Popular Post Tony Wright Posted March 13 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 13 Clip 34. I think that's it. Each following clip seems to play after the preceding one has finished, but it would mean watching all at once. I hope they've proved of use. 20 6 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 10 hours ago, Tony Wright said: I hope they've proved of use. Given that many computers now do not have the facility to play DVDs and so we are increasingly reliant on streaming and downloading Chris Walsh putting these out makes perfect sense. Despite us all being that bit older the content remains useful. Thank you. Alan 4 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted March 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14 3 hours ago, Buhar said: Given that many computers now do not have the facility to play DVDs and so we are increasingly reliant on streaming and downloading Chris Walsh putting these out makes perfect sense. Despite us all being that bit older the content remains useful. Thank you. Alan I unplugged my Pioneer BD burner as I accidentally kept opening it with my knee, if I need to burn will plug back in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted March 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14 14 hours ago, Tony Wright said: Clip 34. I think that's it. Each following clip seems to play after the preceding one has finished, but it would mean watching all at once. I hope they've proved of use. You don’t have to watch them all at once. If you watch them on YouTube there is your personal watched history option within the YT menus for finding the last one watched. If you stop one part way through the scrubber bar at the bottom lets you restart from where you stopped or go back and rewatch a specific bit of tuition. I missed them on video or DVD first time round and was glad to find them on-line. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium D.Platt Posted March 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14 Morning Tony I have enjoyed watching your demonstration videos and although I’ve built 50/60 locos one’s always open to new ideas . I like the way you do your pickups and have just used it one my latest chassis, so easy compared with my previous way of doing them. I mentioned a while ago that I use Fry powerflow flux ( yellow tube ) as it works on both brass and white metal , as you said at the time it does need a lot of cleaning after to remove the green sludge . I think that you mix up your own solution of liquid flux ? Are there any ready mixed liquid fluxes available apart from Carrs ? which I think have different coloured labels for different uses . Dennis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chas Levin Posted March 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14 Good morning Tony, a great idea to put those clips on here, it makes them easily accessible and in a logical place - on your own thread! I was told about them a few years; I couldn't get a copy on DVD so I found them on YouTube... but as one 5 hours+ long film! I couldn't watch the whole thing at once (I mean it was a scheduling issue at the time, not due to lack of interest!) so I had to leave the browser window open with the film paused at the point I'd reached, returning to it the next day, watching it in half-hours sections that way. I didn't trust my computer to keep the page/place/time without crashing or resetting to the start or doing something else digital and mysterious, so I also jotted down the hours and minutes on a post-it, which I stuck to the computer monitor! It was worth it though - as others have said, they're very instructive and helpful. I think the fact that you're so calm and matter-of-fact about things is very good for less experienced people like me. Perhaps that's partly your experience as a teacher, as well as your modelling experience? Anyway, thank you for going to the trouble of linking all those separate clips on here. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 3 hours ago, D.Platt said: Morning Tony I have enjoyed watching your demonstration videos and although I’ve built 50/60 locos one’s always open to new ideas . I like the way you do your pickups and have just used it one my latest chassis, so easy compared with my previous way of doing them. I mentioned a while ago that I use Fry powerflow flux ( yellow tube ) as it works on both brass and white metal , as you said at the time it does need a lot of cleaning after to remove the green sludge . I think that you mix up your own solution of liquid flux ? Are there any ready mixed liquid fluxes available apart from Carrs ? which I think have different coloured labels for different uses . Dennis Good afternoon Denys (have I spelt your name right?), I don't mix my own flux; I buy it by the litre from Hobby Holidays. It's 12% phosphoric acid (nothing weaker). It's good for all soldering, as is London Road's fluid flux or Barrie Stevenson's (available from Squires). For years I used EAMES 40 flux, which I've an idea was nearer 20% phosphoric acid - great for gasping if inhaled when hot! Though 'Powerflow' paste flux works, the residue left afterwards is intolerable in my opinion. Regards, Tony. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 I've just had Hornby's 4-car Mk.2F EWS set in for photography. Since I have no idea that a prototype existed for these, or what they were/are used for, can anyone help, please? Thanks in anticipation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 (edited) A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece for BRM on 'Budget Modelling'. One of the things I considered in the article was a Hornby Pullman car. Well................ I picked up another one at the recent Preston show for the princely sum of just £12.00. I ditched the intolerable bogies....... Painted the interior and altered it to represent one of the wooden-bodied cars, latterly clad in aluminium sheeting to give a more 'modern' appearance. Now riding on proper 10' Pullman bogies (Keen).......... It can be seen running towards the rear of this empty stock train on Little Bytham (specialist vehicles were often found in mixed trains such as this). Those older Hornby Pullman cars make excellent starting points............. For use, after alteration, in sets such as this. The first five cars in my Up Yorkshire Pullman are all derived from this source. Some have had replacement brass sides (painted by Ian Rathbone) and all have had the awful 'shorty' bogies discarded and replaced by Keen or MJT 10' Pullman items. The brake cars in my Tees-Tyne Pullman.................... Have been sourced from these older Hornby cars (both on proper bogies). Modeller's licence allows these Mk.1 cars to run through a station demolished at least a year before they appeared! It's a pity that Hornby's and Bachmann's renditions of the Pullman colours are not the same. The real things were much closer! Please observe copyright restrictions on the prototype image. Edited March 14 by Tony Wright tautology 16 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Charter train use and occasional spot hire, as I understand it, Tony. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 At the Mountsorrel show............ A friend donated this 3D-printed Lambton tank body and Bachmann chassis for me to sell on behalf of CRUK. I'll make a pony truck for it and then see what it might be worth. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 4 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Charter train use and occasional spot hire, as I understand it, Tony. Thanks Graham, They're rather nicely finished. I assume any catering cars in a set will be Mk.1s? Regards, Tony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 28 minutes ago, Tony Wright said: At the Mountsorrel show............ A friend donated this 3D-printed Lambton tank body and Bachmann chassis for me to sell on behalf of CRUK. I'll make a pony truck for it and then see what it might be worth. I feel that I may know who printed that body. If it behaves as well as a J21 body I had from what I believe to be the same source, it should be okay when suitably "tarted up". 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 3 hours ago, Tony Wright said: I assume any catering cars in a set will be Mk.1s? Regards, Tony. Hmm ... not at all sure Tony? There'll be others on here who know better than me but I'm pretty sure that DB Cargo (EWS as was) don't themselves own any MkI passenger coaching stock. The world of charter trains on the modern railway is a pretty complex one, with potentially multiple organisations involved. And any one charter operation is often very different one from the previous or next one, stock being shunted around frequently. Depending on the nature of the particular train involved, there may not be a catering vehicle at all (eg football excursion). Steam-hauled / heritage charters, yes; the 'premier dining' option is the bit that makes the most money ... but DB Cargo don't usually provide the stock for such trains, although they do operate some. You can read more about it here: https://uk.dbcargo.com/rail-uk-en/industries/passenger-transport If you're looking for something to say in a write up, then perhaps best to say nothing at all re associated catering! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 21 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Hmm ... not at all sure Tony? There'll be others on here who know better than me but I'm pretty sure that DB Cargo (EWS as was) don't themselves own any MkI passenger coaching stock. The world of charter trains on the modern railway is a pretty complex one, with potentially multiple organisations involved. And any one charter operation is often very different one from the previous or next one, stock being shunted around frequently. Depending on the nature of the particular train involved, there may not be a catering vehicle at all (eg football excursion). Steam-hauled / heritage charters, yes; the 'premier dining' option is the bit that makes the most money ... but DB Cargo don't usually provide the stock for such trains, although they do operate some. You can read more about it here: https://uk.dbcargo.com/rail-uk-en/industries/passenger-transport If you're looking for something to say in a write up, then perhaps best to say nothing at all re associated catering! Thanks again Graham, I don't think I'll be writing a review of these items for BRM. I don't know enough about them to make an objective assessment. This is the BSO. I know little about these Mk.2s, anyway. I assume Hornby has produced them in all their guises throughout their lives; I also assume they're accurate models at source. Speaking of their use with Mk.1 catering cars (no Mk.2 catering cars ever having been built?), when Stoke Summit was exhibited in diesel-mode........... We used modified Airfix Mk.2s running with Palitoy Mk.1s. Mk.2s certainly are popular on specials. Could some of these be from EWS? A real mix of colours here; mostly ex-Virgin? Two Mk.2s behind DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. And two more in this set seen last year sandwiched between a West Coast Class 47 (which was doing most of the work!) and ALYCIDON. Regards, Tony. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14 Hello Tony - just to say that I have done a bit of work on the first of Peter Lawson's panniers and have shown this in a blog entry here - Very happy with the loco and many thanks again. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 11 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Hello Tony - just to say that I have done a bit of work on the first of Peter Lawson's panniers and have shown this in a blog entry here - Very happy with the loco and many thanks again. Thanks Captain, I'm sure Peter will be delighted with the fact that the panniers are being used, and cherished. In renumbering them, you've altered their 'faces' to be much more-realistic - by that I mean your positioning of the front numberplates on the top hingestrap, where they should be. It's remarkable how such a simple thing can make a loco look 'right', and how the positions of front numberplates radically alter the 'face' of a loco. It's interesting how many kit-built locos I have pass through my hands where the correct position of a front numberplate has not been observed. In the case of my own personal interests (apart from the A4s), a date can be guessed at by the front numberplate's position on the smokebox door of an ex-LNER Pacific. From 1955 onwards, the 'plates were moved down from the top of the smokebox to the top hingestrap (though some had them transposed with the crossrail, just to cause confusion), completely altering a locos 'features'. Regards, Tony. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Part 4 of the Right Track Series. This time I'm detailing/improving RTR from 20 years ago................ Clip 1 (with some 'acting' hypocrisy!). 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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