halfwit

Now that gets me thinking, a motorised van (High Level make a powered wagon chassis) pushing a die-cast tractor, that would be an eye-opener at a show!

Paul.

B****y vandals!

Paul.

I also started blog just to see how it works and if it was for me. (I now have 2 on here...)

I woudn't worry about a lack of feedback, sometimes it takes a while for a blog to get established or find its audience, if that makes any sense.

I'll be reading anyway!

Paul.

It will be welcome any time Paul.

Thanks Paul, I'll bring it along sometime.

 

Just out of interest what is the 108:1 gearbox like, nice and smooth?

 

Lovely and smooth! Recomended.

Paul.

...just out of interest what is the haulage capacity of the little chap?

 

If I ever find out Nick I'll let you know! Adam's right, I haven't the space, or enough wagons, to find out.

Perhaps when it finished I'll try and persuade Paul (Worsdell forever) to let me loose with it on his EM layout at an exhibition... not that this one is really good enough to appear in public.

Paul.

Nice work.

I like the finish on the roll, thats the kind of finish that I'm going to try and achieve.

Paul.

Taking Chris' first point concerning exhibitions in sports centres, I wonder if personal trainers use the opportunity to point out some of us to their clients with the phrase 'too many pies and too few miles on the treadmill and you'll end up like that!' (I'm one that could do with losing a few pounds...)

Paul.

It is a mystery...but there are exceptions (see first post !!)

I should point out that my little rant isn't aimed at Chris, who I have yet to meet.

Paul.

Lets not forget some of the nerks behind the layouts. The loud, bigheaded ones that think that their layout is the best thing ever 'cos its been in a magazine. The ones that are too arrogant to answer polite questions, believing that we should all be expert modellers and can recognise, for example, Smiths couplings when we see them. The ones that seem suprised that someone under 50 or who doesn't fit into the modeller stereotype could ask an intelligent question or show some knowledge about, well, anything. The ones that are too busy chatting to their mates to run anything, even though there's a crowd in front of their layout wanting to see trains move. And the ones who insist on boring you to death, usually unprompted, when all you want to do is move on and grab a brew.

Posted in the interest of balance!

Paul.

Thanks guys.

That's given me a good starting point on painting. I had a feeling that the chocks would be wooden, when I worked as a turner I had various wooden blocks next to my lathe to stand jobs on.

I'm a bit wary of painting the rolls in 'new' condition as the paintwork and finish would need to be extremely smooth to look even close to a freshly turned or ground roll. And I reckon getting the colour close to freshly turned steel would be rather difficult.

12CSVT, the photos in your thread are certainly very usefull, thanks for posting them.

Paul.

Robert, I'm thinking of painting the rolls as if they've been heavily used and are on the way to be reconditioned, so probably a dark rust colour?

Otherwise I reckon that a smooth coat of silver/steel and a light mist of rust would work for newly turned rolls.

Paul.

Arthur's gallery;

here.

Enjoy!

Thanks for the comment Al.

I'm really quite jealous of the fact that you used to watch these get shunted!

Paul.

Thanks Arthur,

I used Araldite throughout assembly apart from some small detail items which are superglued. Mine is an early kit before Robert redesigned it with etched parts.

One day I'll build a whole rake of them, although I doubt that I'll ever have the room for a steelworks layout.

The photo that you've linked to is indeed usefull (I had noticed it), good colour photos of slag wagons are seemingly rare.

Hopefully I'll be starting some of RT Models Skinningrove wagons soon.

Paul.

Thanks Nick.

The instructions do state that it can be made to work, the main problem is replicating hot slag for it to tip...

Paul.

GWR branch lines may not be my cup of tea, but high quality modelling is. I'll be following this with interest.

Paul.

Superb.

A very nice job, thanks for sharing.

I'm looking forward to seeing it with a coat of paint.

Paul.

Good job you photographed it as it'll never be that tidy again...

Could I suggest removing the Smiths coupling hooks (great if your using 3-links but somewhat oversize) from the bufferbeams and substituting something closer to scale, Exactoscale for example?

Paul.

Thanks for the tip Nick. Brass L section should be a lot stronger even if glued in place.

Paul.

Nick - I do get a wobble but I put that down to eccentric wheels, I've found it hard finding Gibson wheels that are concentric. The worst seem to be the 10mm lowmac type. Kean-Maygib are better but dificult to find.

Paul.

I really like that backscene, the hills look far of and misty. Less is definetely more.

Thanks James. This one might never be seen in public though... doesn't stand close inspection.

Paul.