CloggyDog

Lights Go Out - New Model Army

All of the microstrip... All. Of. It. 68 pieces per body so far, (Evergreen 15 thou x 30- or 40-thou strip) plus 16 x 1mm lengths of 0.5mm microrod for the hinges and there's still a bit more strip to add once the chassis are attached. I've trialled a method for the side vents, adapted/reshaped some I beam, as that's what I had to hand, though I think L angle would be easier to rework for the rest. The chalkboards I'll do on the Silhouette, as i need 16 in total. For the rooves, I thinking to make them up from long strip 'planks', filled and filed to shape (much like the prototype)

I decided that Dounreay needed some more parcels stock and inspired by a couple of photos of them on the FNoS, have scratchbuilt a couple of SR PMVs. The evenly-planked one has the main structure from Evergreen #4067 (40-thou O gauge car siding) which is a faff-free way to 6" planking in H0. The later plywood sided one is plain 40-thou plasticard, but with uneven planked doors from the Evergreen 4067, with the extra lines scribed in for the pairs of 3" planks. Next job on these is to add all the angle irons from microstrip, form and add the rooves, vents and chalkboards. These will ride on streched Jouef chassis, a happy by-product of some previously cut 'n' shut TTA chassis.

As an update on the DB V90, I acquired a cheap (£30) older Roco example at Ally Pally last month, one bogie of which is now powering my H0 Derby Type 2 (Lincoln Locos shell, bogie sideframes and tanks). The V90 bogie is 29.88mm wheelbase, just 0.13mm out from the 29.75mm required for 8'6" in H0. The Roco chassis is cast metal (mazak) so I made a new chassis from 80 thou plasticard and replicated the bogie cut out and pivot (using a small screw) While I could have used both bogies, I would then have needed to extend the spring drive couplings, but as tge loco will only be hauling small trains, I used just one bogie. My spares box yielded a motor from a Bachmann 08 amd a Branchlines 2mm id drive shaft, which matched the motor and the Roco worm shaft. (the 2nd bogie and original motor will be used in another loco in due course) As the Roco wheelsets were quite 'chunky' in the flange, I replaced the wheels with finer 12mm plain discs - helped in this regard by Roco using a 2mm diameter axle.

All Consuming Fire - New Model Army

A couple from my friend Graham Clark's collection

You'll need to join the BR Coaching Stock egroup on groups.io: https://brcoachingstock.groups.io/g/main/topics A pinned post on the group contains a list of links to a whole bunch of the Regional CWBs on Google Drive - the ScR list contains most years from 1952-1983 in pdf format to download/save

Another Imperial Day - New Model Army

Brave New World II - New Model Army

The 0610 Inverness to Dounreay Motive Power The Lincoln Locos 1160hp Derby type 2 (later 24/1) has a drive bogie scavenged from an older Roco DB V90/Br290, a lucky find at Ally Pally last month. The bogies are a very, very close match to the 24's 8'6" bogies (29.75mm in H0) The V90 has 2600mm bogies which is 29.88mm, so just 0.13mm difference. As I'm only running short trains on Dounreay, I only used 1 of the Roco drive bogies, matched with an old Bachmann 08 motor and used a Branchlines driveshaft. The trailing bogie was knocked up in plasticard and fitted with additional pick-ups. I did rewheel with finer 12mm disc wheels, luckily Roco use a 2mm axle so that was very straightforward. It runs rather nicely. 😁 The Roco motor, drive coupling and the 2nd drive bogie I'll save for another project, probably the Class 29. A narrowed/modified Lima 33 to 26 conversion is still a wip. https://lincoln-loco.co.uk/diesel/ Coaching Stock Using the 1968, 1970 and 1972 Carriage Working Books for the Scottish Region, I'd worked out the coaching stock types I would need would be all Mk1-based and limited to SK, CK, BSK, BCK, RMB and BGs, with all trains formed of combinations of those types. Sample formations on the FNoS to Wick or Thurso comprised BCK+RMB, SK+CK+BG or even just a solo BCK. To model these, I'm using Lima Mk1 cores with plasticard side overlays cut on my Silhouette cutter, (top to bottom) SK, RMB, BCK and a CK still to start. These correct the main visual failing of the Lima Mk1s, those undersized windows. Each side is 2 layers of 10 thou sheet laminated together, then attached to the sanded-down Lima core which has had the necessary enlarged/changed/new window openings cut in (this is the tedious part of the job!) With the sides on, the next job is to attach 0.5mm microstrip hinges, handles and grabs, plus footsteps along the solebar, before the whole lot gets a coat of primer. Bogies will be my own cast resin scale length BR1 sideframes on Worsley Works etched inners. These will be finished as a mix of maroon and blue/grey to suit my c1970 timeline and represent the regular livery mix on the FNoS at that time. I'm having a go at home printing my own decals for the maroon livery and may look at designing a sheet of H0 white numbers/lettering/lining/etc for blue/grey stock for printing by Precision Labels, following up a recommendation from a friend who has had some very nice Cuban stock decals done. Cheers, Alan

