Yankee

On 29/01/2024 at 17:36, Donw said:

Really enjoyed the show some great layouts. Eastwood was well modelled and ran beautifully. Dinas Mawddwy  was very atmospheric. One disappointment was Wimbourne 7 operators behind the layout but nothing running.

 

Don 

On 29/01/2024 at 21:22, EmporiaSub said:

It was modelled on 1975….🤦🏼‍♂️

 

There did seem some big gaps in running, and one of the operators out the front did seem to be not too happy with what wasn’t happening.

23 hours ago, John M Upton said:

Yes, I noticed early on Saturday a couple of layouts, Wimbourne being one of them where there were numerous operators, a lot of nattering and very little actual movement.

The above comments were discussed at our club on Tue. night and we are sorry if during the times you were viewing  the layout the operations were not up to the standard that we like to portray.

These are not excuses, but may go some way to explain what might have contributed.

First thing after the show opened on Saturday we experienced a faulty point leading into the fiddle yard that halted operations and involved two of the operating team to resolve.

The large number of operators behind the layout could have been during the change over of shifts with up to  8 people behind the layout, 4 going off duty and 4 coming on. Also during shift changes a lot of updating (nattering) of where we are in the timetable takes place.

The operating team of Wimborne welcome both positive and negative comments on the layout, it helps in improving the operation.

If anyone has any further comments on the above or ways in improving Wimborne’s operation in general, they are always welcomed, please PM me to discuss further.

Ian Matterface

Wimborne Team

Looking forward to next weekend in helping to exhibit the Wimborne Station layout.

Check it out  here to see this amazing layout 

Or if you have more time and want to know more try

Details of layouts attending 

Benbridge (N)

Bremen Tramways (HO)

Burnham on Sea (2mmFS)

Erleigh Quay (00)

Fleet Lane (00)

Los Tanimals (N)

Lower Trumping (00)

Marshwood Road (N)

Newport Street (00)

Nosach Green (O)

Shottesford Mill (O)

Shunting (00)

Wedmore (O)

Wimborne Station (00)

Yards End (7mm Narrow Gauge

On 21/01/2023 at 22:23, SteamingWales said:

I've been getting the hang of the ModelU guttering today and fitted the main guttering and outlets to both the workshop and boiler house. Down spouts to follow once I source the relevant plastic strip to do these

 

 

I've also cleaned up and given the seaward/western entrance to the workshop it's first coat of paint

 

 

Did you use the 4" or 6" gutters and how did you get on with them. I've just purchased some 4"and until I saw your picture here was just about to give up. Any tips on how you went about matching the parts up and gluing them together. ? You've made me want to persevere. 

One of our club members saw this intriguing model and had to purchase it. Its tender driven via a drive shaft to the engine. Motor is not conventional by any means. There is no makers name on it anywhere, just "Made in England" . Has anyone seen one like this before and if so what is the Makers story. ?

Could we be seeing a Adams B4 in some form. 

Screen shots taken from Hornby Model World 2023 trailer.

From these one second apart shots I’m sure this is a B4. Detail of body doesn’t match that of chassis though. Jury is out on whether OO Railroad on near scale TT.

This taken from the trailer for the New Hornby Model World TV show.

Could we be looking at TT:120 Adams B4

Pine Road all set up and ready to go.

https://youtu.be/CvRobiva7Ss

Funny you should say that Paul, I came to the same conclusion.

Here is my attempt with the existing Keeper plate.

And here is one of the replacement keeper plates once I have managed to remove the brake rods to transfer over.

Thanks Rob, they do look substantially stronger than the originals, very helpful.

Following Fireline's post looks like no point at the moment searching out these new pickups.

Suppose we might have to wait until Hornby update their service sheet HSS 445B to get the new part number.

On 19/10/2021 at 13:56, DavidH said:

 

I've just been dismantling mine, and there was no glue at all on the brake rods.

 

Same issue with the pick-ups. It's been run in for several hours, but put it back on the layout and it stutters and stalls. Put it upside down and touch wires to the wheels - same issue; put the same wires to the pick-ups - seemingly no problem at all.

