Jesse Sim

This is where we need an angry button 🤣

Oi

Also the year you met me, so it’s been basically down hill from then 🤣

There’s just something about them

I started building a DS GN twin last year, I finally finished it last week so the job this week has been painting. It’s not finished yet but couldn’t help take this beautiful shot of some GN goodness!!

The help you’ve given me still exceeds the three wagons I’ve built you Tony, it was my pleasure. Im glad I chose to model the LNER, those BR small letters were almost the death of me, so apologies if they look a bit uneven. It’s a Connoisseur kit, I got it with a couple of others, it was outside my time frame of 1935-40 and I know you needed some more wagons. Many thanks for the kind words, wouldn’t be where I am without you and many others! Can’t wait to be able to bring a much wider range of stuff I’ve built for show and tell in March- flights are being booked this week! EDIT: I just noticed it looks like the paint has peeled on closest brake wire thingy (can build stuff to a high standard but doesn’t know names of things)

Hold up, you’ve been using a what!?!?!?!?! Someone take me to the hospital think I might be having a heart attack due to the shock!

Of the two locos you’ve built me, both have yelled “ehh f**king DCC” as I’ve put them on my track. Or is it just an echo from the box that was trapped when you sealed it up for postage?

That’s exactly how I built Brighton Junction and now Woolmer Green. DCC for the locos and DC for the points and (eventually) signals. I like the idea of moving between the three control panels to run a train. Then with regular running sessions it allows for more operators. Woolmer Green can be operated by one person, or five. Two drivers (up and down), a north end fiddleyard operator and south end operator (controlling both entry and exit trains) and another person operating the scene points and signals.

Thanks Richard. Jonathan Wealleans ended up seeing the post and sent them to me via Facebook. It’s half built, just some of the stuff not glued/soldered in place so I’m hoping to finish it. The match truck I knocked up years ago so at least that will work well with it.

Howdy all, does anybody have instructions for Danny’s Cowans Sheldon Crane? I’ve had one land in my lap that’s 80% complete.

The tender step took a knock, but I’ll bend it back and re-solder it. The cab might be able to be repaired, otherwise I have another here I could replace it with.

Excellent day running Woolmer Green with the BRMA, the layout ran beautifully. Not one hick up, the only c**k ups were from me, not switching the correct points or not switching points entirely. Really enjoyed the day and very happy with the outcome and praises of the layout and stock!

Speaking of C2’s, I recently added tender pick ups to the one you made me Tony, it runs much betterer now. It struggled over some insul frog points in the back section of my fiddlyard. I should have spent the money and changed them to electro frogs but I tried to re-use as much as I could. I’ll have to do the same to the D2. I’ve never seen bogie pick ups, could I trouble you for an underneath shot?

Nah nah I don’t need it automatically, I always just switch them on and off when need be. I just made a boo boo today.

Way ahead of you, I just forgot to turn them “on” 🤣

Why is it stuff always goes wrong before you have people over? I’ve had derailments on a section of track that has never happened before, a point that’s always worked is now dead on one side, a short circuit at 7pm last night that I finally fixed at 9pm!! Oh and an O2 just decided to commit suicide by running off the lift off section and dropping 4ft to the floor cause some idiot left the power on after cleaning wheels (might have been my fault). Model Railways are fun, model railways are fun….

Many thanks, they’re wonderful shots.

I can agree with that

Ahh yes, the old no look drill, am I lucky or stupid? Both?

He was okay until @jwealleans mentioned it again.

Does Mo know CPR?

Never fear Tony Gee is here! If Tony Wright is here all you feel is fear! Might have to trademark that 🤣

Bit of modelling recently. First we have a Conflat V which was created from redundant cattle wagons. The model itself is made of resin cast by Graeme King with the master made by Jonathan Wealleans. The other wagon you see here is a scratchbuilt double bolster. It originally was one of two long bogie bolsters I picked up in a job lot but it had suffered a fall at great height and broke. So I hacked it up and created the double bolster from a photo in Tatlows. A little bit of work left to do on both wagons before they’re ready for the paint shop.

I don’t have Yeadons book of the B16s but I do have the set at @jwealleans house 🤣