Wheatley

Apart from the bit on how to convert CC1004s into broad gauge wagons, didn't we already do all this in the last Coopercraft thread ?

And they're still not flared properly.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/88264-oo-gauge-class-71-electric-locomotive/page-35&do=findComment&comment=2256760

Edited to add link.

At least the cab corners are the right shape on this one.

Pleasing fans of the old format of Top Gear was, if you think about it, an almost impossible task.

But this is a problem (almost) entirely of the BBC's own making. They should have accepted Clarkson's apology and got on with it instead of jubilantly crowing that they'd sacked the oik. Evans will polarise any audience you put him in front of even when he isn't trying to take over someone else's formula. I can't stand him but I can't help thinking he's been set up to fail here.

What we need is a Car and Motoring program, just like what the (very) old Top Gear used to be. I was an avid viewer back then.

 

Unfortunately you were almost the only one. 3 million viewers in 2000 to nearly 7m in 2014.

If we were all building accurate scale models, wouldn't we be demanding things like proper reversing valve gear and inside motion?

 

Brake levers that can be moved, illuminated head, rail and guards van lamps?

 

Moving vehicles?

 

Blades of grass and leaves, as opposed to nylon flock tubules and ground foam?

 

 

It's the difference between looking like and functioning in exactly the same way as. All those items on your list can be made to look pretty much like the real thing (with a bit of effort), even if they don't function exactly like the real thing. Conversely Peco Streamline manages the exact opposite - it functions like real track* but looks like nothing except Peco Streamline. C&L on the other hand works just as well and looks a lot closer - like using a Parkside underframe instead of a Tri-ang one.

[* in that it keeps the train upright and pointing in the right direction, I'm aware that the dynamics are different because weight and mechanical forces don't scale.]

 

 

 

Anyone know what the conical boarding might be for, on the two masts that have been added either side of the line by the original tramway masts?

Possibly to stop accidental contact with the posts by trackside staff, because they are close enough to the existing OLE to conduct a flashover to earth via anyone nonchalantly leaning on it. The masts in your later pic away from the OLE don't have it.

D5541, on 23 Mar 2016 - 11:21, said:

What kind of things did they convey and from where to where?

 

 

There's a picture on Science and Society showing an insulated container being unloaded. The meat is in the form of full carcasses hung from hooks in the roof.  

Definitely the same chassis, although the Britannia had been re-vamped with a new chassis a couple of years before the Clan appeared. I've a Hornby Brit and a Clan, the chassis are identical.

Steven B, on 15 Mar 2016 - 13:04, said:

The other major issue is that the maximum gradient on motorways is somewhat steeper than than on railways.

Ruling gradient on HS2 is 2.5%. Maximum 'desirable' gradient on a motorways is apparently 3%. So not a million miles apart.  

Somewhat more recently, Hornby produced a Clan using Britannia parts as an economy measure,

Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible) the Hornby Clan uses Britannia parts because the real one did. The boiler and fittings are different but that's about all, at least in 4mm scale.

Am I missing something ?

Edit: Just realised I've read that as "Hornby compromised by using existing mouldings" when I suspect your point was that Hornby did in fact do exactly what BR did and added a loco at minimal cost. Apologies.

But who are the stockists? Are they on my stockists list?

My apologies, "stockists" should perhaps have read "shops", i.e. my two nearest proper model railway shops. I've no idea whether the first is an official stockist of yours but the "can't sell what I haven't got" is a direct quote from him, and I doubt the second is as his initial response was "Who ?".

In both cases my question was simply "are you going to be stocking DJM ?" and no, I'm not telling you which shops.

Why?

Who's money is earning interest?

 

1. "Stockist" requires stock to sell. Both my local stockists gave me the same response when I asked, both said the same about Oxford and both now stock their full range, but they can't sell what they haven't got.

2. Julian's  I expect while he's not spending it on your products.

F-UnitMad, on 06 Mar 2016 - 08:52, said:

maybe as O is the "Senior Scale" in more ways than one, they're just waiting a few more years for some of the Self-Appointed Experts, who detest anything Dapol make, to shuffle off this mortal coil...

First of all you put the boot into Adrian while he's not well (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107859-temporary-closure-of-abs-models/page-2&do=findComment&comment=2197346) and now you appear to be wishing him dead. Are you this unpleasant in real life ? 

ed 66 plant, on 28 Feb 2016 - 13:53, said:

Please tell me how your picture of TWATT is at all relevent to this topic--it isn,t funny,smart and seems entirely  innapropriate and extremely rude.I would hold this view irrespective of who might be your target.

Ed

Have you got something against place names ? It's a perfectly harmless Norse word, no more offensive than York or Scunthorpe.

BTP Peterborough are well aware and are pursuing the matter, and have said as much on a couple of social media platforms.

 

The livery is very attractive but goes with nothing! I ran it in with an LMS inspector's saloon in tow as it had the plainest livery of my coaching stock.

 

It goes with the ... er ... L&HR coaches. Whaddya mean they're not available from anywhere ?  

You can all draw your own conclusions as to exactly what shades of red and cream that was:

http://www.constructionphotography.com/Details.aspx?ID=50264&TypeID=1

If the 500 foot rule was absolute then all sorts of helicopter-based activity would be impossible, pylon inspections for example. This is a great example of trainspotters suddenly becoming lineside experts on aviation when a sizeable number of them have just demonstrated that they're not that ###### hot on the rules surrounding their own hobby. Well said Derek.  

With respect to the FOI request, (Jukebox's link), that is the requester's 39th FOI request to the BBC. I suspect that faint ringing noise you hear is an axe being ground... 

The helicopter operator is Arena Aviation, and their Air Operator's Certificate allows low flying considerably closer than 500 feet for filming purposes. They even have an exemption for restricted airspace over central London.

Might be a bit far but the units next to Frizinghall Models are to let:

 http://www.awsltd.co.uk/properties/industrial/336/hilliam-court-hillam-road-bradford-bd2-1qn

Staying in the clubroom and out of the neighbour's might be an issue ...

I have also noticed that 40 year old Airfix kits seem to be sitting on the shelves in dozens

 

Not in any model shops I've been in recently, they're sitting in post-2013 type 16 red boxes, alongside a lot of new tool kits. Other new tool kits have sold out very quickly. I'm aware Sasquatch was referring to the age of the mould, not the age of the box, but my point is it's all newish stock and not old stuff that's been sitting there for years.

Most probably the EM blog, the P4 blog, the S4 blog, the 18.83 blog.... the list may go on. 

 

However if folk want to get their entertainment simply by laughing at others, then good luck to them.

I doubt it. I suspect the hilarity is not being generated by the thought of people modelling in OO with tighter-than-scale curves being so presumptious as to ask for more refined (not perfect) track, but the various naysayers on here telling them, in best RMweb style, why they shouldn't be allowed to have it.

Dave tests every model himself and there is not one report of a problem.

You need to read the O2 topic a bit more carefully.

and queue the livery moaning........................

 

And there was me thinking that this particular manufacturer encouraged feedback. Oh hang on, he does, it's just you on your high horse.

Good to know it's in hand, thanks Andy.

WPR 15 should be chocolate brown, not butterscotch. The earlier sample (post #83) was nearer but still too pale.

The handrail knobs are a bit thick (but they are correctly aligned), and the dome tapers a bit too much. The rest of it is spot on and there's not that much to be done to it to improve on what Airfix tooled 30 years ago, at least above the footplate.