 

I was thinking of soldering additional wires to the pick-up strips, but there are other layout (and work!) things to do first.

Have checked again and the rods on mine are definitely glued on, will be getting another soon so will be interesting to compare.

22 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Later Terriers have different pick ups which are more substantial. 

 

They can be retro fitted to the earlier examples. 

 

Rob. 

Three X7425 sets purchased last week from Lendons, good service, but look no different, how can one tell apart. ?

On 14/01/2020 at 18:31, AJ'S said:

How did you remove the keeper plate? I undid the screws but could not get it off.

On 15/01/2020 at 22:41, Yankee said:

Yes the pickups on my 2662 are very thin with very little tension. It ran fine on DC, but initially on DCC it was a very poor runner. The pickups seem to go out of adjustment after some 30 mins of running. Finally after careful adjustment I managed to get sufficient tension in them to stay firmly against  all the wheels at full travel. DCC running was still not good. However after a day’s running at the Wimborne open day and all weekend at Frome on Pine Road it’s running better than ever. Only thought at the moment is that due to prolonged running any thin film on either the pickups or backs of the wheels has broken down.

Time will tell if they stay in adjustment, I have my doubts, Sheffield sound fitted one ordered as insurance. Long term I feel these pickups are going to prove the Achilles heel for these New Terriers.

Finally decided to do something about the light tension on the pick ups on my Terrier and remove the keeper plate for better access.

Hornby why do you glue the brake rods to the rear operating arm which is attached to the chassis making removal of the keeper plate so awkward. Luckily  the rods are not plastic so a little Glue Buster does the trick and then the plate can be removed.

I've tried increasing the tension by stroking the wipers rather than bending them, something you can't do without removing the keeper plate. Time will tell if I've been successful  

Lovely modelling Colin as usual and a great idea about celebrating the 100 years, may be it could be put to the powers that be that something like this should be done on the real thing.

Do you think the second year apprentices could have a crack at the “Eastleigh” D6508 Class 33, how about it Colin.

Delay due to the pandemic has led to Bachmann recently announcing their “Retailer of the Year” award for 2019, which has gone to Model Railway Solutions of Poole.

A well-deserved achievement for the team pictured  l to r, Nick, Steve, Martin and Jamie, who have worked hard (as have many other retailers) to serve their customers in very difficult trading conditions.

I am sure the recently re-vamped website https://www.modelrailwaysolutions.co.uk/ and enlarged s/h department will only reinforce MRS as one of the major retailers in the south of England.

Congratulations to all concerned.

Thanks Mark for the compliment, but it’s nothing compared with your tenement building.

The scale is OO and  is my first scratch built building, following the guidance from fellow club members. The main structure is 3 mm ply, with balsa added as necessary to create the profile of the building, wish I had known about foamex before. The upper stone work is Slaters 0420 7mm Stone Courses, lower stone work  0424 4mm Dressed Stone, wood planking Slaters 0434 4mm planking. Corners Stones Wills Quions , Door shutters Plastruct 91510 N scale corrugated siding and roof tiles York Modelmaking self adhesive tiles range. The windows were 3D printed by a club member.  Down Pipes were from the ModelU  Architectural Gutting, Pipes and Fittings Range.

The clubs proposed Harbour layout includes an upper level with a small terminus station. I tried my hardest to convince them to base it on Leith Citadel, but they just kept saying the platforms are too short l to be prototypical.

Ian

Came across this thread by chance and can say never has a layout brought back so many memoirs of happier days than yours has.

Although living all my life on the south coast my grandparents lived in Beaverhall Road off Broughton Road where I spent many happy holidays so the Bar, shop and tenement look so familiar to me.

My club are building a harbour layout and wanted a Fish Dock so I built this, I think you might recognize the building, it is based on a much larger one not a million miles away from that Trinity Corner.

Fantastic modelling will follow with pleasure.

Whilst researching the web for 30102 I came across a couple of interesting observations I hadn’t noticed before with reference to 30089 as modelled by Dapol.

Apart from the two pervious mentioned  discrepancies concerning the buffer shape and front centre lamp iron I’ve noticed that the safety valve on 30089 never appears in any photos found of it with a cover fitted. Also it also had that mystery pipe from the front of the cab to the base of

the safety valve.

