jwealleans

I picked one of those bogie bolsters up at Manchester. How was it to put together?

We chose 'The Suffolk Regiment' for the B17 for Thurston when we decided to build one. Apart from the valid reasons above, it isn't a 'castle' or 'footballer' and is also one of the few (5 spring to mind) with air/vac tanks high on the back of the tender. Mind you, I seem to recall that that tender has a few differences to the others. Worth investigating carefully.

Can I expand Mick's post above? The LNER Study Group have published information sheets on these coaches which are available as pdfs (view or download) on the LNER Encyclopedia site here.

Larry would be your man, Rob, but I'd have thought coaching stock livery, fully lined in the earlier days, certainly gold lettering.

I worked over there in the early 90s and I've kept it up ever since. Using it regularly is the key.

Love to... but I'm going all 7mm this weekend and then there isn't a club night because of the Bank Holiday. With a fair wind and a bit of luck I'll have the brakes fitted and painting complete then I can do a proper picture of it somewhere round Pilmoor.

You're not wrong, Paul and I had a few similar observations on the LNER forum. I renumbered my Sentinel at the same time and I must have gone onto auto-pilot. They came off easily enough - didn't even go through the paint - and are now correct.

We're painted, lettered, weighted and about finished and the first real running happened last night down at the club. It's not quite complete - crew and backhead are to paint and install, crankpins to cut off and file down, coaling and weathering and remove the blobs of Araldite I got on the side when adding the lead weight. Here it is as it stands, though, with the added attraction of a video to show it passed the haulage test. Not a duty you'd have seen one of these on.. shunting the drops at Brafferton. More care, less Araldite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4Q1xAj8bY

Ca y est, je suis deja inscrit. Il n'y a pas de probleme pour la traduction, alors que je rames un peut dans les termes plus techniques.

Can't see much without joining, can you? I might sign up - I'm looking for a font for the markings for this wagon, save me cutting them all out of photos. Someone may know what was used, or what i can get away with.

Be very happy, Brian. What site is that? I'm always interested to read other forums, you can pick up all sorts.

Well it's been a bit of a lull, but I didn't think photographs of paint drying were worth the effort. It has been drying all that time, too; after I put the black on (Games Workshop), I painted the buffer beams with Precision white primer. Five days later, when it was still tacky, I put the red over it anyway and that has at least dried off. I did have the chassis to reassemble and here it is on the rolling road with the body in black and primer. I have no p/b wire for the rear pickups so I'll have to acquire some at Blyth. Here it is today along with the repainted Dapol Sentinel. I've added the works plates and sander operating rods to the latter. In the meantime I've been fiddling on with this and that... I acquired another pack of Bachy AF containers. John Isherwood gives some very useful hints on remodelling these to earlier diagrams in his instructions for the replacement transfers. I don't have either of the book she refers to, but there is a photograph of one of the boxes in question at the start of The 4mm Wagon Part 3. This is the 'before', two with the necessary detail removed and two untouched. I'm going to use the untouched two as they are, the Bachmann lettering and finish being pretty good. Here the other two with replacement door operating mechanism and handles. There are still some hinges to make. Different enough to be worth the effort, I think.

You've got it, but the pun stretched a bit further than that... 2509 - 2512.

Ok, try this: Father and son both built locomotives; father was singularly eminent while both their designs were noted for their lack of a singular eminence. These were a product of the son. They were never abundant; saw the first war but not the second; were Grouped twice within two years. They bequeathed their boilers and numbers to other locomotives, some of which went on to give sterling service. Which locomotives are we talking about?

Bridgnorth, then? I have to hold my hand up to Googling that and it still doesn't ring any bells now I've seen it. I'll have to check my photos from when we went.

Kidderminster Railway Museum? ( I don't remember seeing it).

It lives! I've made up the motor and gearbox and had it running with a pair of power leads attached. I've also made up pickups and had the motor powered from the track. It's now being dismantled for chassis painting and then the final (I hope) assembly. I've made up representations of the injectors, tank fillers, oil boxes on the tank fronts and also added works plates and the fire iron holder on the left hand tank top. I've used a different gearbox to the one Arthur recommends (I insist on grubscrews and being able to disassemble things, which limits what I can use from the High Level range) so I had to remove quite a bit of the chassis spacer behind the firebox and a bit of the footplate to make it fit. The sharp eyed may notice there are only sandpipes at the back: there was just not enough room for the front ones so I attached them to the brake gear. I've missed a bit of linkage from that as well so it may have to be tweaked again before painting. Bits for this are on the way but I didn't show it with the duckets attached. It seems to be staging 'Snakes in a Guard's Van'. I've been looking for axleboxes for the French vans with no real success so I made a set for this one. There are several different patterns so I may have a crack at a different type for one of the others.

Someone posted a GA A4 on the LNER forum and there were quite a few livery errors pointed out.

Yes, that's a better answer - although the OP's question would imply that the EM2s were also a Gresley design, which they aren't generally regarded as being (http://www.lner.info/locos/Electric/em2.shtml).

A3 and A4, in 1966?

I don't think anyone's mentioned yet? (Apologies if I've missed it).

My wife volunteered to feed and keep an eye on the neighbours' cats a few years ago. They hadn't been gone two hours before she went next door to find one of them stone dead and stiff as a board. Never again.

Bit of a break for the J73 - it's stopped raining so I have a garden wall to build, with the prospect of a small waterfall at one end... The motor and gearbox came yesterday so I'll probably put those together one evening. I have been tinkering on with some other oddments: Another conflat. Now I've got the hang of what needs to go together to make the fixing chains these are getting quicker to make. Glazed the duckets on the Toad E. To be fair to Mr. Modelmaster the covering film almost came off as he said it would although you can see where it took the central leg of the E with it and I had to paint it back in. I've been messing about with this for a while following Graeme's King's example here from a few months ago and prompted by a pair of duckets courtesy of Scottiedog at Hartlepool. This was a body I picked up from Hattons some time ago when they were flogging them off at a pound each. Starting from that much more incomplete basis I've had to make floor and chassis as you see. I have some Comet W irons for 14mm wheels (these are occupation wheels) and will have to source up buffers and axleboxes in due course (I expect Andrew Hartshorne is the man).

I've seen at least one video of him performing this where he actually apologises to Linda Ronstadt even though he wrote it in the first place... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSgB338VfIs But this is and always will be the definitive version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M&feature=related

Well, that'll be a bit of additional work to do when I get round to it. I have a couple of brass coaches to build for Ely first. Iain Rice references two MRJ articles in the pack instructions (issues 10 and 12) which will make a sensible place to start and I do have the drawing in the NERA Vol 3. If all it involves is a straight cut at the rear, shortening the bunker and then shortening the rear overhang of the chassis to suit, I can't see a problem. If it starts getting more complex i may have to live with it.