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    CAD

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    General
    or cardboard assisted design. Started roughing out the right hand side landscape. Wanted to incorporate a tunnel to hide the off scene exit to the fiddle yard, so will have a sort of half cutting with stone/rock walls behind.
     
     

     
    Next steps, more cardboard and then some paper strips to flesh it out before hanging basket liner etc. I also have some Woodland Scenics rock moulds, so might slap some paster of paris in them to see if I like the effect.
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    A coat of varnish or two found it's way onto the coach over the weekend sealing the transfers kindly donated by Larry (Coachmann). So in my world some of the Vintage Trains stock has been sold on to the heritage railway and one FK converted to a camping coach
     
    The remaining Lima coach might end up as W3125 of Riviera Trains and become part of the operating fleet for Fourgig East, although I would rather build a Slater's C10 Clerestory and flog the Lima one on. We shall see.
     
    Anyway here's some snaps
     

     

     

     

     
     
    Still waiting for it's occupants and the eBay seller who did some nice tiny wooden sofas seems to have gone AWOL, but there you go. I would also like to add some Black Cat Tech LED lighting, but he's moving at the moment too, so that will have to wait.
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    At long last the eBay seller has come back on line and I was able to order the sofas for the living room. I've not had to wait that long for the real thing
     
    anyhoo, a couple of snaps of them in place in front of the TV ready for occupants
     

     

     
    Just waiting now for Black Cat Tech to finish getting married/moving house (bless) and then I'll fit one of his lovely universal lighting kits to the roof
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    So the fitting out of the coach begins,
     
    thanks to Keefer for supplying loads of info on MkI interiors etc - so we now have somewhere to bathe and the "1st class" sleeping compartment has a bed.
     

     

     

     
    The plan is to have bunk beds in the remaining two sleeping compartments with room for storage etc. Kitchen fitters have yet to turn up and fit the bespoke oak topped units
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    The kitchen fitters have been and gone and the lounge is more or less done apart from the delivery of two 2-seater sofas.
     

     
     

     
    Think the kids have been playing with the TV channel, could have sworn I was watching Top Gear ....
     
    The gas fire is in and connected to it's chimney. Just waiting for the decorators to arrive and paint the interior of the coach walls then some tasteful artwork can be hung
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    The GWR coach cream was airbrushed on last night, so while that hardens in readiness for the brown (yes, I know camping coaches were green and cream, but the SK that www.railholiday.co.uk have is brown and cream) I thought that some form of rudimentary buffers needed to be sourced.
     
    The coaches bought from Blackrat of this parish both came without the standard Lima offerings, so from my bit box we have some 8mm lengths of Chuppa Chups lolly stick (kids are useful after all!) and common all garden drawing pins.
     
    The lolly stick is a good fit for the hole in the buffer shank and a drop of UHU secures the pin in the hole down the middle.
     

     
    a quick waft of matt black and more UHU should see the coach looking a bit more complete.
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    Armed with nothing more than a few paperclips, scraps of card and Post-It notes two bunk beds have been fabricated for the other two bedrooms
     

     
    and here they are in place
     

     

     
    a couple of ladders might be an idea, wonder if OO Britannia tender ladders will fit .....
     
    Keen eyes will also spot the livery change to choc and cream, if I have the transfers I'll brand it as a BR FK W13227
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    Made a start today on the camping coach for 4gig. I'd already donated a section of the interior of a Lima mkI, so I set about the remainder with a razor saw.
     

     
    The remaining compartments will be a bathroom and 3 bedrooms, so the seating had to go.
     

     
    I then filed the remains of the seating from the compartment sides taking e molded taper away at the same time. You can see one compartment to go in the pic - showing the amount of material removed.
     
    Next steps will to be to fabricate a new floor and compartment walls from card. I have ordered some quarter scale dolls house furniture from America to fill the spaces
     
    Scalescenes interior textures have been downloaded for wooden floors, rugs etc
     
    Should be a fairly quick makeover (he says)
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    Thanks to Dave Holt for pointing out a glaring error that resulted in a massive gap between the rear driver and the firebox/ashpan. Turns out that I made a last minute change to the frame drawing when I compared the tracing with that of a Comet Britannia chassis. This threw the whole chassis forwards by approx 2mm (6" in the real world), but meant that the cylinders were at least in the correct place on the chassis.
     
