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    A brace of shunters

    By ullypug,

    A little progress today saw the 03 get its first coat of paint and the chassis a bit of treatment. Still some way to go yet but things are starting to come together nicely.
     
    The Ruston is all but ready for a good clean up and primer. I'm debating whether to put the handrails on yet. I probably will but I'm going to sleep on it.
     
    I had to make some adjustments on the Ruston chassis as having fitted my preferred wiper pick ups, I found that it conflicted with the inside hanging brake gear. One minor modification later, I'm quite happy with the inevitable compromise. Oh and it works too!
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    Ruston update

    By ullypug,

    Had a very enjoyable day with the Ruston, completing the bodywork. Only managed to put the window surrounds on the inside (doh) didn't I? Everything else pretty much fell together though having the RSU certainly helped some of the overlays.
     
    The chassis is very basic, compared with the 03! I'll go and have a play with that later but in the meantime, some photos are attached.
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    Ruston 165DE

    By ullypug,

    Decided to open the Impetus R&H 165DE kit that's been lurking in the cupboard as it's too cold to start spraying the 03 just yet.
     
    This kit is my best ever bargain, ??8 on a second hand stall at a local show including wheels. I thinks there's a couple of bits missing but nothing insurmountable.
     
    Spent yesterday evening soldering - it's nice to build an etched brass kit body again. I can't think but just about everything I've done recently has been whitemetal or plastic. After the complexities of the 03, this should prove to be a quicker project. I don't know much about the history of these locos, but I intend to have it as a works shunter for Wheal Elizabeth (which is a little over the top given its size). It'll probably be finished in ECC Blue and called Jamie.
     
    Anyway, photos attached.
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    Insomnia

    By ullypug,

    OK, so it's 4 in the morning and I'm wide awake. Maybe some inane ramblings might help. Of course it's dangerous writing anything at this time of day or is it night as I'm liable to start waffling. Look I'm doing it now.
     
    As I'm coming towards the end of another project, the 03 in this case, thoughts turn towards the what's next catagory. Usually this means staring for hours at the cupboard which houses my contribution to the EU unmade kit mountain before closing the door with a 'nah, maybe tomorrow'.
     
    One of my new year's resolution for 2009 was to avoid buying anything new until I'd made space for it by building something else. Trouble is, it only takes a couple of impulse purchases (Bachy 150/2, Falcon etc) and the space is soon gone.
     
    I quite enjoyed building the 42xx as on RMWeb 3 as it was something that I'd had for years. Applying the same logic, the next on the list would be:
    Craftsman 121/122 conversion for a Lima 116/117 power car, which I bought from a previous employer, namely the model railway in Weston when I had a summer job as a teenager. Speaking of which, it seems the local council has failed once again to get the Tropicana development restarted (that's the old open air pool on the seafront for the uninitiated). I spent many happy days working at the railway, which just happened to be on the top floor overlooking said open air pool...
     
    Other projects going way back include:
    Gibson 02
    Ratio Van B (2 of them)
    Perseverance Pannier chassis and Replica pannier body (would use the High Level one now though)
    Triang Maunsell bogie brake
    Finney T9
    Rewheeling conversions for 108, West Country, 2 N's, Grange
    Mitchell 4575 prarie
    50 or so wagon kits
     
    The list goes on...
     
    Then there's the prospect of a new layout, namely Clevedon on the WC&P. Then the roundy-roundy which I've always wanted to build based on the Newquay branch somewhere between St Denis and St Blazey.
     
    Ah well, enough of this. Should probably get back to bed, perchance to dream...
     
    night, night.
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    Class 03 powered up

    By ullypug,

    ...and I'm pleased to say it trundled up and down the test track quite happily once the pick ups had been wired in (36swg phosphor bronze).
     
    Body work detailed ongoing including replacing the original Mainline front lamps with Western Region brackets.
     
    Overall, I'm extremely pleased with the way this is going.
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    News just in

    By ullypug,

    Those boffins at CERN have just confirmed the smallest known element. No it's not the Boson-Higgs particle, it's the distance between the jackshaft and the rear of the step assembly on the High Level Kit if you're building in P4...
     
    The important bit is however small, it is enough.
     
    Wheels quartered up and trial assembly photos attached. All well so far and it doesn't bind when I push it up and down the workbench! Have gone past the point of no return and loctited the final gear wheel onto the axle whilst waiting for the epoxy for the copperclad pick up points to set.
     
    Will concentrate on detailing the body now until the powered test (always a nervous time) but all is well (apart from me that is - snot does not make an effective flux in case you were wondering).
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    Photo update

    By ullypug,

    As promised, I've finally got round to taking a few photos.
    Dogfish, Crab and Ling in glossy post transfer application but pre-weathering from Cambrian and Chivers kits.
    Also a pic of the Conflat Clay in the same state and one of the excellent High Level 03 kit. It's moved on since I took this and I've now done both step assemblies. A joy to build. Fiddly, yes but very rewarding.
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    Title kinda gives it away really. I've been struck down with the dreaded lurgy for a couple of weeks now (pretty much since Cheltenham) and haven't been doing too much. In between bouts of coughing, sneezing and sleeping I have managed to make a little progress with the class 03, finishing off the idler and jackshaft assemblies. Tried it under power the other evening and all was well. I'm expecting a few problems when I finally add the rods though as I'm not convinced the wheels are totally circular and crankpin centres consistent. Time will tell.
     
