RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted November 10, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2022 4 hours ago, 3rd Rail Exile said: I agree that this piece can't be fitted without significant surgery to the front of the front bogie - you'd need to mill off the cylindrical protrusion at the front and then take the whole front face back a bit. Having found out the hard way that it couldn't be fitted properly, I decided to remove it completely as I don't have the necessary tools to make a decent job of the bogie modification. I suspect most people who tried to fit it will have come to the same conclusion, and therefore there will be a lot of unfitted bang plates still sitting in the accessories bag, or similarly discarded. I can't remember if this issue has afflicted all iterations/modifications of the rebuilt West Country model - it does seem strange to supply a part that it's impossible to fit... Major-ish surgery to the bogie was what I was afraid the answer would be. I’ll have a hunt for a spare bogie to practise on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 4 hours ago, 3rd Rail Exile said: I can't remember if this issue has afflicted all iterations/modifications of the rebuilt West Country model - it does seem strange to supply a part that it's impossible to fit... Strange but far from unusual. I haven’t had this particular problem but in similar cases I have bent the top of the bangplate until it clears obstructions. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matabiau Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Does anyone have any suggestions as how to glue the whistle back onto the loco. Mine snapped off while trying to fit a DCC decoder. There is very little contact surface on the wire to which it was attached. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted December 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2022 Very carefully with a minute drop of glue. Do you have something like this that can hold it perfectly in place? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MikeParkin65 Posted December 20, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2022 And be careful with the type of glue - superglue for example may cause a white 'bloom' to appear on adjacent paint work. Been there, done that . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Apply the glue with a cocktail stick or toothpick. You can pick them up in supermarkets or bargains shops for about 50P a pack for something like 100. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matabiau Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Thanks for the advice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 21 hours ago, Hilux5972 said: Very carefully with a minute drop of glue. Do you have something like this that can hold it perfectly in place? My Grandad has that. It's very handy having one of them, especially for him because he works in N gauge! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Watching "Hornby: A Model World" last night, you'd think they planned 2,500 of these from the start 🤔 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 44 minutes ago, rogerzilla said: Watching "Hornby: A Model World" last night, you'd think they planned 2,500 of these from the start 🤔 Don't believe everything you see on TV... 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 2 minutes ago, Phil Parker said: Don't believe everything you see on TV... Its amazing they can produce accurate models with measurements taken by a bloke with a camera and a coarse-scale measuring stick.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HExpressD Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 30 minutes ago, Hroth said: Its amazing they can produce accurate models with measurements taken by a bloke with a camera and a coarse-scale measuring stick.... And, or course, the dirty great 3D scan they had mentioned twice 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Phil Parker said: Don't believe everything you see on TV... Do you mean 'The Saint' and Maigret aren't real? Next thing we know is that you'll be telling us that all these reality shows aren't real either ... I know the Hornby Show ian't real because it said on Episode 2 that they'd been at Margate for 100 years and i know they weren't. PS. I know Maigret is real because my daughter gave me a couple of the original books about him for Christmas. i know they're original because they came from the Oxfam bookshop so are therefore old and as they're in French they must be real. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: Do you mean 'The Saint' and Maigret aren't real? Next thing we know is that you'll be telling us that all these reality shows aren't real either ... I know the Hornby Show ian't real because it said on Episode 2 that they'd been at Margate for 100 years and i know they weren't. PS. I know Maigret is real because my daughter gave me a couple of the original books about him for Christmas. i know they're original because they came from the Oxfam bookshop so are therefore old and as they're in French they must be real. As is well known, the Margate site dates to 1954, purpose built for Triang when they moved from Richmond. So it's 59 years old, which is probably close enough to 100 years as far as TV scriptwriting is concerned! Maigret? Wasn't he Rupert Davies? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinRS Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 On 21/04/2022 at 10:56, Brinkly said: Reminds me of this! A pint and a half in every boiler? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 9 hours ago, MartinRS said: A pint and a half in every boiler? The gorilla from the ads has the makings of a decent fireman. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmdon Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 On 19/12/2022 at 18:59, Hilux5972 said: Very carefully with a minute drop of glue. Do you have something like this that can hold it perfectly in place? I actually want one of those - what on earth are they called? Struggling to pull anything up online with ‘thing that holds things for modelling’…, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Derek 19B Posted February 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2023 They are called helping hands , Frizinghall models have them , very useful but can be unstable , derek 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 13 minutes ago, Derek 19B said: They are called helping hands , Frizinghall models have them , very useful but can be unstable , derek The best solution is to get a 300mm square (1ft in old money) piece of plywood to work on, drill a couple of holes in the "legs" and screw the magnifier to the plywood. Steadies the apparatus a treat! An added touch is to sand and varnish the plywood to reduce the possibility of splinters... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 On 31/01/2023 at 11:42, Hroth said: As is well known, the Margate site dates to 1954, purpose built for Triang when they moved from Richmond. So it's 59 years old, which is probably close enough to 100 years as far as TV scriptwriting is concerned! Maigret? Wasn't he Rupert Davies? He was. I remember the spoof of the opening, where he throws down the match which he used to light his pipe and set Paris ablaze! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted April 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) FWIW, Hatton's currently have a pre-owned example of this model in stock for anybody desperate to own one. I doubt you'll get killed in the rush as the asking price is £581. The mind boggles! Edited April 9, 2023 by Dunsignalling 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted April 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 9, 2023 4 hours ago, Dunsignalling said: FWIW, Hatton's currently have a pre-owned example of this model in stock for anybody desperate to own one. I doubt you'll get killed in the rush as the asking price is £581. The mind boggles! Someone will pay it. I’m glad I got mine direct from Hornby at the original price Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted April 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2023 53 minutes ago, Hilux5972 said: Someone will pay it. I’m glad I got mine direct from Hornby at the original price More fool anybody who does. With 2500 produced they aren't especially rare and once the novelty wears off they'll come down to half the peak price just as the Bachmann SECR C class has. My personal view is that the model is highly authentic; it looks precisely as hideous as the prototype did in that paint scheme! John 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 The fact that holidng the model next the real thing on the Yesterday TV program showed it to be the same colour actually proves it is wrong as it fails to take scale into account. A colour always looks darker close up and lighter the further away 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Butler Henderson said: The fact that holidng the model next the real thing on the Yesterday TV program showed it to be the same colour actually proves it is wrong as it fails to take scale into account. A colour always looks darker close up and lighter the further away Well that's the thing. The model is the correct colour but the real engine looked far to lilac in any photo I saw. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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