Northroader

Using two in multiple would have exceeded the limit for screw coupling strength.

There’s a person called Peter Smith, who runs Kirtley Models, and does contract modelling. A few years back he did a set of computer design printed panels which he stuck on his 7mm model locos. for his layout Saltdean, in full Stroudley livery. Reference to this was in the LBSC Digest, and I think he did publish a booklet on this. The covid outbreak did alter trading patterns for a lot of the small traders, he used to do some really good brick papers before then, for instance. He’s also created the very useful Station Colours website.

Cheer up picture?

Coffee stirrers.

The ply is good for being dimensionally stable, and it takes the wood glue very well. I think in our lifetime we’ve got used to seeing wood buildings painted cream, and it would give a much lighter appearance to the model, so I suppose having the darker appearance might help in dating it.

Been watching this develop, and just become aware of the name change, which threw me. It’s looking good, and I hope the 7mm side of the job isn’t getting neglected.

The Longmorn station building is now finished, insofar as all the bits have been prised out of the ply sheets and stuck together, but there’s still more needed to do. The interior glazing was done with clear plastic sheet, and a 12mm ply floor fitted, which allowed the roof be progressed. The roof panels are all square cut, rather than chamfered, so there is an appreciable gap above where the panels touch, so quite a lot of filler will be needed. I found the chimney assemblies needed packing adding before they were fixed to the roof. The locating tabs have been smoothed down flush, and now I want to add card strips to represent slates and give a better texture to the roof, as the etched courses on the roof will vanish when the roof is painted. Then the chimneys will need some brick paper, and I’m thinking of replacing the ply extensions representing chimney pots with some white metal castings. I’m quite pleased with how it’s turned out, it is a necessary component for the layout that’s forming, but it’s giving me a much better idea of how the proportions will look on the arrangement.

Not everyone is a marshmallow fan? I would have left them on the plate and passed the “perverse bastard” test. Anyhow, fully approve of your purchase, pre 1914 continental, just about, with the potential to form the centre of a nice little layout. I touched on the preserved Dampfbahn Frankische Schweiz on my thread, a nice little branch in a very scenic setting, although I see the video links I gave have gone for a walk, but using lumpy goods tanks as a branch line mixed traffic in the hillier areas was a German thing. Must pop out and get some premium bonds. Heres 1910 continental in 0 scale on a board under 3’6”, so you can do it. Sorry it’s a bit dim in there after sunset.

There was an incident in the early days of 25kV when a driver tried to clean the windscreens of an EE type 4 at Crewe, and was killed, they said his boot studs were welded to the nose of the loco.

Very nice, I’m sure, but they’re all 4mm, I presume?

It was a squeeze, you had to cross your arms in front of your face whilst holding a spanner, head first, one elbow through, two elbows through, also shoulders, then start wriggling, squeeze your bum in, and sort of crawl through on your hands and legs, supporting your weight where you could. “Why have you got a chip out of your front tooth, grandad?”

Sounds good to me, a nice little loco. Wasn’t there some talk a while back for some North Devon based line being done?

Wonder what it is about having the FY on the left or the right of the layout? Looks? Ambidexterity? Operating convenience? Treatise waiting to be written on that.

Or bend it like Beckham..

Class Swot…

I had a go at a Crampton, and got a chassis going that functioned OK and could pull a small train. What messed up completion for me was doing the outside Stephensons valve gear with the large eccentrics.

Correct, old boy, Soudley Crossing.

Looking really good, Jordan, thanks for keeping the pot boiling, as I don’t have much to report yet on the transatlantic side of the job yet, although this morning I did start to letter one of the tankcars.

The Irish models I did would be alright on Northport Quay, Don, except that they were done for 32mm gauge, and Northport Q is done to the proper Irish 5’3” gauge, as 36.75mm. Some folks do it the one way, some folks the other, and the same in 4mm scale. You can get the wide gauge driving wheel axles from Slaters, and I gather C&W wheelsets will stand a tweak, so it is quite do-able. The Irish models all got involved in the great de-clutter before I moved, and what’s happened to them has become quite an epic in its own way. You’ll find what went on over on my “Ballycombe” thread, (link below).

Glad you saw it, Don, David Holman has been on the show circuit for quite some time, now. With Northport Quay he’s slimmed down a bit from his previous jobs, which eases the transport logistics, and I think the smaller layout can form a better example for doing something at home. Some of the rolling stock in use on the layout originally began life on Richard Chown’s “Castle Rackrent”!

“Mum,mum, who’s Kruger???”

“Happiness is not the arrival, it is the journey itself”.

That looks like a very promising start to me. Centre third rail, I suppose?

Belonging to the Latter Day Enthusiasts and Adventist Brethren, I can say the LMS did have a nice line in steam shunters as well.

The LMS did a nice line in diesel shunters in the 30s, with a rebuilt steam Jinty, and various inside frame jackshaft drive jobs, which should prove suitable: