geoff_nicholls

The Y10 had skirts similar to the steam trams it was intended to replace, so the difference shouldn't be noticeable. I'm hoping to build a Y10 body that would fit snuggly over the Dapol chassis without needing screws etc. My plan is to also have a 04 diesel, a J70, and possibly that Hunslet 0-4-0 (which all have skirts) as alternative bodies. I just run the loco into the fiddle siding and swap the body over. This would save quite a bit of expense, and my planned micro layout would rarely have more than one loco running, it being based on the Scalescenes dock scene.

I've bought two Dapol Sentinels, for a 7mm micro layout based on the east Anglian harbours, and I'd like to convert one to a Y10. Before I start scratch building, has anyone already produced a kit or 3D print of a Y10 body?

I built four wagons from the Brees drawings in gauge 3, by adapting Victorian's method of 3D printing.

this is my proposed entry: a section of GWR mixed gauge baulk track, in gauge 3. Bolt detail and ballast still be added.

Does the low budget include everything that appears in the diorama? or can one include items previously pruchased? The L & B 1840s carriage ordered from Shapeways, and the two Modelu figures, in my first mock up obviously cost significantly more than that.

I just received Modelu's newsletter, they've collaborated with "The Ragged Victorians" to introduce a range of figures c1851. Many are 'characters' to say the least, but some seem respectable enough to be allowed near a railway: https://mailchi.mp/modelu3d/modelu-news-february-2020?e=d86dec887a

It does seem to work, and is probably much less intrusive than any attempt to produce an overcast sky. You were right to stick with it.

lovely layout. Sorry if this has been asked before, but how did you arrive at that quite dark shade of grey for the backscene?

Has anyone come up with any ideas about what the wagons on the C & HP looked like in the early years, before the LNWR takeover in 1860? In John Marshall's book there's a list from 1856 stating 82 common wagons without springs, coal 45 Harpur Hill lime wagons 14 goods spring wagons etc. I wondered if Chaldron wagons might have been used?

I decided to draw the artwork in Silhouette studio. I'm very very pleased with the result, when compared to doing it by hand, or paying to have it laser cut. This machine will soon be very busy.

I've just started experimenting with a Silhouette Cameo that I bought second hand a year ago. I tried out the Silhouette Studio software and found it claims to read DXF files. However it made a mess of opening the dxf I created of a window frame in Turbocad, The ghost image, upper left, was deleted from the original. If I set the import option to Fit to Page, I get a smaller version which does fit on the page. However the original is 68mm x 45mm. And why does it miss out the left hand verticals? Failing that does Studio have linear copy or array copy options? so I can just create it again from scratch?

and how much of it was loco hauled? My guess is much less than is modeled. Great Yarmouth was a good example though, there are photos of 04s and Y10s hauled wagons along the road, which also implies Y6s and J70s. The line to the Fish Quay ran parallel to the Council Tramway (3' 6" gauge) The former crossed the latter to enter the brewery, the trams crossed the std gauge to reach the station forecourt.

But is there any evidence for this in the 1840s?

sorry to butt in on this discussion, but I have a query about the hauling of chauldron wagons by steam locos. The drawing below shows these wagons, which have inside frames and therefore narrow spaced dumb buffers, hauled by a loco that has buffers in the 'normal' spacing. Were barrier wagons normally provided? Or did the wagons' dumb buffers just butt up to the loco/tender buffer beams?

I'd love to see someone build a modern image micro layout. When staging "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in a local panto, there are actually only half a dozen thieves with different hats. If the view of the layout is severely restricted to, say, a junction with signals, a container train or express might only need a few wagons or coaches. Quite a show could be achieved with the sounds, lights and smoke possible courtesy of DCC, and the amazing detail of the models we see at exhibitions.