Quarryscapes

I know a few of you guys here have experience of printing track, does anyone have workable rail section data for code 75 bullhead they can share by any chance? I have free time and figured that having a go at Dinorwig style stub points is in order, but I don't yet have rail.

All 3 remaining small hunslets are now here. Haven't run any of them yet, or the big one, but they have all been tested by Derails so I hope it will all be good when the time comes. They all look to be quartered correctly at least. Still pontificating about which locomotive to convert Alice into. Possibly Holy War as I have a tenuous connection: https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/47ab9147-a87a-3688-926b-a166eaefff06/Locomotive-photograph/?field0=string&value0=dinorwig&field1=with_images&value1=1&field2=string&value2=holy war&index=3 This man's son was my IT teacher in secondary school, and his son in turn was my brother's best friend.

"tracked" makes no difference, it is not mandatory for RM to scan them in or at any point on their journey depsite the name, and they just go into a big pile like eveyrthing else. Only Special Delivery gets any kind of special treatment. Last week I got a Parcel Force item delivered same day - from my work address to eBay global shipping warehouse which I thought was mightily impressive. Of course eBay's place sat on it for 3 days before forwarding on...

Some of us should even be at work 🤐 😇

If someone has a go over Christmas could they let me know how well it works, I'm not going to be able to try until the new year now (not least because the frezzer is crammed full of over indulgence at the moment!). I suspect the cabless ones will be easier.

No harm in trying, thanks!

Alice, Nesta and Dorothea just ordered from Derails. Once I've figured this cab removal lark out I feel there will be some hybrids on the way!

I'm trying to disassemble my latest Quarry Hunslet and am stuck at separating the cab from the footplate. Footplate is diecast, cab I think is plastic (back certainly is thugh front may be metal), and is located by square pegs in corresponding hoels in the footplate - glued of course! I've tried dabbing in some whit spirit, followed by cellulose thinners, neither of which seems to have caused it to fall apart. There is some slight wiggle in the joins but the size of this thing being what it is it's rather a delicate operation. Anyone any experience in removing glued bits from Bachmann locos?

I have Britomart in surgery for backdating - what's the best way to break the glue bonds on Bachmann detail bits? I need to remove the Vac pipes and the cab but they are quite well glued and I don't want to damage anything

I know and my inner rivet counter is howling in pain at the thought!

Just about everybody is jumping on the Penrhyn bandwagon now. I plan to have a small Port based Diorama, althoigh I'm conetnplating moving it to Coed Y Parc. My Charles has been delivered today after going the long way round from Derails via Northampton thanks to RM strikes.

Frames need changing, needs free standing brake column and rearrangement of reverser and rods, lose drain cocks, lose tank rivets, add sanding rod bracket LHS and rivets on tank for injector rod bracket. For as built needs all the above plus tank mounted injectors, brackets and sandpots as well.

My Derails parcel left them on Monday. Last night, Friday, it was scanned (repeatedly for some reason) into Northampton. Might get it before Christmas. We also currently have no Evri driver on our route, so deliveries from them are severly backlogged (back to September when the last guy quit!).

How much work do you want to do, how much detail do you need and what period? It's not technically even correct for Alice as it is*... As to colour Holy War was the same red as the rest, they tended to go brown with age excpet where oil leaked from the lubricators across the tank fronts turning them black. Holy war must have been cleaned with oil rigourously as it ended up an all over aubergine as it wore on. * Going on photos so far, I have yet to see an actual one as delivered to a customer so the incorrect bits might now be correct

Couldn't possibly pick just one album let alone one song. Let's go with something from Firghtened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse Album as high up there Also something from Vintage Trouble's Bomb Shelter Sessions... Could alos go on with Dire Straits' Brother sin Arms, Green Day's Dookie, Alkaline Trio's From Here To Infirmary...hell I'd even put Shakira's Grandes Exitos down as a great album.

If everything's working properly then brake discs should last ages. Unless you have a new Peugeot, then their lifespan can be measured in months. Both my partener's X Trails have had an issue with one of the rear calipers having stuck sliders - not just wiping out half a set of pads as you'd expect but taking out one face of a vented disc too. Not sure when such soft cast iron became the norm on cars. I've generally upgraded the brakes on all my cars, so a set of new discs and that's it, never a replacement set needed due to wear. I had to replace on set of disks on my FTO due to a missing chunk and a crack starting, and I'm going to have to replace the rear discs on my DS3 because the bearing in one is getting noisy.

This is a truly stunning bit of modern modelling Giles

Just had notification from Derails to pay up for Charles, duly done and can't wait to get my hands on him!

Some pics of my Britomart - have managed to resist taking it apart or sticking extra bits to it so far! It really is a shining example of what can be done in RTR - fully detailed cab, round boiler, no mechanism sticking out anywhere and one of the smallest locomotives you could ever wish to model. Even in 16mm scale there isn't much I'd be able to add to make a better model of Britomart, and this is a quarter of the size. Really, really well done.

4Fs with tender cabs and 2MTs for BR era. I'm doing something similar.

Finally got to open mine this morning, what a little beauty. I don't think I've ever seen anything so finely modelled in 009, well done Bachmann. Don't think I'm going to have the eyesight to do any identity changing with these little gems! Claire has bigger earrings than these

Linda and Charles have appeared on ebay, hopefully be seeing orders for them on the way to customers this week

Ah yes the Kerr Stuart issue, I should have remembered that! Looking forward to seeing this build, I have a major soft spot for Kerr Stuart locos.

Possibly. Actually I'll need to wait for Alice to arrive to swap tanks over to Make Iirish Mail, I forgot it didn't have it's original tank in the 50s, and also the small chimney will be needed. I know I've promised an in depth article, it has been held up because I'm struggling for time to do all the drawing work needed to show all the variants!

Very nice - where did the GAs come from?