CloggyDog

51 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

BTW where does 90 years come into things?   WD 3651. 'Gordon'/600 was the second one delivered (assuming they were delivered in WD running number order) and wasn't oushopped until December 1943 - 80 years ago.

Perhaps anticipating production delays and managing expectations? 😜

Tower of Strength - The Mission

The final 2 major structures arrived in todays post, from MSModels an over-track footbridge to help hide the fiddle entry and a water tower, both very cleanly 3D printed in grey resin. 

On 27/11/2023 at 16:33, Revolution Mike B said:

As PaulRHB has mentioned above, our client - Model Rail own the project and will provide further information when they are ready to release it. We (Revolution Trains) are just managing the project for them and to their specifications. 
 

Hope that helps.

 

Mike B 

Good news for me then, more time to get my locos and stock finished before all this rtr makes VoR too  easy 😋

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You'll Never Get To Me - Killing Joke

Marlow, Maidenhead and District Model Railway Club's annual exhibition will take place at Cox Green Community Centre on Saturday 6th January 2024, 10am until 4:30pm. We hope you will be able to attend and enjoy the wide variety of both exhibitors and traders we have assembled

The latest list of Exhibitors and Traders is below. This may be amended in light of changes prior to the show

LAYOUTS

Shirebeck-in-Emswell EM gauge, BR 1970s

Ludlow- N Gauge - BR

Tellindalloch in Autumn - 4mm/00.

Glacier - N Gauge American Layout.

Old Elm Park - 0 Gauge BR

Five Elms MPD - 00 Gauge. BR

Marlow Station - Buildings, locomotives and rolling stock built for the station as it appeared in 1947.

Nove Mesto Na Nedostatku - TT Gauge (1:120) Czech Republic Layout.

Hobbs End - N Gauge

Kiddies Layout - 00

Traders.

Transport Treasury Publishing

Amberly Components

JB Model World

Neil Cresswell

French Railway Society Sales

RCTS

Berkshire Model Shop

MMDMRC members second hand stall.

Demo.

O gauge loco & stock building

Adults £5, Children £3, Family (2 adults + 2 or more children) £13

We can take card and cash payment both on the door and our s/h sales stand. 

Drinks and light refreshments will be available and the venue is step-free throughout. 

Please Note: There is limited parking on site, it may be necessary to park in the side streets during the morning period.

http://www.mmdmrc.org.uk/exhibition-news-2324.html

Dounreay (note spelling) will be flying the flag for British H0 scale at Woolwich, and I'm hoping to have another parcel van finished by 10 Dec. 

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On 04/03/2023 at 20:27, mdvle said:

The next Hindsight will be December 2nd 2023.

(Free) Registration for the Dec 2nd Hindsight is open:

https://speedwitchmedia.com/product/hindsight-20-20-16-0-registration/

Under the Sea Wind - Blyth Power 

21 hours ago, St. Simon said:

Hi,

 

I'm looking for alternatives to a PECO Loco lift for use with my exhibiton layout.

 

What I need is a way of easily removing trains from the rails on a Cassette so I can move it to the other end of the train, the PECO loco lifts would be perfect if they weren't too wide. I need a method that fits with the sides of the cassettes (approx. 53mm). I could probably build my own, but it is the engineering of the metal 'rails' that fit over the track and allow stuff to run through the lift.

 

Anybody got any suggestions?

 

Simon 

Do you mean move the loco from one end of a train to the other? 

One commonly used approach is a short or stub cassette (as long as your longest loco) which can attach/align with the main/train cassette.

Train runs in, loco ends up on the stub cassette. Uncouple and lift the stub cassette with loco, move the train cassette along a bit to allow the stub cassette to fit at the other end of the train, align and couple to train, away you go. Use small bulldog clips or brass clips to align and electrically connect the cassettes with eath other. 

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A Little Touch Of Harry - Blyth Power 

With the eva fixed, a rough placement of track and structures. 

I've 'de-mirrored' the plan to better suit the points I have, so it's now a compressed version of Devil's Bridge. Fiddle stick at the right-hand end and this will be the viewing side.

4mm ply display box surround to cut and test fit, along with working out the wiring. 

The photos I forgot to add yesterday... 🙄

The white Lack is the baseboard, with 2mm black eva foam sheet pva'd down. The black Lack is helping distribute the weight of assorted heavy things whilst the pva goes off. 

