Ruston

Those block buffers look huge - if made from lead they should solve weight problems!

They're only made of Tufnol, so they add almost nothing at all.

That looks very good. What scale is it?

I have just found this out for myself, today. If they are going to (try) and charge for third party linking then I suppose that's fair enough but to not even let me view and copy my own images is out of order. I can see the thumbnail images but when I click on them I can't even view my own images and so can't copy and save them.

I too will be erasing all of my images from PB. I have a lot of the more recent images still saved on my computer but not all but it would take weeks to edit every post on here to put in the photos, either on a new host, or the forum's own galleries.

I won't be paying their extortionate rate and will post one last image to their site, one that tells them exactly what I think of them.

Very nice. Did they start out in the BR grey and you weathered them, or were they also repaints from PO liveries?

You ought to remove the NCBOE lettering and replace it with PBA. More suitable to go with a Western Region shunter's truck, perhaps? Port of Bristol Authoirity used this same livery on their Sentinels.

Excellent work there. The last photo, with the crew posed with the loco, is very good.

The height from running plate to bottom of tank is 9.25mm and the overall height of tank (excluding filler) from running plate to top is 35mm. I'll leave you to scale it from 1:43.5 to 1:76 (or whatever 4mm is) cos I've been up since 5am and done 12 hours at work so my brain hurts too much.

Nice project by the way.

I'll go and take some measurements from my Ixion O gauge engines and check the tank heights for you.

I knew straight away that the title referred to Boulton's Siding. A very interesting book with some very interesting old locomotives. It's nice to see something a bit out of the ordinary being modelled too.

What scale is this, please?

The part in the first two pictures looks to be a different colour to the other pictures. Is this because it has been heated/annealed before bending, or is it simply a trick of the light?

Is the chassis sprung or compensated and exactly how pricey was it?

I will post some in the UK industrial section when it's done. What motor/gearbox combination did you use as mine didn't come with one. I've even had to machine the boiler as they don't do that anymore either.

That looks stunning. I'm building one of these at the moment and if mine looks anything near as good I'll be happy.

That's terrible original soldering on the Ruston there! What idiot did that?

That's far better for being made with a proper chassis. The axleboxes and radius rods are a nice touch too! The next challenge is to paint it and line it in the ex-works Ruston livery.

If you mean 305306 at Chasewater, it's been removed at some point in it's life in preservation. If you've got Adrian Booth's 'A pictorial survey of standard gauge industrial diesels around Britain' (D. Bradford Barton 1977(?) then page 53 shows W/n 305306 at Tarmac's Buxton quarry and the strip is visible. I've looked through my collection of official RH photos and out of two dozen only one is taken from a high enough vantage point to show it. I don't have a scanner so I can't copy it for you.

On the real thing the side panels are hinged and the very bottom of the lower section of each side is rolled. When the bonnet side panels are opened to allow access to the engine they are folded back and the rolled part rests in a shallow channel on the top of the bonnet so that they stay open and don't fall on thehead of anyone working on the engine. I'm not sure that I have a picture and I can't post one in here (see, I told you forums have the advantage over blogs ;-) anyway. In this scale you'd get away with a length of thin strip brass or microstrip. It needs to fit fore and aft between the etched lines where the bonnet mid section goes between the radiator cowl and the fuel tank, if you get my drift?

Those are looking good! Are you going to add some sandboxes to the std. gauge loco as I see you've added sand pipes, and how about a bonnet door rest strip along the top of the bonnet?