Clive Mortimore

Wot??? I am that passenger who in the days of conductors sat the furthest away from the platform so the conductor had to come to me. As for buses on bridges, this weekend I am playing trains with my part (but working) completed layout Pig Hill Diesel Locomotive Stabling Point at the, Lincoln and District Model Railway Club's Exhibition Fiskerton Village Hall Ferry Rd, Fiskerton, Lincoln LN3 4HW Saturday 24th February 2024 and Sunday 25th February 2024 Doors open both Saturday and Sunday 10.00 till 15.00 Free car parking. The theme of the show is Railways in Lincolnshire, so give my little loco depot a sense of location I have the appropriate buses for my bridge.....Gilbert says the green on the PD2 is too yellowy. I wouldn't know not being a yellow belly.

After some time of life, family and lazyness getting in the way the exhibition manager was given a choice, either Pig Lane Western Region with ER locos or Pig Hill unfinished and he chose the Hill. Hopefully over the next few days progress will be made. Note the correct buses for the location It does work. Lincoln and District Model Railway Club's Exhibition Fiskerton Village Hall Ferry Rd, Fiskerton, Lincoln LN3 4HW Saturday 24th February 2024 and Sunday 25th February 2024 Doors open both Saturday and Sunday 10.00 till 15.00 Free car parking.

Hi Al Looking at my Lima Crab the tender body is about right for a Fowler LMS tender, the frames are right for a MR tender, the body is too far back. I found if I moved the tender body so the front of it was where it should be it leaves a small platform at the rear like the re-bodied MR tenders with standard LMS tanks. Dimensionally it might not be 100% but to me it looks more realistic.

Goddess Beth and the lads

@James Makin Sophie can be let off for covering one of the best songs from last year.

Have you ever considered investing in a solder sucker? At A$6.95 it is a worthy investment. I recently cleared some unsightly huge blobs of solder off the sides of some "borrowed" track form my local club using my one.

For once the Merican's have done something sensible and simple, 19 mm gauge track, closer than EM at 18mm or 18.2mm Then of course there is 00fine, or what ever name it has this week at 16.2mm. As for Lima steam locos, I have a Crab ready to be made wider and converted to one with poppet valves.

Good evening Lord Bullock, I would have thought you had enough spare pheasants to carry the baseboards safely for you without having to find a mechanical solution. I am looking forward to your weekend peasant shoot this year, last year was so much fun watching them try and run away.

The Sulzer 12LVA24 were unreliable in BR service because one of the tools for setting them up was made wrong by Sulzer. This was discovered by SNCF after they became their property, their tools had been made correctly and the engines went on to have a long service life. Please don't ask me which tool as I cannot remember and it wouldn't mean much to me as I am not a diesel fitter but a retired nurse.

Also check out http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_numbers.php?index=6&jndex=3&kndex=2&s_loco=1702 and the photo section http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_photos_1.php?index=6&jndex=3&kndex=5&s_loco=1705

Hi Keith Surely that is not a problem at the speed some of us model. Buy the kit wait a few years. Open the box and start to make the easy bits, wait a few more years. Open the box trying to remember why you gave up last time. Close the box because you do remember that it still seems too hard but might be easier in a few years. Open the box to steal some bits that would make the RTR version look better. Wait a few more years and attempt the hard bits but give up because you cannot find a bit as you have forgotten it is now stuck to the RTR version. Close the box. The next stage is very sad, some poor soul has purchased it off E-bay knowing it might not be complete but wants to finish it only to find there are few essential bits missing. The modeller is unaware of the problem the purchaser is having owing to being in a care home or in their own box. Two weeks later the Ultrascale wheels arrive.

Oh dear. The news is great for those who like building model railway kits. Now how someone runs their business is up to them. Should Roger want to be the Amazon of the toy train tool and kit world I am sure one of those on here saying he should, would be willing to set up a system for him, free of charge.

How do they open the roof hatches to get to the engine without and hinges? This is my model under construction. I also think the exhaust ports are to close together. As there are not many photos of the class 48s I found the Cuban T975 class to be a useful source of roof details. Apart from the cooling group a Class 48 is the same as a class T975.

Like, me do.

They should not be directional they were on at both ends as described above by SRman

Hi Bob Cab roof and on many the engine room roof were black as in the link provided. Some form memory had green engine room roofs. Eastleigh also had a habit of painting some class 08s in the same style.

Hi Alan You just need something to complete your modern image puffer layout, Dragon Mountain. Some background music.

Fun, isn't that what this hobby should be. "Oh, please mister Just leave me alone I'm only Lookin' for fun Lookin' for fun F, U, N" The Clash The only trouble with using the MTK ends the gangway connector is a solid lump, where as on the real things they danced about in front of the rest of the train to their own beat. 🙂

The next question, the ones with double arrows and small yellow panels. Which had the thin green lines between the yellow and duck egg blue stripes and which had the yellow edges touching the duck egg blue stripes? I will let myself out........

If I can do it then anyone can.

Do you want the long story or the short one. Before the Bachy Type 4 was produced I embarked on a "let's do something with these Tri-ang Co-Cos" gig. I had knocked up 3 Type 4 looking bodies which were to go on some lengthened (donated) Mainline Peak Chassis. The Peak chassis turned out not to be good runners, so things got put on the back burner while I had a second think. I did try fitting a Lima H0 class 33 power unit in a Peak bogie and that sort of worked. Years passed and I was mooching around a stand selling all sorts of spare bits and bobs and spotted some class 40 bogies and motors. I will buy them I said to myself and went to pay for them and gent selling the bits pointed out the drive shafts so they were put in my bag as well. A couple more years passed and I found myself being daft and volunteering to man the DEMU stand at Doncaster. Panic set in as making a K4 2-6-0 did not seem the correct thing for the acting chair of DEMU to be making on a DEMU stand. How about having a go at doing a class 40 chassis? An old photo of D399 perched on a lenthened Mainline Peak chassis With a little bit of filing the Tri-ang English Electric windscreens can start to look. This was an earlier attempt to do a stretched Tri-ang Co-Co. Lima chassis. Before using bits left over from Baby Deltic cut and shuts, I made this from some plastic card. Mainline Peak chassis.

Hi Albie There is a good reason the model does not have any wipers. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/459859811926996453/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/50576141@N03/39864440932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_11#/media/File:Bridgnorth_-_12099_in_the_yard.JPG They were not fitted to the locomotives when new. Only a few ER examples had them fitted about the time they were painted green, they also had 4 lights front and rear with a different conduit run to that of an 08. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_11#/media/File:LMS_English_Electric_350hp_diesel_shunter_12104_(8312217300).jpg If you are modelling the ER in the 1960s check you chosen loco not only for correct livery but also if it has wipers and additional lights. For WR modellers the six 151xx locos also had additional lights and wipers but not the same as the ER class 11s. https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/51103502038/

Today I was at the Doncaster exhibition, with my DEMU hat on. Modelling and nattering to the public. Nice to see some familiar RMwebbers. A couple of years ago I purchased some Bachmann class 40 bogies, motors and the drive shafts. The aim is to get my Tri-ang extended class 37 bodies, which are pretending to be 40s, to actually have some sort of propulsion. I made my first chassis while manning the DEMU stand. Playing dead to show you the bits I used. Up the right way. I runs quite nicely, and shifted a rake of six coaches without any additional weight.

Hi Johnathan, I have come across them, they are a fun band.