Wickham Green too Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 14 minutes ago, Hroth said: Sure the locos not derailed due to bad back-to-backs? 🤪 Well, if you plonk your 00 loco down on P4 track there's always a little - shall we say - excess play ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 9 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: Well, if you plonk your 00 loco down on P4 track there's always a little - shall we say - excess play ! Reminds me of the 1840s Gauge Wars, and we all know that Parliament decided that wider gauges should be converted to the more common narrow gauge... 🤪 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rugd1022 Posted April 15 Popular Post Share Posted April 15 Photo by Doug Pritchard : superb weathering here... 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Photographer and location unknown - lovely bit of work though...! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted April 15 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15 39 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Doug Pritchard : superb weathering here... It's a nice depot diorama, but they've messed up the red stripe on the back 47 - it doesn't extend around the cab side like the other two, and they've obviously not yet done the weathered Railfreight logos. The dry brushing is good, but I'd urge the modeller to look at photos of the real thing - the brush marks on the roof that one in the foreground look really unnatural, and they've missed altogether the bit above the windscreens. Don't get me started on the opening door gimmick too. At least they've not gone with the cliche of having a driving leaning out. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photographer and location unknown - lovely bit of work though...! Well that's just stupid. There's no way there would be a conical water tower so close to a water tower; it would obviously just be a water crane. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 7 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photographer and location unknown - lovely bit of work though...! The backscene join is very well done, almost impossible to see, but the hill on the left is most unrealistic, just rising suddenly from a flat baseboard. I take it there's an equally unlikely & unrealistic tunnel just out of shot to hide the exit to the fiddleyard? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted April 16 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16 Lovely use of a photographic backscene; great scenic work - particularly the blending with the back-scene. Shame about the factory weathered loco and stock: (Trevor Plackett on Flickr) 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted April 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17 8 hours ago, Dagworth said: This new TT120 will never catch on .... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 13 hours ago, Ian Morgan said: This new TT120 will never catch on .... Not on the same board as OO, anyway. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted April 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18 (edited) Needs to weather the buildings & wagons otherwise it's too clean... Amazing resin water effect too! Edited April 18 by Rich_F 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Morello Cherry Posted April 19 Popular Post Share Posted April 19 I think this is a rather poor effort. The interior-less Ratio kit that has been half painted. Ridiculously flat background but after having gone to the effort of weathering the 76 it is let down by the heavy Triang bogies, and then to cap it all off, the straight out of the box 16T wagon. Is that old Hornby Dublo track? My grandad used to have some of that? Nice work on the grass though. 22 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 15/04/2024 at 10:02, Rugd1022 said: Photographer and location unknown - lovely bit of work though...! Airfix water tank and turntable? 🤔 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 03/04/2024 at 01:54, F2Andy said: Has this one been on here yet? Avoided the bus-on-a-bridge cliche by posing a lorry on there. Looks suspiciously like Brian Monaghan getting a bit arty with a RotM c1980. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted April 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21 (edited) Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ Edited April 21 by Colin_McLeod 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nova Scotian Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said: Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ A lot of effort compared to just rubbing a graphite pencil over the rails. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 19/04/2024 at 22:22, Hroth said: Airfix water tank and turntable? 🤔 Yes, and the Ratio kit of a round GWR water tower. https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/17716/528-Ratio-GWR-Water-Tower-Round-Type 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 12 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said: Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ I love the 'steam age' technology of cranks and connecting rods ! 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 19 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said: Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ 1:1 version of Peco track cleaners! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted April 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22 11 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: I love the 'steam age' technology of cranks and connecting rods ! Easiest way to turn rotation into lateral movement (and v.v.) - and older than steam age! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 On 22/04/2024 at 05:06, Colin_McLeod said: Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ That'll cost a fortune in Peco track rubbers. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted April 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23 On 21/04/2024 at 22:06, Colin_McLeod said: Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/ Serious question - why would you do that on the real railway? Something to do with keeping track circuits working in a particular location? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23 3 hours ago, rodent279 said: Serious question - why would you do that on the real railway? Something to do with keeping track circuits working in a particular location? Heavy braking can cause uneven wear on the track called corrugations so the track has to be smoothed down. This is done by grinding the top surface of the rails. Most rail grinders are of the wheel type. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: ... Most rail grinders are of the wheel type. ... ... and are set up to recreate the original rail profile ........... the reciprocating thing above would need its 'Peco Track Rubbers' made and maintained to the correct profile - and would need a lot of passes - to achieve the same result. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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