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We were set up by 1730 last night after two trips across a very busy York in the hire van. Couple of faults which shouldn’t take too long to find. One route in the fiddle yard won’t set, probably a wire off somewhere and a not quite dead section also in the fiddle yard which looks like a section of track without a feed. Just need to get the rolling stock, road vehicles and curtains on.
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A nice relaxing week away in Amble, Northumberland. The railway has been long gone and there’s little sign of in the town although it had high level coal staithes on the dockside. This is the site of the station now. The newer buildings have been built across the formation, although you can easily follow the route out of town.
Tomorrow I should be able to get Olympia boxed up prior to pick up on Friday for the Racecourse.
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These are also available as undecorated or chassis only. The chassis only option is useful as it is the same WB as many European ferry vans that visited the UK.
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4 hours ago, Steven B said:
Doing any R'Amble'ing whilst you're there?
Steven B
Done a bit………
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Thank you both very much.
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Thought I’d back up the PC today and use my Seagate portable storage……..last one I’d done was written on the box 19/6/2021!….oops.
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Well one bus comes along and another two arrive! This another one of those roundtuit jobs. This pair of BT Models Atlanteans have been dismantled for about two years awaiting to be ‘converted’ very loosely into MCW Metrobuses. After the issues stripping the ODC Routemaster of paint I thought I’d get some plastic safe stripper for these bodies. Only the chassis on the BT Models Atlantean is metal everything else is plastic. After reading the instructions to DO NOT ALLOW the item to sit in the stripper for more than 5 mins and only paint it on the surfaces, I left the model for its 5 mins…………..and absolutely no paint came off. After probably 6x5mins the paint still wasn’t shifting although had softened. So the body got removed and rinsed with just the shine taken off. With the second body I’m not even bothering with the stripper.
Anyway some progress photos. The completed Metrobus has the doors from the TPM Models DMS conversion kit added, kindly supplied by Grahame Hedges. As this is no longer available I’ll have to make some doors up. The Atlantean having four part doors.
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9 hours ago, 37114 said:
Good effort with these, the adverts do a good job of hiding g a lot of the join
Yes they do.
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13 hours ago, AndrueC said:
Out of curiosity does yours have pickups on the tender? My Queen Elizabeth doesn't but a fellow member of my club has a Coronation Class of some kind and it has pickups on the tender.
Yes it appears to have pick ups on the tender. DCC socket is in there too.
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I have also dug out my only steam locomotive, Duchess of Hamilton. This was purchased in the Cumbrian Mountain Express train pack that GF did in 2014. It has never been run, so it was with a bit of anxiety that I took it to work to see if it would even move. No problem at all, very smooth. I will take it to Saturdays Yorkshire are NGS meeting to give it a run in on the modular layout, prior to fitting a chip.
This loco ran some excursions out of Olympia back in the day.
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Some supplies from work, the brick red paint is to complete the restoration of the Royal Kensington Hotel building. The paint stripper for some BT Atlantean buses which will get converted into another pair of Metro Scania Metro buses. The replacement white decal paper arrived today so a new can of gloss varnish to seal them. The PC is having a bit of a strop at the moment. I’ve had to reboot it after it just locked up. Can’t get the additional bus adverts edited prior to printing.
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On 26/02/2024 at 20:48, John of York61 said:
You’ll never make a barman stood that far from the pump handles John.
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The body has had another coat of red, the glazing has been cut to fit and LT decals added to the lower deck. A slight cock up on the catering front, meant that I’ve no white decal paper to print the side adverts……this has been rectified!
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Kensington Olympia in n scale
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I’m knackered…….a three day show was hard work. The layout largely behaved itself the loss of a route was just a wire out as I thought and was traced in a matter of seconds. More of an issue was the fact that the layout had gone from a cold garage to a warm indoors and we had trouble with baseboard joints. G clamps to the rescue. Otherwise apart from a couple of intermittent issues with one point it ran well.
A big thank you to my operators Chris, Sandy, John, Mike and Alan……and also my colleagues from Monk Bar Modelshop for getting it home.
Nice that a few Rmwebbers made themselves known and a lot of customers from the shop too.
i didn’t miss the irony that we were next to a layout based on the Izal factory!