Annie

Ooooooo that looks like a lot of fun.  Now I just need to find myself a devoted wealthy husband with a dodgy ticker so I can join it too  

Are those all horseboxes in the siding behind the passenger train?

More Broad Gauge.  'Bulkeley' at one of the stations on my WIP Broad Gauge layout.  Essentially I took a basic SG GWR layout downloaded from Auran's download station and converted it to Broad Gauge.  I'm working on the idea that the Broad Gauge lasted until the Grouping and wasn't obliterated converted in 1892.  Motive power might be a problem though as the bulk of what is available for the Broad Gauge is for the early period and it would be nice to have some of the late period convertible locomotives which nobody has made any digital models for.

Genuine pre-grouping screenie.  A small station on my very much WIP Broad Gauge layout.  Looks like it might rain.

Not fabulously keen on SG GWR even though I've got a GWR section on the HUGE UK layout, but I do like the Broad Gauge GWR era.

......nuclear reactor,  steam turbine........

I know I know I'll get me coat and 'at........ 

Oooooo that's nice.  I like NER engines and tank engines especially.  I might have to get one or three of those for my digital trainset.

The CAD image of 'Derwent' is looking very good Sem and I guess like many of us here I have my fingers crossed that it's going to turn out fine once it goes to be printed.

When my children were small we would watch TTTE together on the telly, but it was the nice original Ringo Starr narrated version and definitely not any of the later strangeness that bears no relation to the original Railway Series.  My children just about knew the original Railways Series books by heart and they loved them.  On the question of 'Colonial' and 'Empire' attitudes towards other races and women they were commonplace in a lot of books and children's books of the time.  I'm not defending them, I'm just saying that in sociological terms it was simply the nature of the era in which they were written and printed.  When I was a much younger girl we had a set of  official government printed New Zealand encyclopaedias at home that largely depicted Maori as a bunch of happy go lucky brown folk who were a bit simple minded and weren't expected to amount to much, - so many of those old attitudes were fairly pervasive.

I think it was the NER.

I notice that the Forcett coach was in danger of being broken up at one time because it was a bit too weather beaten in its then keeper's opinion.  Who puts cretins like that in charge of valuable historical railway artifacts  

Useful link and picture here  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stockton_%26_Darlington_Railway_third_class_coach_No_179

Nice work James.  It looks perfectly fine to me.

Ooooooo a 'T1'.  Nice.  

It's plainly enough from the same family as the 'G6'  so I would guess that the differences would be slight.

Not sure yet...

 

Change of plan with my G6... it will now have to be an O2. I designed it so bl00dy badly that no 0-6-0 chassis I have will fit.

Just a stage along the way to perfection Sem.  Anyone who says they never made a mistake never made anything.  

In between sleeping lots I've been quite predictably running my new NER Atlantics on the layout.  Slightly tricky little beggars to drive and operating the brakes has to be done just right or they overshoot where you want to stop by miles.  That's Ok though because locos with set and forget controls can end up being a bit boring after a while.  The GNR Atlantics I've got tend a little towards being of the 'set and forget' type, but still very nice to play engine driver with.  Keeps you on your toes though with switching between the two though.

As I like NER engines I'll most probably add to their numbers on the layout.  The only other LNER group passenger locos I have are Claud Hamiltons which are fast, but slippy and a bit light on their feet.  And I do have GNR No.1 which as a single driver requires a sensitive hand to get the best from her.  An absolute hoot to drive though if you excuse the expression.  But despite these distractions it's most probably best if I try to focus on the NER as glorious mixtures from all over aren't exactly prototypical.

Though the question of how ex-NER or soon to be ex-NER locomotives might be found to be working a timetabled train from a GWR station is anybody's guess  

The other thing I should mention is that nearly all the stuff on the Kirkronan site will be in a complex texture format that's a real memory hog and all of it will be slow to load into the simulator.  With some things I was able to reduced the resolution of the files without affecting the appearance of the digital models.  Some models will have a weird shine to them or parts of them that is due to texture layering that hasn't been done properly.  Most of the models that are like that I don't run anymore or replaced them when I found something better.  I'm not saying they're all bad and the guy who made these models plainly has talent, but he really should have a closer look at how he's putting his models together, - not to mention actually making sure those who download anything of his don't have to play hide and seek all over the internet looking for dependencies.

Oh dear.  For some reason I hadn't come across the Kirkronan website before, but I do recognise many of the locomotives as being made by a creator that makes mostly Ok locomotives, but is really super careless and untidy when it comes to dependencies for anything he makes available.  The LNWR locos in particular took a lot of messing around to get them to work.  From memory it's mainly missing cab interiors that stop the LNWR locos working.  With others it will be stupid things like whistle sound files or engine sound files that are stopping them working.

In the Content Manger find the main file for the non-working locomotive.  Click on it and you'll get a dropbox.  If 'error and warnings' isn't greyed out click on that and you may get a message that tells you that the item is a Trainz Build Number that's not recognised.  Depending on whether you've upgraded or not your build number should be 2.9 or 3.1.  Work your way down to 'Edit' and select from the menu 'Edit in Explorer'.  You'll get a folder pop up with all the files for the item. Look for the 'Config' file and open it.  It's a text file written in ASCII and if you've go any doubts about messing it up take a backup copy in Notepad and save it (how do I know this?).

Look for the build number.  If it's 3.2, 3.5, 3.7 or whatever that's why it not working.  Change it to 2.9 if you're not sure of your build number and save.

