Captain_Mumbles

That looks really good!

I love adding the Warhammer , or should we say 'grimdark' skills to model railways. In moderation of course.

Happy new year all! Slightly off topic but I think my chances are better in this company: Might be a long shot. Does anybody have a nice picture of cab details? I am building a larger scale one for a diorama and I am procrastinating over painting and detailing the inside before I can close it up and move on to the exterior paintwork. Cheers! Ben

Just that Hermit is a GNR Pacific means Baked beans and 2min noodles are mack on the menu.

Oh how i love a GNR pacific.

Was that a case of clicking on the 'socket normals' and changing the plug width?

Ahhhhhh Another month of 2min noodles and bakes beans out of can is in my future again.

Thanks! It is a shame that life gets in the way of it too much. Importantly, I have it at the stage where I can at least run some trains and chill out on a chair to end a hard day's work with a beverage to the sound of the swooshing and clanky clank of trains.

Thanks for your input. That is not so far from how it is going. As I am laying my own point work it is taking me some time. So we don't have to hijack Manna's thread, You can have a look at how it is all going here:

You've got a lot of cool models there. Hopefully you get to continue your building!!!

AS mentioned earlier, KX IS remarkably compact! I nearly got it to fit into my loft as a through station with some terminus out the back. Even though my layout is already designed and track work is going down, I sometimes go back into templot when bored and try to get KX in just in case my brain works better and I get it to fit.... Unfortunately I have an inconvenient corner that always stops me. Those terminus platforms would only be good for 3 coaches and loco.

You also seem good at finishing things. I started an A1/1 but built mine to look like the initial version with the B1 ish looking cab. I have stalled on the motion, which motion did you use on yours? I'd love to build an A2/1 but I know myself too well...

The plastic ones work well with the Peco Bullhead. Sometimes the wheels hit the inside claws but its easy enough to file em down a little if they do. Looks great painted.

A picture of your book law might help. I have looked at how these models are assembled, and I am a little confused by it to be honest. It is almost like they might have got the cad wrong. Even if I were to separate the forward part of the engine, I dont think I can do anything about it without cutting it horizontal and adding a shim. It is almost as if there isn't enough height between the fwd boiler and the running plate. My early A1 Scotsman had a little ski jump and a careful massage helped a lot.

It is a pitty about the RMweb meltdown. Nice work over there though!

Whaaaaaaat! I guess this means we probably will not be getting it anymore here either.

A while back, I was able to secure a 2nd hand Knight of the Thistle and must report no noodles were needed back then. But just like the new P2, once I got it home it was duly confiscated by the minister of finance and planning for being too pretty and lives in the display stand and is a faff to get out. Slightly off topic. Has anybody attempted to fix any of the previous generation A1/3 with the 'ski jump' front ends? I got a hold of a copy of the 2018ish (i think) Woolwinder and would like to have a go at fixing it. Cheers, Ben

Well here it is with some paint on it finally.

Yes! I forgot about that. I use the superglue and talc (baby powder and whatever else it can be called) method at work, quite a bit. Superglue and microballoons when I am not lazy. If you put in enough white stuff, you are guaranteed to have a filler substance that is easier to sand than the plastic, easy to work with and fast drying. A lot of products out there can be quite hit and miss in terms of their hardness in comparison to the material you are working with. Talc/Baby powder is very good too.

I have been at my place for a few years now and I still feel like I am moving in! Thanks! I can't believe what I get away with sometimes.

G'day Manna. Thanks. One day I'll be as good as you mate! I hope you're still building these days. For now, After a small set back where I melted one of the sides with a heat gun here it is fixed up as best I can and in undercoat.

Harvester Looks amazing to me. I'd love to have one. The new P2 has reduced me to eating 2min noodles and baked beans from a can for a while! So Harvester will have to wait. Just going a little off topic. The 'Dublo' range appears to have a couple of versions of the early A1 Scotsman. Is it just me, or do none of them feature the early tall cab?

Yeah, the coach wasn't too bad either.

Gorgeous.

G'day all. While looking at too many pictures of early A1s on the web I discovered that my coal rail tender was too high. I compared mine to the factory ones and found that I had copied Hornby's discrepancy. I also found that there might be more than one design of the lowered cab. The cabs on early A1s and their tenders should draw a more or less straight imaginary line across the top edge of the cab side to the top line of the upper coal rail. I compared the my tender side sheets to my Isinglass drawing of an early A1 and mine were 2-3mm too high. So I cut roughly 2.5mm from the bottom of my tender and the general overall balance of my model improved. To add more confusion, on the lowered cabs of the later A1/A3, sometimes the top corner of the cab makes a straight line across the lower coal rail. But not always. This leads me to believe there are multiple low cab designs OR, the tenders might differ in height. Hornby's models always have the top corner of the cab lining up with the lower coal rail at least on all the models I have, even the early representation of the A1. So I think they may have the tender too high or the cab windows too low on this early version they made. But in my opinion that is still a gorgeous model. In any case, my one is not that accurate either. It is going to be my interpretation of what a 'Railroad' early A1 might look like, however it is becoming more detailed and intense than first intended. Cheers! Ben