Wilton 34041 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 This looks good, I hadn't heard you were doing this! I think I'll have to keep a watch here to see when they're available as I'm tempted. What will the motor and gearbox be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted December 19, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2021 Whatever you want, plenty of empty space in this - axles we be 1/8 in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Careful saying 'whatever you want.' I have a friend with an LS sitting in his garage. ...I'll see myself out at that. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted December 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2021 20 hours ago, Michael Edge said: Back to the SR 350hp 0-6-0DE today. Looking good Michael and some useful tips in your comments but then thats what the test build is for I guess. As you know, one for me please, I have to build 15201 before its too late!!. Have a great Christmas and a healthy 2022 to you and yours. Kind regards, Richard B Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilton 34041 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 On 19/12/2021 at 22:46, Michael Edge said: Whatever you want, plenty of empty space in this - axles we be 1/8 in. Thanks, that's good. My preferred is HighLevel with a flywheel on the extended motor shaft. So room for a decoder, stay alive and speaker - luxury!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 That's fantastic news on the Southern DE, reaaaally looking forward to getting my mitts on one, or two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Staffordshire Posted January 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2022 Just to prove the 'odd' kit gets built and finished ... Comments welcome ... 26 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2022 Delightful! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 11, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 Nice, thanks for posting the photo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Staffordshire said: Just to prove the 'odd' kit gets built and finished ... Comments welcome ... Now you've gone and done it !!! The kit in my hoard will start yelling at me whenever I go into the railway room! CJI. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 11, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 Get on with it then! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Michael Edge said: Get on with it then! First priority is to install the turntable that should arrive in the next couple of days - then all the trackwork will be operational. John Isherwood. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Dale Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Hi Mike, First time I've checked in here for a good while and nice to see the progress on the Southern 350hp DE shunter. It's great to see all those drawings evolve into a model. Steph 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 28, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2022 The SR 350hp is going very slow at the moment, one slight snag is that the Slater's OC axles are far too short. I've been looking at the Fell this week and that will have the same problem. I might have to get them to produce longer ones but at least I've found that wheels with the square brass inserts can be tapped 3BA to fit on these axles, which was news to David White. I'm building a test etch 7mm Janus at the moment, photos on my workbench thread. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 28, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2022 Apologies for the total confusion in that last post, I have two 350hp kits in development at the moment and Steph's post led to to think about the GW/LMS twin motor 350 which is in 7mm, the SR one is of course 4mm so far. Both have axle related issues though, the comments about Slater's axle refer to the EE/HL one for GW and LMS, the Southern one was to have the excellent Markits axles and cranks as an option but in this case Markits wheels in EM gauge won't fit between the outside frames. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_Under Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Talking of the "Fell" - here is one of Mikes etches that I'm CSB'ing High level Slimline 2mm hornblocks, Lanarkshire Models CSB pivots. The CSB points where worked out using a CLAg excel sheet. I then transposed this points onto a scan of the drawings in Inkscape to make sure they did not interfere with the various spacers. Only one require some slots cutting for the CSB tags to have some upwards movement in them. Final product. Now need to install gearbox, outside frames etc. This was a Ebay find, that had a poorly built chassis that I striped down, cleaned up and started from scratch. The body has been stripped, as the detail etches had been glued on and the front cowlings poorly attached. Very enjoyable thus far. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Down_Under said: Excuse my ignorance, but what is this contraption? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Jack P said: Excuse my ignorance, but what is this contraption? The Fell locomotive. A prototype loco trialled inthe UK. Baz Edited January 30, 2022 by Barry O 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_Under Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Jack P said: Excuse my ignorance, but what is this contraption? That is a "Avonside Chassis2" jig. For me, I'd be lost without it. 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Down_Under said: That is a "Avonside Chassis2" jig. For me, I'd be lost without it. Poppy ones are a tad cheaper and work just as well. Baz 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2022 Re the SR shunter. ISTR (but can't find) a query on here about the low level cab windows. For what it's worth, I reckon they weren't on the as built locomotives but were added some time later, don't know how much later, presumably after operating experience, (hopefully not resulting in injury to a member of staff). My reasoning/evidence is, a, A drawing in the May 1976 edition of Model Railways of number 1 in Southern livery shows the curves in the cab end version, but no windows, and, b, I bought a scratchbuilt model of one of these many moons ago from an estate sale being run at an ExpoEM, and was told it had been built from the original works drawings, and it doesn't have the windows. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2022 I only have one photo of one of the SR shunters without the low level back windows, No2 looking very new and clean. I have photos of all of them in two different Southern livery styles with the windows so I'm sure they were fitted very early on. "Works drawings" in that example may well have been a weight diagram, ours has been done mainly from works detail drawings which Steph Dale dug out of the NRM archives. The drawings in that issue of Model Railways do contain a number of errors -although they looked very good at the time. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Michael Edge Posted January 31, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2022 The correct wheels arrived this week for the LMS Drewry 0-4-0DM so I've got everything finished on our display model. This is the n/s test etch, production kits are in brass, wheels are Gibson L&Y Pug ones. The EM1 behind 7050 is slowly progressing but some way off kit production, more details in my workbench thread. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted February 4, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2022 A little progress with the Southern 350hp this week. More snags appeared though, the engine casing doors have separate locking handles top and bottom which came out so small on the etch they were unusable. I also don't think it's reall feasible to solder these on so I'm going to etch another set of doors with these in half etch - see what that looks like. The doors themselves will locate in the holes in the casing with the wire handgrabs on each one. The higher part of the casing (near the cab) went OK, the top plate never sits down very well in models or in full size. The wider part over the engine proved very difficult to form so I've decided to do what I did with the DE2 (and for the same reason) and mould this in one oiece, it overhangs the sides all along and only has to match up to the radiator cowl whcih looks reasonably easy. The radiator etches proved impossible though and need another total rethink. The 00 Romford wheels are on standard extended axles with tapped sleeves threaded on to the ends, these are machined down to the size we normally use for pressing cranks on to axles - we aren't thinking of supplying these though. The Markits system will probably be fine for 00 but I only have EM ones at present and they won't fit between the frames. The Gibson OC system should work OK though in either gauge, P4 is a different kettle of fish though and may well need the frames moving outwards a bit - as we recommend for the very similar EE/HL 350hp. This job will have to be parked now until I get another test etch. News for anyone waiting for kits to be back in stock, we are expecting a delivery from PhotoEtch early next week and this will include the production etches for the oil fired Sentinel 0-6-0. 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted March 2, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2022 Two new kits on sale now. Sentinel oil fired 0-6-0, Dorman Long version with low height cab. The kit also includes parts for the normal height version supplied to GKN, this is the test etch - production ones are in brass. Price is £75 + £4 postage We also now have the Stone Faiveley pantograph in 4mm scale Shown fitted to a Triang AL1. Price of the kit is £10 + £2 postage 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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