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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.

The NGS VDA van kit is now complete bar weathering.

A bit of work over the weekend got the rest of the canopy uprights attached. Just some more weathering to complete it.

….and finally on this very wet and dreary day….I carried on with the platform canopy until I ran out of Evergreen strip. Hopefully some supplies at work. The first couple of the supports have also been built and some brass rod attached to fit them into the platform.

The VDA van has had a squirt of primer followed by some filler to fill a few defects in the roof. The underframe has been sprayed Matt black too.

Magnetgate episode 3…Stephen’s suggestion to orientate the magnets either side of the rails and parallel too them has worked well. I’ve pushed the stock along and it has worked every time. I’ll put some ballast around them and blend them in to the rest later.

The plasticard block for the VDA van roof has been sanded down to fit the roof profile too. Rainstrip to add prior to painting.

A productive day at the Yorkshire NGS meeting. The Motorail platform canopy has come along in leaps and bounds. It’s had a quick spray of undercoat before the start of adding the glazing.

Had a play test of the 4VEP at work yesterday. Looks good, runs very smoothly and the motor coach weighs a ton. The tap on tap off lights work well too. The 4pin connectors line up and attach OK. The improvements to the model are definitely a positive thing. 

A bit of progress with the canopy framework, edges and drainage gully added. The roof is partially glazed is real life and this will be replicated.

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Have you seen NBrass Locos sell an etched lighting tower? - might be a bit stronger and finer in appearance than the one you currently have.

No I haven’t spotted that they did one.

The tower now nearly in its final location has had a trip to the paint shop. Red Oxide primer followed by a dusting of light grey primer and Matt aluminium. Lamps to be picked out yet.

9 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Depends where the poles are. If they're at the ends of the bars, I think the magnets will need to be vertical.

The poles are along the longest side they are 7x2x2mm.

I’ve also made a start on the platform canopy with six supports for the butterfly roof constructed. This is going to be heavily compressed in size so that I can gain access to the Motorail platform tracks.

All this while a bit of soothing music played in the background!