RMweb Premium Martino Posted November 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2022 Here you go. Regrettably everything has now been packed and crated for our move to Georgia. The line is no more! 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted November 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2022 (edited) Post deleted due to problems uploading photos Edited November 9, 2022 by PhilH . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Another Gold award for a generally Blue-Petery attitude to modelling and a nostalgia trip. This one is to chuffinghell for his Warren Branch. The spirit of "here's one I prepared earlier" is alive and well. Expect to see the the Tracy Island Light Railway at an exhibition near you soon. Edited January 10, 2023 by CameronL Typo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted January 18, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2023 Many years ago I was given a Hornby Dublo 3 rail English Electric Type 1 which I wanted to convert to 2 rail and needed some insulating axles. My mum's knitting needles fitted the bill, and as a trainee at Horwich Training School I turned the ends down to make an interference fit on the existing wheels, made some pickups from some wire that I found, and away it went. 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 5 hours ago, 96701 said: Many years ago I was given a Hornby Dublo 3 rail English Electric Type 1 which I wanted to convert to 2 rail and needed some insulating axles. My mum's knitting needles fitted the bill, and as a trainee at Horwich Training School I turned the ends down to make an interference fit on the existing wheels, made some pickups from some wire that I found, and away it went. Definitely worth a badge. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 And another badge goes to ISW for his Burton-on-Trent South - Adding Buildings thread and ingenious use of cereal packets, for a layout that not only looks amazing but smells like breakfast. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 Here's a gold badge for SonOfMike, for his Apocrypha USA thread. Household objects, a generous helping of imagination and judicious application of Rule 1 have combined to produce a charming, atmospheric inglenook with some fabulous scratchbuilt buildings and engines that really should be in the Pugbashes thread. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted February 27, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2023 I used various bits in loco builds and used to save those tops off mini superglue bottles as they made good warehouse roof details. Here’s the top off a shampoo bottle pretending to be a submarine with the pole off a Ratio lamp as the periscope I did when I built Stonemere. ©️ fairlightworks on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/3HpEq7 2 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 11 minutes ago, PaulRhB said: I used various bits in loco builds and used to save those tops off mini superglue bottles as they made good warehouse roof details. Here’s the top off a shampoo bottle pretending to be a submarine with the pole off a Ratio lamp as the periscope I did when I built Stonemere. ©️ fairlightworks on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/3HpEq7 Serial re-users get a gold badge! Love it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted April 13, 2023 Author Share Posted April 13, 2023 And another Gold Badge to Nick Gough for his Cholsey and Moulsford, Change for Wallingford thread, with some serious recycling of cereal packets, pipes and coffee stirrers. Not to mention a totally drool-worthy layout in the making. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 And another award goes to Kes, whose "Badger's Bottom" thread includes a signalman's toilet that's right in the spirit of these awards. (It also has some pretty jaw-dropping scratchbuiling). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kes Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Cheers Guys, I really like making something out of nothing. Thanks for the nomination. Kevin. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 (edited) Ready for Stafford this weekend, this HO scale copy of the Hershey's homemade device to transfer the overhead power along the train using the existing redundant trolley poles. The white roofed car is the only one which is powered and is usually in the centre of the Train, so in theory could use it's decoder output through the poles to headlights on the unpowered cars. https://youtu.be/1xqO72WS8eQ?si=VCgJUmKZUFUUjy2e Edited September 21, 2023 by 298 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted September 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2023 I am working on a engine shed knocked together from old wooden lolly sticks and tea stirrers: Thus far only cost me the purchase price of some glue... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave John Posted September 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2023 I do like creative modelmaking, some good ideas on this thread. Starting with a bit of waste water pipe I ended up with a tank wagon ; Most of the brass bits came from an old piano. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 11 hours ago, John M Upton said: I am working on a engine shed knocked together from old wooden lolly sticks and tea stirrers: Thus far only cost me the purchase price of some glue... That's worth a badge. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted October 18, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) To complement Dave's excellent tank wagon above, I also nominate Keith's version: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/163857-narrow-gauge-beginnings-getting-started-in-hon30-and-h0e/?do=findComment&comment=5313669 Edited October 18, 2023 by Mikkel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Evening all Stunning work above, and much deserving of Blue Peter Badges of all grades, I hope. I still have the plans for the mid-'80s Blue Peter Layout somewhere... I found this thread whilst looking for "Cardboard Buildings and Kits" and am very impressed by the scratchbuilds and bashing. Am particularly impressed by mixed use of lolly-sticks and tea-stirrers: Do they make I-girders as well as they should? BUT: - Can anyone help with sourcing Bilteezi prints? Their Weeblysite is pretty, but no links seem to work. They promote similar products and producers such as Scalescenes, but no links actually work when I hover/click. For those who need LU/Holden buildings: I bought several prints from Kingsway during the Bad Times, but haven't actually built them yet, so can't comment on construction. regards cs 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 All I apologise - I think I found the wrong thread, Have found another, more closely related to my question. Sorry to have bothered you, and good luck! cs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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