A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[gwrrob]

2 minutes ago, checkrail said:

Thanks Miss P.  Knew there was something amiss as soon as I saw them but just needed confirmation in case there was something I didn't know peculiar to these Mainline & City coaches.

Are the pics we've seen of pre-production samples or of what's actually been delivered to stockists?  If the latter it's a serious omission and I'd want to know it was corrected before I ordered any of the forthcoming corridor toplights. Painting bolections can be tricky at the best of times but twice as difficult when the glazing is already in. 

 

As delivered John @checkrail

[checkrail]

36 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

As delivered John @checkrail

Thanks Robin. Have emailed Dapol (text below) but not holding my breath for a reply.

 

Hi

From the pictures I've seen you've done a great job with these toplight coaches, apart from one significant detail of the GWR brown and cream versions: the bolections on all the side windows should be painted the same colour as the droplights in the door windows (venetian red, mahogany or whatever you want to call it). This is an important element of the 'look' of all GWR toplight coaches in all brown and cream livery variants between 1928 and 1948.

 

I do hope this will be rectified when the promised corridor toplights go into production. Painting bolections is tricky at the best of times as I know from kit building, but even more difficult when the glazing is already fitted.

 

Yours in hope,

 

[checkrail]

17 hours ago, heraldcoupe said:

I've just been pointed towards some of the threads here about my Bulldog bodyshells.

Thanks Bill @heraldcoupe - and thanks for your reply to my earlier eBay message.  I also note that there's been a flurry of RMwebbers signing up to the Facebook GWR Modellers group in recent days - I wonder why!  As I said, there's quite a bit of interest building up. Certainly, I for one would love to have a 'Bird' series Bulldog to play with. 

 

Best wishes and keep us posted. Cheers,

John C.

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48 minutes ago, checkrail said:

Thanks Bill @heraldcoupe - and thanks for your reply to my earlier eBay message.  I also note that there's been a flurry of RMwebbers signing up to the Facebook GWR Modellers group in recent days - I wonder why!  As I said, there's quite a bit of interest building up. Certainly, I for one would love to have a 'Bird' series Bulldog to play with. 

 

Best wishes and keep us posted. Cheers,

John C.

I have placed an order for a curved frame Bulldog and will report on quality when received . Sadly it will have to its place in a  long 2do queue so I  won’t be able to comment on  build progress for a while .

[heraldcoupe]

On 15/02/2024 at 18:36, Siberian Snooper said:

 

Do you think that there's enough space between the frames to fit an EM gauge chassis?

 
Catching up with all the traffic around my bodyshell designs...
As someone who long ago dabbled in P4/S4, I've been very careful to provide decent clearance between the splashers to accomodate scale wheelsets.
Beyond this, I have also designed full underboilers and open areas between the frames to allow a finescale chassis with working motion to be fitted under it. I've only done a handful of prints for these variants, plus a few up-scaled to 7mm. This is one of the straight frame Bulldogs to this spec.

 

 

Edited February 18 by heraldcoupe

[The Fatadder]

I was impressed with the representation of the printed inside motion. 

 

ive shown this previously on my Brent, but here’s a slightly better photo of my almost finished curved frame Bulldog

 

will have the bufferbeam painted red this evening, and drill bits have arrived so no excuse not to do the handrails now 

 

[heraldcoupe]

9 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

I was impressed with the representation of the printed inside motion. 

 

 

It was a big open space on the early prints, I felt I had to put something in there, but it was a test of my technical knowledge of steam locomotives!
There's a much bigger open space under the Aberdare's boiler to worry me now...

[Captain Kernow]

May I just ask @heraldcoupe a question, please, which is asked in the context of your 3-D prints being the best 4mm model railway ones I've ever seen... - do you take requests? 🙂

 

[Graham T]

56 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

May I just ask @heraldcoupe a question, please, which is asked in the context of your 3-D prints being the best 4mm model railway ones I've ever seen... - do you take requests? 🙂

 

 

How long before @Neal Ball is asking for a Saint?  🙂

[NHY 581]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

May I just ask @heraldcoupe  - do you take requests? 🙂

 

 

You hum it son, I'll play it.............

[Fair Oak Junction]

[heraldcoupe]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

May I just ask @heraldcoupe a question, please, which is asked in the context of your 3-D prints being the best 4mm model railway ones I've ever seen... - do you take requests? 🙂

 

 

🙂

I'm always open to suggestions...

 

 

[heraldcoupe]

1 hour ago, Graham T said:

 

How long before @Neal Ball is asking for a Saint?  🙂

 

I was toying with the idea of a Saint, but there's no easy RTR chassis to be used, and even correct wheels from the specialists don't  seem readily available

[Captain Kernow]

4 minutes ago, heraldcoupe said:

 

🙂

I'm always open to suggestions...

 

 

Well, for what it's worth,  I was thinking of an older pannier, such as a 2021...

[heraldcoupe]

5 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Well, for what it's worth,  I was thinking of an older pannier, such as a 2021...

