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Can somebody please advise an elderly, not-up-to-date chap about printing transfers on an inkjet printer? If I use white do I have to trim precisely to the image (not practical) or if I use clear what happens if part of the logo I want is white, therefore becoming clear? Told you I was not up to date. Thanks if you can help.

15 minutes ago, James Harrison said:

Well, looking at my current roster of coaching stock, I'm hard-pressed to find any that bear more than a "close enough according to a blind man on a racehorse on a dark night" resemblance to exact prototypes.  I've got re-roofed Triang clerestories masquerading as GCR suburban stock.  I've got 1970s OO Graham Farish and Mainline carriages with matchboarding scratched onto the sides passing as Robinson mainline rakes.  I'm sure those last two sentences have just thrown some hair-shirted types into an apopleptic fit but so what?- they're my models, it's my railway, and they look convincing enough to me.  Anyone who diasgrees can feel free to keep their opinion to themselves, unless of course they've modelled the same subject as me (post-WWI GCR) and done it better.  I am tired (actually sick to death) of everytime a new product is announced 'the usual suspects' (usually those who by their chosen scale/ subject/ ambitions are well outside of the target audience) start their sniping that it's not good enough and anyone who buys it is not a proper modeller/ just playing trains/ not worthy/ bringing the hobby into direpute.  Anyway.    

 

So in that vein these carriages will fit in with the rest of my 'stuff' and I'm looking forward to seeing them in the flesh.  Would it be possible to have an unfinished or unpainted option made available too, as I would be wanting GCR teak/ oak and I'm not sure I'd have the heart to obliterate a perfectly acceptable existing finish.  

I couldn't agree more, James. It strikes me that if the accuracy police want to be taken seriously they should lay their track to prototypical radii. 6-wheelers put a whole new slant on that. Let's face it, I started with TINPLATE Hornby Dublo, printed windows and details. I want to derive satisfaction PLAYING with my trains. That makes me wonder, when does a toy graduate to a model? 

On 08/10/2019 at 15:35, Budgie said:

I notice that none of the South Wales companies is as yet on the list. I would like to see the Taff Vale Railway and Rhymney Railway up there.

Well, good luck with that Taff

00 gauge but I had to reduce the track. Built to P4?

Some time ago I bought a few of these six wheelers but have no idea where they came from, They are brass with 'sprung' centre axle. Plastic roof, no linkages, buffers or glazing. There was very little solder in the joints so I disassembled one. Don't know whether to build and paint (and glaze) them or get rid,

Help and advice welcome.

I disagree. They are also a corner shop, a bank, news agents, mobile phone provider and so much more..... They just need to start stocking Hornby et al and I'll be in heaven every time I buy a stamp.

My local Post Office has a huge stock of model railway stuff. There's a great pub but 50m away. Lucky me, eh?

Broughton in Furness by the way

Well, seen the first Single on ebay. Sound version for £300 buy-it-now. Interesting

And hopefully an incentive to finish those coaches you have under construction, which I thought were coming along very well, by the way.

Thanks, I've been a bit sidetracked. I teaked the ends and they were darker than the sides. What to do? Now I'm a very new modeller and I need to build confidence in what I can do so I bit the bullet, sprayed them Volkswagen orange and teaked them again. I thought I'd the job as they say in these parts. Nice match and pleased with the graining. All comes back to my principle that you don't know what you can do till you give it  a go.

Got mine when I got home this evening.

Words fail me. It it magnificent. A gem.

Everything is right, The packaging is very impressive, the manual essential and amusing but the Single is amazing. 

I am aware that Stuart has been a major factor in the production of this model to the unprecedented standard to which it has been made and would like to commend him unreservedly for a job well done. Thank you. It will be a hard act to follow

Just an observation. The thread has developed into a sounding board for the disgruntled,disaffected and dispossessed.Which is a tragedy because it unfairly tarnishes the release of what many of us believe to be one of...if not the ...finest rtr model OO gauge locomotive yet made.

 

We all sympathise with those members of this forum who have suffered a less than special delivery or lack of it but it seems that APC should be delivering stocks of gripe water to calm the stomachs. of some.

 

RMWeb is neither Facebook nor Twitter where what we had for dinner is broadcast to a grateful nation and it is all the better for it,thank God. Please let us keep it that way.So please ask yourselves,should we perhaps be better occupied in making enquiries discreetly of those in a position to help rather than venting in this space ?

