Northroader

Special course of treatment ordered, ducky.

You can’t be watching CBeebies with grandchildren, then?

Cograttyfellations, Kevin, I see you’re the one who made the milepost on the history of the WNR, etc., 10000th post!!! Yeah, high five, man, etc.

There’s easier ways to get plastered.

Looking very good, but I’m worried about that poor little Sentinel having to stodge that chocolate cake on its own.

But cap’n, there’s no sideboard on your lugger.

Not much to do with cakeboxes, but how does Christopher perform, ie the Caley pug chassis. I’ve got some On16.5 bits, running on an old Nellie and slightly more recent Desmond, I just wish they’d go a bit slower. The tunnel mouth is looking good.

Like they say on the X—files: “The truth is out there”. Very good concoction, anyway.

There’s drinks and glasses in it, so it’s a corporate hospitality suite as well.

The one good thing about LCDR coaches is that the mouldings over the panelling is nice plain strip, without any rounded corners, so it can be represented much easier with plastikard strip. I suppose repetitive window cutting on plastic sheet could be solved by using punches, although so far I haven’t tried that. The AnD “aids to modelling” kits are quite good as layers of plastic sheet which have everything very nearly cut out (laser?) Some of the 3D folks have the approach that as it can be made as a single piece, it should be done so, ensuring an exact assembly, even if this makes it more bulky, and possibly more dearer? Others are producing parts which are more indentifiable as kit assembly jobs, which would be my own preference.

British practice is usually all wheels insulated, and pickups both sides. American practice is usually insulate wheels one side, then you can get locos with insulated wheels one side, tenders insulated the other side, and then no pickups, but the drawbar needs to be insulated with a jumper lead tender to motor. The same thing can also be done with the two bogies on a diesel. The British method means you get the maximum number of contact points for picking up, although bogies and pony trucks are a faff to fit pickups to, and can get missed.

Nose pressed to the window today for a trip from Swindon to Bristol TM. The wires are all up at Swindon now, but over the lines through platforms 1 and 3, they’re just hanging off temporary clips. The bay platform 2 is also getting wires, but finishing off the anchor end needs sorting. About the first 200 yards of the Cheltenham line has been done as well. Then down the line to Wootton Bassett and everything is in place,disappearing off round the curve to South Wales. Beyond the junction on the Bristol line and the overhead ends, apart from a few lengths on the down line as far as the top of Dauntsey bank. Pretty well all the masts, brackets, and dangly bits are in place as far as the end of the cutting before Chippenham station. Quite a lot of earthing cable has been done on this stretch, too. Through Chippenham station and over the viaduct there are no masts at all. The masts begin again on the high curving embankment, there’s quite a lot of single masts with double track brackets along here, but so far the rest of the ironmongery hasn’t appeared. At Thingley the high voltage supply arrangements are coming together in a compound with workteams busy. After that....

I’ve found it! (God, I’m thirsty) post 1155. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107470-oak-hill-lbscr-secr-1905ish/page-47&do=findComment&comment=2862241 Edit more prominence needed: LCDR PUSH PULL COACHES.

Open a tinny and tell us how that happened, cobber.

Lord help us, I did post about LCDR push pull conversions a while back, with drawings. Which thread was it ? Who did I do it for? Why am I trying to remember after two pints of Old Rosie cloudy cider (7.8%) at lunch time. Help! (back when my brain clears)

It’s one thing that really p*sses me off watching bike races, when so-called fans feel the need to run alongside. There’s never enough room anyway, so they get in following riders way, and tripping them up is the least thing I’d want to do. B*st*rds, the lot of them.

Some seaside resorts do have that je ne sais quoi,https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZUjgMep94

Great walk, you can almost believe you’re a slow moving 7F, and the tunnel stretch is most unusual. There’s the pub at Midford, and I think it’s an hourly bus service to get back to Bath, but not much transport at Wellow.

Really beautiful job, lot of hard work gone into that, and really complete look to it.

Do you have a multimeter or has someone at your club?, just do a resistance test, or a continuity test using the beeper. One probe on the wheel centre, one probe on the rim. By the look of your picture there’s one of each there. Normally I paint the wheels early on in the assembly, then pick out the insulated ones, and put a dab of bright paint on the back where it doesn’t show. That way I can see they’re all on the same side as I progress, otherwise I'll be scratching my head when I do a test run. Then, of course, it’s sorting out which side goes to the pickups.

You could go for a sail in this:

Durrhh, wot did you just say?

Have you picked up on the Tweedale blog?http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1827/entry-20847-tweedale-a-day-trip-to-the-woods/ I was thinking it might be useful, in that it compartmentalises each situation, so you can build up a chain of places like you’re hoping for, with each one in a box, visually separated from its neighbour. I tried something like this in American HO a while ago. Each box had half a passing loop in it, so they paired up, but the front fascia blocked the view of the join. Corners were just made up from quarter turns with half loops on a plain board. Doing it like this you can save a lot of space on the length of run.

The tracklaying you’ve done is giving really smooth running in the video. Coming on very well.

And there I find a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.....