Sirdouglas' O gauge

[sir douglas]

2mm

[NeilHB]

Thanks - I'd used 1.5mm for the Sharp Stewart, but thought it needed to be a bit thicker as was still fairly flexible.

[sir douglas]

foot boards fitted, no only super glued to the solebars but cut down track pins glued through in through holes drilled in the solebars, styrene bolthead glued on for the second head on each hanger. and styrene plank glued in for the top step

 

2 coats of matt black on the footboards and steps and a coat of dark grey on the body, the sie will need a second coat asit didnt have the previous grey on it

 

a coat of black on the Gloucester

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

a second coat of grey and then black for the ironwork

 

second coat on the Gloucester

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[Dava]

That NB 'break van' [as they sometimes termed them] looks very good. A runner for the Eyemouth branch project?

 

Dava 

[sir douglas]

built for my layout as its small but it will run on there as well

[Ohmisterporter]

The ironwork on the brakevan ready adds to the character. An interesting project, as usual.

[sir douglas]

glazed and roofed, the brake van is done for now, i might eventually add the NB initials and the four leaf symbol

 

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

the brake shoes, the mountings for the brake cross shaft and the pipework manifold on the tank side (dont actually know what it is)

 

manifold painted

 

the brake assembly all glued in place with the arms and links

 

what will be the lower back of the firebox and ash pan

 

test fit

 

corners rounded off and covered in stay rod bolt heads

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[brack]

Looks a bit like Lego plates at the end there.

 

Keep going - plenty of us watching.

[sir douglas]

the ash pan added and the bolt heads filed down

 

painted matt black and dry brushed silver

 

fitted, i couldnt get a good camera angle on it

 

pipework and manifold done and painted

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

Apart from a few hiccups, Kettering guild show was a good day out, i manned the bring & buy stand, i got to meet Furnesswagon but not NeilHB on the 7mm stand as they couldnt make it. i bought a north british van for Eyemouth/Ayemouth, my first item acquired just for that layout

 

theses last 2 days ive been drawing a peckett M5 in 7mm based on a copy of the works drawing in the back cover of my Peckett book, im still about half done, i'd like to do a little peckett one day and chose something like an M4 or M5 and then realised the drawing in the back which says M5 top right, 2'9" wheels, 5' wheel base and 16' 7" over bufferbeams

 

the book in question

https://irsshop.co.uk/Peckett

 

on this page by David smith, "Beaufort" is an M5 which is also in the book

https://www.davidlosmith.co.uk/Peckett-E-Class.htm

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[Ian Kirk]

Hi Sam,

Glad to hear that you   made it back safely from the Kettering expedition. If your NB van is plastic it may be one of mine. I had the first few of what is now the Parkside O gauge range in my range until they went to Parkside when I concentrated on Coach kits.  An example of the prototype still exists. My friend Pete Westwater bought it from MOD surplus at Rosyth Dockyard and it was moved to Lochty where IIRC it was used as the shop. Pete measured it,prepared the drawings and did most of the toolmaking (of the moulds).It is now with the preservation society at Kirkland Yard in Leven. Currently being restored it should be operational again soon.

There were a couple of small Pecketts (and a small Barclay) at the British Aluminium factory in Burntisland. The late Ian Fraser of Arbroath bought one (as well as Morayshire and a small BR std 2-6-0) in the 1960s. This was at first kept at the Lochty Private railway which was originally set up for A4 60009. Pete and I were regular "helpers" so I am sure he will have loads of photos ( he had a better camera than I did). If you need photos let me know and I will see what Pete has.

keep up the good work

best wishes,

 

Ian

[sir douglas]

hi Ian, i have some M5 works photos in the book and  i have the peckett group on Flickr which i started 2 years ago

https://www.flickr.com/groups/peckett/pool/

Edited March 6, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

cabs steps

 

parts cut

 

steps folded up and soldered to the plate

 

i decided to mount the steps on a plate screwed to the chassis

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

cab steps painted and lined

Edited December 22, 2018 by sir douglas

[J. S. Bach]

J Aspdin (33) by Sam, on Flickr

Regards, Sam.

A question on that track. I see three gauges (at least); with the right-most rail being the common rail, the left-most is (probably) O standard, the next appears to be HO/OO, but what is the third closest to the common rail? It looks like two-foot gauge such as used a lot in Maine. Anyway, nice job.

[sir douglas]

hi, O (32), OO (16.5) and N (9mm)

[sir douglas]

left, O9 carraige (N track 7mm scale), next O16.5 and then O

[brack]

I have a similar section of multi gauge track on my embryonic layout. If youve used peco code 100 rail you'll find it also does 14mm, 6.5mm and 21mm gauge*. I have separate feed plugs for each rail in order to get all combinations working, but I was wondering about putting a rotary dial pole switch on there.

 

* It is slightly out on those, but on straight track you can get away with up to an extra 0.5mm. the points where the 9mm diverges are heavily checkrailed and it all seems to work out ok.

Edited March 15, 2018 by brack

[AJon30]

Here's my offering. Currently just a circular test track but will enable layouts with continuous runs in all 3 gauges, which are O gauge (outer), Om (22.5mm middle) and On30/O16.5/OO (inner)

 

 

Here is is with some stock (the Om coach is the largest!) O to the left and On30 to the right

 

 

Rgds Andrew

Edited March 15, 2018 by AJon30

[J. S. Bach]

Here's my offering. Currently just a circular test track but will enable layouts with continuous runs in all 3 gauges, which are O gauge (outer), Om (22.5mm middle) and On30/O16.5/OO (inner)

 

Circle line 3.jpg

 

Here is is with some stock (the Om coach is the largest!) O to the left and On30 to the right

 

Circle line 4.jpg

 

Rgds Andrew

 

 

left, O9 carraige (N track 7mm scale), next O16.5 and then O

Now you guys need to build a triple gauge switch!  

[sir douglas]

While at Liverpool show with a friend's layout, there was that kind of trader that had all sorts of OO parts; a tray of chassis' a tray of wheels, a tray of cylinder, packs of motors, packs of motion and packs of bodies, its a shame there isnt that kind of trader around more, there was also 2 boxes full of unassorted stuff with some 7mm bits in which i thoroughly rummaged through and went away with a handfull of bits and a decent motor for the next loco

 

a pair of gears for J Aspdin that look like lima

 

brake shoes, 2 tools boxes, a dome, motor and steps labeled as Manning Wardle, there are also some whitemetal figures

Edited December 21, 2018 by sir douglas

[sir douglas]

accidentally posted the first photo twice, fixed now

[sir douglas]

forgot to mention the cylinders included in thehandfull, i bought both to use one day in a future build but one of them has been put away with a half built O16.5 loco leavign one left for the next loco

 

with the new gears, the gearbox could be rebuilt and as usual it starts with a drawing and cutting out the frames, its also designed to reuse the exisitng motor mounting plate, frames marked ready to cut on the right, on the drawign on the left, the cross hatched area is the back of the smokebox and retaining screw mount in the body so i know the gear box wont foul them

 

frames cut, filed and pilot holes drilled

Edited December 21, 2018 by sir douglas