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HELJAN UNVEILS ‘OO’ GAUGE 25/3 AND ‘ETHEL’ FOR 2019
brian daniels replied to Andy Y's topic in Heljan
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HELJAN UNVEILS ‘OO’ GAUGE 25/3 AND ‘ETHEL’ FOR 2019
brian daniels replied to Andy Y's topic in Heljan
ETHELS are indeed un powered. -
HELJAN UNVEILS ‘OO’ GAUGE 25/3 AND ‘ETHEL’ FOR 2019
brian daniels replied to Andy Y's topic in Heljan
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Too hot to do much modelling but I have been soldering this up, a Pete Harvey class 37/9 roof etch. It's for a Mirrlees 37901 or 37902. Once soldered up the hardest bit is to cut a big hole in the roof a 37! Once I got it in I found the inner end by the rad fan fouled the Heljan fan unit so I filed this ends vertical support down until it was flush with the bodys roof inside. The fan unit will only have 2 screws to hold in in now but hope that will be ok. As Heljan had just sent me a 37/4 to run they also sent a spare body so thought it would be a shame to waste it! So after cutting off the ETH on the bottom of the nose there are a few steps and a window need filling on the sides and a cutout on one side needs filling. Most of the 37/4's do not have headboard clips so neither does the model but these 37/9's do so it was a rummage round the spares box to find a set which I think were from JLTRT. I will be doing this in plain grey livery. By the way the etch also comes with a set of etched nameplates for Mirrlees Pioneer.
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Heljan announces the development of a Class 50
brian daniels replied to MGR Hooper!'s topic in Heljan
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Warrior and Viking are now painted and varnished just a hint of weathering on the tracks to do later. Also added the extensions on the Warwell and brass section to raise the cradle off the deck. It is on these spare bogies as I don't have the correct ones yet. And the viking on a vac Warflat but this will be carried in an OCA. By the way the windows are just painted black.
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Knew I had this picture in a book, Class 47 Diesels by Tayler, Thorley & Hill. They are a bit pixalated though.
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Seeing as the weather is on full dull settings I got down and made my BVS10 Viking. Went together well but I have added two ariel bases on the rear of the front unit and wing mirror to the front unit both from my ASAM Warrior kit. To answer CME I think you can see the detail on these resin models is very good. My ASAM 432 was a resin model as well with white metel details and they look spot on to me, although that's probably because I don't know much about military vehicles. These Vikings were built from 2001 I see so a modern vehicle which is a bit out of place on a vac braked Warflat but ok in an OCA! You can see the rear of one of these in the attached OCA picture.
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How many members work (or worked) on the Big Railway?
brian daniels replied to E3109's topic in Wheeltappers
Started as a secondman in 1974 and made redundant last July by DBS, 43 years on the footplate in all.. I was always interested in model railways and found it a very useful job for observing the finer details of rolling stock. -
What have I been at recently? I have built an ASAM Warrior kit to go on the PH Designs cradle that will go on this Hobby Holidays Warwell I am currently building. As well as adding the cradle I have to add the extra width to the top decks on the Warwell and the bits over the buffers. Not looking forward to soldering the little angle supports on these additions.
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The ex-MMP "Top Shed" range of steam loco kits.
brian daniels replied to JeffP's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
No problems that I can remember Jeff other than what I said about the rear drivers on the Brit sitting in a groove in the firebox. Wheels are Walsall that a friend turned up for me, AGH couldn't afford them! -
Had a very nice time in Trier, went Friday and back Wednesday via Eurostar and Liege to Luxembourg as you can do this loco hauled. Bit miffed to get the same loco back 6 days later that promptly failed 10km out of Liege. Turfed everyone off then driver fixed problem and we all saw it go off empty stock! We eventually got to Brussels with 25 minutes to get the Eurostar home. Didn't do too bad as we were getting on it in 10 minutes of arriving from Liege, didn't know I could run so fast under those subways. Liege to Luxembourg train Luckily one steamy got there too late for the crew to work in the morning the next day so it's morning runs were covered with 211.041. Smoke! Monster. Nice background at Volklingen but loads of people having the same idea. Because of the incident with 01.202 the 220 went to Gerolstein instead of just going to Merzig all the time so that was a bonus. Not often you get a 218 and a 220 pass on the Gerolstein line! More smoke. This 78 looked nice as I don't think it's been cleaned in the last year. 103 at speed. E10 in Rheingold livery looked nice. Even more steam Went with the 103 to the Brohltol Bahn but it was survival of the fittest when we arrived to get a seat on the narrow gauge train. This Mallet rarely goes all the way to the end of the line and we had to stop for a blow up despite having a diesel banking all the way up. Simultaneous departure was interesting. Steamy at Nennig. This CFL loco should be named "Passion Wagon" as there is a lot of for and aft motion when it accelerates. Best loco there though was the 220. Here we are all turfed off at a place called Mery but we were all far from that!
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The ex-MMP "Top Shed" range of steam loco kits.
brian daniels replied to JeffP's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
I built a 9F and two Britt's from the MMP range. They also did a parallel Scot I believe. The 9F was the first steamer kit I built, nothing like straight in at the deep end! One problem with the Britt's is the rear drivers keep nice and warm in the front of the firebox. Had to grind a groove in the resin firebox for the flanges to go into. -
I would definitely start with a 26. When I did mine I got a set of etches off ebay but I think the bloke that did them has disappeared. You might get an etched headcode box from PRMRP. One thing that needs doing is to raise the side windows but to be honest I bet at first glance it would not be noticeable if it is not done. The main bit to do is the headcode box.
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Oxford carriage sidings and parcels dock in the 1980s
brian daniels replied to jamespetts's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Evening commuters used this to access the up/Jericho C.Sdgs direct and then leave the stock there and engine to shed. -
Here is the reason I wanted to have these Dapol mineral wagons, a load of scrap from a BR works to the steel works for melting. I have a picture off the inrernet of a 40 cab cut up in MCV's like this so realised I could do the same with a couple of JLTRT class 24 cabs and sides I have. When Pete first did the 24 he had the wrong size cab windows which he replaced later so I have had these knocking about for a few years. The sides were upgraded as well for an airbraked 25/1 so these went into the spares box as well. I have a Clayton cab and noses as he upgraded that as well for his production run of kits so that might get cut up in a wagon as well later. The bits are just thrown in and not glued down so don't turn them over! Before anyone says I know a fibreglass roof would not be very welcome at a steelworks but it seemed a shame to waste them. The arrows and blue MU stars are the wrong size as well but I wasn't going to waste good un's on this load.