Horsetan Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 ........New supervisor looking over the cabs before they're attached to the frames, that's the kit box lid she's sitting in. The newest addition to the flock, two men turned up on the doorstep on Bank Holiday saturday asking if we'd lost a kitten ..... A kitten kit? Or is it ready-to-run? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 Quote: A kitten kit? Or is it ready-to-run? Ready to run, up trees, hasn't done the curtains yet, has tried the line post and several door frames though Anyway, a bit more progress, but not much, got to go to bed, need to be up just after 02.00 for an 03.50 start The stages to a cab seat, from the left. The pedestal support folded. A flat etch which folds up into the complete seat. A folded and soldered seat. The complete seat ready to fit to the cab floor. I've also added the quadrants for the motor controls to the cab desks, very fiddly, I think they'll need a bit of cleaning up as well, huge blobs of solder! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted December 20, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2010 Quote: A kitten kit? Or is it ready-to-run? Ready to run, up trees, hasn't done the curtains yet, has tried the line post and several door frames though Anyway, a bit more progress, but not much, got to go to bed, need to be up just after 02.00 for an 03.50 start The stages to a cab seat, from the left. The pedestal support folded. A flat etch which folds up into the complete seat. A folded and soldered seat. The complete seat ready to fit to the cab floor. I've also added the quadrants for the motor controls to the cab desks, very fiddly, I think they'll need a bit of cleaning up as well, huge blobs of solder! Hi Have you considered solder paint/cream for adding this sort of detail? You can place a very small amount in the area you want to solder and there is very little cleaning up afterwards. Cheers Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galtee More Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Great Central's Class 76 will be appearing at the forthcoming NOTTINGHAM East Midlands EXHIBITION in March. Included in the line-up of exhibits depicting the Woodheads route will be the following layouts: WOODHEAD THEMED GROUPING Mini-MSW 2mmFS BR 1970s Alan Whitehouse Deepcar OO BR 1970s Nottingham MRS Netherwood Sidings O BR 1970s Graham Clark Gamesley Staff Halt N BR 1970s Gary Atkinson For information about the show on RM Web, CLICK HERE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep101 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hi all, with GC's approval, heres some pictures of my class 76, built to the same design etc, as GC's , mine will be done as 76033 complete with "eyebrows" nearly all my external work is done, and as can be seen the cabs are primed and ready to go! The big next step for me is the internal work, servo, dcc chips, lights, for this im getting a bit of expert help, from the author and kit producer mr clark! as this is where i will be totally out of my depth lol! Posed with pans up. Primed cab interiors. For a beginner to O gauge modelling its been a very interesting project! regards davep101 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 Is it nearly three months since my last update, work really, really has been getting in the way!! As a colleague described it, it feels like permanent jet lag, been up since 03.30 this morning as it is! But day off tomorrow, so a small update on the very slow progress of this build. I had intended it to be ready to add to the fleet on Netherwood Sidings at the Nottingham show, but since that is less than three weeks away and I have a good few other things to do for the show, it might make an appearance as a 'work in progress' The cab handrails are now all fitted and the lamp iron that I lost on the floor a couple of weeks ago hasn't reappeared so a replacement has been fabricated, doesn't look too bad. Sandpipes are now in place, still need to fathom out which bit is which of some of the brake gear. The buffers posed a slight problem, it would seem that the 76s have an almost unique type of buffer. All the ones that I could find on the 'net had collars on the stocks wheras the 76 ones appear plain. The closest match I could find was an LMS loco buffer by Meteor Models in Northampton, very reasonably priced and excellent next day service (shame it's taken me several weeks to get them fitted!) The pictures not great, but I think it conveys the progress. One of the major jobs remaining is building up the pantographs, which using Graham's jig doesn't take that long but as the club is now gearing up for the show I doubt it will get done until afterwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Hi GC & Dave. Great workmanship in those 76's - Well done - Look forward to next update - Would like to know if there is any 7mm scale Catenary avaliable ? or is it a case of scratch building it all. Cheers. Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Hi Bob, All of our catenary is scratch built, in OO for Deepcar and Carstairs which are club layouts and Graham's layout Netherwood sidings in O Deepcar and Netherwood, along with MiniMSW (2mm finescale) and Gamesley Staff Halt (N) will make up a Woodhead themed group at Nottingham show in a couple of weeks time, information here: http://www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk/exhiblayouts.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Hi GC. Thanks for the Info - I thought that it must be Scratch Built - Shame that there is not Catenary avaliable off the shelf, would be more overhead electric layouts maybe ?. Look forward to seeing those layouts at exibition sometime. Cheers. Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappatime Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Did this model ever get finished? There was a lot of work went into making the etches and mouldings, were they ever taken up by anybody as a going concern for production/limited run? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Must be a Tommy-cat. (See what I did there?) Any progress on this? Hi Simon, not on this one I'm afraid, it's stalled awaiting the pantographs which need a jig to build. Not to mention earning a living which also gets in the way. Out of bed at 03.30 this moring, just got home and had my tea(?). Some completed ones can be seen here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78401-netherwood-sidings/ Mine will get done sometime but priority at the moment is clearing the garage to make a retirement space for Deepcar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Did I see an advert recently from Judith Edge saying they did 7mm pantographs for the 76? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Did I see an advert recently from Judith Edge saying they did 7mm pantographs for the 76? I think they may do, certainly do 4mm ones. I already have the pans as part of the kit, just need to put them together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted May 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2014 Good to hear Deepcar is to be preserved, its been so much enjoyed at many shows. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted May 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2014 Did I see an advert recently from Judith Edge saying they did 7mm pantographs for the 76? You did, we now have this pantograph in production in 7mm scale (and also the two Southern ones for the class 71 and the Bulleid Co-Co). Price is £15 each + £1.50 postage. Michael and Judith Edge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Good to hear Deepcar is to be preserved, its been so much enjoyed at many shows. Dava Thanks for the kind words, never thought of it as 'preserving' the layout! I want/need a layout to run things on as well as keep doing bits and pieces to. It's the nearest I'll get to my ideal layout, which would be GC in the Nottingham area to be honest, but having spent around half my life involved with Deepcar I'd rather have that than try to build anything now. There's likely to be members running sessions once in a while and although retired it doesn't mean that it won't be available for exhibition if it gets invited. Deepcar and Netherwood sidings will be at the great Central event at Quorn next month. http://gcrailway.co.uk/modelevent/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 You did, we now have this pantograph in production in 7mm scale (and also the two Southern ones for the class 71 and the Bulleid Co-Co). Price is £15 each + £1.50 postage. Michael and Judith Edge You see Michael, all that money you spend on advertising does work! It did sink into the darker recesses of my brain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 You did, we now have this pantograph in production in 7mm scale (and also the two Southern ones for the class 71 and the Bulleid Co-Co). Price is £15 each + £1.50 postage. Michael and Judith Edge All we need is the loco kits now - would like a couple of 76s - Any chance of these being produced ?. Cheers, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted May 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2014 The EM1 will appear in 4mm scale eventually, I'll need quite a few for my next layout, but it will be after that for 7mm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Pete Waterman took the MSL kit over but no sign of that re-appearing anytime soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 Pete Waterman took the MSL kit over but no sign of that re-appearing anytime soon. I understand that the MSL offering wasn't particularly good, Not seen a 7mm one personally but the originator of ours had, and decided that a far better and much cheaper result could be obtained by designing his own I have seen the 4mm MSL one and decided I was quite happy with the DC resin version Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted May 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2014 The EM1 will appear in 4mm scale eventually, I'll need quite a few for my next layout, but it will be after that for 7mm. Hi Thats something to look forward to as I have always liked the idea of building a pair in 7mm, all mine are 2mm ones. Cheers Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 The EM1 will appear in 4mm scale eventually, I'll need quite a few for my next layout, but it will be after that for 7mm. But not before the Ruston DE165 0-6-0, I hope? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 The EM1 will appear in 4mm scale eventually, I'll need quite a few for my next layout, but it will be after that for 7mm. Hi Michael Any idea what short of time scale you are looking at for the 7mm EM1. Cheers, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
61650gtfc Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 On the MSL kits I have one which I have 75% built. I am in two minds weather to put it on ebay or to finnish it. Its not a great kit. The pantographs are pretty poor and very two dimensional. Knowing Michael has some for sale might give me the impetus to actually finnish it! I am not very happy with how I poorly assembled the bogies I need to strip them and start again. The body was a bit of a challenge as it didn't fit very well the cabs where a struggle in particular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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