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Pants,Pants and even more pants. Trying to model with one hand even though its not your modelling hand is to put it mildly "DIFFICULT". Although I'm on the mend, I ain't there yet, no involvement with adhesives, solvents, glues, solders or fluxes. Thank goodness I can still have a very large Gin and minuscule tonic. I will, when the good lord allows, post some more progress, however don't hold your breath.
p.s. you know what they say: what comes after but, is usually bull sh*t and what comes after however is usually horse sh*t.
Life is just a bowl of toe nail clippings.
I admire the drift into philosophy, at least you have kept your sense of humour, single handily no doubt, life after all is a sh*t sandwich, the more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.
Get well soon, regards John.
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I bet that the release of this locomotive has people looking over drawings to consider possible conversions.
Saw the EP's on Saturday at NEWGOG, nice work, received well, nice detailed cab backhead,best to date. Some finer detail points on tank tops need minor attention, rivet detail on smokebox and washout plug doors, top feed pipes require flange joint near cab front and a casing on tank sides, concur with other observation posted.
johng
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The working first engineering prototype (EP1) of the forthcoming minerva RTR 0 gauge GWR 8750 0-6-0 pannier tank locomotive has arrived. Because this is an EP1 some features will change as we refine the design. The balancing pipe between the tanks is missing as we are revising the way it will be fitted to the model. One of the photos shows the low relief dummy inside motion. The locomotive runs comfortably around PECO Setrack curves. The numberplates are by Narrow Planet and each loco will include a voucher giving a 50% discount off the Narrow Planet price for the relevant GWR and BR plates.
The retail price is £265 for DC, £320 DCC fitted and £390 DCC sound fitted. All prices include UK VAT and the loco is only available directly from Minerva Model Railways by mail order or from our stand at selected model railway shows. For more details go to our website www.minervamodelrailways.co.uk or call 07775 782086 or 02920 531246. The EP1 will on show at the NEWGOG show in Newport, Gwent on Saturday 22nd April 2017.
I can only agree haha. Seriously though, when I turn there is no going back.
The working first engineering prototype (EP1) of the forthcoming minerva RTR 0 gauge GWR 8750 0-6-0 pannier tank locomotive has arrived. Because this is an EP1 some features will change as we refine the design. The balancing pipe between the tanks is missing as we are revising the way it will be fitted to the model. One of the photos shows the low relief dummy inside motion. The locomotive runs comfortably around PECO Setrack curves. The numberplates are by Narrow Planet and each loco will include a voucher giving a 50% discount off the Narrow Planet price for the relevant GWR and BR plates.
The retail price is £265 for DC, £320 DCC fitted and £390 DCC sound fitted. All prices include UK VAT and the loco is only available directly from Minerva Model Railways by mail order or from our stand at selected model railway shows. For more details go to our website www.minervamodelrailways.co.uk or call 07775 782086 or 02920 531246. The EP1 will on show at the NEWGOG show in Newport, Gwent on Saturday 22nd April 2017.
Hi Chris,
Good steady progress boys, just an observation, the dummy inside valve appears to be the wrong way around, trust this is an assembly error.
Johng
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Struggling with antibiotics and several creams to overcome what is now dermatitis and infection I'm attempting a bit of bodging. The crossing Keepers building, a much modified version of the one at Essington, just the incomplete basic structure so far. I did build a version for my old Primrose Hill layout.
Hope you are on the mend my friend, take it steady. Nice to see some progress again. Looking forward to Newport,helping with Wellington St on Saturday. Best Regards John.
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A very big THANK YOU for all your support. I'll not be posting much for a while, but will continue to follow all your posts. Here is a photo of my wife and I taken at our 50th wedding anniversary last September, so you can see just how important she is to me.
Best Wishes to both,
John.
