Hest Bank in 4mm scale

[TerryD1471]

It is far too long, says the follower (thanks Colin) of this forum, since anything was posted here, so here are some more pictures, this time with a bit of a

narrative.

 

Well, I tried, but as for attaching photos, which I have done a hundred times before, it can't be done.

 

I'll post this, just to prove I'm still alive, but I'm not holding my breath about my future capability to stick any pictures on here!!!

 

 

 

 

[TerryD1471]

This is attempt number 2 to attach pictures. I can write text until it comes out of my ears, but every attempt to post pictures has come to naught.

 

I don't know what to do, apart from saying "B****r it" and giving up!!!! I swear I'm doing the same as last time, clicking on "browse", selecting a picture, clicking on "attach file"., but it doesn't b****y well attach. Why!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alan Higgi]

This is attempt number 2 to attach pictures. I can write text until it comes out of my ears, but every attempt to post pictures has come to naught.

 

I don't know what to do, apart from saying "B****r it" and giving up!!!! I swear I'm doing the same as last time, clicking on "browse", selecting a picture, clicking on "attach file"., but it doesn't b****y well attach. Why!!

[great northern]

This is attempt number 2 to attach pictures. I can write text until it comes out of my ears, but every attempt to post pictures has come to naught.

 

I don't know what to do, apart from saying "B****r it" and giving up!!!! I swear I'm doing the same as last time, clicking on "browse", selecting a picture, clicking on "attach file"., but it doesn't b****y well attach. Why!!

There are problems with loading images at present Terry. They need to be reduced in size. I take mine down to 1900 x 1200 using Irfanview and they then work OK.

[TerryD1471]

Thanks for the help, chaps. I'll try again.

 

T

[Horfield Mob]

OK; it was file size

[TerryD1471]

Thanks for that, Ronnie.

 

More to follow soon, I hope.

 

EUREKA!!!! As Archimedes said "I have found it". Actually, it's a cop out, because all I have done is to use an older digital camera with poorer definition which requires a smaller file size. The pictures are only about 350Kb in size and consequently can be uploaded without infringing the magic 1Mb limit.

 

So, in the words of the late Max Bygraves, "I wanna tell you a story". The stories are, at the risk of insulting our viewer's intelligence, not weighty, but they do describe a short sequence of operations at Hest.

 

 

Arriving at the signal gantry, our 8F hauled oil train from Heysham comes to a halt. It has to await the passage of a train on the down main before proceeding onto the main line itself.

 

 

And this is what we are waiting for: a 4F on a local freight has acquired precedence over its larger cousin and is leaving the fiddle yard (pretending all the time to be on the way north from Lancaster).

 

 

Here we see it making its way onto the road which passes round the back of the up fiddle yard and...

 

 

then it approaches the scenic section of the layout on the down main.

 

 

It passes beneath the A5105 Coastal Road bridge and overhauls the waiting oil train.

 

 

A clear road ahead is indicated by the gantry and its gallows home signal.

 

 

The 4F gathers pace as it reaches the foot of the 1/477 incline and clatters over the diamond crossing.

 

 

It passes through the platform road at Hest Bank station itself before proceeding northward over the level crossing and disappearing (through a hole in the sky) back into the fiddle yard.

 

 

Here the 4F negotiates the pointwork into the yard area before arriving back at its allotted loop. Behind the 4F we see a Compound 4-4-0 with a Leeds - Morecambe working (pretending it's heading south from Carnforth) just about to enter the scenic section and slow through Hest itself to await the road to Morecambe.

 

 

The Compound glides to a halt to await the road to Morecambe. The 8F, having been given the road after the 4F has cleared the section, moves its train of tanks (some of which are rather too clean!) out onto the down main to continue northward to Carnforth.

 

 

Here we see it from a different viewpoint looking north.

 

 

And finally, the junction is cleared, the compound gets the road and traverses the diamond crossing onto the bi-directional single line to Bare Lane where it becomes double and leads on towards Morecambe.

Edited October 30, 2013 by TerryD1471

[Alan Higgi]

Glad you sussed it Terry I 'll delete my rubbish now

[ColinK]

Thanks for the update. That's quite some fiddle yard you have. Look forward to future updates.

[TerryD1471]

Thanks for the kind remarks.

Edited October 30, 2013 by TerryD1471

[RonnieS]

Hest features in a book "Memories of Steam"

 

Thanks for the Memory! (Andy does not give the option of musical notes)

Edited November 5, 2013 by RonnieS

[RonnieS]

44454

This is from the great Database I told you about 

BRDatabase - the Complete British Railways Locomotive Database ...

 

Edited November 4, 2013 by RonnieS

[TerryD1471]

Hi Ronnie

 

That's a superb site you've pointed me to. The info supplied also confirms that, through idleness/inertia I have managed to retain a number on the 4F which could not be more appropriate, in that it was shedded at Carnforth ( a mere 3 miles down the line) for the entire period that my model covers. Serendipity indeed!

[TerryD1471]

Spent a pleasant couple of days at the Wolverhampton show last weekend. Catching up with old mates is always good and as often happens, I felt fired up enough to do a bit more scenic work. "About b****y time", did I hear someone say? It is amazing though, when you do a little work and it suddenly seems to make a huge difference. It's a welcome change from doing a lot of work and no-one noticing the difference! Not even me!

