RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2014 Hi Neil, Seems like several modellers have this one under way! Mike B from Scottish Modellers also has one that is nearly finished. Will try and get photos at the next show... Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted September 23, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2014 Close to finished, it would be closer but I notice from the photo that I've displaced the pick ups on the front wheelset. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2014 Super! The use of the steps to hide the lack of jackshaft is indeed a most clever wheeze! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Hi mate Nicely weathered, looks really good... look forward to seeing it on your layout Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted September 25, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2014 Super! The use of the steps to hide the lack of jackshaft is indeed a most clever wheeze! Yes very clever of those chaps at North British to realise how with a little forethought they could make life easy for model makers. .... look forward to seeing it on your layout I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you Jamie, the shunter is OO, the layouts at my disposal EM, the eventual fate an appearance on e-bay. I did it because I was intrigued to see if it would work and look acceptable. It also tidies away a project that had been lurking on or around my workbench for far too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hi Neil Can you not put EM gauge wheels on it or is there more to it with regards to EM... shame to let it go... Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted September 25, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hi Neil Can you not put EM gauge wheels on it or is there more to it with regards to EM... shame to let it go... Jamie In theory I could just pull the wheels out on their axles and grolly up the (now) recessed axle ends with something, but doing this runs the risk of bolloxing the quartering and I doubt there's clearance behind the cab steps. In some ways it's a shame to get rid because it runs very nicely indeed, but it doesn't fit with my plans and I've had my fun with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 An ingenious way of creating a suitable chassis for a small diesel shunter. The method should work under the old Tri-ang Dock shunter too (which is approximately a 1950s Bagnall). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 14, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2014 Scenery of a very embryonic sort has started to appear on Morfa over the last month. It started with roughing out the embankment walls which encompass the Abertafol inlet. I used thick card dominoes to build up the basic shape as the embankment leans out as well as curves. Then taking an old Peco (Merit?) tunnel mouth I built up the approach tunnel from card and papier mache. The inner was lined with scrunched and smoothed brown paper sprayed in a mix of greys and blacks to represent bare rock. Varnish dribbled on the ballast to give reflective damp pools. Finally before the tunnel liner could be stuck down I repainted the tunnel mouth in a mix of light grey, black, white and earthy brown. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 14, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2014 Great, some progress on one of my favourite layouts! Love the puddle in the tunnel! Another Neil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
katwigan Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Neil, I think this is my first post on here anywhere, just have to say I love the less is more concept that is underpinned with some fine modelling. Also the use of Uncle Joe's Mintballs tin as a pencil holder!!!!! Eeee that did mi owd art grand lad. Always been my first port of call when going home to Wigan. Gradly stuff. Kevan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 23, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2015 I may have invented a new process for sculpting the basic landforms. Take polystyrene beads .... ..... mix with a small amount of pva ..... ..... slop out and prod into place ...... ..... repeat until finished. Restraint needs to be shown with the pva, partly because the less glue there is the quicker it will dry and partly because a too wet mix runs the risk of slumping. A surprisingly small amount is all that's required, at first when mixing little appears to be happening then all of a sudden the pva starts to be transferred from ball to ball, the whole mix taking on something of the consistency of a meringue mix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Left over by people cutting down? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 What a splendid idea Neil! Roughly how much PVA did you mix into the bucket of beads? but where does one get a bag or two of the beads from? Bean bag refills - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060778.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xbean+bag+refill&_nkw=bean+bag+refill&_sacat=0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 24, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2015 What a splendid idea Neil! Roughly how much PVA did you mix into the bucket of beads? Bean bag refills - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060778.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xbean+bag+refill&_nkw=bean+bag+refill&_sacat=0 Hard to be precise Andy, two to three glugs, the aim is to get all the balls tacky but not wet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
artizen Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 After I dropped a bean bag refill under the house and then spent nearly six months finding all the little balls and sucking them up with the vacuum, I threw what was left in the rubbish!!! Could've, should've, would've done this had I known. Bother … and other expletives deleted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 25, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2015 I've started to cover the sticky balls with an earth layer mixed from polyfiller, sawdust, pva and a touch of black powder paint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 25, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2015 Thank you Mickey. I have been thinking about how the landscape would look in this corner for about four years now without doing anything about it. It's helped clarify how it would be shaped and allowed me to think out any unrealistic bits before I committed to the build. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 29, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 Normally I'm pretty much immune to the siren call of retail therapy, but on Tuesday in Smiffs in Camarthen this pretty little thing was dangling of the shelf. I've occasionally seen other GBL issues on visits to the more populous places but could never get very motivated by express engines. The C class doesn't fit in with any of my plans, I've no real desire to motorise it, I guess it's destined for my display case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWales Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Have you moved over to the Dark side then Neil? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggle pin Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Wow thats a fantastic job. Next time in aberdovey i will take inspiration. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Normally I'm pretty much immune to the siren call of retail therapy, but on Tuesday in Smiffs in Camarthen this pretty little thing was dangling of the shelf. morfa stranger 1.jpg I've occasionally seen other GBL issues on visits to the more populous places but could never get very motivated by express engines. The C class doesn't fit in with any of my plans, I've no real desire to motorise it, I guess it's destined for my display case. You've converted it to EM, though Neil, by the looks of it..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted January 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2015 You could paint it black and add the Prince of Wales feathers. The Cambrian did have quite an assortment of 0-6-0s. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted January 30, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2015 You've converted it to EM, though Neil, by the looks of it..... It's amazing what you can do with a blob of blu-tack round the back. You could paint it black and add the Prince of Wales feathers. The Cambrian did have quite an assortment of 0-6-0s. Don The thought did cross my mind Don, but I don't think I could make myself destroy the rather spiffing SECR livery. Perhaps I'll just have to wait for GBL No. 2978 when they've finally run out of the entire Hornby and Bachmann catalogue and eventually get round to doing a Cambrian Sharp Stewart 0-6-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted January 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2015 I trust that this magazine has some kind of 'arrangement' with Bachmann...?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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