Steve Purves

56 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

Five minutes inspection of Bachmann's construction plan on their two 0-4-4T's will reveal how it should be done: all metal construction above the driven wheels, lightweight tackle (coreless motor, DCC socket) and all plastic construction to the rear of the coupled wheelbase. Result: centre of gravity within the coupled wheelbase, resulting in stable traction pushing or pulling, uphill or down. (I  am a little surprised there hasn't been more noise about this from the Southernistas.)

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!

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!

13 hours ago, Accurascale Fran said:

Hi @Cheekyharry,

 

Many thanks for your kind words and thanks, but the stars of this show are @Steve Purves, @Pixie and of course the staff from Hattons on the original design. I just get the brilliant job to tell you all the story with it.

 

I'm delighted that everyone is enjoying their locos though!

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

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

28 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

looks like someone was out secretly photographing my last Accurascale delivery

Like I said to you before...

We will keep making it as long as you keep buying it!

27 minutes ago, Miss Prism said:

Photos of tank tops are like hens' teeth, and to be honest, I'd never noticed the joint in the boiler feed pipe before. I've no idea whether the orginals were round or rectangular. (The pic on the right is a preserved loco.)

 

 

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

Might even go and give the EPs a Christmas run round the test track. 

There has been one plying it's trade on Making Tracks too if anybody has spotted it?

Merry Christmas all!

25 minutes ago, Miss Prism said:

 

Some 1854 and 2721 locos were fitted with topfeed boilers at various times. These would have had small covers, with the feed pipes going down over the boiler (similar to those on e.g. a Dean Goods), although I'm not sure how they were then routed from the injectors. The feeds may have been routed via the backfeed clacks in the cab, but that is a wild guess. The cab of 7714, the only surviving backfeed loco, may or may not provide some clues.

 

Although 7714 is the only back feed loco, 5764 in the engine house at Highley has a boiler with both backfeed and topfeed bushes. Just those in the cab are blanked. I'm not 100% on the origin of this boiler mind.

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!

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. 

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

1 hour ago, cages_cage said:

Someone had pointed out... the real 5741 had a top feed, so the Accurascale 5741 as illustrated really is "Duck"!

5741 was a 1929 build pannier so would have been without top feed as that feature wasn't introduced for at least another decade. It did gain on in later life however. 

22 minutes ago, Pteremy said:

 

So amongst all you pannier rivet counters no one knows? My guess is that they were the same - i could live the fact that they were not, assuming the differences, if any, were minor. It would just be nice to know, one way or the other.

I would have to check on the computer after the weekend but I think you are ok

Don't panic about the firebox glow. It was a "placeholder" LED, inserted to check the function ahead of configuring it! 

1 hour ago, BVMR21 said:

Will ask if the Accurascale lads could clarify if the artwork will be updated to show the correct route circles on the pre-1950 liveries? (i.e. blue not yellow)

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49 minutes ago, BVMR21 said:

Will ask if the Accurascale lads could clarify if the artwork will be updated to show the correct route circles on the pre-1950 liveries? (i.e. blue not yellow)

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

5741 is duck!

59 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Well I never…

 

Someone had a unique idea to create a wishlist.

 

😱

 

 

 

"The next wishlist topic in the Accurascale subforum" where people post requests for wishlist topics to be started on coaches, wagons, flavours of peanuts, bathroom furniture and gardening equipment...

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...

I'm not allowed to play this game...

Pick one...

Never say never

Good things come to those who wait

Patience is a virtue

We will make them all eventually!

Just now, Damo666 said:

 

No worries, that's what we all love about Accurascale here on RMWeb, the professionalism. 😀

 

But back to my genuine question, I figure it's just a parallax issue and that both bodies are the same height.

Yes they are! It's just as my two props were slightly uneven and placed roughly in the middle of the body section it created the illusion. There are no H0 or TT 66s coming just yet, that's for sure!

1 hour ago, Damo666 said:

 

Great news.

 

Genuine question here.

I can see the right loco in the image above is sitting slightly lower than the one on the left, but the roof seems to be considerably lower. Assuming they are both on the same plane (as they are similarly in focus) are some of these locos slightly lower in real life? (And nobody say it's a HO model 😀).

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!

All this talk of colours, you wouldn't believe how colourful my desk is right now...

Don't forget there is also a whole host of stuff we are working on in 00, that nobody knows about, that we might consider scaling down too! 

Rich pickings indeed...

You can see it in this picture...

It's in the bag on the luggage rack doing 125mph heading north