A productive evening saw the coaches built and seating fitted, just the extrenal details (hinges and handles) from microstrip, then a coat of primer. I need to get a couple more roof mouldings from Dundas, along with bogies for the next couple of coaches (another Third and 2 summer opens) 

And the buildings, with the 2 main structures and a Pagoda hut I'd forgotten about. I'll need to sort a water tower and the footbridge to straddle/hide the fiddle exit. 

46 minutes ago, 92912 said:

Tramfabriek now do chopper couplings for 009 http://tramfabriek.co.uk/couplings.html

Thanks, I had seen those, though the price is a little off-putting at nearly £6 per vehicle. 

I did find a seller (Custom 009) on Facebook who does a 3D printed Chopper. Perhaps not as fine as the Tramfabriek ones, but acceptable enough for me, reliable and my whole fleet equipped for little over a tenner!

*blows the dust off*

I've decided that Mynydd y Ddraig will be my winter modelling project, so I've started prepping the Lack with EVA foam sheet and gathering the track components together. 

I had built the key structures last year - the Wills 'Tin Tabernacle' modified for the station building and a store/shed made from their wriggly tin sheet. I still need to make the water tower. 

I've also been busy building more coaching stock, 3 more Thirds, 2 Brakes and another summer open to give me a core fleet of 8, forming 2 rakes. A second loco body, this one a 3D print, joins the Chivers kit-built one. And some freight/PW stock from various sources. 

I have a show deadline of mid-February 24 to help focus my time and energies 😉

1 hour ago, bradfordbuffer said:

Some good work there...

Mk1 mk2 and mk3 bogies are available on several 3d stl sights just scale to fit

Yeggi and cults3d

Interesting and potentially useful. My only concern is when rescaling down to H0, what axle length would be required? 24.5mm pin-points is fairly standard in the scale. 

I'd respectfully point out that BR1s ride on 3ft6in wheels, which scales to 14mm in 4mm, rather than 12.6mm. In H0 I use 12mm disc wheels (slightly under diameter, but within the acceptable wear limits of the prototype). 

In any event, I have a few dozen of my resin BR1 sideframes still to use, plus a bunch of 80 thou plasticard, but thanks for the suggestion. I would probably be interested in Commonwealth bogies, if they are under consideration. 

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Get Me Out - New Model Army 

I've made use of the old Jouef/Playcraft underframes under a number of my H0 wagons:

The 105mm length chassis is good as is for the LNER 22t Tube (BR diagram 1/445) and cut-down under Plates and TTAs. 

The 81mm 'Mineral' underframe, again cut down, makes a good 12ft wheelbase underframe for Grampus, Pipes, etc. 

There's a seller on ebay (tonysstoreonline) who sells the Jouef underframes alone for around £2.50 a pop

Yesterday, I cut down a rather warped Rivarossi LMS Third Corridor by 10ft and re-skinned it to make an H0 50ft full brake, using the same technique as the Mk1s. (Hornby OO one above in 1 pic, showing the difference between OO and H0) 

On the same cut file, as the components are broadly standard, I also did the sides for the Stove R and sides/ends for the 42ft CCT for future use. 

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Very tempting indeed, and an excellent choice.

 

Looking at the available models I can see there are several detail variants as on the prototype. Have I got the following list right?

(There are also several variations of 'RH' and 'Ruston' plates and the locations they're mounted, again to suit the prototype.)

 

2. Rounded cab windows, front headlight on the bonnet, no ballast weights on the solebar:

408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 (also has additional lamp brackets)

408496/1957 - NEI-Clark Chapman

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet

 

 

My slight personal frustration is that the prototype I'd want to model is 299100/49, which had square-cornered cab windows, front headlight on the bonnet, and no ballast weights on the solebar.

So I'd need a combination of the cab off the first type and the bonnet and frame of the second type. Maybe I'll wait and see if there are some spare bits to be had? I wonder if the solebar ballast weights come off easily?

 

 

On a different tack, someone mentioned the Irish examples, somewhere I have some photos of the one that was abandoned at Fenit many years ago.

 

Cheers,

Mol

 

BR 20 did have the balance weights

https://flic.kr/p/2me5K4J

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