 

I'm looking at an earlier 0-6-0 tank in the near future. Focus is on a saddle tank, but core design work will be the same for a Pannier (or side tank). There's an obvious incentive to create something which fits on a RTR chassis such as Bachmann's 57xx (or 64xx I supppose) but I keep getting drawn to the 1076. If the Aberdare's chassis works out then I'll have a functional design which can be modded to other wheelbases.

[Neal Ball]

2 hours ago, Graham T said:

 

How long before @Neal Ball is asking for a Saint?  🙂

2 hours apparently - we’ve been out for a Karaoke evening 🎶🎵🍺🍻

 

1 hour ago, heraldcoupe said:

 

I was toying with the idea of a Saint, but there's no easy RTR chassis to be used, and even correct wheels from the specialists don't  seem readily available

SE Finecast do a chassis kit, but I think it’s still a whitemetal one, not an etched one…..

 

A 3D printed Saint would be very nice 😎

[Mikkel]

7 hours ago, heraldcoupe said:

 

I'm looking at an earlier 0-6-0 tank in the near future. Focus is on a saddle tank, but core design work will be the same for a Pannier (or side tank). There's an obvious incentive to create something which fits on a RTR chassis such as Bachmann's 57xx (or 64xx I supppose) but I keep getting drawn to the 1076. If the Aberdare's chassis works out then I'll have a functional design which can be modded to other wheelbases.

 

I'm a long-time friend of the Bachmann 57xx/8750 chassis, but there is also the Accurascale 57xx chassis coming up...

 

[St Enodoc]

9 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

 

I'm a long-time friend of the Bachmann 57xx/8750 chassis, but there is also the Accurascale 57xx chassis coming up...

 

For small-wheeled locos, would the Rapido 16xx chassis be any use?

[Mikkel]

It would be quite a quest. First you must pass through the impenetrable forest that is the dismantling of this loco, unlocking many secrets on your way...

 

 

 

Then you must fight the beast within and sever his parts...

 

 

 

And then, after re-wiring the tangled spider's web, you may have some modicum of success. 

 

 

 

At this point you may however find that the motor allows but for limited daylight, bringing you back to Level 1 🙄

 

[Captain Kernow]

25 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

It would be quite a quest. First you must pass through the impenetrable forest that is the dismantling of this loco, unlocking many secrets on your way...

 

 

 

Then you must fight the beast within and sever his parts...

 

 

 

And then, after re-wiring the tangled spider's web, you may have some modicum of success. 

 

 

 

At this point you may however find that the motor allows but for limited daylight, bringing you back to Level 1 🙄

 

I never thought I'd see anyone actually do that, Mickelson, so absolute respect to you for doing so!

 

And that is why we cannot use the Rapido 16XX chassis. Perhaps it may also be the same with Accurascale, who knows?

 

[Siberian Snooper]

10 hours ago, heraldcoupe said:

 

I'm looking at an earlier 0-6-0 tank in the near future. Focus is on a saddle tank, but core design work will be the same for a Pannier (or side tank). There's an obvious incentive to create something which fits on a RTR chassis such as Bachmann's 57xx (or 64xx I supppose) but I keep getting drawn to the 1076. If the Aberdare's chassis works out then I'll have a functional design which can be modded to other wheelbases.

 

if you decide on doing a 1076, any chance of one with rectangular cab windows, as used on Plymouth area auto trains. Thanks.

 

[Limpley Stoker]

10 hours ago, heraldcoupe said:

 

I'm looking at an earlier 0-6-0 tank in the near future. Focus is on a saddle tank, but core design work will be the same for a Pannier (or side tank). There's an obvious incentive to create something which fits on a RTR chassis such as Bachmann's 57xx (or 64xx I supppose) but I keep getting drawn to the 1076. If the Aberdare's chassis works out then I'll have a functional design which can be modded to other wheelbases.

With the forthcoming Dapol autocoach there is, I’m sure, a need for a 517 class or metro tank. The Shapeways 517 on offer is at a much lowered resolution than your  products . The problem would a RTR 0-4-2 chassis of the correct length.

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, Limpley Stoker said:

The problem would a RTR 0-4-2 chassis of the correct length.

With the increasing number of good quality 3-D printed loco bodies becoming available these days, perhaps it might pay someone to look at producing a quick and easy self-assembly brass chassis. These need not be compensated or sprung or have all the bells and whistles or have to be soldered together. In the old days, both K's and DJH used to produce simple, screw together chassis for their kits. If you add an already-assembled motor and gearbox combination (such as that which I think used to be available from DJH, before Squires acquired them), then you have the basis for some progress?

 

[Tim Dubya]

26 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

quick and easy self-assembly brass chassis. 

 

Indeed, the part of loco construction I don't feel confident with tackling just yet.  Plus the added cost of jigs and Carlos Fandango bits and bobs, and it could turn out very expensive and all ending up on eBay.  So yes a screw together chassis please someone 👍

 

PS: I have just been informed that a suprise (for me, as I didn't know I was buying it until I had a 💡) purchase has been posted... more when it arrives 😁

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said:

Carlos Fandango bits and bobs

He just does Mexican HO road vehicles these days.