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Unlike normal buses when one comes along so does another it’s been a 4 year gap before the second RML made an appearance. Still some work to do on the joints before it gets a top coat.

Only a month to Olympias next outing, so I’ve started removing buildings that aren’t stuck down, plus the road vehicles and signal gantries.

Starting to look a bit bare now.

The RML has now had a squirt of primer.  Joint wants a bit more sanding but otherwise looking good. I have some suitable adverts and decals for the destination blinds and LT symbols.

Extra non working buckeyes ordered. The working buckeyes don’t like trying to uncouple on a curve….a work in progress. If all else fails I’ve the Rix uncoupling tool.

2 hours ago, AndrueC said:

My Farish class 08 is a great demonstration of how to fit a speaker into a very small body but it's never been a very good runner. Good job I don't do any shunting on my layout.

I’ve run mine quite a bit but no shunting, I think it needs more weight as it does cut out occasionally but a finger pressed from above seems to restart it. 

The West Hill magnetic couplers have also caused another issue, being slightly oversize in the NEM pocket the Rapidos now don’t click back in….so plan B using the Dapol non working buckeyes…which has been successfull…..just need to find some more!

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Is this a one-off or will it be a regular occurrence?

The new normal I believe.

I had a bit of a play test with a Motorail train, uncoupling and shunting……not a roaring success. The West Hill magnetic couplers on the Carflats keep derailing the wagons so I’ve reverted to Rapidos between wagons. The Dapol easi shunt at the end of the rake kept coming uncoupled, spring missing…and what a PIA they are to replace. I then realised I needed something to shunt the wagons, so the 08 was dug out. This looks like it could do with a wheel clean as it was a bit spluttery but at least I completed the sequence.

The err fresh stripper finally did its job, not without some help. So I now have four bits to glue together in lower and upper pairs.

….and the real Rowntree loco

Sunday saw us having a good old chuckle at City Screen in York. Wicked Little Letters.

Watching Olivia Coleman, Jessie Buckley and Timothy Spall mouth a tirade of expletives…..very funny. The film is based on a true story from Littlehampton although largely filmed in Arundel and Worthing.
 

https://fb.watch/qsHdN1E8Il/?

Three of the four bits of the bus are out of their bath in paint stripper……and nicely clean. The fourth bit, the cab etc, the red paint has barely budged, very odd. I’ve refreshed the stripper!  I’m sure there’s a punchline there!

If I’ve time 31 and 37 will gain pipes at one end prior to the York Easter show.

Yorkshire area NGS meeting today…it’s 28th birthday…so there was cake!…..no candles.

I took in a selection of locos and wagons to weather. 

A furry interloper at Olympia last night, one of two sound fitted class 14s being tested for the shop……and successfully so.

On 20/02/2024 at 15:52, acg5324 said:

Got the yard lighting tower fitted today. It has a brass rod glued to its base to make it removable……and it’s pretty well vertical too!…shame the ‘Civils’ didn’t tidy up afterwards!

The “Civils” have revisited and hoovered up the debris!

12 hours ago, grahame said:

That's a nice little cut and shut project.

 

Have you considered thinning down the rear platform on the ODC RMs which are about a scale 18 inches thick?

 

 

No, the black paint trick should be fine. I do add glazing to the rear platform window which ODC didn’t fit.

Seems like eons ago I made a London Transport RML bus out of two Oxford Diecast RM,s……..so I’ve just started to make a second. As you can see it’s nearly finished and the joint is very well disguised……..not! The interiors have now also been cut to fit. The Diecast quarters are currently in a foil container being basted in paint stripper, then it’s a hour at 180C or Gas Mark 5 before serving. I might have made that last bit up.

13 hours ago, grahame said:

 

Excellent. I'm up for a copy of the first one. Any idea when it will be published and hit the book stands?

 

 

 

I’ve got to submit it by January 2025……so sometime in the summer I guess Grahame.

I’m now signed up for two more books with Amberley Publishing. The first one will cover the BR/SR loco classes so 09, 33, 70, 71, 73, 74, again largely 1970/80s. The second one will be a ScR revisit as that has been the most popular by far of the ones I’ve done so far……again 1970/80s.

I've sourced most of the images for the SR one, just trying to find some more c71/74 ones.

Got the yard lighting tower fitted today. It has a brass rod glued to its base to make it removable……and it’s pretty well vertical too!…shame the ‘Civils’ didn’t tidy up afterwards!

Finally got a roundtuit job done. The remaining blocks of Kingsway Models Georgian townhouses have been sans chimneys for a couple of years or more……not anymore!

I’ve now done two body shops with the current sound fitted class 47, one in VT and one in RES livery. The first swop went without a hitch, body and tanks to give 47555 a voice. This was I think a second issue 2011 body. 
I’ve just put the body off 47035 which is a first issue 2008 body on the latest 47 chassis and found a couple of anomalies…….with the lighting. When moving forward the drivers side tailamp is illuminated white and at the rear only the near side tailamp is illuminated. Changing direction and the same happens. Putting another second issue body on the chassis and the lighting becomes correct. The only difference I can see between the bodies is a subtle change to copperish plate above the light guides which are identical.

After gluing in a couple of sets of uncoupling magnets in the Motorail terminal on testing I discovered I’d miss placed them by about 5cm! 
They are now in the right place waiting for the glue to set.

Testing the magnets also showed up another missing DCC buss feed….two in fact……now rectified.

7 hours ago, Steven B said:

Did you model the contents? Terry's or Rowntree's?

 

Steven B

Rowntrees……..I think it’s full of Yorkies.