billbedford

Eccentric wheels were the reason people started to compensate their rolling stock.

Some of them were certainly used by the engineers, whether they were painted black or not I'm not so sure. My memory of engineer's stock was that they were not repainted very often, and for old cascaded stock this meant that they were almost never repainted. The last of these coaches were withdrawn around 1950. There are photos of some in service in 1949 when they were over 50 years old. So that most of these coaches were withdrawn by the LNER and would have been given 9xxxxx number and painted oxford blue. Any that were withdrawn by BR were given DE 32xxxx and painted black. These is a problem here, in that I'm not at all sure what colour engineers coaches were painted during the 40s. I would expect that they were painted blue until stocks of paint ran out and then they were probably painted black, or brown, I just can't tell from black and white photos. If anyone has any information on this I would like hear it. And on a related note, does anyone know how oxford blue weathered?

After writing #9886 I realised that your comment is ambiguous, it could mean making the bogies work as intended, or it could mean making the bogies rigid.

I'll be annoyed if you do, if only because that will take a great deal more work than just assembling the bogies as intended.

The bogies are one piece resin castings with a built in torsion bar.

That was the arrangement on the original blue pullmans, but they also carried an engineer whose job it was to switch the power to the bogie under the leading carriage.

It you actually look at cut timber from a distance, whether it has been varnished or not, what you see is a subtile variation of tone across the surface. This is probably best depicted in 4mm by the use of washes over a ground colour.

What wood grain effect?

D.328 CK -- 33 - 10 - 0 D.329 TK -- 33 - 9 - 0 D.330 TO -- 32 - 15 - 3 D.331 BTK(3) -- 31 - 5 - 0 D.332 FK -- 34 - 0 - 0 D.334 FK -- 32 - 17 - 0 D.336 TK -- 32 - 7 - 1 D.346 BTK(4) -- 30 - 13 - 0 D.348 FK -- 36 - 6 - 2 D.350 TO -- 36 - 1 - 3 (Flying Scotsman) 31 - 5 - 1 (Ordinary) D.351 FO -- 35 - 12 - 3 (Flying Scotsman) 31 - 9 - 4 (Ordinary) There are some weights missing from my diagrams, including the BCK.

These are available now, I'm planning on some six wheelers for the autumn.

The stepping is due to the 50 micron build layers.

Mmm -- Is there one that will hold 16BA screws?

The gears are not the problem. The rod are acting the way they do because the crankpin holes in the coupling rods are way over size. I can move the rods backwards and forwards about half a mill without the wheels turning. With this much slack on the crankpins any four coupled loco will have drunken coupling rods. Unfortunately there is no easy solution short of replacing the wheels, which will open a whole new can of worms.

The livery changes were; 1897 -- teak -> brown/french grey 1904 -- brown/french grey -> brown/cream 1908 -- brown/cream -> teak This was for main line carriages, it's probable there was a 3-4 year overlap where two liveries could be seen. I'm less sure about the suburban and older coaches as they are less visible in photos.

Here's a page of some of John Quick's models which shows the difference in the two brown liveries.

The GC 4 wheeled coach is in the brown/cream livery. On the brown/french grey livery the grey was solid from the cantrail down to and including the waist panels. There are close up photos by Newton in Rolt's 'The Making of a Railway' p 149

That photo shows coaches that have been refurbished and made into close coupled sets. The four wheeled coaches that form part of this thread had all be withdrawn from revenue service by 1910. Looking through my collection of photos where the trains are GC, and particularly the two colour passenger liveries, it is obvious that while some carriages, presumably late build stock, have roof vent on all compartments, many don't. Some carriages have no vents whiles other have vents over one or two compartments. See for instance the Biltcliffe photo on page 16 of "The Great Central in LNER Days 1" or the Biltcliffe photos in "Great Central Album"

They might have got brown and french grey, but I doubt they had brown and cream livery. One of the quirks of the MS&L was that they only put ventilators over the smoking compartments, these were usually at the ends of the coach.

Oh good grief. People have been using light and UV cured resins for printing for 25 years, I really don't think that the industry would have grown to the size it is now if any model had turned to dust in a couple of years.

White toner is just coming onto the market for some laser printers, see: http://www.ghost-whi....com/?locale=en http://www.oki.co.uk...ters/index.aspx

People should read the small print before speculating on this stuff. The main points as far as I can see are 50 micron layers, as opposed to 27 with FUD or 17 with FXD DSP printing, so edges are not as sharp as FUD, but stepping tends to 'fill in' on curved surfaces Physical supports, this means that downward pointing faces will need sanding which will limit the detail those faces can carry Maker Material, which means that it can't be sold through shops until the experimental period is over. The two good point seem to be that it is black and that it is not as brittle as FUD.

Yep, NBL did a really good job on that one, considering they cobbled together the aesthetic from old Doncaster drawing they had hanging around their drawing office. 'Corse the 'engine' part was pure NBL genius which they had tried out earlier on the Royal Scots.

Just as it has probably been part of someone's announcements for the last five years?

In small letter at the bottom of the page. When I use Tramline I find that the cheapest journeys are highlighted.

Without the use of filters, trains come up in time order. There are filters for fastest, cheapest, least changes etc.