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1 hour ago, TT100 Diesels said:

Glad you like it @03060, still the enamel weathering washes are hardening off so I have put it to one side for a while before it gets rattle can matt varnish spray...don't want a repeat of the class 20 issues.

 

In the meantime, got out my bag of 8 x Dogfish ballast hopper kits.

These are Cambrian Models kits from the society shop.

 

 

Started the first one to get a measure of how it goes together. As the instructions state, its not the easiest to build and I agree with that. 

 

Also made up 16 wheelsets from 9mm dia flat pack wheels and axles. Set the b2b, blob of super glue to lock that and two coats of enamel frame dirt on the front of the wheel pans.

 

 

Here is the first chassis glued up. Its right fiddly, you need to kind of glue it all together and manipulate it to get the wheelsets in then fettle it all square before the poly cement goes off.

 

So, something new again to do, never done any hopper wagon kits before. 

 

Cheers

 

D.

Hello Dave,

Very interested in the Dogfish build as I've also got a box with about 6 of these in a cupboard somewhere ... not much call for them on a 1920s S&DJR layout but maybe one of Lenny's Bo-Bos might tempt me to build them just for a change of subject, although I really need to finish a couple of other things first.

Anyway ... watching with interest and good luck with the build.

Regards,

Ian.

I also saw my first Swifts and Swallows of the season overhead yesterday in the outskirts of Leeds.

We've got our first 'home grown' Blackbird fledglings keeping us busy on security duties at the moment, we've lost one already but the other 3 have now dispersed from my garden.
 

One has unfortunately got itself locked inside my neighbours garage but he has given me the key late last night. It's managed to get itself up into the rafters at the back and the parents are feeding it through the waves in the roof. I decided that it was probably in a 'safe' place for last night and am about to go and let it out, hopefully it will come out on it's own and I won't have to handle it.

Regards,

Ian.

13 hours ago, young37215 said:

 

Hi Ian

 

Nothing done with the Lochan yet. I ran out of momentum and decided that because the resin has a 6 month sell by date once opened, it could wait until the autumn. That way I can learn from the small Lochan and still have plenty of time to use the residual resin on the adjoining and larger Lochan. The recent winter modelling season has seen me complete:

• 95% of the landscape surrounding Arrochar and the mountaineous region
• 5 BSOT conversions
• 5 signal box detailing work
• respraying 37111 project
• several weathering projects

 

When written down I feel that it has been a reasonably productive period. For the next few months I may potter on the layout from time to time but will mainly look to take advantage of the warmer weather and enjoy being outside. There are still a few BSOT's to be viewed and photographed!  Hopefully come the autumn my motivational batteries will be recharged and I can kick on with finishing the remaining scenery.

 

 

Thanks for the update Rob ... I can assure you that your list of winter achievements puts mine to shame !! LoL.

Love seeing the photos of the layout as you have your little running sessions so please keep posting them and give us all our 1980s WHL fix to keep us going !

Kind regards,

Ian.

2 hours ago, 97406 said:

 

Wasn’t it a test run on release from Doncaster that got it to York? I’m going on a distant memory so I could be wrong, but I’m sure I remember reading it in Rail Enthusiast mag at the time.

Some went via Leeds (possibly to pick up the same train ??) as I had a 'Glorious' moment one morning on my way to work when I found 50033 sat waiting patiently in Leeds City station.

Likewise, I seem to remember an article or snippet from Rail Enthusiast but I'm afraid that I dismantled my copies several years ago now in a space saving bid (which I now regret.)

Regards,

Ian.

Hello Rob, has there been any progress to report regarding the Lochan, please, did you manage to achieve a satisfactory result with the resin ?

Regards,

Ian.

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12 hours ago, TT100 Diesels said:

More from the bench......

 

 

First up, "Daisey" the DTC is now released back to traffic after collision damage repairs. Compare with DMBS on the left. Weathering of buffer beam is not quite the same but it is at the opposite end and looks better than this tablet cam grab (honest). But super pleased with the yellow front end refinishing.

 

 

Also released to traffic is the match truck with extra pick ups for the 08 (Conflat). Again, tab cam grab seems to loose the subtleties of the weathering.

 

Right, that is the orses duvers and starter. Now for the main course.

 

 

Been weathering this today. Monster..........

 

Just imagine it on full thrash on the Fort William sleeper grinding up to Rannoch Moor.......

 

 

Need to let it settle on me, still a few more tweaks here and there, but probably about 90% there with the weathering.

 

 

In the end I tried to follow a pic of 37406 at Queen St I took. Unfortunately only found two pics of 37403 on the web, for the period I was after, and not particularly clear. 403 was absolutely filthy, a lot more than the "406" version, but the one I tried to follow captures the essence of a West Highland Line /4 to me.

