Emery Hill Station

Probably not the best place to ask, but since this thread of posts has helped me alot with it already, do you have any tips on building NER Station Buildings? I'm looking at doing an 11ft x 5ft layout of Benton c.1904 so I need to build the station infrastructure myself

On 30/03/2024 at 01:01, MarshLane said:

But I would like to get up to Newcastle before the Met-Cams are withdrawn and do some detail shots to help with finishing the project.

It wont be long until they are withdrawn now, the new Units are on daytime testing and the old units are practically falling apart now. Luckily there are two which are guaranteed to be preserved, 4001 is going to Stephenson Railway Museum and 4020 is going to Beamish in an un-operational state (In other words, it has been cannibalised for parts to keep the others running) so you can go see them even if you are too late to get photos in service

1 hour ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Asking for both my own knowledge and helping a friend; What glue would you all recommend for fitting brass nameplates and such to a model? Super glue is off the table as you hardly get any wiggle room for errors and risk the “misting” effect it can sometimes leave behind, would something like “glue n glaze” work?

For fitting the etched nameplates my Accurascale Deltic I just used a glue stick, it stuck surprisingly and it still hasn't come off

1 hour ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Conversation with a friend bought up a conversion guide (I think) shared here, converting the “Hiawatha” model from a 4-6-2 to a 4-4-2…

 

…Anyone care to try that with a Princess? 🤪

I'm looking at making a Raven C7 after the Raven A2.

The Raven A2 is being made from a Flying Scotsman but I might buy a Princess to cut up the chassis and fit A1/B17 wheels to it for the C7 instead of trying to find another Scotsman for cheap.

Alright so, First attempt at scratchbuilding, and so far I have only gotten to a rolling chassis sitting on incorrect bogies. But heres how I made the NER Electric Luggage van so far.

I started out by printing out to the correct scale the design drawings, then transfering the correct dimensions to sheets of card.

This then allowed me to sort out all the dimensions before transferring this to plasticard to make a rolling chassis

I have not progressed further than this yet but I will update when I do

Finished the bodyshell, now just trying to source a chassis

8 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Assuming that the photo shows the total number of parts that you have, the side illustration on the printed card gives a useful guide.
 

- The  sides go together with the cabs at the outer ends.  

- The cab fronts go on the front.

- The three roof parts go on top:  the rightmost roof part in the photo is the central one; the other two are on each end with the sloped edge being the cab end.

 

The plastic bogies shown in the photo are coach bogies (possibly Lima) and will be of no use as the axle centres won’t match those of the cast white metal bogie sides provided with the kit.

Does your kit come with a chassis or are those the only parts that you have?
 

Cheers

 

Darius

Those are the only parts I have as I think it was designed to use a Hornby Chassis (I think the class 90?) which I don't have. I'll probably have a go at making my own chassis using spare parts or 3d printing

2 hours ago, dave75 said:

Is it the one with two piece bodysides and the separate cab fronts? 

If so I'm trying to build one like that but it way out of kilter.

 

Yes, yes it is.

This is the one I've got

I recently managed to pick up the old DC kits EM1 (Before the switch to resin) for £20 but it is missing the instructions, does anybody on here have them or have built one before?

I think my layout (Called 'Emery Hill Station', set 1975-1984) fits this, haven't got any scenics down and only have one line across 2 baseboards right now though

(Sorry for the photos, they are the right way up just RMweb thinks otherwise and has flipped them)