 

As winter draws on, I can feel some more coachbuilding coming on; a lot of the vehicles started last winter are still not done, so finishing these would be a good point to kick off from. The chassis and body of "City of Salford" are also gazing at me accusingly from the workbench; I don't think I can hold off much longer!

 

Also I acquired, through the sad demise of Steve Johns, a couple of Comet 4-6-0 Jubilee/Scot chassis at the Wolves show. More grist for the mill, methinks.

[92220]

Good to hear Terry. I look forward to seeing Salford take shape - few locos beat an Ivatt Coronation for me. I think you've seen my effort at 46256 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/65335-motive-power-for-camden-shed/?p=872202 Are you building the Comet chassis for this one as well, or using the Hornby model as a base?

 

Please do show some more of your coach building in due course, and any 4-6-0 in construction too.

 

I know what you mean about scenic work as well. When do you envisage ballasting?

 

Always a very interested follower of Hest, even if I haven't posted too often.

 

Iain

[TerryD1471]

Good to hear Terry. I look forward to seeing Salford take shape - few locos beat an Ivatt Coronation for me. I think you've seen my effort at 46256 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/65335-motive-power-for-camden-shed/?p=872202 Are you building the Comet chassis for this one as well, or using the Hornby model as a base?

 

Please do show some more of your coach building in due course, and any 4-6-0 in construction too.

 

I know what you mean about scenic work as well. When do you envisage ballasting?

 

Always a very interested follower of Hest, even if I haven't posted too often.

 

Iain

Thanks for the post Iain. I've just left some comments on your "Motive power forum" re 46256 etc.

 

Being of a certain age (well, alright, an old f**t, then), I have accumulated some bits and pieces over the years and 46257 is a modified late Hornby Dublo body shell (c. 1962) on top of a scratch built chassis, bits which came from a lovely old boy and consummate modeller called Paul Bromige in Wolverhampton. It is about to receive a D13 motor with 40:1 gears and a Comet tender.

 

You have pricked my conscience about the ballast on Hest. I think I left a bit of a query on your Camden site about the type of material you've used for ballast and I would appreciate some info on that. I have plenty of grey granite in stock, but can't help feeling it's a bit light coloured. Any advice would be welcome.

 

ATB

 

Terry D

Edited November 9, 2013 by TerryD1471

[RonnieS]

Lay the ballast dry, drip on a mixture of matt varnish, white spirit and track colour using the plastic tools I will post to you. Don't enter the modelling room for a while!

 I'll ring you tonight

 

 

[TerryD1471]

Thanks, Ron

 

Now you mention it, that is a technique I had heard of and contemplated using before... How easily you forget!

 

Terry

[TerryD1471]

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

 

At long last, I have managed to post some video footage on Youtube, shot a few months ago. The reproduction quality is poor because I have had to use the video function of my old Olympus (non SLR) digital camera, but at least you can't see the warts on my models! I am not posting a link, because any interested party merely has to visit the Youtube homepage and type in "Hest Bank in 00" and you'll get them all.

 

Apologies again for the lack of quality (both in reproduction and also in the model, although the scenic work has improved since these scenes were shot), but at least it proves that the train set works.

[Alan Higgi]

 

Hest Bank In 00   No

 

 

 

Link  Hest Bank in 00 yes

[TerryD1471]

Hest Bank In 00   No   Link  Hest Bank in 00 yes

Thanks for that Alan.

 

I did keep an eye out for you at the Wolves show, but regrettably failed to recognise a round dark-complexioned moustachioed person with green eyes!!

 

Thanks once again.

 

Terry D

[dibateg]

Great to see the pictures of the layout Terry, if you can't have a bus, maybe a wedding going on, or a marching band perhaps?

 

!!

 

When will you start ballasting?

 

Cheers

 

Tony

[Alan Higgi]

Thanks for that Alan.

 

I did keep an eye out for you at the Wolves show, but regrettably failed to recognise a round dark-complexioned moustachioed person with green eyes!!

 

Thanks once again.

 

Terry D

I am actually gey haired. The pic is from when I tried Grecian 1999

[TerryD1471]

Great to see the pictures of the layout Terry, if you can't have a bus, maybe a wedding going on, or a marching band perhaps?

 

!!

 

When will you start ballasting?

 

Cheers

 

Tony

The chorus of folks telling me I should be ballasting grows ever louder. It wasn't top of the list, but I guess it should be! Thankfully, Ron has reminded me of a technique that I had forgotten, so I'll be making a start.

 

Actually I do have 2 buses, a Weymann-bodied AEC Regent II of Morecambe & Heysham Corp'n and a Ribble Leyland PD2, both of which are, I think, authentic and which will appear once I have got some Irish navvies in to do the tarmac, sorr! I know Rob (Herbert Hopkins) of Hadley Green fame is dead against them, but it's my train set! As for weddings and marching bands........! Nuf sed.

[RonnieS]

The chorus of folks telling me I should be ballasting grows ever louder. It wasn't top of the list, but I guess it should be! Thankfully, Ron has reminded me of a technique that I had forgotten, so I'll be making a start.

 

 

The syringes are in the post to you as I type. 2nd class ‘cos I is tight but I guess “blazing rush” is not part of the equation. Get yourself a Ballast Spreader. No doubt who ever posts next will tell you more!

Edited November 15, 2013 by RonnieS