 

Again, poor quality tab cam grab, it looks tons better in the flesh.

 

Cheers

 

D.

 

Great work Dave on all fronts ... but those photos of 37403 immeadiately brought the sound of a 37 growling up Glen Falloch into my ears ... which is always a sign of a great model !!

Looking forward to seeing this in the flesh sometime, so to speak.

Marvellous !! 
 

Regards,

Ian.

18 hours ago, Gilbert said:

Progress...and testing...

I'm watching this build with particular interest Chris as my 77L box is currently sat on the dining room table ... and some wood has been cut !!

Your Lockdown Fen and Cropper Street layout threads and articles have also been re-read ... but progress will be slow and I'll start my own thread when it is more advanced, in the meantime I shall indulge in watching Pile Street develop.

Regards,

Ian.

The rules for banking engines between Binegar and Masbury summit appear in Railway Bylines 'Somerset and Dorset Files No.5' for anyone who is interested to read them, bearing in mind that the banker will have been coupled on at Radstock.

I've sent these on to Stephen but obviously can't reproduce them here due to copyright.

Regards,

Ian.

16 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

Possibly not applicable in this case, but I've seen photos of brake vans with long hooks hung on the verandas, the only use for which I can imagine would be uncoupling from a banker on the move.

 

John

Hello John and all,

the recent question by @Compound2632 regarding the banking procedure (particularly up to Masbury) has got me rewatching all of my S&D DVDs again; the clips I mentioned being found on Ivo Peters parts 1&2 and doesn't actually show the physical uncoupling by the guard.

In this case the long hook is visually attached onto the banking engine's smokebox handrail (although I presume that it could be fully unhooked for use) but what did occur to me was also the type of brake van being used would have to be a flush flat ended one rather than a standard BR 20t type or SR 25t with their extended end platforms as the guard would simply just not be able to reach out to the loco or see what he was doing to release the coupling. I presume this then was also a factor as to whether or not the banker was coupled directly to the train.

Regards,

Ian.

14 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

20138 Banavie 1988 by Jim Nesbit

 

 

Thanks for this @montyburns56 it's led me onto some more useful WHL photos that I've not seen before.

Just picked up a copy of MRJ 303 ready for an evening's studying following some 'inside' information given out at the York exhibition. Have been looking forward to this article.

Regards,

Ian.

Very timely for me are the two EFE Isle of Wight O2s as I contemplate starting a 77L RUB box layout.

About time I had made a model for my 03060 avatar as well.

Regards,

Ian.

12 hours ago, tractionman said:

I came across these images yesterday:

 

https://www.2d53.co.uk/Yorkshire/British Oak.htm

 

Love the layout btw.

 

cheers,

 

Keith

Thanks for that Keith, I don't think that I've seen that piece before even though I've trawled the 'net' on many occasions looking for information about this site.

As ever it shows what a great piece of modelling Dave has done with his layout as you compare Dave's layout pictures with the ones in this article.

Regards,

Ian.

1 hour ago, The White Rabbit said:

 

I've seen worse...

 

I'll tell my two that they must try harder !! LoL

13 hours ago, BetweenTheTunnels said:

Well my workbench has ground to a halt just lately, as work trips away and family life have taken over. Hoping to get back on with things slowly.  I've been sat pondering the bogies for the Mk1 and Gresley coaches that I've been designing, and it brought me to a query...

 

What is the accepted standard for 3mm - compensated or not - when it comes to coach bogies.  Hopefully each will be fitted with pick-ups feeding to a bespoke PCB strip i've designed for the lighting, which will have a capacitor (or battery) / dcc function decoder built in for lighting.  Part of me says going for compensated design should lead to smoother running, but as im hand-building the trackwork anyway, another part of me says its not needed?

 

The bogies are an etched nickle silver design, onto which 3mm Society bogie frames will be mounted. 

 

Anyone, any thoughts?

Richie

Likewise I'm not an accomplished coach builder (yet) but I can vouch for the MJT compensated bogie kits that the Society and possibly 3SMR sell.

I found them easy to solder together for the two 'part built' Branchlines SR coaches that I started many moons ago. My 3mm mentor (Alan Smith) has used them on many of his 12mm gauge coaches over the years and I have first hand experience of playing ... err ... I mean operating with them on his Everingham layout, mind you his track is always pretty good as well.

I can't comment on whether or not compensation is necessary or not but these little bogie units certainly do a good job.

Regards,

Ian.

I'm afraid that the Hunslet looks very open to the elements with no side windows and the doors wide open !

