Nile

Digitrains sell them, but the HO pads are out of stock. You could cut the O scale one down to size instead.

https://www.digitrains.co.uk/shop-by-brand/cmx.html

Oops!

Turns out there's not a lot to it.

On page 18 of Southern Wagons vol.1 there is a diagram of an open wagon with Panter brake gear, this is the best I can find so far.

The next page also has an interesting diagram.

As it happens I've also done that:

and just restored the images.

It may be too late for that, lead times can be rather long.

I'm happy with a short delay, there are enough bills already at the end of the year.

I have a PP 'catalogue' I can scan. It's only an A5 sheet.

1 hour ago, fezza said:

Am I mad? Or is there merit in this idea? Has anyone else considered this or done something similar?

I'm doing something similar, modelling the BR blue era using only models available at that time. A lot cheaper than using current models, and more fun. Although my definition of the era can be a bit flexible.

Does this help?

You need Revell 8 , 6 is Tar black which is ok for tyres or weathered black.

It's all from the HMRS sheet 3, press-fix. Curves can be manipulated slightly if they don't quite match the model.

Peco announced those wagons a year ago, they are now on their way to shops. They should provide some welcome variety for anyone wanting to run goods trains. At £17 they are competitively priced, but of course we can't make RTR models in this country, can we?

The later.

Seems like my modelling is getting dangerously close to reality, must stop that!

Back to the chassis which is now complete.

There is now a piece of yellow foam# under the motor, with a matching piece in the top of the boiler, to stop it moving. The wooden block at the front is a mounting point for a non-scale working coupling.

The loco can now have scale(ish) couplings like these fitted (mostly Romford parts I think),

or these. There's a NEM socket somewhere at the back.

I like choice.

# from Dapol N gauge packaging.

Back to the MR 1377 tank loco. With the body almost completed I turned to finishing the chassis. Wheels and motor refitted, coupling rods added - all working fine. Brake rodding next, and here I hit a snag. The cross-shaft at the rear needs to be lower than the position allowed for in the kit design, with a much shorter link. Time for some bodging.

I soldered the too-long links to the inside of the chassis to provide new supports for the cross-shaft.

Brake rodding fitted. This has all been soldered solid.

Cross shaft is 0.8mm brass rod. The operating links were made up from various left-overs from other kits, cut and filed to shape.

Fitted in place with linkage to the brake handle. It will be barely visible when painted black.

The nearly complete chassis the right way up. Sand box fillers have been added, made from some plastic rod. No expense spared here!

Hello all, good to see you are still enjoying the builds. Currently I'm working to finish the MR tank at the top of this page.

Meanwhile here's something a bit different I built recently.

It's an old (and cheap) Parkside Dundas kit of a SR BY van, built using just the kit parts plus modern couplings. The only change I've made is to file the buffer bases square to make them look a bit more like they should.

It's modelled in its final years after it ceased to be a guards van. I found some old MOPOK transfers with 'close enough' markings, particularly when weathered.

I also have an interest in the BR blue period, but as it's mainly old RTR it won't feature here much.

Hello Mikkel, my problem is my interests tend to wander all over the place and I end up with fingers in far too many pies.

These recent coach models fit in with my pre-grouping around 1920 theme, centering on the LMWR and what might have appeared at its Uxbridge station. But some of the recent Midland locos are in pre-war condition, adding another distinct theme.

Perhaps I should split things up into separate topics, although I'd probably loose track of them.

As I've yet to build a permanent layout for any of these models things tend to remain in a state of flux, mainly in my head.

Painting and lettering nearly finished.

This former passenger brake van, dating from the 1860s, has been relegated to the engineers department as a ballast brake.

Inside as well.

1 hour ago, Chas Levin said:

Are you saying those ribs are meant to be on the outside though? I'm not asking to be clever, but because I have one of these to build, so I'm guessing it might be easy to reverse the roof?

Yes, ribs on outside, as in this drawing:

The roof is made from two layers of material, the inner one is slightly smaller overall and has a big hole in its middle.

Some progress with the Prickley Pear brake van kit, primed and ready for painting.

The underside of the roof, showing the ribs meant to be on the top.

Underside view showing the interesting brake gear. The inner 4 shoes work like those on a wagon, with outside links to the outer 4 shoes.

I seem to have lost track of things somewhere, which kit are we talking about now?