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Don't tell him to wiggle, last time he done so a whole class room of children had to have counseling.

haven't wiggled since my wife told me to stop dancing on our first date because it was so rubbish. leason learnt, i devote myself to modelling now.

Razor saws down plastic....i some how feel an experiment coming on.

thanks for the idea

A nice idea but it is set to run empty, i did think of having the wooden bars as plastic which was filled with liquid lead but felt they would not look wooden enough as they would be too smooth. It may have to become the solution though if nothing else works.

Richard

As we are on paint colours, what colour would I say to an art shop in the states for LNER green? I know it is not Apple green officially, but is grass green correct? They certainly would not know Doncaster green, or how that differed from Darlington.

Richard

Have discovered the weltrol scrapes across the locking point so it needs to be raised a smidge, i am hoping 1 mm will be enough otherwise it will be out of line with the other wagons by too much. It is the weight i fitted below the well.......it seemed a good idea atn the time.

it will delay work on the A3s and A4s a tad though.

Richard

Progress is coming along slowly, but then it always does on scratch builds. Making the side clasps was a mission in itself. I have chosen not to put the rivets on it because i can not see them on the flatrol unless up very close and if the light falls on it in the right direction....and that has several hundred of the little bumps on it!

 

 

Next up is a tender swapping/ repaint fest. of A3s and A4s out of NRM scotsman, railroad falcons and scotsmans, a p2 tender and GBL mallards. I should end up with A1  Treacy as she was on the GC, Columbo as she was after convertion to A3 with first banjo dome. A4s Mallard (of course) and Golden eagle in Green, It might stretch to another but which either i need another single chimney and can use the corridor tender or i need a streamlined non corridor to do one of the other 4 kylchap ones.

lastly the GBL director which is going to be motorised and converted into a D10 but by using its original cab and not swapping for an 04 cab as others have done.

 

 

Richard

It is probably safer to write on here than for the printed page, after all how many eggshells are going to blame a forum member for promoting sawing & soldering if a finger is removed or the house burned down. 

yes write on here then i get some quality (informed) tips on improvng my modelling. I can't/ don't get the magasines in the states.

Richard

yes bridge change works.

No dont lower cutting at bridge end.

Do make those tracks at the back opperational for a couple of wagon shuffle just for a hoot

Richard

Once you get to the weathering, the engines begin to come alive. Here we are part way through, there is more spraying to do yet and then hand finishing. It's beginning to look the part though...IMG_20151030_145635871.jpg

Yes but when is the do not move sign getting fitted as it sat in the back sidings on welling bough shed awaiting conversion?

Come to think of it you could have built it up motorized and saved yourself a few quid. ( they do still have pounds in Wales? )

Richard

OO layouts take less time to build? I am up to ten years on mine and it is only terminus to fiddle yard and 12ft of scenic. God knows how long it will take to complete the end product of turning it into a continuous run. Would p4 have taken longer?

In fairness all scenic structures are scratch built, all wagons kits or scratch built bar three, coaches and locos are kits bar two.

So I might as well have built in p4 if I am taking this much effort to get the GCR right? Well like Tony, (from whom I have learnt a lot), I have struggled to come to terms with compensation and so build every thing rigid, except for Mousa model wagons which have to me the most simple and ingenious form of springing.

Richard

 

Edit: some of what I have learnt from Tony has been railway related. The rest has been about life and grammar.

Weltrol progress is going well. Lets hope if a photo is found a mistake is not uncovered!

Richard

A call for help, I have the line drawing in tatlow of the weltrol h but can find no photos, on searches most do not list wagons in the photo so does anyone know where I might get hold of a snap? Many thanks

Richard

if you would like my advice ( and even if you dont) the bridge to tunnel works well, most of the back is great. I would halve the hight in front of the station to view it but still explains the tight formation. However, the two angular turns the retaining wall take at the back jar for my liking a smooth transition from bridge to houses might look better as there is to my mind a need to explain the step (extra bricks) being deliberately in otherwise with a building or telegraphing .....or something.  Or have have a retaining wall following the line of the upper railway and then right angle when it is lined up with the track it eventually wants to take along the back.

Just my view, feel free to tell me to go hang if you like.

Richard

ps i was in the model shop today and caught  myself eying up US locos! it would really have to be in N gauge though.

And the progress goes on.  .......slowly

First signs shrunk from photos, printed backed by card and stuck on a section of rail. So now the layout has actual Great Central signs. The photos might not prove it but you can actually read them!

 

 

Also made up a Great Central goods yard electric shunt signal again from a backed shrunken photo.

 

 

Should it go there? It made sense to me.

 

The the gents loo got its name boards finally. The first attempts were not quite right.

 

 

The Bell affect happened so i redid them.

 

 

I have painted up a couple more barrels using Spitfire's advice for achieving a wood look. He does it better than mine so check his thread for how to really get it right.

 

 

And lastly the Weltrol begins to take shape. This will carry a WW1 plane on a war bond raising tour, along with the tanks.

 

 

Seeing the wagons in the photo reminds me i still need to address my POW full and empty coal trains.

Richard

 

Whilst I've been waiting for the last few bits for the Crostie ( which actually came very quickly this morning ) I though I'd get on with some DCC conversions, starting with putting MX696's in my Heljan 20s. Rather than have floating connections, I thought I'd utilise the Heljan pcb to distribute the connections taking advantage of the screw terminals. The 696 has ribbon cable to connect to the outside world, that is easy enough to strip apart the wires to connect them. I had to hacksaw a chunk off the central chassis tower to allow the decoder to sit under the Heljan pcb. I also managed to reconnect the lights and get them working. I've got the fan connected to F1, but not sussed out how to config that yet.

My NCE Procab couldn't read the MX696 on the program track, so I had to dig out the Sprog 2 to config the cvs and loco number from the computer.

 

So that's the 20s done, next up ( in the background ) is a rather nice scratchbuilt Battle of Britain class.

 

This is the birds nest, it just about fits back inside the loco body:-

 

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i genuinely had no idea what you just said but it did sound dead clever. Might be why i get the wife to do the electrics.

Thanks Bob - yes - I never seem to learn!Today, stripping down and painting all the bits, then attempting to re-assemble....

Never seem to learn. You must be a teenager.

Evening Clive,

I'd go along with the houses being raised slightly, and I think stepped levels would be more interesting. Great idea to do the mock up first before committing!

Kind regards,

Jock.

Great minds think alike.

Maybe raise them a smidge an inch so you get some height variation, or angle so each street is higher than the last, but only by half a centimetre .

Just a thought.

Richard

Ps looking good

Hi Richard

 

I have been looking for photos on the interwebthingy of early Damiler lorries, you might not need to get the paints out http://www.daimler.co.uk/html/Cars/daimler/commercial.html

probiblly still redo the roof.

Quiet progress.

The house has an advert on the side now. God knows if bile beans existed then, but the brick work matched

 

 

Then a fish truck. It is a five79 kit which went together supurbly. It is just a pity that they no longer seem to produce it. If only i could get hold of some more, the fish train is rather short at the moment.

 

 

In the background are all the POW being moved around into full and empty trains. The fake coal loads will come out of those picked for the empty rack. If anyone spots more that are in the wrong let me know. I have enough for the moment but once the layout goes into the round i will probiblly need another ten.

 

 

Next up some barrels and signs and maybe the repainted lorry.

Richard

i have been in contact with Modelu and he is hoping to be at the GCR show in june. I cant decide what to wear , a suit would be the most flexable but then i would have to in it all day.

Andy in the pub The Bell Inn ( when i build it), As for Clive, on the coal dray as it is his firms.

Richard

Well it's a heated pool, and it's clearly a very nice pool too, so that makes it a super pool, that is heated.

If that was the case it would need a comma.

Richard

I am not responding to the above comment. 

 

Looking at Mr Wright's delivery lorry, would light sky blue have been a fashionable livery for a hard working lorry in the early part of the last century? Like railway locomotives and rolling stock many road vehicles were a dark colour, a royal or even a navy blue, a crimson, a maroon, a burnt umber or a Brunswick green. Just a thought not a criticism.

 

Lighter coloured road vehicles appeared post WW2 with an improvement in paint technology making light colours more stable and hard wearing...............and they were fashionable.

It has been nagging me to, hence why I was wondering if it was just the roof, but if it is it all then I will have to take a trip to the art shop, can't have everything in the railway colours I have in stock.

Andy,

welcome to the world where clive gives me abuse....sorry constructive advice.

This would have not got off the ground but for you.

Richard

i see the fireman is facing backwards, i like it. How about building your next firehole door movable so you can open and close it when you like?