Too Close To The Sun - New Model Army

Fireworks Night - New Model Army

I've played around with converting Lima H0 Mk2b coaches to 2d/e/f by cutting out the whole window area and replacing with a half-side cut on my Silhouette cutter. 2 layers of 10 thou sheet, the inner layer with slightly oversize window openings which then (by dint of also cutting a normal window opening) also give me the external frames.

Song to the Men of England - New Model Army

Sadly not, buses between Reading and Basingstoke tomorrow (Sunday) which adds too much time on the journey there and back (couldn't do today due to other commitments and I need to be back in Reading early afternoon)

20 inch round Oleos on the real thing, so 7mm is about right. I'm assuming you've one of the early Lima 20s with the 13 inch buffer heads? If so, an alternative would be to get some of the 20 in buffers that Lima did on the later 20s (and also on the 47) - I can spare a set of 4, if you want to PM me your address. The Lima buffers are moulded in delrin (or similar 'slippery' plastic which few glues will work on)

Green And Grey - New Model Army

Living In The Rose - New Model Army

Rainy Night 65 - New Model Army

After a pandemic-enforced hiatus, the German Railway Society is pleased to present Globalrail 2022. Saturday 18th June 2022, 10:30-16:00 Didcot Civic Centre, Britwell Rd, Didcot, OX11 7JN Adults £6, Children £3, Families £12.50 The show will feature predominantly non-UK outline layouts, societies and trade support. More details will be posted on the GRS website in due course. https://grs-uk.org/shows/

A year on and not much has been done on the layout itself. I'm looking at ways of installing lights under the removable station roof and building of rolling stock continues with a handful of TTAs being bodged from Jouef and Lima parts and Lima 12t vans being modded to give me more van variety (BR ply-sided, Vanwide, LMS) and shortened to make shockvans. There has also (finally) been some progress on the motive power front, with a 3D-printed class 24/1 body, tanks and bogie sideframes arriving, courtesy of Lenny at Lincoln Locos scaling up his 3mm version. I'll need to make the necessary changes to turn it into a c1970 IS-allocated machine (tablet recesses, sealed beam headlights, ScR boiler blanking plate, etc) and motorise it - I've a 31mm Tenshodo SPUD or I may try and get hold of a Roco DB V90/BR290 to scavenge the mech.

My maths is being rubbish... 8ft in 4mm is 32mm, of course. So ignore my thoughts on using the 4mm 1Co bogie. However... having recently acquired an H0 3D-printed Class 24/1 shell+bogie sideframes (courtesy of Lenny at Lincoln Locos rescaling his 3mm version), I am seriously looking at motorising options for that. 29.75mm bogie wheelbase at 98mm centres. Asking around various groups and forums, I was pointed at the German V90/BR290 type, RTR offerings from Roco, Trix and Brawa. The V90 bogie is 29. 88mm (2600mm / 87), though the bogie centres are short at 80mm, so the chassis would need stretching. An option may be to source the bogies as spares (Roco can certainly supply theirs) and fabricate a suitable chassis.

Ballad 2 - New Model Army (as Dagworth beat me to the obvious one!)

Bad Old World - New Model Army