TM2201A

Thanks, much appreciated. I've followed your work on Peasevern since it's inception and have to admit the purchase of the Coles was inspired by your work as a fill in/get motivated project a while ago. As it happens I purchased a range of wheels from Lynx but printed some others while waiting delivery as a trial and found they looked OK as well. Eventually I'm sure the Lynx wheels will end up under something big or swanky (thinking an eight leg tipper or a double decker), the more lowly stuff really needs me to take a trip to the local fire museum to measure up the pressed front hubs used on a TK but also handy for Ford Ds, Dodge 500s, etc...

Next in line is the venerable Coles Argus goods crane that I can just about recall lurking in various dockyards and scrappies of East Anglia. Rather than detail the tinplate boom I decided to draw up a new one with additional pullies, load indicator, and more structure to it. Working from a few pictures online I also modelled a cab interior and hook/weight assembly. Wheels are again my 21mm print as used on the TK earlier. A check fit of the boom has revealed that it will hold itself in place so I'll be deleting the axle holes for the winding gear and tidying up the casting accordingly. Glazing yet to be decided on as I'm tempted to add safety bars over the top roof and upper section of the windscreen .

Being a bit cost conscious (and enjoying the odd bit of modelling) I've been looking at doing up a few Dinky toys. First off was the Bedford TK tipper which a quick check if basic cab and wheelbase dimensions revealed itself to be Bob on for size. Strip down and repaint followed by weathering and fitting with 3D printed wheels. I've run off a set of wing mirrors on the printer (nothing super accurate but found CAD design work quicker than messing about with wire and strip) and am still thinking about whether to bother with windscreen wipers and making a new windscreen.

Sorry you're wrong, the casting is the mounting point for the yaw/rotational dampers that in conjunction with two lateral dampers inside the frame and a set of vertical dampers and coil springs transmit all the forces between the loco body and bogies. Bogie retention is via other features internal to the bogie frame.

That large casting you refer to is fixed to the locomotive, the two grey items are very large dampers and connect the bogie to the casting. The replicate such an arrangement in model form with microscopic dampers would be impossible so the Accurascale lads have taken the sensible step of making the mounting part of the bogie and hence a split that isn't on the real loco.

Another experiment that will need a considerable amount of work to bring to fruition. East Lancs bodied Leyland Atlantean in 1:43.5/7mm, it's enormous.

Recently off the printer, Conflat L Containers have come out well.

Building a Langley Models kit of a Fowler VF Crawler (basically a tracked Field Marshall tractor) from the 1940s. Eventually the crawler will be fitted with a dozer blade also from a Langley kit.

Prusa SL1S

More as a proving the capabilities of my printer I resized an IronMink model to 1:43.5 and printed an HJO hopper. I need to redesign the axle boxes to enable the fitting of top hat bearings and Slater's wheelers but the print has turned out well.