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Everything posted by Steve Purves
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As the engineer behind the aforementioned 0-4-4t's in my previous life, I should think any Accurascale 0-4-2t (or 0-4-4t for that matter) should be more than capable!
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Just a heads up, there's a new model shop opened in Melton Mowbray. Located in Bowley Court they have a unique combination of model railways and pet products! He's a stockist of Accurascale, Bachmann, Farish and Hornby plus other bits. No connection other than a customer! Also, if you're in the area I reccomended to visit "Micks Toys" on Windsor street for an eclectic selection of diecast and trains and there's also a new secondhand bookshop in the Mall with a wide variety of stuff and a good selection of railway books!
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It's been a pleasure to be able to work on the 66. Wouldn't have been possible without support from the whole team, as it was my first Accurascale project it gave me an idea of the Accurascale way! It's paved the way for the next project, and the next and the next. I think there's some pretty epic stuff to come and I can't wait to show them off! Oh, and there's run 2 to reveal too soon enough! Steve
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I have double checked and round seems to be the norm. I'm sure it's shown as round on the Swindon drawing too Regards Steve
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Some of the boilers also had feed holes in both the backplate and on top, the LT one at Highley has this. You can clearly see where the backfeed clicks were as there is blanks fitted and a hole in the cladding. If you mean the overflow, which is the bottom pipe from the injector, then yes, there are 2 routes. As built they ran through the footplating and down to behind the cab step but later (BR) had the routing around the edge of the footplate and down to the cab step externally. Our model will have both options for both options!
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Just a note of correction really, side feed wasn't a thing on a pannier. For loco's without topfeed, water was fed in to the backplate through clacks located next to the water gauges. notably earlier LMS tank locos tended to have feed to the side of the boiler, ahead of the tanks. As has been stated, it wasn't a trivial change but it did happen.
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I'd say more than one of us! I was lucky enough to be involved in some of the S2000 and BTC era championships. The Super Touring years were just crazy but the BTC brought stuff back to ground. Steve, Mostly MG but with some Seat and Honda dabbles
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Absolutely! They have in fact already been changed since the files were published. It was spotted in the abyss between finalising launch media and the actual announcement being made. The same can be said for the roof handrail, this is purely an EP/drawing combination issue. We have the correct bits but not necessarily in the right order on the EP
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The next Accurascale steam loco in OO ???
Steve Purves replied to Covkid's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
Oh just where to start. The problem that goes round in my head all the time. Love do this, but then it's not that. But those are needed more. I'd personally like to do one of them but then that needs doing before someone else does it. Sod it, gonna have to take the pokemon option and "gotta do em all" Now where to start... -
The next Accurascale steam loco in OO ???
Steve Purves replied to Covkid's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
I'm not allowed to play this game...- 395 replies
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Apologies for the angles and appreciate your detective work but to lift the bodies up from my glossy shelf, the right hand side was propped on a Dapol 59 bogie packaging clip and the left one perched on a rock awnings pop up gazebo scissor section. They were what I had to hand at the time that were roughly the same size I really must invest in some proper props!
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