dave_long

Jack, that plan is one of Iain Rice's plans and was part of a series of 3 layouts designed to go in a wall using the same fiddleyard. 

Sadly there's very little of Trerice online. 

There's a bit on gwr.co.uk and scale four showcase website and a few short videos on YouTube. 

I've got 2 lengths of the plain track and it look nice, but it doesn't sit well next to ME code 70. 

is the battery going in the loco or are you powering the track with it?

You could try a nicd 4.5v battery instead. Or a pololu 5v step down regulator.

On 03/03/2019 at 01:27, Corbs said:

Whilst having the top speed of a snail is nice for pootling about the layout, the loco was quite gutless and struggled to move more than a couple of (admittedly quite heavy) wagons.

I opted to splice in a remove-able 3.7v-12v converter. I would have gone for the 8v one but oddly it's twice the size. Having a UM plug on each end means I can change it back if needed, or try it on other locos, but most importantly it keeps the battery separate and swappable. In the long term I may hard wire it in to save space.

 

The wiring arrangement now needs a tidy up as it fits within the boiler, but only just. Mostly the overlong shrink wrap is to blame, but I have been carefully dremelling out as much of the inside of the boiler supports as possible.

 

The loco is now much more powerful, the sacrifice being that the battery life is shortened and the low speed ability is still there, but requires a much more careful hand on the throttle.

Great thread Corbs,

I've found that I lose low speed control with 12v step up chips, so unless I can use a 3V motor then I use the pololu 9v step up chips. still very small and it gives the best of both worlds, control and battery life.

That voltage booster look quite large, have you tried the smaller pololu boosters? 

Caledonian,

What I meant was the Caley is the only open cab with the 14" cylinders, as Katie has the 16" cylinders.

I've ordered 2 Caley models, to repaint into Earl of Dudley loco's, which I'm surprised isn't really mentioned in this long thread, considering the amount of Barclay locos on the Earl of Dudley railways from the early 20th century right up to the mid 60's. The Caley version being the only open cab version but still needs a few mods, new handrails etc and step mods.  

Lady Honor Wallows by Prof2940, on Flickr

Hi.

Just wondering if anyone has spare Masokits etches for plain and turnout brass fold up chairs.

Thanks

Dave

Hi all

Looking for any of the above. I know the DJH kit is still available but the Mercian isn't.

Would rather find a Mercian as I'm looking to build in P4 and buying the full DJH kit is a little wasteful as I'd not use the wheels motor or box. But will consider a second hand one.

Edit to include looking for Mercian peckett 0-6-0 Kit.

Thanks

There are a number of colour photos on Flickr. In my opinion there's too much contrast in your rust colour, it almost gives off a glow.

Its all very good saying shipment x is on ship xyz leaving China on day x when you only have one product. Seriously you all think the big manufacturers are going to tell you what ships their products are on. I suspect they'll use many more ships in a year than DJM will. 

Out of interest, did you weather the Scot from a photo or was it just best guess?

So considering recent remarks on your own website "I’ve committed to not announcing any more products until i’ve cleared these in about 24 months time," (Aug)

How can justify so many more models inside such a short time frame, especially as you have not released final models of any loco yet?

John

Perfect timing thank you. I've been looking over the remains of the kellar branch for some time and want to model something based around O'Briens steel works with the blue CIRY SW14 and prex gp20. But could do with a bit more info.

As technology moves on smoothness will follow soon enough. See here http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/smooth-like-butter-mass-finishing-for-abs-and-pla-prints-magicbox

Small components are not that expensive, if you add as many components in to one batch the price will come down if you sell parts on like Simon does, better to sell yourself than let people buy from a shapeways shop.

There are companies who offer better quality than shapeways too.

Swings and roundabouts, there's plenty of rubbish resin details out there!

Surprised that wasnt a Dawlish photo!

Shall I add this Bloxwich Youtube video, clearly visible is Ballast to the top of sleepers and below sleeper tops.

What no Colin Craig FB track Mark? 

Looking good.

I can highly recomend these from Noch. These are N but like most things N scale looks just right for 00/HO. http://www.osbornsmodels.com/noch-3d-self-adhesive-building-sheets-399-c.asp 

The 3d brick can be seen on this post from US forum bigblue http://bigbluetrains.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=3320#p55446 and http://bigbluetrains.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=3320&start=30#p56218

There is also a HO/00 version of these, but I'm still under the impression they are well overscale.

hth

Thanks

I had originally planned on using the mjt springs and box, but read about BR split box's on the old rmweb and then ended up in 2 minds.

I plan on putting Bill Bedfords on all of them too.

Did you remove the side bolts on the 51L roller bearings?

Many thanks

Many thanks again Jack.

I shall more than likely use Stokers superb drawings at some point.

