Edge

One of the principal movers in the 15” world was Arthur Heywood - he experimented with multiple minimum gauge railways and settled upon 15” as the narrowest possible gauge for a railway designed to do useful work. 
 

His main hope was that the railway would see military use, but he was also hoping that they would be useful for estate railways of exactly the type you are describing. So I don’t think it’s implausible at all. 
 

a railway would have been a substantial investment for any estate, even if it was 15” gauge, so you’ll need to consider what traffic it might have carried (the Eaton hall railway carried fuel to the main house, but timber would also be plausible, as would output from an estate brewery etc.) but that sort of detail is half the fun :)

have a look for Heywood’s own railway at Duffield bank and the Eaton Hall railway, they may be of some use :)

Got a quick snap of the silver/grey version - I’ll be happy with it when it’s delivered :)

Personally, I’ve never had a problem with the Hornby bluetooth system and I’d have no problem immediately recommending it to anyone who wants to give it a go. 
 

as with everything on the internet, one group likes it and the other doesn’t :) if you haven’t invested in anything yet, find out what Bachmann kinesis is before you invest :) just on the off chance that it could be better 

I really really want an LMR Gordon… 

Well raise my rent 

You’d have to upsize them differently for different bits of the engine. The gauge is about a quarter of the size of standard, but the locos superstructure is about a third the size of their prototype inspirations. (Greenly did this deliberately and it apparently has been the saving of the locos from an engineering perspective)

no reason that they wouldn’t fit in the loading gauge if they were built as full size engines (as above, tenders and cabs would be a bit too big for British standard) - but as with most express locomotives, I doubt that they would have had freedom to roam everywhere over the network in a hypothetical scenario where they were built full size :) 

Thank you all. After having searched a bit more, this appears to be very much the only game in town :) so I shan’t bother anyone with phone calls, I’ll just leap in and have a go :)

Morning all,

was wondering if I could pick your collective brains on this one. I’ve got a kernow railmotor on order and would like som advice about the plux22 socket it has been fitted with.

I’m an early adopter of Hornby’s bluetooth DCC system HM7000 and am slowly working my way through my collection of locos. Naturally I want the railmotor to be included in this, which brings me to my dilemma, as it doesn’t seem like there will be an HM7000 plux anything soon.

However, I have discovered the below:

https://www.coastaldcc.co.uk/products/esu/adapter-board-18-pin-next-18-socket-to-plux12

which should allow me to use the NXT18 version of the decoder, hopefully including sound through the on board speaker.

But I do have some queries, which brings me to the collective knowledge of RMWeb :)

1. is this actually the best option or is there another adapter out there that I have completely missed?

2. I know that plux decoders can fit into sockets with a greater number of pins, ergo this plux12 socket will fit in the plux22 of the railmotor, but I’m not entirely sure about what level of reduced functionality this will create. I really just want sound and to be able to turn the lights on and off - does anyone know if this will be possible

3. Has anyone used one of these adapters before? Are there any tips/tricks out there that I should know about?

thanks to you all in advance

edge

As we are guessing, my two cents are:

- OO Gauge steam loco - T3 is an obvious choice, but possible replacement for the 4MT? The current model is rather long in the tooth
- an oo gauge coach of some kind - I’m not particularly we clued up on these, but I’d imagine that there are some in demand 

- OO9 - I’d like to say an NGG16, but I think far more likely is something like a simplex in various guises. It was rather ubiquitous after all

-OO9 coach - Hudson toastrack? FR Super barns? 
 

I doubt that the four new tooling projects announced will all be locomotives, however much wishful thinking is applied. I also think ‘one off’ locos like ‘Russell’, however famous are rather unlikely simply because of the limited number of liveries which can be applied 

I like the GCR livery. I mean, I’m not gonna buy one, but I kinda like it :)

27 minutes ago, Kickstart said:

 It would probably be heresy to get it wrong, resulting in offenders becoming servitors

 

All the best

 

Katy

Innocence proves nothing :)

2 minutes ago, Taz said:

Never knew that. I’d assumed the made to order for old stuff was resin as well.

 

As a recent returnee to the hobby, I’ve concentrated on the new stuff which is miles better in terms of detail etc.

 

I’ve never played lord of the rings. I was originally at fantasy battle player, then epic before hitting 40K on my return a couple of years back.

 

I started with LOTR and moved on to 40K and related games. Fantasy occasionally has something  I’m interested in, but not much

Just now, Taz said:

I didn’t think anything was metal anymore. Any old metal models are now fine cast, which is GW speak for converting the minis to use resin, usually with poor results.

 

Now everything new apart from a few low production items are plastic. The other items are resin and usually sold under their forge world brand.