    So last night I unsoldered the rear mounting from the frames and repositioned it 2mm further forward resulting in a much better looking gap
     

     
    Of course this left a gap at the front which I filled with some plasticard packing
     

     

     
    However, Dave is right. According to Cox's excellent "British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives" (Ian Allen, first published in 1966 and would sell well if reprinted ) the 2-8-2 as designed was 6" shorter than a Britannia (2-8-2 in red below)
     

     
    So, do I chop the body to lose 2mm? it looks like the smokebox is longer on the Brit as the boiler specifications are identical. cutting a section out immediately ahead of the smokebox/boiler join would pull the chimney back above the cylinders.
     
    If I don't do it my concern is that there will be a gap between the cylinders and the front fall plate and it might look odd with the chimney forward of the cylinders.
     
    I plan to cut the footplate to take cast lubricators, so some making good will be needed on the top surface of the footplate in any case. The razor saw becons .......
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    It was far too flippin' hot to work in the loft/workshop/man cave today, so this evening I decamped to the patio to get the last three footboards folded up for the Slater's coach
     

     
    And jolly successful it was too, all folded up, but I ran out of light before the axlebox cut-aways were filed in the final lower board. A job for tomrrow
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    Catching Up

    By RedgateModels,

    After being a bit ill the last few days a bit of a catch up was in order yesterday. So building D was completed and the backscene added. This is a departure from the kit being an image of Linby Colliery gleaned from the internet, suitably sized and washed out in Photoshop to push it into the distance. It's a bit blurred but I think that helps with the false perspective too
     

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    Check rails

    By RedgateModels,

    Got the chance to do some more trackwork on Fourgig, this time it's the checkrails for the inset trackwork around and in the goods shed.
     

     
    Not much rail left now, just got to add the flares for the checkrails on the adjoining board and that's the track done - scenery can start in earnest
     
    (once the inset track is sprayed black)
     
    UPDATE:
     
    flares added to the ends of the checkrails leading to the engine shed. Note Isebrook sat over the illuminated pit - Black Cat Tech universal lighting strips were used to add the lighting as they don't (obviously) do an O gauge version specifically for the sclescenes kit
     

     
    I also spotted that I'd caught the rail ends at some point and broke the solder joints on one rail. So they were resoldered using 188 deg solder for added strength and a new sleeper added to reinforce the track at baseboard edge.
     

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    Well, the first exhibition of the season went really well. Thanks to Mark and crew for an excellent show which raised a good sum for the school so I'm told.
     
    Summat behaved itself really well considering it hadn't come out from under the desk since Wycrail last year. Had the odd electrical gremlin (interboard jumper wire loose in choclate block connector) and one point microswitch was a bit reluctant to throw fully resulting in a couple of shorts in running.
     
    Harry and #49 performed really well, the same cannot be said for my WD Austerity which despite being tested at home following an excellent weathering job by Roomey persisted in provising a dead short to the track on the day
     
    Here's a quick pic of the new wagon doing it's job on the day
     

     
    Roll on Nottingham!
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    The Class 3 tank engine sitting on my shelf gathering dust has been bugging me for some time. A somewhat impulse buy when I happened across Trains4U whilst around Peterborough with work.
     
    I didn't need it to complete the collection, I have my old faithful Triang/Hornby example that was really what got me "into" BR Standards.
     
    So, about that gap in my collection - the Class 3 Mogul 77xxx. Recent eBay bargains brought me an Airfix 76xxx kit and a Bachmann BR2 tender for less than 20 quid. So, I took the tank engine apart to see how much work it really would be to marry the bits together ...
     
    here's the chassis with the boiler resting on top
     

     
    and a shot of the boiler on it's own
     

     
    Quite a bit of work, hopefully the missing bits of boiler/firebox can be constructed from the Airfix kit, we shall see.
     
    There's also a dirty great groove along the boiler where the side tanks fitted in and even little holes to fill where the tank strapping located
     

     
    Nothing is set in stone yet, the 82xxx can be reassembled good as new at this point if I decide it's not a go-er. In that case I guess it's either a DJH kit or wait for Bachmann ......
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    Clay and plaster

    By RedgateModels,

    I thought I'd better get something done ahead of the Mansfield Show ( http://www.mansfieldmodelrailway.co.uk ) so last night I made up the triangular piece that fits in the two main boards at the front, covering the cut-aways needed to allow for the curved backscene corners when the layout is packed away. Some Ten Commandments walling mitre bonded to a card and polystyrene base with an initial covering of concrete coloured emulsion.
     

     
    I've ordered some sheep to place in this little corner field, I'll have one or two escaping through the fallen section of walling with a railway worker trying to shoo then back into the field.
     
     
    Next I finished off the first pack of DAS clay doing the hardstanding area around the goods shed. I hope the little pack I bought from Eileen's will be enough to finish it off. I have even left out the area where the loading bay platform sits in the goods shed to save clay!
     

