Hi Rich

Its great to see you are back modelling again. Its interesting to hear that you changed the bogies on the wagons, what bogies did you end up using? Its not something that I have thought about instead of just re-wheeling them but from what I can see it looks worthwhile.

How come we keep on missing each other at shows? I was at Newbury and Watford but never saw you!

Are you avoiding me?

Missy

Rich,

Good to see the mojo's back, and your proposed loading of the Macaw's sounds like a challenge to get the juices flowing again .

I didn't make Watford this year but it was great to meet up at Newbury; though I'd have thought the comedy shunting of myself and Mark would have been enough to put anyone off....

Please don't leave it so long between updates

Steve

Hi Rich , ... ...Are you avoiding me?

I thought you were avoiding me? hahaha. I didn't get to Newbury until about three, and I was at Watford on Sunday for most of the day. Sundays are usually a better day for me. I still owe you that tank wagon kit I promised.

I'd have thought the comedy shunting of myself and Mark would have been enough to put anyone off...

No. Even if I have blue sky thinking it's just toy trains. They're there to be enjoyed.

Hi Rich,

Good to see you back around these parts. That is one big bit of timber on those wagons!

I presume those bogies under the Macaws are from the 2mm Scale Association?

Andy

I thought you were avoiding me? hahaha. I didn't get to Newbury until about three, and I was at Watford on Sunday for most of the day. Sundays are usually a better day for me. I still owe you that tank wagon kit I promised.

Ahhhhh!

I was at Newbury until about 2pm and I went to Watford on Saturday so that explains it. We really should communicate better when it comes to shows!

I dont remember a tank wagon kit but I remember some point rodding stools although I would never turn down a tank wagon kit either!

Anyway, what bogies did you use on the bolsters?

M.

Hi again! Still haven't built those b set coaches, but will be getting Ultima bogies for them.

@ most: The bogies are 2-387 castings on 2-400 stretchers. Only real early ones seem to have round top axle boxes (2-386) (and those would have adjustable truss rods rather than angle). There is barely any material around the hole in the stretchers once opened up to the size of the plastic block on the underside of the wagon so I sweated a scrap of n/s over the underside of the stretchers for strength. The block was filed down quite a bit so that the bogies don't fall around when the wagon is picked up, much like you would do with the brass top hats as the intended mounting for the range of wagon bogies.

@ Andy: Yes, that's some load. The final one will look marginally smaller, but the same 90' length.

@ -missy-: I had forgotten about the point rodding, but I think I know where it is. It's LSWR not GWR though, which is why I wasn't going to use it. I'll be at Ally Pally on SUNDAY and will try to remember them if you will be there?

@ devondynosaur118. The 2FS bogies look much nicer than the Ultima ones because they have more depth. The B-set coaches should look real good when built, and they are different diagrams to the Dapol ones iirc.