    Made a start this evening on the body. It's quite theraputic to carve off details (boy there are a lot of handrails). Am quite looking forward to progressing this bit.
     
    I've mainly been concentrating on applying transfers to the increasing rakes of stock in the works, Ling, Crab, Dogfish and 2 Conflat Clays, yes I converted the other Boplate E into one after all. I don't recommend sneezing while you're trying to apply transfers with tweezers though...
     
    The aim of all of this is to have the conflats, 03 and engineering train complete in time for Wheal Elizabeth's next show, at Weston on 17 January.
     
    Will take and post some pictures to show progress
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    Class 03 chassis kit

    By ullypug,

    Have been playing with my High Level Class 03 chassis kit, which I started on my old RM web workbench thread. Have been fitting the brake gear and rodding. I have to say it's been an absolute pleasure, the kit has clearly been designed by someone who knows what they're doing. No fettling is required, other than opening out holes marginally to the sizes required. Photos attached. Doesn't come commended highly enough.
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    Conflat Clay

    By ullypug,

    Have made a start on a conflat clay for Wheal Elizabeth. Before anyone asks, they were a Boplate E conversion with a couple of cut down ISO 20ft containers with sheets over. I don't know when they were created exactly, but I found a photo of one in Larkin's 'Working Wagons Vol 2 1974-79'. Apparently they ran to Avonmouth which was news to me. I didn't think they exported clay from there. I'll try and post progress. Should look very nice behind a hydraulic...
  14. ullypug
    Back from Cheltenham. Great little show and a number of RMWebbers evident. I've really enjoyed playing with Weston this weekend and on the whole, the layout behaved itself. Just one non functioning electromagnet to sort out before we're out and about at Expo EM South in a month's time. I didn't take any pictures of the show but some folks did. Have a look on the Cheltenham show exhibition page for updates.
     
    Retail therapy was limited to a Chivers MDV 20T mineral and a nearly new Ratio Van B. That makes 2 to do now. I do fancy having a bash at a parcels train at some point. I've also got a Mainline Siphon G and an old Triang bogie brake to modify, as well as half a dozen Parkside PMVs etc. Not really a train for Wheal Elizabeth but maybe for the future...and there was my new year's resolution not to add to my unmade kit mountain until somethings got build first. Ah well.
  15. ullypug
    2 weeks to go to Cheltenham (24/25 Oct)and it's time to start the preparations for Weston WCPR. I shall be putting the layout up this weekend, dusting, cleaning & generally tidying things up a bit....oh and yes removing any more spider poo that looks like woodworm (details and therapy on the old RMWEB). Then it's just the matter of cleaning stock, checking back to backs and cleaning wheels, adjusting AJ's.
     
    It's at this point I usually do something stupid like deciding to build something new for the exhibition...
     
    The Cheltenham show looks to be a good one this year, with quite a few RMWebbers likely to be in evidence. It's for a good cause too 'CLIC' so well worth a visit.
     
    I've even managed to finish off the Ling, Crab and Boplate E I started early in the year. Just needs a trip to the paint shop now and the engineer's train will be about complete for Wheal Elizabeth.
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    Weston WCPR updated

    By ullypug,

    Photos attached to my gallery of the WC&PR layout. Really starting to think about next major station up the line, Clevedon.
     
    I am looking forward to doing a real place again. I can get the station at Clevedon and the 8 road loco/carriage shed into 9ft without compression. I'll also be able to finish the rolling stock list namely Manning Wardle No 5 and the Taff Vale Coach.
     
    It's been a strange week. I left Scaleforum feeling a but ambivalent about the whole modelling thing. Activity this week has been limited to sticking 3 whitemetal spring castings to a Chivers Ling for Wheal Elizabeth. I'm not feeling particularly eager to crack on with the autumn modelling season. Is it modeller's block?
  17. ullypug
    lovely day for photographing models today, no direct sun but bright. Put Wheal Elizabeth up in the garden and spent a happy hour snapping away. It's amazing what the public doesn't normally see from the front. I now have a list of things to attend to before the next show, which isn't until January.
     
    Looking forward to going to Scaleforum tomorrow. Hope to see a few of you there.
     
    Cheers
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    In the beginning...

    By ullypug,

    ...was the word. And that word was attached in an e-mail from the Moderator who spake thus: 'go forth my son and speak unto all modellers about whatever takes thy fancy'.
     
    And there was a great hush amoungst the multitudes and lo, there was an intake of breath and verily there was followed a clearing of the throat and the word was:
     
    'Erm'
     
    (look I'm having a hard time starting this OK?)
     
    Hi
     
    my name is Ullypug (ok so it isn't really) and you may know me from such forums as RMWeb 1, the early years.
     
    Assuming you're still reading this, you may also remember I have two exhibition layouts, my first being Weston-super-Mare WCPR, in EM and based on the Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway. Wheal Elizabeth is my latest one, a P4 affair involving China Clay trains from the 1950's to the 1980's. Both are still out and about on the circuit. Weston will be at Cheltenham at the end of October. Wheal Elizabeth will be all over the place for a few years yet.
     
    I'm still playing with the new forum, but there should be galleries appearing in a tab near you soon.
     
    Cheers for now
     
    Andrew (my real name)
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