RMweb Premium 45156 Posted December 23, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2022 And from me as well - just keep these excellent pictures coming in the new year 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Happy christmas and a good new year enjoy seeing your updates. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted December 31, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2022 Hi folks, Just a quick fly-by post to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and post a couple of pics from a running session this week. The sessions have mostly been in night mode this week, with 47550 on the the sleeper service seeing a lot of action in particular. Hope to be back with an update soon. Cheers for now Dave 39 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted December 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2022 Happy New Year Dave, Here’s to much modelling time and good health to all in 2023. Rich 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grampus Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Thank you for the wonderful, atmospheric pictures; looking forward to your update in the New Year, too. Happy New Year to you and yours. Best wishes, Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted January 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2023 Belated new year greetings, Dave - now can you PLEASE stop using your time machine, and get back to posting pics of your layout. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Happy new year 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanach Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 On 31/10/2022 at 11:59, Waverley West said: As promised, here are a few more piccies... As evening falls, platforms 12-15 are full of services waiting to depart to destinations across Scotland. Weather-beaten and faded 20048 waits for its next duty... Earlier in the day, it was 37012's turn to wait for its next duty... 37/4s have recently been infringing on what had previously been traditional class 47 territory. Here is 37417 waiting to depart for Inverness.... Meanwhile, Railfreight 20132 and faded BR Blue 20048 wheel a Speedlink service through Princes St Gardens... Followed shortly after by Inverness-based 27029 on a rake of ballast wagons... New stock looking top class as always . I have this type of 27. Have you found a solution for the speaker? I did install an ice cube face down in the fuel tank with the bottom of the tank cut away. This sounded fantastic until it had a derailment in the fiddle yard and shorted the chip! Thankfully it was a Zimo and not ESU so their excellent warranty covered my electrically dumb mistake ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 9 hours ago, meanach said: New stock looking top class as always . I have this type of 27. Have you found a solution for the speaker? I did install an ice cube face down in the fuel tank with the bottom of the tank cut away. This sounded fantastic until it had a derailment in the fiddle yard and shorted the chip! Thankfully it was a Zimo and not ESU so their excellent warranty covered my electrically dumb mistake ! Hi meanach, Thanks! In all my 26/27s, I've installed a cube speaker in the fuel tank. I make sure only plastic is showing facing downwards, flush with the bottom of the cut-out fuel tank. I've never had a problem with shorts following derailments. Hope that helps! Dave 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted January 9, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) Thanks for the New Year wishes, guys, much appreciated. Just thought I'd post a quick update and a few photos from recent operating sessions. I've been working away on a few projects recently which are now nearing completion. The next 3-car 101 is now almost complete. This is another blue-grey unit but this time with black window surrounds, numbered as Haymarket's 101306 and complete with Castle logo on the centre car. This just needs a few final touches and testing and then it can enter service. That will leave one more 3-car 101 to do, in the form of a Strathclyde-liveried unit. Another recent project has been Large Logo 47711, which is the new Bachmann version. This is also complete and just needs its CV1 address setting and then it is ready for final testing. This has been finished in workaday condition, with a grubby roof. The final project is banger blue 47012, another Bachmann loco. This has been finished in pretty grubby condition. Hope to post some photos of the above projects as they make it onto the layout. Now for some more piccies... First up are some overall shots of the station in its night mode 27034 arrives on a service from Fife, closely watched by a gricer in the leading coach... 