Steamport Southport Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 The booking hall is almost certainly GWR in origin. I think Chris Leigh pointed out the prototype in a previous thread or possibly in one of the magazines. Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gibbo675 Posted September 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2018 Hi Folks, This is what I like about Dapol Kits; How much fun (nonsense) is that ? Gibbo. 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Very nice. But what's the prototype and does it go around radius one track? Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Very nice. But what's the prototype and does it go around radius one track? Jason Hi Jason, There is no prototype although the front engine unit is a bit like a 3900 Challenger and the rear engine unit is a truncated 9F with BR Std styling. It will indeed go around 2nd radius track because I have tried it out on it, it is the reason that there is a slot in the tenon of the front engine unit rather than a round hole. Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 If you're playing what can I do with a 9F kit, the wheel diameter and spacing (if truncated) is bang on for a O-16.5 model of the Sierra Leone government railway 482-284 garratts (I suspect I'm the only person who bought the kit specifically for that feasibility study). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 If you're playing what can I do with a 9F kit, the wheel diameter and spacing (if truncated) is bang on for a O-16.5 model of the Sierra Leone government railway 482-284 garratts (I suspect I'm the only person who bought the kit specifically for that feasibility study). Hi Brack, Go mad and build one ! My contraption had its cylinders cut off and reset on the horizontal centre line of the cylinders to make room for the steam pipes under the running boards, these have yet to be made and fitted. Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 (edited) I did buy two Hornby 9f chassis at one point (one tender one loco driven) but decided building an 18" long loco might have been unnecessary folly (especially when my current layout is only 2'8" long) Edited September 2, 2018 by brack 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted September 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2018 (edited) It might be usable, it depends on what you are discharging. Not sure if they are still going, but there used to be a company in York called Walkers who dredged sand and gravel from the river using a barge. If they didn't use the crane on the barge to discharge it, some thing like this would do the job, although I suspect it might be a bit elaborate. Adrian IIRC Walkers had stopped that before I left York in 1986, however, although I can't remember exactly my memory of when is that it wasn't that long before I left. Their barge was the Reklaw. They worked the Ouse and lower part of the Foss. Edited September 2, 2018 by john new Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Hi Folks, Here is my BR [non] Standard mallet, and a link to Imaginary Locomotives; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/14790-imaginary-locomotives/page-149 Gibbo. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave John Posted September 30, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2018 Just reading through brings back a lot of memories, not only the railway stuff but the whole wonderful range of kits from various makers available relatively cheaply back then. They got us started and we learned so much from them. I do remember building the Airfix county inn to go with my 3 rail train set. Built it, painted it, sat it on the board. But to my 8 year old eyes it lacked something, surely a rural inn would have a glow of candlelight from the windows? From which I learned that putting a real lit candle in a plastic building was not the best of ideas. I was not a popular child in our house for a while after that ........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted October 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2018 Just reading through brings back a lot of memories, not only the railway stuff but the whole wonderful range of kits from various makers available relatively cheaply back then. They got us started and we learned so much from them. I do remember building the Airfix county inn to go with my 3 rail train set. Built it, painted it, sat it on the board. But to my 8 year old eyes it lacked something, surely a rural inn would have a glow of candlelight from the windows? From which I learned that putting a real lit candle in a plastic building was not the best of ideas. I was not a popular child in our house for a while after that ........ I used to burn plastic sprue to put soot under bridges and tunnel mouths, not to mention the entrance to my Airfix engine shed, which I wouldn't have the nerve to try nowadays! This was when the layout was in the attic and I could get away with things... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted October 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) deleted as I may have got my stations mixed up Edited October 1, 2018 by Legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I used to burn plastic sprue to put soot under bridges and tunnel mouths, not to mention the entrance to my Airfix engine shed, which I wouldn't have the nerve to try nowadays! This was when the layout was in the attic and I could get away with things... Hi Johnster, From reading your post it would seem that the biggest thing you "got away with" was not burning the house down !!! I thought the daftest modelling caper I was ever involved in was the stirring of Humbrol paint tinlets with a manipulated paper clip in a Black and Decker drill. Gibbo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I started on a GWR City based 4-6-0 using, guess what, two City of Truro kits. Its still not finished and may never have been practical, but it still looks far prettier than the contemporaneous Kruger 4-6-0..... I'll dig it out tomorrow and take a snap to post here! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Hi Folks, Here is my BR [non] Standard mallet, and a link to Imaginary Locomotives; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/14790-imaginary-locomotives/page-149 DSCF0411.JPG Gibbo. As its a Mallet, and vaguely 9F to boot, it would be useful over the Mendips. Perhaps it should be named drumroll.......... Shepton Mallet !!!! Ithenkyow......... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 As its a Mallet, and vaguely 9F to boot, it would be useful over the Mendips. Perhaps it should be named drumroll.......... Shepton Mallet !!!! Ithenkyow......... Hi Hroth, I like it !!! I also look forward to seeing your City of Truro kit bash, do post it on the Imaginary Locos thread. I had thought of doing something similar but have not yet got around to it. I have been busy with Shepton Mallet, some other daft kit bash jobs and sixteen Presflos with another eight on the way, see below. Gibbo. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 As mentioned above, I started carving a couple of Dapol "City" kits into a NeverWozz early GWR 4-6-0. I think there was a reason at the time but at present it escapes me, though I did a mocked up photo of Atbara as a 4-6-0 in the imaginary locos thread so it might have been that that sparked it off. Anyhow, here it is. The photos reveal how long the boiler is, it would be completely impractical as a real locomotive, but perhaps extending the smokebox halfway along the first boiler ring might improve the proportions. I think I'll have a go at completing it during the long nights of winter! So, in Photographic Grey.... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crompton 33 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Airfix/Dapol General store. Curtains are Scalescene. Gutters Downpipe Cover over door from Wills. Steps from old Airfix footbridge. Handrail paperclip. Awning made from evergreen strips and thick paper sprayed Green. Just to make it Different. IMGP0456 by ALF WESTLEY, on Flickr 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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