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41 minutes ago, dj_crisp said:

The point rodding looks rather splendid! It's inspiring me to have a go on mine :)

Give it a go, it’s such a complex subject don’t expect it to be perfect but the beauty is nobody else will be able to point out what’s wrong either!
To me it’s something which is very obvious it’s missing because it’s my profession. But it certainly adds something to a layout when it’s there

John

So this is with the brickwork painted and the first bit of weathering on the surface

I’m currently modelling a cattle dock based in the 1950s, while still in sporadic use I am really struggling to find decent photo to show how to weather. I know that lime wash was prohibited a long time earlier. My question is about weathering and how much staining you would find still left of the lime. 
 

has anyone got any decent photos or advice from what they have modelled

many thanks

John

Beautiful layout, I came back to see it a few times. The way you run it kept it busy too which was more than could be said for some of the massive layouts there

really great modelling and the highlight of the show for me

John

22 minutes ago, Graham T said:

That looks very tidy 🙂

 

Who supplied the various rodding components please John?

 

Thank you Graham, the rodding stools are by modelu and the rods are 0,4mm nickel silver wire. 
 

the cranks were my own design and prints taken from the BR drawings, since doing this I’ve helped modelu out to release his own cranks so they are available that way. The concrete legs which the cranks sit on are again my own prints but I’m not sure if these are available yet

Ground frame finished and stuck down in place.

the last photo shows the connections to the A end with the FPL

Elmore station Ground frame getting a lick of paint, the cupboard for the annetts key machine is yet to be finished but they were usually white. I will be painting the hinges roof and the concrete supports over the next few days

the levers are from a spring side signal box interior kit as they are beautifully cast 

15 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I've always found these to be very attractive locos. 

 

And what's wrong with a what if ? 

 

 

Rob

 

 

 

I’ve always had a thing for them and actually providing it’s done nicely a what if can be a good point of interest

14 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Exactly, many of our layouts are based on a thinner premise than "It didn't get scrapped until 1959".

My other excuse is that County 4-4-0s ran mostly on the LNW/GW joint when new.

All it needs is to turn West with a market or race day special.

 

Further to my previous post -

 

That's a relief!

 

I guess our platforms are a bit closer than yours then, everything else gets through okay and I’ve now just adjusted this to fit now.

as standard this is the measurement, clearly well over the 9’ maximum! 
 

the answer has been to cut a section out of the middle to allow them to be squeezed inward and glued, I’ve taken them down to 37.4 which is about the same as the new Hornby prairie (still over sized! But fits) as the running board is also over wide at 35.2 so if I take them to the correct 8’11 then they won’t stick out at all which would look wrong 

having done this a bit of surgery has been required to get the body to go down and fill a gap that was left in the top of the cylinders

the last thing designed today has been a frame extension to sit under the buffer beam and above the bogie. It’s a simple design but it should block some of the visible gap and also hold the loco straighter and therefore the front coupling which I want to mount to the body. I can get away with this because we have a 6’ minimum radius on the layout

On 25/04/2023 at 01:17, MrWolf said:

Visitors to my thread may have noticed a recently acquired Railroad (loco drive) County lurking in the background of the autotrailer build shots.

The plan is to detail it and construct a new tender on a pair of cut down Saint bogies to represent County of Leicester in her last days hauling the water cart tender originally from The Great Bear.

I don't feel so bad about it now, I'm only stretching history to 1938!

 

Your model looks great and I like the way it's very much in the style of the Dukedogs that ran in BR days. A nice bit of What If?

I’ll let you know if I do any 3D printed details and send you some. I will definitely be doing some sort of frame extensions to go under the buffer beam to hide the horrible gap above the bogie, also to keep the loco a bit straighter

my biggest headache at the moment is the over size cylinders as they strike the platforms 🤬…. Not sure reprinting cylinders was on my wish list!!! I also regret not cutting out the coal before painting it as it’s very full (a hang over from tender drive I suspect 

some lovely shots of Shwt and the other  fantastic layouts at SWAG on Sunday, thank you Callum for producing this

these are a couple of my own shots taken when I could

A bit of an unusual work bench project for this week, it’s a Hornby railroad GWR county class which happens to be one of my favourite locos (don’t ask!! 🤣)

anyway 1955 is a bit late for the county class but not one for facts getting in the way of a nice project this is my repaint! 
 

I am still waiting for the name and number plates

Shwt has seen the light of day again last night, we spent half hour digging it out of stores. 
 

for anyone who doesn’t know what’s involved in exhibiting, this is most of the stuff which is needed to Exhibit Shwt, what is not included is a laptop and router, the stock and tools. All these will go in the night before

Well just a few days to SWAG, we’ll be getting ready and packed tomorrow. 
 

it’s always great to see what other people see in the layout so if you take any nice pictures, please feel free to post them here. This one was by Richard street in Alton febex

On 14/04/2023 at 08:06, Andy Keane said:

Looking very impressive. What make / model 3D printer are you using?

Thank you Andy, The resin printer is an anycubic photon mono 4K. It’s been brilliant to fair to it. Hardly any fussing with it required

More layout testing and operator practice.

Today’s visit to Elmore was a regular B-set, this time with a cattle van for the loading dock

once arrived at Elmore the loco in couples, picks up the rotank wagon from the siding and puts the cattle wagon on the dock before departing

in the foreground more layout work can be seen as the platform faces are now being painted

This is the other option for the full train, I’ve converted and fitted couplings for the vans either end. I’ve also added a bogie bolster, this was sometimes used to help the return of the pollen wagons and they were loaded on top once they were empty, I think this way it makes a more interesting train

I will need a pair of spare bolsters though to fit on when the girder is removed

5 hours ago, 5BarVT said:

Very good!

Out of interest, when empty, would they have been coupled together at the inner ends?  Would that have been a bar type coupling owing to the lack of buffers?

Paul.

Thanks Paul,

yes exactly right, they were coupled with a solid bar to link them together, the bar was often left on one of the ends when not in use so to not use it which can be seen in this picture

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrgirdwagpollen/h1608dcb5

I have designed this feature in so eventually I’ll probably do a second set but empty and connected together to represent the return working 

john

The end is in sight for this project

These are a pair of pollen E wagons, completely designed by myself and 3D printed in resin. It’s taken several attempts but after purchasing a 72xx I thought I’d better finish the train it’s supposed to be pulling

The girder is just a temporary one made using wills varigirder kit. I’ll try and do something a bit better looking

it’s nice just seeing the wheels through the gaps on the wheel boxes. I’ve tried to get this to work for OO gauge as well but it really doesn’t look as good as the wheel boxes have to be much bigger reducing the gap between

Hi Andy,

you are right Helston is definitely a 6T

This is my design of it using diagrams from the Great western journal and pictures of one still in existence 

It certainly is, it’s my own design and print, I’ve done a batch of them, just got to build them up, I’ll try and remember you wanted one

are you sure Yeltsin was a 6T? The 3 T looks very similar which I have done for Chris Nevard’s build of Hemyock