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    The Fall & Rise of the 60's ( was The End of the Tugs?)

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by meurglys3

    GBRf liveried 60095 heads east through Brighouse on 27th November with 0Z60, 09.42 Tuebrook Sidings to Doncaster Roberts Road.

     

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    Interesting it (60 095) has gone over to Doncaster after a month or so on the Tuebrook-Shap-Haydock stone trains, which haven’t run this week. I wonder if it is coming back or will we get a different loco this week if the train runs.

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    DRS Class 88 - electro-diesel

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Nearest to the mainline should be the latest batch of 88s. These should include 88006, 88007, 88009 and 88010.

     

    It's been reported that 68026 and 68027 have been moved inside the shed to undergo preparation to enter traffic.

     

    As Mick has posted above 88001 and 88002 have been out on test together.

     

    I'm not sure where 88003, 88004, 88005 and 88008 are positioned on the depot.

     

    *Edit*

     

    According to WNXX 88008 and 88003 are stabled in one of the short sidings near to the staff car park and 88004 and 88005 are on the line next to the mainline with the other four 88s.

    And I feel guilty for ordering another class 24! What's that little lot cost?!

    DRS Class 88 - electro-diesel

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    I had a day trip to Glasgow on Saturday from Wigan, there sure was a lot of shiny new stuff on Carlisle Kingmoor in the sunshine.

    On the return journey I was on the wrong side of the train but was ready to move when the two ladies sat across the aisle got off at Lockerbie. But two teenage girls beat me to it. And they pulled the blind down so I couldn''t see anything.

    To make it worse, they put the blind back up just after we passed the depot!

    I did hate them for a while there!

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    Recently/currently listening to...

    in Wheeltappers

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    New lyric video from Tim Bowness. The album is due out on 17th Feb

    I saw Tim and his band at the time, "Always the stranger" when they supported Roy Harper at Longridge Civic Hall back in 1984. He badgered me to write about them in the fanzine I was doing at the time, which I did. I like to think his longevity and ensuing success, albeit cult, is mostly my doing. ;-)

    A Guide to using the Silhouette Cameo Cutter

    in Scenery, Structures & Transport

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    I wonder if different types of plasticard have an effect? The 10 thou I am using is Javis, which is all my local model shop had - in fact they didn't have it, they ordered some for me. One side seems to have a gloss finish, don't know if that makes any difference.

    If I had thought on when I was at the Manchester show on Saturday, I would have got hold of various samples, evergreen, slaters etc.

    What are you fellas using?

    A Guide to using the Silhouette Cameo Cutter

    in Scenery, Structures & Transport

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    Cheers Steve, I will keep trying using those settings, no doubt I will get there in the end.

     

    After long periods of trial and error with styrene, I thought I needed to actually build something before I lost the will to live, so I drew up a (freelance) loco inspection platform and cut it from white card, the pieces then laminated using spray mount and pva.

    It's by no means as fine as a brass kit, but those are, for the time being, beyond my skill level.

    What I like about this is I can make more, I might even make one for the full length of my depot, and it costs pennies and is actually quite easy and fun to assemble now that I have got the parts the right sizes to fit with each other.

    Also I think I have finally figured out how to do steps without them constantly falling to bits!

    (Waiting for the glue to dry while I type this.....)

    Pete

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    A Guide to using the Silhouette Cameo Cutter

    in Scenery, Structures & Transport

    Posted · Edited by meurglys3

    Okay...

     

    I have had my silhouette cameo 3 for a few days and am getting to know it. It's a love/hate relationship so far.

    The first thing that annoyed me was, having bought the A3 plotter I wasn't impressed to find that the cutting mat supplied was only 12" by 12", so I will have to buy an A3 mat.

    The second thing - the machine has fittings for 2 tools, but only one is supplied so if I want to cut and crease I will have to buy another tool....

     

    The third thing - the cutting mat is way too sticky, so I am currently leaving the blue cover on it, and applying a light spraying of spray mount to the card I want to cut, and taping it at the edges with masking tape.

     

    Anyway, I have recently built a signal box by the traditional method of cutting lots of styrene by hand, but I wasn't happy with the staircase as it was very fiddly to build and I couldn't get the treads straight. I had devised a method of cutting risers with notches for the treads and slotting the shaped treads in to these, but it was very difficult to cut accurately by hand.

     

    I had all the plans drawn up in Illustrator so I thought I would use this as my first test job (if you disregard the paper doyley I cut to show the wife..)

    Despite the urging by Silhouette to buy their Illustrator plug-in software (they remind me of a phone app, constantly offering extra in-app purchases) I knew that through the export menu in Illustrator, you can output .dwg files. I did this and opened the file in the Silhouette software. Bingo, it appeared.

     

    After a lot of trial and error, I got the file to cut some spare card I had lying around, something like photo paper thickness but matt.
    At this point, when I offered up the parts to the signal box, I realised that the software had not imported the image at actual size. I have now re-sized it with measurements taken from the existing staircase.

     

    Despite it being too small to use, I decided to build it anyway to see how it went together. The results are OK but I need to find a non-stringy glue that I can paint on to the parts. I used UHU and it's left a bit of a mess.

    So yeah, it looks nice and delicate and the ironwork is cut cleaner than I could do by hand, but needs tweaking.

    Onwards...

     

    Any comments, help and advice would be welcome. I plan to get some thin styrene sheet at the weekend and see how I get on with that.
    By the way - I had a few failures where the blade didn't cut right through the card, but other times it did a good job. I need to determine the right settings. Currently I have it set on "cover stock", speed set at 1, thickness (does this mean the cut thickness?) at 33,  and the blade set at 10, though I have tried various combinations.

     

    Pete

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    A Guide to using the Silhouette Cameo Cutter

    in Scenery, Structures & Transport

    Posted

    Hi folks, I have been following this thread with interest.

    The opportunity has arisen for me to get a cutting machine (the wife fancies making stuff)

    Looking on amazon etc I see there is a Cameo 3 now.

    As I don't remember this being mentioned, and don't have the will to look through all the pages on this thread, I wondered:

     

    Is the v3 machine better, ie more features, more powerful etc than the previous model?

     

    And, as I know adobe Illustrator well (I use it in my work), is the Silhouette software still capable of importing vector files from Illustrator?

     

    The wife fancies making cards and family trees in the Rob Ryan style, so I guess I will be drawing up her designs in Illustrator and cutting on the cameo.

     

    I would want to cut (00 gauge) window frames, staircases etc for a start, I'm thinking laminated thin styrene or card.

     

    Thanks in advance :-)

    Pete

    Wigan Wallgate

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    As another Wiganer, I have to say this is brilliant. even since I was at art school on Library Street in the 80s, the town centre has changed greatly, particularly around Darlington Street and the casino area, all replaced with a fuggly shopping mall.

    Thankfully we still have the weind, and Wallgate (the street) doesn't look much different.

    That multistorey at North Western though - I remember walking over the iron bridge to get our lunchtime pies from Pooles, when we weren't in the John Bull....

    I play in an acoustic folk rock band, and regularly perform at the Old Courts, the people who run it now are all lovely, and I have told them about your layout when chatting outside the bailiff bar looking up at the coops building.

    My layout "Hope Springs", while not an accurate model of Wigan in any way, definitely has the town in mind, in terms of atmosphere.

    Great work and keep the updates coming.

    Did you make it back to Wigan as you mentioned?

    All the best

    Pete

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