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Four in a series of Four - the City of London probably never pulled an ambulance train and it's unlikely that such a train ever crossed the Royal Albert bridge either, so quite a lot of artistic license here
To see the series please check out my art website DeepFat Design
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Friends I have been an idiot and got careless with my dremel when removing the internals of my new tender to get a big speaker in there. My question is where can I get a replacement tender body, and be more careful this time. I was wondering if for this new model all they did was put a better connection in the tender to connect to the loco and so maybe I would have more options to get this replaced. Thanks in advance Deepfat
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Mallard at Almwick with the Coronation Train. Next up City of London passing the Royal Albert Bridge
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Mallard LNER coronation train
deepfat replied to deepfat's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
@Doilum thanks for that and here's the finished painting ..
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Friends I have 2 questions to help me finish this painting over my layout (it's one of a series of 4 to honour the big 4): 1. Did Mallard have a corridor tender at the time? 2. What would be the first coach behind the tender e.g. 3rd Brake etc etc.)? I have the 80th Anniversary Mallard (with the coronation coaches on pre order) and that does not have a corridor tender but not sure I trust Hornby. Thanks in advance
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Friends I need some help with this one ..
Did Mallard have a tender with a corridor connection to the coaches it was pulling before I finish painting the coaches on this illustration I am working on of Mallard passing Alnmouth
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It's too cold to brave the loft so working on my second big 4 painting Channel Packet pulling the golden Arrow throw Shakespeare's tunnel. It not about rivet counting it's a tribute to those old travel posters.
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For each side of my loft layout I'll be doing a travel poster inspired painiting from each of the big 4. This is the first one the Coronation Scot. Next up will be the Golden Arrow leaving Shakespeare Tunnel, then LNER Mallard , finishing up with Achilles (a Dean Single) from GWR
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Hornby don't seem keen on doing the coronation Scot in maroon, so here's some work in progress inspired by railway artist Norman Wilkinson.
I am also looking at my Coronation Scot in what they call as preserved and the really deep grooves and rivets plus the colour seem to make the thing of beauty in the NRM look very dowdy
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Thanks for this @idd15 I will experiment on the same lines with a central screw and guide posts at either end. However other fish to fry just now as my Rapido Dan's House keeps de-railing
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I think my good friends at YouChoos have the Zimo units As for knuckles/buckeyes I am modelling SR between the two wars, but not a deep expert on couplings so happy to be corrected. However from the photos I have and the films I have watched of this era I don't see them in evidence in the quiet corner of Sussex where my layout is set. Of course what I have now is not prototypical either but if I was going to move to system I'd want it to look more like it should for the money
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OK I can see the sort of thing now Zimo MX821s will control 8 servos so two of these and I am done I think
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Thx @ITG Looking at the Heathcote site it says DCC uncoupler available soon. I need a few of these so I was thinking one board to control multiple servos like we do with point motors as I will have several of these near each other like my station and sidings.
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Friends I want to build some sort of ramp (maybe disguised as a sack barrow) that rises up a bit when active to act as an uncoupler, and control that form DCC as an accessory like a point. I was thinking of using servos for this (I need about 16 of these) . I know you can modify stock to respond to magnets but they clunky and the Kaydee doesn't look right for era 3/4. So has anyone done this and what interface did you use between the servos and the DCC system Thanks in advance PS for reference I am on Roco Z21+booster controlled though iTrain
