Jesse Sim

OI! You’re always telling me to look out for those bargains. 🤣 I think I’m just in a state of denial as I will have to remove transfers and repaint it! Although it really doesn’t make sense as to why they would paint all fitted vehicles red oxide but paint this unfitted wagon the same…

Oooooooh that’s a nice wagon innit 😍 Shame that Sulphate wagons the wrong colour…

If it’s a digital one, could that not also be misleading?

Now that I am back from my short holiday down south with the missus it’s time to turn my attention back to railway modelling. I’ve been suffering this year with a severe lack of motivation for anything railway related-I just can’t seem to put my finger on it. I have a tremendous amount of lettering to do…so that could be it. 🤣 Anyway, I’ve had this Isinglass kit with me since I last toured the UK in March, it’s come from a friend who didn’t want it anymore. It’s the GNR Gresley designed invalid saloon, No. 43087. I knocked up some bogies for her, just need to make up the trussing and need to order some coach buffers, can anyone point me in the right direction? It'll give me another chance to work on my teaking… and she will more then likely be marshalled into the empty stock train for a bit of variety. Now then, a wagon. I, like my colleague Jonathan Wealleans cannot go much more than a week without building or scratch building a wagon, it’s a serious medical condition. Others may suffer from it, it’s very contagious and symptoms can range from a cough to reciting wagon diagrams. So, the next scratch build is an LNER Flat-T built by the LMS in 1937 to Dia. 114. I tend to buy RTR wagons before researching them and I ended up with a Bachmann LMS flat wagon that was built during the war. As I was flicking through Tatlows I noticed the similarities with this Flat-T and the Bachmann wagon. So the saw came out and I now had the deck of an LNER Flat-T…I then yelped when I saw the bogies…. A quick chat with Al Turner at Niu Models and within a couple of weeks I had two sets (a spare in case of damages) of bogies 3D printed to suit. Thanks Al! There isn’t much left to do, I have some suitable buffers on the way and I will make up a few more lashing rings and she’ll be ready for paint.

The term models of aircraft that could kill reminded me of that loco you have that can also kill- as long as you don’t own it 🤣

I finished the flat wagon but I haven’t finished the plough machine yet haha

If I may add to the list of modellers who have built some Jidenco kits, a few LNER Fish vans. The builds followed the same principle’s as Jonathan’s, scratch build everything below the solebars and you’re good to go. The wagon kits are fine once you over come that hurdle. I have not built a Jidenco loco kit yet though…

The last few months have been a bit hectic; I’ve been rebuilding my fiddleyard, my workbench and replacing some wiring. It’s been a bit full on. It’s good to now sit down and get back to working on some models. Some jobs that needed doing was renumbering and renaming some locos, a few I’ve had for a number of years and they’ve never even run. Here’s an overall picture of the locos I worked on which can now be weathered. I’m going on a two week road trip down through Victoria and South Australia on Saturday so once I’m back I’ll go in to some detail on each loco as I weather them.

Would regular pest control work? I know it works for roaches etc but not sure on spiders.

I’ve done some further testing and I believe it could well have been the DCC chip.

Morning Tony, It is a DJH combo.

I was going to argue but I might lose out on my accomodation…. No, in all seriousness, i wouldn’t accuse you of selling me anything that was a dud. All in jest. I can’t remember if I paid you for the motor and the B16 wheels or just the wheels. Doesn’t matter anyway, I’ll get her running.

I’m going to try a new chip first, see if that isn’t causing an issue and then ill work into abusing Tony in an email as he’s sold me a dud motor.

So I’ve placed a piece of wood and ran her against it on the programming track and she doesn’t slip, she runs, but very weak, as if she’s struggling to even run.

I had noticed she ticked over, bring on another 1,000. Contributing here is always a delight; if something is wrong you get shown why it’s wrong and how to fix it. If something is right and perfect (is any model perfect) then you are encouraged to carry on and one receives praise. It’s a fantastic thread! However, you make one grammatical error, there will be HELL to pay!

I was meant to add this to the previous post, not sure why it didn’t… apologies Frank. It is definitely a power issue, but I am going to investigate this evening.

Aye that’s exactly what it’s doing, the wheels don’t slip she’s just gutless. I do agree some run different to others…. Do the letters FO mean anything to you? It was late at night for me Tony, my england gets betterer after a few coffees! My grammar and punctuation has improved in leaps and bounds these last few years, i just need to work on my photography, my articles suffering because of it… anyway, just my criticism. I appreciate all the help, from yourself and the others on here. I’m going to try a few things and see what I can find. The motor came from your cupboard Tony, so if the motor is gutless you can have it back 🤣

Seeing as B16’s have arisen in conversation… Ive got a DJH B16 that you fitted wheels and motor to Tony back in 2019, she’s since been fitted with a decoder and she doesn’t want to pull anything. She runs fine by herself, really goes, but then struggles with quite a light load behind her- which is odd for an all white metal loco. The local loco repairmen, who’s brilliant, really knows his stuff and can get anything working (to bad he’s a tw*t), put her on a pull test and said she’s not slipping etc etc. It’s really confusing, I know you’ll say “take the decoder out” which I might still do and replace it with another…..but… Has anyone got any ideas?

All about you John isn’t it! 🤣 And no actually I can make that one, I don’t leave until late September and hopefully catch Andrew for a visit in early October. I’ve penciled in the date!

In the past year since creating this page I haven’t really been modelling how I used to. I think saving for the most recent trip in March 23 and a local holiday I’m taking in September had something do with it. I am hoping to be much more organised in the future and post regularly, I miss it. With that being said here is a small update; a new workbench. I bit the bullet and ordered some HobbyZone laser cut organisers from Hattons, the postage killed me but it was well worth it. I am slowly going through and organising all my tools, buts and pieces, kits and spare parts… I am also going to concentrate on finishing odd jobs, like painting and finish the kits I’ve started. Which reminds me I need to buy a lining pen!

Indeed you did Tony, many years ago in fact, 2017 I believe! Since then she’s been repainted by Charles Rudder as she was in a horrible puke green colour. I then re-lined her; terribly and weathered her to hide it all! She runs sweetly after being fitted with a DJH gearbox. A very capable layout loco I think.

Please don’t ever stop posting photos of your dick.

Love the protective cage, much better then that rickety pallet we used last time 🤣

Excellent! Please pass on my thanks. Just pop it in the post with that J6 and lovely new K2. 🤣

Photography is definitely not my strong point, I think I am a far better modeller than photographer. As I live in Australia (born and bred) studio shots are not possible and the article suffered due to my lack of photography skills. Although I hope to rectify this in coming articles….practice makes perfect.