47636 waits to depart for Inverness An HST departs Platform 19 bound for Aberdeen Edited January 9, 2023 by Waverley West 32 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted January 9, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) Now for some shots taken in Princes St Gardens... An HST arrives from Aberdeen, bound for Kings X The view through The Mound Tunnels to a busy Waverley 27034 returns from Kirkcaldy Meanwhile over at Haymarket MPD, the work to maintain the fleet continues Once the latest projects are up and running on the layout, I have a few Accurascale Deltics that need weathering. I have sold all my Bachmann Deltics, except for white cab 55007 Pinza (a personal favourite), so the Accurascale ones are next on the list for weathering. New Bachmann GW150 Green 47484 Isambard Kingdom Brunel is also high up the list. This may replace GW150 47500, which may or may not be sold on. I haven't plucked up the courage to decide its fate as yet, mainly because I like the loco a lot. I also have a fair few locos to sell on in order to raise funds for some more sound chips, as part of a "sell or get ready for the layout" policy to clear out locos that have been sat in their boxes for far too long (as in "years"). One thing I have learned recently though is that just because a loco or unit has been sat in its box for a long time doesn't necessarily mean I'll never get round to it. The recent 3-car 101s are a good example of this, as I'd been planning to do these for some time. It just took a bit of courage to get the hacksaw out and start cutting up perfectly good models! It's really a question of being realistic as to whether a loco will ever actually run on the layout. Every few months, I like to go through what can be sold on in order to offset the cost of new purchases. I've yet to reach a situation where sales have covered the cost of new purchases over any length of time, but it does at least to help keep the cost at something like a manageable level. That's all for now, folks. Hope to be back soon with another update. Happy Modelling! Cheers Dave Edited January 9, 2023 by Waverley West 36 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Nice to see the loco depot its a very good representation of a major centre ,the offices are excellent a feature not often modelled and a night time period is different.a l Good luck with the Deltics they will add a very special feel to the layout I must admit they were a class I liked to watch. Towards the end of thier service I watched them go through Hitchin along with at least ten other chaps so I can dream. wish I could run one on my layout but to small 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 33 minutes ago, lmsforever said: Nice to see the loco depot its a very good representation of a major centre ,the offices are excellent a feature not often modelled and a night time period is different.a l Good luck with the Deltics they will add a very special feel to the layout I must admit they were a class I liked to watch. Towards the end of thier service I watched them go through Hitchin along with at least ten other chaps so I can dream. wish I could run one on my layout but to small Thanks lms. I wanted to include those offices as they often seem to be prominent in general views of the depot. They were quite tricky to make, as the glazing is very extensive, so keeping the structure square and rigid was a challenge. I was lucky enough to just catch the Deltics before their withdrawal. I never saw St Paddy or Nimbus, but I did manage to see the rest before they met their end. The problem I have is that, in terms of era, Waverley West has drifted towards the second half of the 80s over the years, so my Bachmann Deltics gradually saw less and less use. My plan to overcome this issue is to use the preserved KOYLI and Tulyar in particular on specials comprising Mk 1 stock, which will give me a legitimate reason to run them (besides the good old Rule 1 of course). 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2023 9 hours ago, Waverley West said: Waverley West has drifted towards the second half of the 80s That's a good thing, otherwise I might have been confronted by a model of myself in my blue dust coat, with my MG Midget parked on the slope down to Russell Road... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted January 31, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) Hi folks, Just a quick fly-by update. Accurascale 55018 is now nearing completion and, with new Bachmann 47711 now in service on a blue/grey push-pull rake and Haymarket-based BR Blue 47012 also in service, not to mention several blue/grey 101s now, Waverley West has a slightly retro late 70s/early 80s feel at the moment. In the absence of any new piccies for the moment, I thought I would just post a few from previous years, seeing as these are no longer visible in this thread. A long-range telephoto shot of Haymarket depot, with various large logo 47s in evidence, along with a surprising visitor in the shape of an 03 in the East Yard. Shortly after, a 150 scuttled by, heading for Waverley... InterCity-liveried 47492 The Enterprising Scot, with a very grubby cab roof, looks like it's about to be fired up... Meanwhile, 24081 basks in the sunshine in the East Yard... I have also been having a clear-out of locos recently, mainly those which I have decided I'm unlikely to get round to putting on the layout, including my fleet of Hornby 50s. In the dim and distant past, I did consider doing Bodmin Parkway in the 80s, my "local" station in my formative years. I would still like at least one 50 for railtour use on Waverley West, but with Accurascale's recent announcement, it's likely to be one of theirs anyway. I think I've made good progress with my project to either sell or get locos ready for the layout, and the shelf with locos still in their