Yes, the finecast stuff isn’t brilliant. Forge world resin on the other hand is superb.

meta is now mostly when they do a ‘made to order’ run of classic minis. As I’ve said as well, they never did finecast on the lord of the rings game, so you can still get entire armies in metal there :)

1 minute ago, Taz said:

I’m curious as to what you could rivet count in the 40K universe 😋

It was in response to a dissertation about why a thunderhawk gunship could not fly because the wings were too far back. 
 

in the twentieth minute I introduced the concept of rivet counting obsessiveness ruining some people’s experiences of the hobby :) and it stuck

3 hours ago, Reorte said:

Little plastic figures? They've gone plastic? :( They were all whitemetal when I was a kid, other than some starting sets.

they’ve been phasing it out for a long time. The only metal stuff now is a collection of really old classic minis and a fair chunk of the Lord of the Rings range. 

But the plastics are superb - in almost all cases they leave the kits they replaced dead in the water :)

On 18/10/2023 at 10:38, 33C said:

All my children were into Warhammer. Sunday afternoon's, I would take them into the shop to watch the battles. When they had an army of their own, (Silver Skulls, Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Tyranids!), I could drop them off and pick them up 3 hours later and listen to the epic that had happened that day...until one Sunday, after a change of manager. He questioned the painting of the players miniatures. 4 colours minimum and only the company paints. When asked, my lads said, I had done them all for them(true), and with car spray paint and Humbrol. They were then told to leave. They called me from the corner phone box to pick them up. So....long story short, he left soon after, under a very big cloud.

A great, youth hobby, nearly ruined by one selfish individual.

The shop survives, just, but it was never the same.

The battles continued at home, and we incorporated a railway into the battlefield, much like the "Steam-punk" stuff of much later! And they made up their own rules. 

Kids do modelling, just not our modelling....

 there are very occasional incidents like this in Warhammer regrettably (usually aimed at either women or younger players for ‘not taking it seriously enough’ or some such baloney). Sorry to hear about this experience - these standards simply do not exist in most stores, so I agree that it is a random cracking of the whip by one individual.
 

I’m a regular in both Birmingham, Solihull, Walsall and Warhammer World itself and I’ve used non-official paints, 3D printed parts and third party light up kits and the most common response I have had is ‘ooh, cool’. The vast majority of the people working in store are modellers and gamers too, and try to act like it.

Thankfully the ‘gatekeepers’ as they are known are getting rarer and rarer. 
 

incidentally l may have inadvertently introduced some lingo into the Birmingham store from the model railway world - they now use the term ‘rivet counter’ quite a bit, so sorry if that’s my fault 🤦‍♂️ 

I for one at happy with what I have seen of the model. It looks absolutely fine to my eyes, and I’ll be delighted to take delivery of the one I have crowdfunded when they hit the UK.

16 minutes ago, Godfrey Glyn said:

That is simply crazy! I too saw the model at GETS and the ridiculous 'coal' load is the first thing you see when looking at the model. I was told that it will arrive in December, but then last year at Warley I was told July. I would rather have it next July if it means getting rid of the moulded plastic 'unremovable' coal. 

all the best

Godfrey

hanging on in hope that it will be 'right' when it eventually arrives!

I believe that the ‘unremovable’ comment was a joke. In Jenny’s preview of this exact model, the coal fell out of the bunker more than once when the body was inverted, so I don’t think there is much to worry about on that score

I have been a Warhammer but for about fifteen years at this point, and there is a great deal to admire about how games workshop runs its business. Social spaces and practical guidance for new starters are one of the biggies, but also the ability to get everything you need in one go is extremely useful as a jumping off point.

I think probably the biggest thing for me is the starter boxes though. Games workshop starter sets have some of their best miniatures combined with a great story and instructions for the total beginner upwards. Perhaps a few principles can be applied to the world of model trains.

You’ll want to be careful with any points. Although they are all electrically fitted, there is a manual slider on the side of each to act as a backup. Make sure that that doesn’t get gummed up with glue or ballast or the point won’t work properly (or indeed at all)

40 minutes ago, Kevin Johnson said:

Can the above track be fixed to baseboard and if so can it be fixed in place with glue. 

Yes it can. PVA or a strong wood glue will do a decent job, but a strong double sided tape will also do the job nicely 

The Kings were usually assigned to high prestige express trains. Whilst castles and halls also hauled their fair share of prominent trains, their greater numbers meant that the railway could afford to have one or two of them spend more time out of service for the oil firing trials without affecting services (whilst the locos were ‘in service’ for the trials, the conversion to oil firing refitting and possible time out of traffic with issues would have been factors considered).
 

The railways tended not to experiment too much with their top link traction unless they had tried output whatever they were doing on lower category locos first.

Economics probably. You take up less land with a turntable feeding a multiple road through shed than you do with a roundhouse with an internal turntable. I’d also imagine that maintenance would be much higher for a roundhouse as the building itself is much bigger and would have to be built to stand the forces/vibration etc. of turntable operation.

Don’t know for sure, but if you guess ‘economy’ with basically any railway question, you stand a half decent chance of being right :) 

Kernow has taken the money for my non-valance garter blue 60700. I await it eagerly - I already have 10000 with the ‘British Enterprise‘ nameplates and liked it a great deal

Apparently two people have had to be taken to hospital after an accident involving the Flying Scotsman at Aviemore

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66967170

Details are thin on the ground at the moment, it’s good to know that nobody has been badly hurt, but I (for one) also hope that no priceless machinery has been bent