m thinking of things like the diameter of shafts in brake gear, which in 4mm I was always trying to get as fine as possible. In 7mm I sometimes work out how big something should be to scale, and it’s chunkier than my instincts thought it would be. Nick. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 The 7mm scale ruler has arrived... 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 First model railway show in several years and who should be at the Ludlow event but Connoisseur Models - had quite a long chat with Jim and I think the last of the US brass (and some very rare vac-form aircraft kits) will have to be sold to raise the, ahem, brass for his trio of NER 4w coaches. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted May 15, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2022 Alas Jim had nothing for the Rhymney in 4 mm or the BCR in 7 mm! I did have a chat with him. A pretty good show, my first for about two and a half years. Jonathan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Continuing the discussion of the North Sunderland's motive power that was started over on @Edwardian's 'Richmond' thread, the penultimate North Sunderland engine (as in engines that were used on the North Sunderland) arrived today in the form of a half-assembled Sevenscale L&Y pug kit. My first thoughts on examining it was that this was the UK equivalent of the legendary Roundhouse Shay kit, which also dates from the late 1970s - both were a major step forward in locomotive kits but goodness me, there's quite some work involved on the part of the builder ! I think this is going to be a major project, not least because the white-metal outside motion will need to be remade in brass and nickel silver. And yes, I still have one of those Roundhouse Shay kits hidden away in the attic. Edited July 21, 2022 by CKPR 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brossard Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Your mention of Jim and NER carriages reminded me that this second hand one is on Steamline: http://www.steamline.co.uk/csl66 Not really well done IMO, but perhaps stripping the paint and re-doing will improve things. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 38 minutes ago, brossard said: Your mention of Jim and NER carriages reminded me that this second hand one is on Steamline: http://www.steamline.co.uk/csl66 Not really well done IMO, but perhaps stripping the paint and re-doing will improve things. John As luck would have it, I succombed a few weeks ago and bought the very same kit - another project for Autumn! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 (edited) Not specifically modelling but currently in Seahouses for the week and engaging in some psychogeographical exploration along the remarkably intact route of the North Sunderland Rly. Oh, and photographing the surviving features, principally North Sunderland platform and Fleetham Bridge. The latter would make a really nice piece of cameo modelling along the lines of the North American finescale 1:48 modellers. Edited September 5, 2022 by CKPR 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Birthday present from Mrs CKPR-to-be 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Well, she's a keeper 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2022 25 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Well, she's a keeper ? 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 1 minute ago, Compound2632 said: ? A new take on the 'shot gun wedding'? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 At least she appears to be bringing home the bacon rabbit! Jim 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 Just to let you all know that I'm still pottering along in the senior scale, collecting kits, including a large pile of ABS wagons, for an Autumn building campaign and working away on various common or garden LNER wagons. Now, the Parkside O gauge range - the first one I built, I wasn't impressed with the underframe and used part of my precious stock of ABS and ex-CCW (!) parts to rebuild it. Then I discovered that all Parkside kits have pretty much the same not very good underframe. Hmmm, I must admit that I was expecting better as these were scarcely better than the old 3H kits, which at least had a certain charm to them. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2023 (edited) 12 minutes ago, CKPR said: Now, the Parkside O gauge range - the first one I built, I wasn't impressed with the underframe and used part of my precious stock of ABS and ex-CCW (!) parts to rebuild it. Then I discovered that all Parkside kits have pretty much the same not very good underframe. Hmmm, I must admit that I was expecting better as these were scarcely better than the old 3H kits, which at least had a certain charm to them. The earlier Parkside 4 mm kits are a bit hit-and-miss underframewise, from the point of view of ease of construction - and that includes many of the LNER types - but the later kits, notably the RCH 1923 PO wagons, are among the very best injection-molded kits I've had the pleasure of building. So don't let some bad experiences put you off the range, and perhaps try something other than an LNER prototype! Edited August 25, 2023 by Compound2632 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 I've actually been building and refurbishing a rake of the 7 and 8 plank wagons and I would agree that the bodywork is very nicely moulded, it's just the underframes I'm none too impressed with. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brossard Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 I've built quite a lot of Parkside 0 gauge wagons and quite like them. Slater's kits might just edge them out because they include etched brass parts while Parkside generally don't. However, part of the fun is improving kits where what is provided may not be optimum. One pretty awful feature of Parkside brake vans are the plastic step hangers (Slater's are LWB). I tend to break these just getting them off the sprue. In all cases, I have substituted scratchbuilt hangers from brass strip. John 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAle Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Try these: - https://cspmodels.com/abante/index.php?rt=product/product&manufacturer_id=23&product_id=327 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 30 minutes ago, SteamAle said: Try these: - https://cspmodels.com/abante/index.php?rt=product/product&manufacturer_id=23&product_id=327 Very nice and I like the look of the LNER lamps...of course, the North Sunderland was known for being a bit lax about the niceties of BoT operating requirements when it came to lamps, single line working procedures, point locks, etc ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brossard Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 48 minutes ago, SteamAle said: Try these: - https://cspmodels.com/abante/index.php?rt=product/product&manufacturer_id=23&product_id=327 Nice, wish I knew about these earlier. All my brake vans are done, one from each region, MR, WR, ER (2), SR and NBR. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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