colin penfold

Minerva then

Oh

Unless it was in Routemaster livery....

4 hours ago, SirBud said:

After reading many threads about this, attached is a description of how I made cassettes.

That's very informative and the workmanship is impressive, thanks for sharing. Is there a reason or benefit you have identified as to why you use track on your cassettes rather than have the wheels running on the edge of the aluminium as others do?

I heard that, pardon

Progress today - the saloons are both glazed and it's beginning to look a lot like a Ford Railcar set!

Apologies for the left hand car not sitting down properly on the chassis. I will sort that when the glue is dry on the glazing.

The third picture is a test of the brightness of the LED lamp in the saloon. It's bright enough and I believe there are some CV settings I can play with to dim is and to make it a bit "warmer" too

Passengers and driver still to fit, a couple of tool boxes and brush painting of chassis, bonnet and mudguards etc.

Some of us never really had it in the first place, to be honest. 

some decent progress on the Ford

I have reinstalled and tested the chip, speaker and stay alive in the non-powered car. The chip fits neatly between floor and chassis, I made a small mount for the 8 pin socket out of plasticard. It fits neatly between the floor and body, and is held in place by the body retaining screws. The socket can just be seen between the stay alive and the speaker Having tested everything I have now fixed it all in place. The speaker and stay alive are held in be black mastic. Any coloured wires which can be seen when the set is on the rails will be painted black

Intrusion into the car body won't be too bad. This is the floor.

Issues still to resolve are the saloon lighting and headlamps ( the wires for both can be seen in the foreground and are both on 4 pin mini plugs to allow future disconnection of the bodies, and also the seven wires that bridge between the two cars. I have ordered some square section hollow and u-channel plastruct which I hope to glue to the coupling bar to keep the wires under control and minimise their visual impact.

Meantime, the bodies have been primed and sprayed in Plastikote nut brown. I need to do the glazing and fit the headlamp and saloon lighting once this is dry. Roof will be permanently glued to the body because the headlight is on the roof.

6 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Because we're not all there.

5 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Speak for yourself.

41 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

If your nose runs and your feet smell you may be built upside down. 

I think you just spoke for yourself too Dudds 

Eggesford

Pig Lane is taken...

9 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

English Electric Lightning?

Single chimney version...

I think it's something to do with the bend being a 12" to the foot bend in a 4mm scale item. Imagine how bends would happen, there wouldn't be a 12" to the foot sausage finger involved (something like a 4' wide pole landing on the handrail from a great height)  so the nature of the bend would be very different.

"I don't care how #%$€£#g runny it is....."

The latest Bure Valley models bargains seem to include some decent GW oferings including  http://www.burevalleymodels.com/p/9830/R3383TTS---BR-Castle-5050-Earl-of-St-Germans-TTS-Sound-Fitted

11 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Morning Colin. Not on this occasion.......

 

Rob 

That'll be the O gauge purchase if you get one of those eh? 

Less than 8? Probably showing my age 

Had the latest notification of Bure Valley Models' bargains including a BR sound fitted castle for £115

http://www.burevalleymodels.com/p/9830/R3383TTS---BR-Castle-5050-Earl-of-St-Germans-TTS-Sound-Fitted

Hi Rob. I'm sorry I didn't realise the link I added had reset to a multiple choice options. Mine are 300mm which were 4.69 a pair post free although I have some 450mm in stock from the same supplier ( for my 00 fiddleyard traverser )

I agree the ones in your link look similar quality. Nice to have options especially for those of us with a local branch.

Hi Rod,

My Gazette arrived in the back end of beyond today and I have just finished reading your article. Not only does it show off your layout very nicely but it's probably the best-written article I've seen in the Gazette for a long time. Nice one mate.

Thanks Rob but people need to be careful in selecting heavy duty bearing versions not cheap ones. The ones at screwfix that equate to the ones I bought are 5.99 a pair. I wouldn't trust the cheaper ones to be up to the task. The height of the runners (45mm in my case) is an indicator of their strength in the vertical plane. You can also see ball bearings along the lenth of the runner which give smooth operation as well as load bearing capacity.

They have been brilliant through the tournament, but it was a game too far. I don't think a world cup will ever be won by a team beating the three southern hemisphere powerhouses consecutively, which is what we just tried to do. Well played England

that's not a request

We are overdue some filthy mogul action Rob, if you wouldn't mind old chum.

now that's a request

C. Dundee

You're welcome. I probably should add that the unit overall is 5'6" tall and I initially planned for taller. The units I kitbashed dictated that reduction and I'm glad in hindsight. Also I tried to design the weight distribution as low as possible especially having the airbrush compressor at the bottom.. Obviously if the mobile and foldaway features weren't needed it could be lashed to the wall.

Thank you for your kind comments. The workbenches with the cutting board, soldering station, pillar drill and test track are all on heavy duty full extension drawer runners. They slide fully out until the back is where the front was when stowed. They feel very sturdy in themselves. My only concern was the balance of the whole unit, so I added the extendinng legs at the bottom to counter any possible forward tipping of the whole unit. These are the runners https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-of-Drawer-Runners-Slides-GTV-Full-Extension-45mm-Ball-Bearing-Runner-/251398193891