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Hi Corbs, The chap that lives next door to my parents is big into model aircraft, he might have something suitable. I am taking a trip there this weekend to deliver the tamper to its new depot allocation and to see them anyway, so I shall take my caboose with me to see if he has anything suitable. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Work upon the bogies has taken this afternoon's attention. The first bogie to be dealt with was the unpowered bogie for No.1 as it is different to the the bogies of the other three locomotives. The sides were marked out, cut and filled to shape and then I worked out how I might assemble the bogies to suit both powered and unpowered form. For the trailing bogies there are three cross stretchers, two end ones at 22.5mm X 4mm from .060" plasticard and one central one that forms the bolster at 21mm x 13mm also .060". The reason for the differing lengths is that the central one attaches to the .030" reinforcing strips and the end ones attach directly to the inner faces of the bogie sides. When the assembly is cured the ends are dressed with a file to ensure square and then end plates are attached from .020" plasticard. Reliefs were filled into the end cross stretchers for otherwise they would foul the flanges of the the wheels which are currently 10.5mm Hornby Freightliner wheels, such reliefs will also be necessary for the powered bogies. Work yet to do is to fit the sand boxes to the front ends of all of the bogies and the spring detail the those of No.1. The side frames for the motor bogie will be of the same construction except that the bolster will be dispensed with and instead a fixing socket that will attach to the motor bogie bracket will be fitted. No.1 upon its unpowered bogies and a its Tenshodo unit also shewing the unpowered bogies for No.s 2, 3 & 4 along with the now varnished N gauge loco. Gibbo.

Hi David, I spotted this on eBay the other day, it might be a bit small but there are different ones to see on the shop; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Super-Mini-Size-Motorized-Chassis-TU-KOPPEL-A-Tsugawa-Yokou-14036-N-scale/223326154632 The other place I thought of was this link which is to motor bogies so might not be what you are looking for; http://motorbogies.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_13 It's the best I can think of ! Gibbo.

Hi Folks, The caboose is coming along quite well although I do need to find a blistered window for the side windows before the roof is fitted. The handrails are a lot stronger than they look, they were made up on a flat surface and left weighted down until the glue had cured and then stuck into position. I'm surprised that no one has a 3d print available of this particular subject. That said if there is one I don't know of one. Gibbo.

Hi daltonparva, Schooling and education are not the same thing, also if hard work was good for you then the rich and greedy would have kept it for themselves !!! Gibbo.

Hi Clive, I'd do this if I were you: Gibbo.

Hi Clive, Once, when sat in the car at a level crossing with the then current woman, I saw approaching a class 47 and I said, "Here comes a spoon". She asked incredulously why they were called spoons so I told her that the noise of horns sounds like this, and then made the sound. I got 'one of those looks that only women can do' for my trouble. Seconds later the driver of the 47 added his contribution to the audio demonstration. She then complimented me on how accurate my rendition was, and then gave me another, 'one of those looks only woman can do'. Gibbo.

Cheers Martyn, I enjoy seeing your work also. Your little Fowler Diesel was an interesting pug conversion. I shall shall stop now I don't want the thread to turn into a "love-in". Gibbo.

H Hi Corbs, Originally the guards were to ride in the rear cab of the locomotive but the unions objected so the first trains including the trial trains in the summer of 1965 had air brake fitted goods brake vans at the ends of the trains. These vans were borrowed from the Southern Region as that was the only region that had air fitted goods brakes at the time. Goods brakes were used at first, as with the trial trains, and then the caboose's were brought in during the autumn of 1965. The cabooses were unpopular because the ride was allegedly worse than even a goods brake van and latterly passenger brake stock was substituted, marshalled behind the locomotive. Eventually the guards rode in the rear cabs of the locomotives as had been originally intended, and then eventually, many years later, the trains went to driver only. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Finishing my own house, I do however earn my living working in what seems to be everybody else's houses for them ! Gibbo.

Hi Folks, I'm building one of these: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-freightliner-guards-caboose-at-the-national-railway-museum-york-england-141362553.html I have scaled from photographs and a used one of my "highly accurate" Triang Hornby containers for a guide. Gibbo.

Hi daltonparva, The key part of the phrase you appear to have missed is "are arranged in a cube" ! Gibbo.