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Here’s a snapshot from the instructions showing how the smokebox saddle is fabricated. There are 8 pieces excluding the sandbox fillers. The two parts shown are the top plate (with half etch) and (according to the instructions) the base plate part 78. Dimensionally it is the same size as the top plate only thicker. I’ve studied all the photos that show this area and no way is there a base plate. In my opinion, whoever wrote the instructions forgot how it was meant to go together as part 78 is surely for laminating with the top plate which is too thin, being half etched. That’s how I decided to do it.
There are no easy build features here, so you have to figure out how to hold the sides, front and rear pieces together, keeping them square, and then solder them. The front piece has a couple slots into which two small webs have to be added. I decided to add duplicate slots in the rear piece, and then solder the webs across the front and rear, using a simple “jig” to keep them in line.
The two pieces to the right are the sides which have square holes for the sandbox fillers to be fitted through and soldered to a piece of waste etch. I took and easier route and soldered a backing piece and drilled a hole in the centre for the filler. After the sides were fitted the laminated top plate was then fitted on top.
And with the sandbox fillers soldered from the inside.
And the right way up.
To aid fitting to the running plate, I drill and tapped a whole 8BA in the centre of the top plate. After marking out the position on the running plate and drilling a suitable hole, the saddle was screwed in place.
And then soldered.
After the saddle was soldered, the hole was reamed out to clear the screw, and a hole drilled and tapped 8 BA in the smoke box. The boiler could then be screwed into place.
I also fitted an 8 BA nut into the firebox back plate and drilled a hole in the cab front so that the boiler cam is secured at the rear also. I haven’t decided if I will leave it removable or solder it to the cab front, and epoxy and screw it at the smokebox.
And the boiler bands fitted.
Fitting the mud hole covers.
And the cover on the firebox on the contractor built engines. I have also started on the cab innards and got the floor and cab rear in place. The bunker/coal hole bulk head need quite a lot of filing at the top to get it to fit vertically. I’ve filed about an mm off it so far and it still slopes forward at the top. Work in progress.
Finally for now, I have fitted the etched surrounds to the steam pipes with epoxy for fitting later.
Cheers,
Peter
Hi Peter,
Will play catch-up with this tomorrow lunchtime at work, just got back from wandering under the platforms on the Crossrail Project, nice bit of light relief.
John.
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Well done Mike,
Will follow this with great interest.
John.
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On GWR loco's the condensing coil is only half of the story, this only displaced the oil,the steam supply 'through' the hydostatic lubby is controlled by the jockey valve which sits under the regulator handle and connected to it via a cam operated lever which sat above the reg handle, this allowed the supply of steam oil to valves, pistons and reg to be controlled together with the opening and closing of the regulator handle, when 'coasting' the regulator handle is 'lifted' by the driver from it's fully closed position enough to 'open' the jockey but not the regulator itself. Hence the need 'warning notice' fitted to BR(W) Standard locomotive informing the driver that the regulator does not have be 'open' when coasting to provide lubrication, which as we know was provide by a Silvertown.
I watch this post with great interest as I had a Great Uncle who lived opposite the Station at Abergwynfi up until his passing in the early Eighties.
Great work Chris,
Johng
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Hi Blackthorn,
Just picked up your thread.
If you contact the Heritage Centre in Dursley, they sell a DVD called 'End of the Line', I bought one last year from there,it was £5 and was a seven minute silent home cine film, in colour of the Dursley Branch, the last passenger train complete with carrots on the engine, a footplate ride and shots of Dursley, Cam and Coaley Stations and the bridge you mention, It is a gem, a nice bit of photography and a mine of information for a model and well worth the money.
Trust this helps,
John
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Hi Mike,
Reely grate progress, sorry, nice work as ever. Be in touch.
Regards,
John.
BR Standard Class 3MT 2-6-2T 82xxx series
in 7mm+ modelling
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I think you will find that the Jim Harris kit is now part of the Scorpio range, ping over an email to Jeff Ennis (address on the Gauge 0 Guild site) and he will help you, johng