Bryan the Snail's workbench.

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Bit more progress on the layout: -

 

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[gz3xzf]

Another week on and a bit more progress on the layout: -
One of the low relief corrugated iron buildings that I have made up a drain pipe for, decided the other one won't have any. This is all using Scalescenes texture papers.

 

The little area all together, all the buildings are Scalescenes products.

 

 

I have also managed to fire up the ultrasonic cleaner for the first time, I set it off with a number of old die-cast cars and a couple of other bits just to see how it did; it was filled with water, a pinch of washing soda and a couple of drops of washing up liquid. That all seemed fine and I can see the water has changed colour slightly although the bits didn't look much better.

 

I have a couple of questions for any body who uses one of these cleaners: -

• Does the cleaner affect super glued parts?
• When cleaning chassis, can you clean pick-ups and wires etc. (obviously not the motor, gears, etc.)?

That's all for this week, hope everybody is safe and well.

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Some more progress, this week I have created another low relief building to go along the back scene, I have used the hoist end of the Scalescenes stone warehouse and covered it with brick textures. First photo is the two buildings compared: -

 

Next two are of the new building in its location: -

 

 

The front half of the layout is tramway style track (you can just see the double rails in the photo above) and I have finally finished covering the 11 packs of Wills granite setts and 2 packs of york stone paving with a black wash: -

 

 

Another week done, I have my COVID vaccination on Saturday, maybe we will be able to get back to going to model railway exhibitions soon, I have missed them, virtual ones just don't seem to satisfy me in the same way.

 

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Steady work this week, after some three years inactivity I've managed to spray primer on the SEF R1 I'm building, this was after a 10 minute clean in the ultrasonic cleaner and a week drying: -

 

Next task with this is to check over for coverage and any further filling (filled along the bottom of the tanks and along the top of the front buffer beam), then get some coats of black. I started my first painting task with this loco as it doesn't need lining, only numbers and a crest .

Also been working on the layout, laying cobble setts: -

 

All for now.

 

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Right after months of procrastination (it was October that DLT noticed that the chassis was too far forward) I have finally taken the DJH L class loco apart, shortened the frames and reassembled.

First I removed the boiler, took the chassis off and de-soldered the two captive nuts. I shortened the frames by filing by around 1.5mm off the rear end: -

 

I then remounted the chassis in its new position and tightened the two nut & screws and checked the new position of the axle hole; if you look at the bottom of the splasher you should be able to see a scriber marking the centre line of the axle: -

 

I then re-soldered the two nuts into position and then put the wheels back in the chassis: -

 

During this work I managed to knock off all the lamp brackets from the front of the loco, to be fair I had (lazily) attached them using super-glue, so I only have my self to blame; here they are all soldered back on: -

 

Lastly a general view of the loco and tender after the work was complete; don't know why I cannot hold the camera horizontal, but you will have to make do with the loco going up hill!

 

Now that I have managed to correct that little issue I can finish the remainder of the build.

 

I'm happy with the undercoat on the SEF R1 (see photo above) after doing some filling and couple of more coats; so hopefully this week sometime it will be going black. The R1 is being built as 31174 which had a flat topped dome and Ross pop safety valves, it will have the early BR emblem and no lining; 1955 (chosen time line) it was shedded at St. Leonards (74E).

 

Hope you find this interesting, cheers for now.

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Not posted anything since this time last year, I haven't really done any modelling in that time although I have bought and been gifted some bits and pieces. The biggest of which is a Ortur Laser Master 2 laser cutter, hopefully when I get the urge to go modelling again I'm going to start laser cutting building base sections to use with textures from the likes of Scalescenes.

Still monitoring the site on a daily basis so watching and enjoying everybody's progress.
 

[Guest Jack Benson]

Bryan,

 

As a fellow owner of an exSECR L class, are you happy with the proportions of the DJH model? 
 

This is mine.

StaySafe

[gz3xzf]

Hi Jack

Not sure but your L class it may be suffering from the same issue mine was, the chassis is around 2mm (scale 6") too far forwards. The vertical centre line rear driving wheels should be 16mm (4') from the rear buffer plank. There is a general arrangement drawing around somewhere that shows this dimension.

 

7 hours ago, Jack Benson said:

As a fellow owner of an exSECR L class, are you happy with the proportions of the DJH model?

I am not generally someone who compares my builds to the original drawings, but I do find that the kit looks the part and other than the position of the chassis I do not find it too bad.

 

I am going to see if I can find some of the photos from the posts above that seem to have been lost as part of the recent forum issue.

 

[Guest Jack Benson]

Bryan,

 

The L Class above is not a DJH model, hence my question unfortunately your images are currently unavailable therefore unable to compare the models, the DJH always seemed to be a bit odd but without the images….but these may help.

 

Btw the liveries of L class seems to have a number of variants especially the locations of loco numbers and lining. Dated and located* photographs of individual locos are essential, this link might help click here for L class gallery

 

I hope this helps

 

StaySafe

[Jack P]

Visually one of the major grievances with the L class models (DJH/OO works) is that they lack the prominent lack of the Ash-pan/firebox lower. It's really prominent on the prototype and helps to add 'heft' to the model that otherwise seems to be missing.

 

I must really pull finger and finish mine!

 

 

[gz3xzf]

On 06/04/2022 at 19:41, Jack Benson said:

The L Class above is not a DJH model, hence my question unfortunately your images are currently unavailable therefore unable to compare the models, the DJH always seemed to be a bit odd but without the images….but these may help.

Jack, I have re-uploaded some of the pictures on the recent posts so you should be able to see some of the recent work (although most of this is over a year old as I have had a bit of a hiatus due to lack of mojo).
 

 

7 hours ago, Jack P said:

Visually one of the major grievances with the L class models (DJH/OO works) is that they lack the prominent lack of the Ash-pan/firebox lower. It's really prominent on the prototype and helps to add 'heft' to the model that otherwise seems to be missing.

Jack, I have re-uploaded some photos (I may do more as time and mojo allows), I have created a plasti-kard box to represent the ashpan which, once black, I am hoping will fill the gap.

 

 

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After nearly a year of doing anything and 10 months of posting anything I have bought the wheels, gearbox and motor for the DMR Z class that is waiting in the wings. Haven't tried building a etched kit for a few years (I built a Mallard Models 517 class in the 70's) it maybe a bit of a learning curve: -

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For anyone following this thread I have had a major milestone with the thread, I have spent number of hours looking through and reattaching all my photos. I discovered that when you edit a post it has the original uploaded filename, it was therefore a simple case of searching my photograph backup looking for the names reposting them. I have taken the opportunity of creating a separate folder and copied them all in so that I can find them again without searching.

 

Hope everybody is keeping well and I promise that I will try and get back to modelling, reading all my posts in this topic has certainly helped a bit with the mojo. 😁