... and looking over the Shipley side of the viaduct (and trying not to get drenched from a large puddle by passing cars !)

I would have liked to have taken one more photo from a bit further to the right but in the interest of not being drowned chickened out !! LoL

Regards,

Ian.

22 hours ago, Ben B said:

 

Cracking photos! Incidentally, the scrapyard is now being cleared and redeveloped, though happily still for railway use. It's going to house a servicing point and depot for Northern, for the Airedale and Wharfedale EMU fleets apparently. Always wish I'd made more effort to photograph the scrap trains when I moved to the area in 2007, they were still just about clinging on. And I wonder what will happen to the industrial diesels still on site...

View from bridge on a very wet day this morning ... please excuse the 2024 photos on a 1970s thread but I hope that you all agree the relevance as it looks like the end of this site on the Industrial Railway map.

From the Bradford side of the viaduct :

The Ruston.

The Hunslet (which I think was the one that worked at Esholt and named 'Prince of Wales.')

The possible new Northern Rail depot area.

Hope that you all enjoy the day ... and the cake !

Regards from a very wet West Yorkshire ... wish I was there !

Ian.

1 hour ago, young37215 said:

Bachmann have announced they will produce a new BSO in their Mk1 range with a BSOT included in the variants to be made. 

 

 

 I saw this yesterday but decided not to post as it's the cruel old adage of 'no sooner have you just finished a model than somebody brings one out !'

At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that your models are very much your own, hard fought work.

However, I may not rush into trying to chop up my BCK / BSK 'conversion' coaches just yet in the hope that Bachmann may now shrink their new coaches down to N gauge, which I wasn't looking forward to anyway.

Regards,

Ian.

2 hours ago, Ben B said:

 

Cracking photos! Incidentally, the scrapyard is now being cleared and redeveloped, though happily still for railway use. It's going to house a servicing point and depot for Northern, for the Airedale and Wharfedale EMU fleets apparently. Always wish I'd made more effort to photograph the scrap trains when I moved to the area in 2007, they were still just about clinging on. And I wonder what will happen to the industrial diesels still on site...

Only a couple of miles from me so I'll have to go and have a nosey.

On 25/04/2024 at 21:36, TT100 Diesels said:

 

Hi Phil,

 

Better pic of your 26 than mine up thread, and great pix of 401. LL 37's just 'pop' 👍.

 

Re mini ploughs, on 37's they are all hung off the underside of the buffer beam. Probably are on most / all other classes but can't say for certain.

 

As for my model of 403, I mounted them onto the bogie transom as it was a very handy and easy and logical way to do it on a model. They sit in about the correct position as if hung from the buffer beam. I did it like this as the transom was thicker and projects forward more than the real locos. 

 

So two problems, if modelling them off the buffer beam, first the model transom likely to foul them om bogie rotation and the fixings would be harder to model and the whole set up more fragile. 

 

The bonus feature of bogie mounting on this particular model is that the buffer beam pipes etc can be fitted and will not be fouled by the ploughs. At least it looked that way when I did the development mock ups. Hope that still comes to pass when I get to the fitting them stage 🤔.

 

Your 26 ploughs look more to scale thickness I must say,  but my plasticard ones don't look too bad, and they will also get weathered.

 

 

Plonked the body back on the chassis and took this shot. Pleases my eye anyway!

 

Cheers

 

D.

Although I've been very quiet this week (due to being on nights) I'm watching this build avidly, Dave, the West Highland Line being very close to my heart.

Coming along very nicely.

Regards,

Ian.

How did I not know about this thread ?

Introducing Archie (right) and his daughter Freya .... both had thought that rolling in fox poo had made themselves more photogenic ... until they got home !!

On 26/04/2024 at 22:44, johnlambert said:

I think first generation DMU vehicles were treated a lot like locos and individual carriages, with maintenance schedules for each individual vehicle. And sets were assembled as required from whatever was available to try and meet the needs of the diagrammed services. As things got older and more decrepit the DMUs might not even be the same class within a two, three (or more) car set. Because the couplings, brakes and (where fitted) gangways were standard; there were no computers to say "no".

I was at one point seriously considering modelling a DMU depot based on Hammerton Street (Bradford) as an exhibition / home layout for the reasons you mention ie. many different types types, colours and lengths of units that could either be moved as a complete train or shunted around the depot by one of the resident shunters (as per my 03060 avatar);  the odd broken down set being towed in behind a loco, sets arriving and departing from/to the local station for refuelling ... it could be quite interesting to operate with lots of movements ... a bit like a 'station' layout but without the passengers and a different take on the usual TMD layout !

Food for thought.

Regards,

Ian.