While you're in the config file go back to the item in content manager, click on it again and look for 'dependencies'.  You will get a box come up showing all the dependencies that are loaded into the game and working.  Anything that's still KUID file numbers isn't present.  Compare the config file KUID numbers with the dependency list and you will be able to identify what's missing.  Sometimes if you're lucky the missing dependency will be available from the Download Station.  Other times it won't be and in the case of 'Mr Careless' I mentioned earlier finding anything of his in the way of missing dependencies is a pain.  For things like whistle/engine sounds and cab interiors substituting something else is fine.  The only way I could get the Precursor tank engines to work in the end was to give then N2 cab interiors.  I've lost count of how many times I've had to fix locomotives and rolling stock before I could use them, but it just seems to be all part of using freeware content for Trainz.

One big problem I've found is sometimes someone has used dependencies from let us say Joe Bloggs freeware site and the only problem is Joe Bloggs freeware site does exist anymore.  More recently I've found TS2009 content with TS2010 or TS2012 dependecies and of course that isn't going to work until the dependencies are fixed.  Yes it's all a pain in the fundament, but it is possible to win through and get stuff fixed.  I think only twice out of a whole lot of downloads have I had to give up and flag something away.  If you really get stuck get back to me Sem and I'll see what I can do to help.

Borrowed an GNR 'H1' tender for the C1 Atlantic.  Not entirely ideal as the locomotive is still in LNER livery, but I'll get around to fixing that eventually.  I don't think I'll be running the GNR 'H1' (K3) itself though as it's a bit too modern looking for me.  The Gresley steel side coaches have all been banished and replaced with teak coaches so bit by bit I'm creeping things back to the grouping transition era.

The long suffering Debton (GWR) station has had a bit more work and late period signals replaced with earlier ones along with a better canopy and island platform buildings so passengers actually have some reasonable shelter now.  An LNER passenger train has always been on the timetable to leave and arrive at Debton, but normally at the bay platforms and there definitely wouldn't normally be two 'foreign' passenger trains lined up to leave at the same time.

GWR No. 4600 usually works the local trains in and out of Debton so the 'Atlantic' theme carries on.

TS2009 and earlier versions is a real desert for decent GWR coaching stock so the only coaches I have are 4 wheelers.  Same goes for locomotives in the transition period.  517 class, 850 class, 2021 class and that's pretty much it.  Plenty of goods rolling stock though.  I have more BG GWR stuff than I do SG GWR stuff truth be told.

Edit:  I forgot the Dean Goods, there's a TS2009 version.

A T14, - lovely.  

The problem with Fowler's Midland creations is that they look like Fowler locomotives and nothing else.  You'd have to shave it right down to the running plate leaving behind the splashers and the lower part of the cab before you'd have something you could build on.

Brilliant stuff Linny.  Card is one of those materials that gets overlooked in these modern times, but is seriously useful for making models that are good as anything else on offer.  Not my scale of course, but I can certainly appreciate what you've achieved.  

Dave, - I wasn't specifically trying to get at you, - it was just unfortunate that you posted at close to the same time I did which might have given you that impression.  

Printouts of workshop interior images can work well behind windows on low relief buildings.  Much depends on the images you can find though and how you cut and paste them together to make it all look vaguely plausible.

The question of painting and lining on tanksides and cabsides on 3D prints can be dealt with by the use of thin paper decals which can be created with graphics software and printed out.  There are threads here on RMweb and other railway modelling sites that demonstrate these techniques and the final result is very very good.  Please don't ask me for links as with my vague-O-matic brain I can't remember where to find them, but I don't think it would be too difficult to search them out.  As someone who used to scratchbuild to finescale standards mostly for reasons of poverty I'm left rather cold by the present addiction with ultra realistic RTR in the hobby and all the not very supportive comments that are being heaped on what Sem is doing.  From where I'm sitting (well lying in bed actually because I'm having rubbish day) Sem is having a go at creating something using his skills to the best of his ability and he's going to offer what he makes to the railway modelling community.  If you don't like it and don't agree with what he's done then don't buy it.  Simple.

I made the attempt to read through all the not very helpful or supportive comments on this thread, but after a while I started to lose the will to live.  When I was still well enough to make models I purchased a few of Tom Bell's narrow gauge 3D prints and I've purchased various 3D printed boiler fittings for 16mm scale as well and they were all in the dreaded and apparently shunned WSF.  I like them, I'm happy with them and (shock horror) if my health improves I'll buy more WSF prints again in the future.  If you don't like WSF or 3D prints then go and spend a fortune on etched brass and whatever other kits are around to get your finescale fix and leave off telling Sem what he should be doing.

No doubt I've now enraged various folk, but there you go I don't much care.

My Mum was keenly into researching our family trees and I well remember all the assembled sections of it entirely covering the living room floor and that was without any personal history summaries being added.  A fascinating project though and while I was only helping in a support kind of role and not doing much in the way of research I couldn't help but be impressed.  I think Mum took her research back to around 1840 as we found after that it became a lot more difficult to find information.

Lots of ironworkers on my Mum's side, - some of whom worked for George Stephenson.  Metal and engineering trades remained a strong thread with male occupations.  My Mum's Dad was an engine driver on the NZGR and several uncles were on the footplate too.  Mum was a porteress during the war and her sisters had jobs with the railways too.  My grandfather on my Dad's side was a carpenter with the railway workshops.  So I guess there lies the reason why I like railways so much.  

Very nice Sem.  I like that.  No doubt the nay sayers will turn up soon and moan about it, but don't take any notice of them.