boxes is looking quite a bit barer now. Hope to be back soon with some shots of 47711 and 55018. Happy Modelling! Cheers for now, Dave Edited January 31, 2023 by Waverley West 26 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Great work Dave - love the atmospheric photos! Are you heading to Model Rail Scotland in a few weeks? Would be good to catch up if so! Kind regards, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 52 minutes ago, Southwich said: Great work Dave - love the atmospheric photos! Are you heading to Model Rail Scotland in a few weeks? Would be good to catch up if so! Kind regards, Will Thanks Will! I'm hoping to make it to MRS, yes. I've normally gone on a Saturday, but I think it will have to be the Friday this year, as I'm away at the weekend. Looking forward to seeing you all and catching up again, Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billywhizz Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Stunning photos Dave. I had to look twice to make sure it was the layout and not a real location!! What do you use for taking the photos. always enjoy your updates, very inspirational! Cheers. Bill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 3 hours ago, billywhizz said: Stunning photos Dave. I had to look twice to make sure it was the layout and not a real location!! What do you use for taking the photos. always enjoy your updates, very inspirational! Cheers. Bill. Thanks Bill! I use a Canon EOS 6D. I used to use a Canon EOS 500D, which I actually preferred. The field of depth seemed to be deeper for some reason. Unfortunately, it eventually gave up the ghost after too many beach holidays with the family, leading to sand getting into the shutter mechanism! Dave 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted April 1, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 Hi folks, Just thought I'd post a few pics to let you know I haven't disappeared off the face of the Earth. Modelling time has been at a premium recently, as Mrs WW managed to break her wrist back in early March. As a result, my domestic duties have increased manifold, squeezing already precious modelling time still further. She has a few weeks to go yet before the cast comes off, so I guess I will just have to make the most of whatever modelling time comes my way. Anyway, without further ado, on to the pics... First up are some shots of the arrival of 47492 The Enterprising Scot in early InterCity livery... This last shot shows her pulling into Platform 16 with new kid on the block 47562 Sir William Burrell, in Mainline livery... Shortly after, 47562 departed for Inverness... 47714 then arrived with a mixed livery push pull rake from Glasgow QS... A 3-car Class 101 then departed from Platform 18, heading for Fife... The Glasgow QS push pull set then departed soon after... Well, that's my upload limit reached, so on to the next post... 48 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted April 1, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 27034 then arrives on a service from Kirkcaldy, closely watched by a keen gricer as it ran through Princes St Gardens and on into Platform 17... There's no rest for the push pull set, as it returns from Glasgow QS in the early evening, as the sun lowers over the horizon... Meanwhile, 47444 has a nice long layoff between duties... 40 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted April 1, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 37401 then passes through Waverley on a Speedlink service... Finally, just a few more piccies to use up the allowance for this post... I've also just completed the weathering of my first Accurascale Deltic, in the form of 55018 Ballymoss, so hope to post some pics of that soon. Bit of a saga to get it running without any derailments, but I got there in the end with some relatively minor modifications, once I'd worked out why it was derailing. I think it looks very nice now though, so the hassle was worth it and I'll know what to do next time. I have now test-run the other three and only one derails at the same places as Ballymoss, so it's all a bit strange. Two of them also had the dreaded rattle, but I seem to have managed to fix that on Ballymoss too and it now sounds superb. Watch this space for the trials and tribulations of preparing an Accurascale Deltic for the layout! Next on the list is another 3-car class 101, this time in Strathclyde livery, along with Bachmann's new early Mk 2s in ScotRail livery, which will be used to make up the rake which often ran on the Perth service. They will need fitting with lights and weathering, but it's good to see the interiors already painted, so that will save some time. Cheers for now. Happy modelling, Dave 41 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallaig1983 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Thanks for the update and wonderful photos Dave. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2023 As always such a superb layout. Any plans to exhibit it? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2023 6 hours ago, Waverley West said: I got there in the end with some relatively minor modifications, once I'd worked out why it was derailing. Do tell! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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