Out of interest I've been looking over old rmweb and there were some good threads on that site. Has anyone found the perfect axle box or box/spring combination to replace the ratio (and/or Bachmann) roller bearings. 

My first two go to place have these

The 51L (wizard) BR split box http://www.wizardmodels.co.uk/images/51lcomp/phsbrc019.jpg This looks the part but looks a little beefy and the blurb stated they are for Heavy dutyw irons W irons. Even if the bolts were removed from the sides they look a little large, for BR open W irons. Its a similar story to the BR plate boxes with the 2 dimples, thats listed as for heavy duty W irons, but they may be ok with the side bolts removed too.

Then there's the MJT (dart castings) RCH box and combo http://www.dartcastings.co.uk/mjt/2241A.php and (combo) http://www.dartcastings.co.uk/mjt/2241.php these look small enough to fit the bill and the U shaped impression on the top can easily be filled. 

So both aren't IMO totally correct but the MJT one looks closest and easiest to adapt. Is there anything I haven't looked at such as ABS or parkside spares or something else?

Thanks again

Layout plan has been Templotted and using 12' heel switches I've managed to get it into just under 5' long, I was hoping to get it inside 4'8 1/2" for the scalefour challeneg but its pushing it a little bit, it needs a bit extra to actually make the loop useful I think. I dont seem to be able to get the 2 short sidings at the front like Iain plan, but may be thats a good thing, we'll see.

The plain track part of the loop can hold 6-7 clay hoods and 10'liner wagons. I can get 3 VAA length wagons, and 4-5 tanks in there. The loop headshunt will hold a cl50, which is the longest of the planned stock with Westerns and Peaks coming in just shorter than the Hoover. If  I stand stock over the turnout to the right which routes to off scene top right, run round and then push the rake in to the head shunt I can add several more wagons to the rake. I think thats an exceptable amount of stock, what do others think? Would such a run round and then push in to head shunt seem silly or is there any basis for it in reality?

The slurry loading point will still be on the front siding and can hold 4 TTA sized tank

Scenic wise I was thinking of either creating something similar to the Combe station bridge, but putting track through both sides, or going a long the lines of mirror imaging the bridge in to Carbis wharf.

Combe station: http://www.flickr.com/photos/actonwellsjunction/5997879543/in/faves-14819322@N06/

Carbis: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=339162

Anyway this is what it looks like so far

I've begun looking in to drys and which one to use as a prototype, I do like the older styles such as Iain Robinson's, Wheal Elizabeth and Trerices, probably becuase they're smaller and fit that small style layout. 

Out of curiosity when was bagged clay first collected in closed wagons?

Thanks for reading

Dave

Hi Rich

I had planned on etched irons for the ratio kit, because its a kit and has incorrect axles. I hadn't really had a chance to inspect the airfix chassis, so hadn't thought about using parkside solebars but I'll certainly look into it. I had thought about new etched V hangers and levers (any recommendations?) so might as well upgrade everything while I'm at it. Best to have lots of detail if numbers are low.

So in that case I'll swap the ratio roller bearings over to build the liners. Should save me a few quid too.

Thanks.

Right I've managed to find the 51L models split axleboxes and the 2 pip BR plate axle boxes for the hoods, so they're sorted.

Does anyone know a version of the roller bearings that are fitted to the 10'wb liner open merch wagons? The 51L rollers all seem to be too heavy looking, and dont look much like the liner photos on Paul site, (BR or pre) I see that some still had spilt boxes, so some of my airfix wagons can be left as is.

Anyone managed to lift the roller bearings from the ratio kit (or Bachmann) and fit them to the airfix or parkside 10'wb opens for a clayliner?

Regards

Dave

Hi folks

I've been looking in to wagons kits the last few days, while I've had to search hard for the clayhoods from Ratio, I've managed to find a few, but they're getting scarce aren't they!

With regards to the pre-nationalisation clay liner wagons, I've matched up the C107 Cambrian kit ( http://cambrianmodels.co.uk/srwagons.html ) SR Dia1375 5 plank

to this on PB's site http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/prenatclayliner/h2b7bd5e4#h2b7bd5e4 and http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/prenatclayliner/h320dc3f0#h320dc3f0 now they look similar to me (not that there is a whole lot of difference in open Merchandise wagons) although there are the tie hoops (?) on the kit that are not on the prototype. One other thing is though the Cambrian site stated they were used on the ball clay trips, but PB's photos clearly state for use in the clayliner. I'd go with Pauls knowledge on that but need to know if fundamentally the 2 are the same wagon?

Other than that I've ordered a few Parkside PC02a kits for the BR version and I've also read that the old Airfix 5 plank open can be made to look quite good, any one know what dia can be made from them?

Regards and thanks