     
    Once it's dry I'll give it a coat of the same emulsion then start weathering etc. I think some weeds etc in the expansion gaps and a couple of puddles in some of the dips I have managed to leave in the clay will do I think
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    Bit of progress on 4gig - I've bought a couple of Lima MK1s from BlackRat of this parish and am pleased to see that they clear the goods shed when on the run-round loop. It's not going to be a "normal" move but I can foresee the need to shunt them into the loop to release a long guest loco that can't clear the point.
     

     

     
    The above shots are using the Templot print, but I have since checked on the real trackwork and it's fine. So full steam ahead Santa, Marcway gift vouchers please
     
    I've also started a Scalescenes engine shed, but this probably won't be finished until after Christmas, current plan is as below
     

  18. RedgateModels
    Just a quick update today. The deflectors arrived last week and one is assembled. Mods need to be done as the Duke's footplate is further forward than a Brit. Other issue is that CTMB don't supply the handrail knobs, good job I have some in stock.
     
    Better news today was a text from Pete Harvey, etched goodies on the way that will make my Duke unique, well until he does his too.
     
    More to follow
  19. RedgateModels
    not much progress this weekend, spent too long in the kitchen ripping off tiles and wall units ready for the plasterer on Wednesday
     
    Finished off the front bogie and did a little more fetting with the boiler lower. Here's a couple of shots of the loco assembled so far
     

     

     
    the second one shows an area of concern for me. I will have to fabricate the missing section of firebox bottom and grate so that it at least meets the frames (that shouldn't really be there). Ashpan might get some extensions too.
     
    You can just see the edge of the gearbox drive extender between the bolier lower and the frames in this shot. A spot of black paint and it will go
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    OK, so I was in Mevagissey last week, so HAD to call at the World of Model Railways with #2 son for an hour or two.
     
    Some Spingside BR Head and tail lamps just jumped off the rack at me
     

     
    Group 4 for the interested -
     
     
    Well, it is a mixed traffic engine B)
    Gives you a good look at the other details added from the Brit detailing pack too
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    After a short spell with a hacksaw and 8BA tap we have the following arrangement
     

     
    I've lost the whole section of chassis from underneath where the body fixing sticks out, so the drawbar pin and it's carrying plate plus the whole lump that supported the flangeless pony wheel has gone to make room for the swinging rear pony.
     
    The exisiting pony fixing hole was drilled out 1.8mm and tapped 8BA to take a triang/Hornby bogie screw. A conventional 8BA cheesehead screwed into the tapped hole in the pony and Robert is your Father's brother, as they say
     
    The photo shows the drawbar set with the largest gap, the close coupled option is still workable for layouts with very gentle curves/display purposes .....
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    I recently installed a copy of Photoshop Elements (bought as a present for SWMBO ages ago but never installed) and as I'd fitted a bigger Stay Alive capacitor to the Zimo sound chip I tought I'd have a go at doing an "X-ray" cutaway type shot to show just where everything fits.
     
    Thanks to Andy Y for his guidance I managed a half decent image
     

     
    Need to practice a LOT more with the magnetic lasso tool, I got a bit bored with it towards the rear of the tender. It would have been nice to have done a similar effect on the tender, but as the speaker is black-tacked to the underside of the coal space it would have been a bit of a faff to set-up. Maybe next time
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    Attention now has moved from the chassis to the body. I've filled in the section of "missing" false chassis ahead of the cylinders with plasticard and fashioned the front sandboxes in the same way as the chassis mounted ones.
     

     
    I had hoped to pick up some 0.5mm piano wire from Squires at Wycrail, but they hadn't taken any. I'll have to wait until the next order to either them or Eileen's to make the front sand pipes.
     
    Waft of grey primer soon to see how good the moulding is and how much more work is required before I start adding all the small detail.
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    Unlike the last Golden Arrow Crosti 9F that I built and detailed in Hornby Magazine this one's mine (and so is my time) so the standard plain flat sided preheater sections would not do.
     
    Out came the 11mm Evergreen tube, saw and files. Together with some microstrip and a few other bits and bobs I now have this:
     

     

     
    I've added a representation of the access door using a circle of plasticard punched out with a hole punch, decorated with microstrip and the "blower" that of course is not fitted to the side of the normal smokebox but feeds into the side chimney from the preheater.
     
    The exhaust from the preheater is again two sheets of plasticard bonded together and suitably shaped.
     
    All this was also done on my first Crosti that started life as a part built Crownline kit bought off eBay. As I'd like to think I improve with each model I am now going to attempt to add the sandboxes for the LHS of the chassis. The one on the RHS is so hidden behind the footplating as to be not really worth it, or maybe not .......
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