Tynedockbottom

By the way the harbour wall ahead of the ships bow is part of an old CD storage rack. Those to the port?  side are polystyrene packing.

Watched a YouTube video about making water effects. Tried it out and quite pleased with the first results.

I wanted to make it look windy and blowing the tops off the white water.

Forgot to say I had to fabricate a replacement pony truck for the 45.

It's a bit crude but it's sprung using some thin plasticard.

I recently acquired several 00 gauge loco chassis and some 5 mixed bogies from ebay.

Two were Bachmann 37's ( one with a missing bogie)

One Bachmann diesel 1-Co Co-1 chassis with bogies

One Co Co diesel chassis

One unidentified peak or Class 40 chassis.

A little research soon identified the co co as a Heljan 47 and two of the spare bogies looked like they belonged to the 47 but no bogie clips or drive shaft.

One of the bogies looked like it belonged to the Bachmann 37.

All seemed to have motors , but only the co co had a PCB.

Anyway I bid and won the lot for the sum of £102.

I enjoyed opening the box and soon found my research was correct.

I found Bachmann class 45 drive shaft  fit the Heljan 47, but I did have to fabricate some bogie gear tower clips as Heljan don't have spares.

So after a little soldering I now have 2 working class 37's , a working Heljan 47( no mazak rot either)

and a working class 45 chassis.

The fifth one is an earlier style Bachmann 45 ( central motor) and the drive down through the years works well but it's missing bogie frames and wheels. 

I had 2 x Vi train class 37 bodyshells( £8 each from a show) and will look out for a Heljan 47 and2 x  Bachmann peak bodyshells at future shows.

The 47 had a pcb and is now DCC fitted, others were DC and I'll fit s decoder sockets to them all in due course .

So at around £25 each and if you add say £25/£30 for the two missing bodyshells that's still around £50 per loco.

Of course, having a decent selection of spares does help, and the ability to make things like the bogie clips. but there are still bargains but they tend to be things which most modelled would put in the ' too much trouble category.

Hi  

This post need only apply to those, like myself, who numbers my locos differently on each side.

As a result I have the following nameplates spare .

If you have any spare plates, particularly from Gateshead Deltics or Class 56, and are interested in doing a swap please just get in touch.

55020 Nimbus

47612 Titan

47409/37428 David Lloyd George

37418 East Lancashire Railway ( both plates)

31146 Brush Veteran( both plates)

47781 Isle of Iona ( both plates with crests)

55012 Crepello

56135 Port of Tyne Authority( red background)

5600 Oystermouth ( red background)

Also 1 Laira Galleon sector diamond plate ( as 50149)

1 x Steel BR arrows, small size (10mm long x 6mm high approx)