BrushType4

Chaz,

I think with the quality of your work, it would be better to leave unfinished rather then have a not quite so good effect that might ruin the overal look.

Perhaps make a little 'joke' of it by making up some roadworks signs or something.

Keep up the good work

@ Type4....where will Simon Varnam be marketing these new bogies, or under what name? As although the Appleby bogies are good they are hard to get hold of.

Yes, Simon will be marketing these bogies and a range of wagons to go with them. I'm sure that they will be available on the building o gauge online website when they are ready.

He has a build thread on Western Thunder if you'd like a preview.

Ah that makes sense BoxBrownie! You may be interested to hear that Simon Varnam is about to release some suitable detailed Y25 bogies that would be ideal for your needs.

Well I finally managed to get the FNAs printed, it has taken a long time as the scanned images needed a lot of work to clean up (in fact they were apparently almost redrawn!), anyhow I am very pleased with the result and eventually I will be finishing them off with metal buffers and some other details as the material used is quite brittle and rough handling will see bits break off (like the hand brake wheels).

 

 

Yes I gave up waiting for Pete to produce these

Are those 7mm scale?

East Anglia used to have an even stranger 'shunter' at Lowestoft sleeper works- a powered Grampus wagon. I remember there being a piece about it in Rail about 20 years ago.

You don't happen to know which issue? Better still have a copy?

First time I have seen this track with the steel sleepers and so I assume that it's a fairly new introduction from Peco. If that's the case and they had to produce new tooling, then why didn't they set the sleepers at the correct distance in the first place. I know in the past the argument has been that a lot of their production goes for export (labelled as HO) but would that be the case for this design - or are the steel sleepers a type only seen in UK ?

 

Mike

I don't think it's a fully new tool, just the sleeper part, so we are stuck with the spacing.

Poor tare to load Ratio...

High Development costs...etc etc.

Not much change in the last fifty years there....

Hi type 4, sorry I haven't, one of those cases of passing regularly & saying endlessly, " I really must take some pics" & guess what I never did

cheers Nigel

I know what you mean! Thank you for looking and letting me know.

 

I remember the Lowestoft grampus well, it was in fact the works shunter for the engineers wagon repair shops, the sleeper depot being long gone, it was converted from DB988525, internal user no. 041707, painted yellow, & used to be parked by the gates on commercial rd.

 

Nigel

Hi Nigel, I'm interested in building on of these. Just wondered if you had any more pictures of this or the railway along commercial road by chance?

Cheers

Now, see, those 31 bogies are VERY close to the ones fitted to "Falcon".........if only Heljan could see the potential....

Brian Daniels wrote on 13th May 2009

 

Forgot to say Aclazar that if you want a 7mm Falcon, whatch this space That's all I am saying.

We are watching!

I will be taking the Heljan prototype 31 with me if anyone wants a close look at it.

Yes please

Great tutorial for the yard lamps. Great tips on creating the lampshade.

Maybe you should amend average to excellent in the thread title

Jon,

Very inspirational. The pictures of the finished lamps you've posted in the gallery are spot on. I'll be following this with interest.

Jack,

Sounds like a great idea, seems a shame that there does not seem to be a great deal of interest.

I'm not exactly clear on the standard and just a question, had you considered the gauge o guild standard for modular boards? It may had made the modules more useful, but I suppose it does not matter a great deal if 'middle' boards are built.

I'll follow your progress with interest.

Edit. I've read all the posts now

Hi Jon, brilliant tutorial, thank you.

I want to follow in your steps, but I'm not sure where to get the White metal castings? Have you any links to any suppliers or is that why you make your own?

Here we see an excellently weathered 37 414

Do that yourself?

Looks good.