I couldn't agree more, Ian. Mine has still to arrive but I'm not bleating, morphing into a barrack-room lawyer or assuming I know what has happened. Stuart must be mightily disappointed but I have faith that this will all be sorted out.

Facebook and Twitter are, in my opinion, a blight on our society

The coach sides look great to me and are certainly better than I could do, having never been near a 3D kit yet.

 

I tried Googling "Dimension3D models" but soon found myself looking at computer generated images of curvaceous young ladies and thinking "...those don't look like GNR 6-wheelers".

 

Have you a link to the ...ahem... more railway-related pages where you got your 3D sides?

Sorry Martin S-C it must be my age. Or strong drink. Or even the thought of curvaceous young ladies but I should have typed Diagram3D.

They are laser cut multi layer cardboard, a whole new box of fishplates. Mike Trice has produced a wonderful thread on building them, modifying his approach as he goes along so it's worth reading right through. 

By the way, how three dimensional were the young ladies? Purely out of interest.

Are you quite sure those are not really the handrails of your bridge, Mr. Troll?

No handrails on my bridge, Mr Martin S-C, otherwise I can't push the billy goats into the raging torrent.

Coach sides not so good, huh?

Never mind, I'm enjoying the journey and, hey, why else would I put my shabby efforts on show?

So many skills to attempt

I'M LOVIN' IT

don't worry, you won't upset me, that's the one thing that gets better with age

It's not easy being a troll. Hiding under a woodland bridge up the mountain, building computers all day, waiting for a Princess to pass by and kiss such an ogre to turn me into a competent railway modeler. In desperation started a Dimension3D 6-wheeler. Steep learning curve. Fun, though. Carriage side photo attached, teaked. Just thought I'd push the point that you can do more than you think and constructive criticism is welcome. Non-constructive criticism will be like water off a troll's back. We're thick in mind and skin you know. Who said there's nothing to haul behind a Stirling Single?

The reason for the thread drift is the chicks are excitiedly tweeting awaiting being fed a GNR no1... when the wish list goes quiet, you know theybe been fed, and the pages will turn Green with GNR magic.

 

So slight tangent, I saw a picture a while ago, where GNR no1 had a tender full of white coal.

I’ve seen another of a Terrier with white coal.

 

Aside of white smoke ;-) why paint the coal ?

I want to smoke what you're on buster

HeHe.....

I built my computer around 1995, but it is the proverbial hammer with replacement heads & handles, still good though!

But have you read my post above concerning what stock you can realistically pull (not)?  

 

Stewart

Fortunately, Stewart, absolute historical accuracy I leave to more learned gentlemen.  I was going to hack some teak carriages down to 5 compartments and put spoked wheels on them at one point. I'd have been quite happy running my mythical railway with No1 on loan from one Patrick Stirling. Then I saw Mike Trices build threads and pulled my socks up. Forgive this sinner, I'm just having a blast.

Just 'teaked' the sides of a Dimension3D 6-wheeler. A whole lot trickier than M Trice makes it look but that's experience I suppose. Last time I ran a model railway there were 3 rails and no plastic. I was as happy as a pig in.....whatever pigs like to be in. Wife thinks I'm crackers but she watches TV that does nothing for me while I sit at the table and play quietly, the odd tincture of scotch purely for relaxation Doctor.

No Locoholic, I'm not a modeller, I'm trying to be one, what are you trying to be?

But there IS stock to haul behind your Stirling Single.

You just have to get off your arse and build it. 

Mike Trice has produced wonderful threads on the matter.

I can only assume all the bleaters who post here are Model Railway Collectors, not Railway Modellers.

Look what collectors and investors did 40 years ago to the classic car market - pushed the enthusiasts out.

I haven't built models for 50 years but I'm tackling a 6-wheeler, with frequent references to Mr Trice. It won't be to his standard but if it's to an acceptable standard (in my view) to lug along my still to be built basic track. Then, seeing as it would be silly to have just one 6-wheeler in tow I'll likely build another, hopefully to a better standard, then another. Might even tackle the unrealised Stirling 4-4-0. Then I'll need even more stock.

I've always wanted a Stirling Single and would have had to modify a Kitmaster had this beauty not come along. And I might still do that. 

No wonder model shops have all but gone, everyone wants instant gratification. Enjoy the journey I say

I understand that the internal capacitor failure causes this. As it is obsolete I'm converting my SL to 24V DC