I think they must have their CAD's mixed up as the video is also showing 7S-018-002 CAEN Brown 90 as an open cab.

Let's hope that the CAD drawings for 7S-018-004 BR Early Crest 30084 are wrong or the description is incorrect. Drawings are showing it with an Adams boiler and cab. Their OO model of 30084 is correct,  except it has two tool boxes, so probably just an adim. error at this early stage.

In my rebuild to 30102 I've come across this pipe, marked in the picture below. I have also found pictures of 30096 which also has the same pipe but doesn't appear on the Dapol model.

Anyone have ideas as to what it was for.   

The answer is, Its not a separate part, Dapol in it's wisdom have included it with the tank sides, cab sides and cab back and fronts. This CAD derived picture in the Owners Manual shows it in Pink.

The roof on the open cab version is a separate part, the same design and size as the closed cab, why make them different. ? You will notice from these pictures that there is a lip at the top of the cab front panels to which, on the open cab, the roof is glued to. The close cab has the same lip but is all part of the complete cab modeling.

The problem with this lip is when cutting through the front cab panel it makes it at least twice as thick to cut through. 

After using a model knife to cut the cab side and rear panel I had to result to this to cut the front panel. 

I'm glad this is just a spares body, I would have been very reluctant in doing this to a serviceable model

Now  to the infilling of the square window on the cab front panel and drilling for the new round windows.

Glad I don't do "N" the body sit on the chassis looks too much like this.

Cab Roof Removal

I’ve got five of these including two 30096’s and have plans to  convert  one to Bournemouth’s Station pilot/ Poole Harbour’s 30102.

 To prevent destroying a good functional model in the process I’ve  just purchased a spare 30096  body shell from DCC Supplies along with other required detailing parts .

The starting point for  such a conversion is the same as if converting it to Poole’s other regular stable mate 30093 which is  the removal of the  brake handle cover on the rear of the cab.

 The additional tasks required to achieve the conversion is the installation of two extra  round windows in the front cab panel as per this picture.

When I first planned this mod I thought it would be just a case of removing the two small square Bezels drilling them out to the correct size and fitting the spare bezels from DCC Supplies. However when I offered them up to the model you will notice the round windows  are much more towards the centre than the square ones. So to carry out this conversion I think the square apertures will need filling in and new ones drilled in the correct position.

To carry this out and aid the fitting of crew in the cab requires the cab roof to be removed. I’ve looked back through the previous 32 pages  and can’t see this being mentioned before so  has anyone done that before and how easy was it. Credit to Dapol, everything looks so close fitting I’m not sure if it is  a separate part or not.

Received a very nice 3D printed gift from a friend which I might use to remodel one of these to a 1922 - 1930 era. That is Southern Railways, post electric light fitting and before pull push air control. May give the over coach control wires a miss though. 

Here’s a Kernow's Gate Stock LSWR conversion another friend did a couple of years ago.  Yes he knows it is not 100% correct, but a very good representation.

After weathering the black STD4 thought I should have a shot at a Green one. Again this is one of my children’s old 1981 Mainline models. Having proved what could be achieved with added detailing on the previous model I decided to stick with just weathering this time except for the added cab windows and tender coal.

Motion and underframe were treated to the same treatment as before, but Dark Green wash was used on the green body instead of the Dark Grey used on the black model.

The running quality of this one was not great. Some time was spent investigating the cause and eventually it was found the quartering on the main drive wheel set was slightly out. I think this was  caused by me some time ago gluing the wheels to the axle  to overcome them slipping  and not getting the quartering quite right. Instead of just breaking the glue joint and repositioning the wheels I decide to replace the gear wheel axle with a new axle set from Peter Spares, part PS39.

 When ordering I took the opportunity to include some motor brushes and axle sets for the J72 and Goods Collett which will probably be the next detailing task in the queue.

Question now is am I ready to move on now from these cheap £20 odd models and attack my collection of £100 plus finely detailed modern steam stock. May be a crack at a Bachmann Lord Nelson before moving on to the Hornby one.