Pint of Adnams

As to the specific questions, in reply

 

1. No idea really just that's the way I've always done conventional DC loco's, just having a bit of inertia on the motor seem like a good idea to smooth out any cogging or tight spots in the mechanism. Are you saying I don't need one?

 

2. I like paxolin as it's that bit harder than some of the plastics, so I can cut it with a piercing saw and it doesn't clog up the blade and I find it easier to file. I've always preferred metalwork to woodwork and so paxolin is more in line with my style. With the mounting hole near to the edge I think it's that little bit stronger, purely subjective of course.

 

3. No I haven't seen Perfect Miniatures plunger pickups - any known photo's in the wild?

1. Since the electronics in theory provide (nearly all) the same effect, a flywheel shouldn't be necessary. As I read the situation, there are those who would fit a flywheel regardless, those who never would, and those who might in order to help 'ride-through' P&C work or inter-baseboard gaps, possibly necessary in a lighter, shorter wheelbase loco - where there is less space to do so! Personal preference or prejudice, as you will.

2. Fairy 'snuff.

3. Try asking young Buckjumper, he should have the odd or two lurking around his workshop...

1. I'm a little curious as to why you think you need a flywheel if you are using electronic control...

2. Why Paxolin - couldn't you use any of those flat rectangles of left-over ABS from your 'Death by a Thousand Cuts'?

3. Have you perchance checked out the Perfect Miniatures plunger pickups? Centre sprung, and quite slender...

Hi J-P, glad you've made it - that is the D&S kit and to here on the new, different, RMWeb. Have you found the 'Roaring Forties' area yet, in Social Zone > Groups? Hopefully 'Buckjumper' will be adding your Blog to the quick-links post in there.

Interestingly, this van also has the springs inside the axleguards as does the Dia. 120 Pigeon Van. Did that create any particular challenges in assembly, and have you fully sprung the axles?

PoA

Slippery slope you know - Gordon Gravett built just the one Slater's coal wagon and that led on to Ditchling Green. Once you've built a 7mm scale model you'll know what the attraction is.

BTW what is in your 'white box'?

You mean it doesn't open so you can actually put some oil in it?

Excellent modelling JB, hope you're documenting it for a feature in the S7 Newsletter - any thoughts on opening firebox doors and that sort of stuff?

The Thompson Matchboarded Brake looks to be very nice for the scale. The Thompson D358 is available as an Isinglass drawing in 4mm, ref: 4/614. Comet also do/did it as a 4mm kit, and CRT Kits http://www.crtkits.co.uk/ do it in 7mm - maybe either might be helpful in supplying a reduced master?

Hi Adrian,

I was quietly following this thread in 'the other place' and I'm pleased that I can continue to do so in here, although rather less discretely than before.

I was talking with Jim McGeown at the Southwold show in the summer (even managed to insert the odd word sideways into the conversation) and I remember well Jim admitting that, in the early days when he didn't know any better, he used the Skinley blueprints as the basis for his kit designs. So if the aforementioned circular patches appear on the Skinley drawing then you have your answer as to why they are in the kit, even if that doesn't explain why Skinley drew them in the first place.

Another suggestion is to ask Bob Essery.