daifly

Or you can use Steph Dale's method here:

http://www.euram-online.co.uk/tips/splitaxle/splitaxle.htm

Dave

The underframe is different to the one in PS07. The axleboxes are different, solebar numberplate is different, wagon label clip not shown on Peco photo. The tiebar is there for a reason! It certainly looks bigger than 9' wheelbase. Have you measured it? 

Dave

9 minutes ago, brossard said:

Question for you John - do you know of a decent loading gauge kit?  I have been working on the Peco offering but it seems impossibly fragile.  I'd like to get something in metal.

John

Had you looked in the Guild's Product Directory, you would have been pointed at Duncan Models.

For those of us that spent many hours assembling the list it is disheartening when questions like this are asked.

Dave

19 minutes ago, 37114 said:

Hi Dave, does he do any other Lorry parts/models please?

Doubt it but, honestly, I don’t know for sure. Like I said, he doesn’t have a website. 
Dave

20 hours ago, westerner said:

A David Amias Bedford S. 

Alan

This is listed as a Flatbed kit. Your photo shows the cab & chassis. Is there more?

Dave

His details are listed in the 'Find a Trader' section of the GOG website. Email & snailmail contact only. No website.

Dave

Allow me.

Dave

I confess to being confused as to the scale/gauge you are building to. You've mentioned 2" gauge (50.8mm), 7mm scale (gauge 49.2mm) but you're building to 48mm gauge. Do you also make watches with 59 or 61 minutes in an hour?!

Dave

12 hours ago, jazz said:

Aye, it is a 4-4-0.  It was the famous computer error😜

What the IT department call a PICNIC problem. Problem In Chair, Not In Computer!

Dave

10 hours ago, billbedford said:

Any examples of how dates were traditionally written in Japan?

See here!

https://www.kanpai-japan.com/learn-japanese/how-to-write-the-date-in-japanese#part-3

Dave

4 hours ago, hmrspaul said:

Year month day is how to make sure it is possible to sort photographs by date order. Nothing else works!

I use the same system too but it's still Japanese! 

Dave

On 30/05/2022 at 17:25, GWR57xx said:

Sadly most of the images are currently missing.

Here are a few views of Mike's completed coaling stage:

The model is now living with me waiting to be used on a new shed-based layout.

Dave

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 some of yhe capti9ns, particularly  railways and wzterways p,us ...

I hope he had a good editor!

https://www.gaugeoguild.com/gogwiki/doku.php?id=revisedmanual:man_standards

1 hour ago, Andy Healey said:

Ah, that explains, many thanks, I hope the guy gets well and someone takes over this excellent product. Will keep an eye out as I only have a few left.

https://www.gaugeoguild.com/news/news_details.aspx?id=3022

Not sure if you have to logged on to read this, but in essence, the Guild has taken over the product.

Dave

1 hour ago, JeffP said:

Did/does anyone do a 7mm model of the ex-NBR LNER Y9?

A very quick search in the Guild Gazette listings reveals that LocoTech did one - mostly resin - in the mid-1990s.

Dave

Website working fine here 24/7 - looks like it's your issue.

Dave

30 minutes ago, Adrian Stevenson said:

Hi Geoff, really glad you have posted the layout here as I had missed it in the layouts forum.

 

This is looking great and I will be following your progress.

 

Cheers, Ade.

You should spend more time on Western Thunder. The Bleddfa Road thread has been running there for over two years!

Dave

9 hours ago, bluestag said:

It is an out of production Eric Underhill kit.   I think he stopped production 25 years ago.   I got it off ebay for a comparative song: 330 pounds for a kit with wheels motor and gears is cheap for a 7mm tank engine.   I was prepared to pay silly money for it, but I got very lucky.

The Eric Underhill kits found their way into the ABS Zero Zephyrs range. The ABS-owned kit ranges including Classic Commercials, Zero Zephyrs and the 43two1 kits are now with David Parkins. Some items of purchased stock are for sale but the rest of the range will take a while to be reintroduced. Not all of the Zero Zephyrs range is being reintroduced. It looks as if the majority of kits containing resin parts are excluded.

Dave

2 hours ago, brossard said:

Perhaps someone can educate me.  My sense is that the proportion of people doing S7 is quite small vs those doing F7 (which is the default).  Maybe similar to the proportion of people doing P4 vs 00.

 

My other thought is that if you want to rely on someone else's layout for running, chances are it is F7.

 

John

Proportion of S7 vs FS - probably.

When you build in S7, you quickly find out where there are opportunities to run your stock. 

Dave

3 hours ago, icn said:

and I had naively assumed that S7 availability might be similar - but it looks like wheels are indeed a bigger issue than I had first assumed. This might be enough to push me over to O-MF instead of S7. (If I never get round to building a layout then the point is perhaps moot, but my hope is that eventually these models will be able to run somewhere.)

And indeed, it does seem like Slaters solid wheels are F7 only - the selection of S7 wheels is quite small (although the scaleseven society also seems to add a decent selection).

There are suppliers of S7 wheels other than Slater's. e.g. Peartree. I suspect that Tower might supply kits without wheels if asked - especially if you are buying several kits.

The S7 Group supplies a number of locomotive wheels through the S7 stores (to members only). Loco wheels that are not in the S7 Stores range can be routed from Slater's or Walsall, Mark Wood wheel ranges etc. to e.g. Colin Dowling who will reprofile, thin and chemically blacken them and then send them on to you. Just how many locos will you be building?

Western Thunder is home to some of the best modelling on the web with contributions from modellers all over the world. No adverts. No politics. Recommended.

Dave

Have you phoned Peco to ask them? PD would always supply kits with S7 wheels and Peco initially said that they would continue to do so when they took on the PD range of kits. 
Alternatively buy the kits without any wheels and get the S7 wheels from Slater’s. 
Dave

35 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

The G0G list of traders websites is available off their home page.

 

You do not need to be a member to view them as they are just links.

The list of Traders Websites is a totally different facility.

The Product Directory is a searchable index of c40,000 products which may be of use/interest to GOG members. It is a compilation of products from most of the traders listed on the Traders Websites page. As one of the members who input some of the data into the Product Directory, I’m reluctant to offer the data to 7mm modellers who either won’t join the Guild or can’t be bothered to look at the Product Directory.

Dave

Amanda

PM sent

Dave

OK then:

Finney7

Warren Shephard

Modelu

You might want to try 88D Models too.