Freightliner Caboose Hi Folks, Here is a little project that I have been thinking about building for a while. As I am waiting for both paint to dry and filler to harden it is something else to clutter the bench up with. It is a model of one of the cabooses that were used for the guard's accommodation on Freightliner trains before the guards were allowed to travel in the rear cab of the locomotive by way of union agreement. Apparently the cabooses were rather unpopular with the guards and did not last long in service. Another solution was to use passenger brakes that were surplus to requirement, these were very often marshalled behind the locomotive. Below is a link that shews the one that is preserved at the NRM: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-freightliner-guards-caboose-at-the-national-railway-museum-york-england-141362553.html Gibbo.

Hi Folks, If the numbers 1 through to 27 are arranged in a cube so that in each and every row, column and diagonal the numbers sum to the same number, then what is that number ? Gibbo.

Hi Colin, It is a similar premise to, if a man can stride half way across a road in one step and then halves his stride each consecutive step then how many steps for him to cross the road? Gibbo.

Hi Colin, Lewis Carroll told us that Alice didn't get to twenty ! Gibbo.

Hi Mike, That explains my ignorance, watched half of the first one in the series got bored and went to the pub instead ! Gibbo.

Hi Colin, Did the car go from 0 mph to 60 mph instantly or was there a period of acceleration ? What about the train also, I would guess ts acceleration would be at a lesser rate than that of the car. Gibbo.

Hi Mog, Did it say what the colour was ???? Gibbo.

Did it wobble ?

Hi Royal Oak I built a fence yesterday which in involved taking the component parts to site. Once finished I left it where it was ! Gibbo. Hi Royal Oak I built a fence yesterday which in involved taking the component parts to site. Once finished I left it where it was ! Gibbo. Hi Mike, That's right over my head, who is Tubbs ? Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Phil is quite correct that not all things scale, for instance he notes "wobble". Wobble is a pendular motion and therefore is constrained by the formula in the following link: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pend.html This the mechanism that regulates clocks via the escapement, the longer the pendulum the greater the period between frequency of swing. It is also why real trains that may have a centres of mass between 5 and 8 feet from the ground roll a lot more gently that OO gauge models that do indeed wobble. Gibbo.

Hi dhjgreen, How about this; 1+1+1=3 2+2+2=6 3+3+3=9 4+4+4=12 1+2=3 5+5+5=15 1+5=6 6+6+6=18 1+8=9 7+7+7=21 2+1=3 8+8+8=24 2+4=6 9+9+9=27 2+7=9 10+10+10=30 3+0=3 11+11+11=33 3+3=6 12+12+12=36 3+6=9 997+997+997=2991 2+9+9+1=21 2+1=3 998+998+998=2994 2+9+9+4= 24 2+4=6 999+999+999+2997 2+9+9+7=27 2+7=9 Three is the magic number !!! Gibbo.

H Folks, Here is the now painted Y6, I'm not sure about the colour of the body work for I used BR Bauxite. I think the shade is a bit too dark and a bit too red, I have compared it too a van that I built about thirty years ago that was painted in the early BR Bauxite which I think looks better. The early shade is both lighter and less red, it is a more yellow brown. As a result I decided to hold off transfers while I think about it or even until until I get some more paint. The livery is going to be early British Railways written on the sides and not the early crest version although I don't have a suitable for that livery yet number yet. Other details that I have added are the vacuum pipes which I made from 1mm diameter copper wire with some fine copper wire tightly wrapped around it, the ends secured with a dab of cyanoacrylate glue. The 1mm wire was a piece of scrap twin and earth cable and the wire wrapper came from a multi strand flex, this measured .15mm diameter. Gibbo.

Hi SR71, With brush painting it is not what you put on, it is what you take off. As Ray states above, I find a flat brush works best. Depending upon the model either 1/4" (6mm) or 5/16" (8mm). I lay on the paint quite thickly horizontally and then lay off vertically wiping the brush on the edge of the tin or jar so that it remains damp rather than wet. Humbrol are absolute rubbish compared to what they were about thirty years ago. I could also could get excellent results with no trouble at all by brush painting, the paint would dry evenly with no tackiness days later. Better still gloss dried gloss, matt dried matt and satin dried satin. I now mostly use Rail Match enamel and it is mostly good although I do occasionally end up with satin varnish drying shiny. This is cured by having some matt varnish that I stir up vigorously and then allow what I thin k a good amount to drip off the stirring stick into the satin, that usually does the trick. Gibbo