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    Kernow MRC announce 4-TC

    in Kernow Model Rail Centre

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    .....The recent Bachmann Modified Hall had totally the wrong shape running plate at the front beneath the smokebox door. Again, there are real ones to measure, but someone blundered....

    To be fair to Bachmann this was not a blunder but a calculated design feature to allow them to reuse their existing Hall chassis.

    Yes, it is wrong, but they obviously took a financial based decision to include this compromise.

    Maybe the figures didn't stack up to do it properly and retool the chassis as well. So it was do it this way or not at all.

    There is always the brass masters detailing kit for those it really bothers.

    I'm not interested in one with its current deficiencies but I don't see what is to be gained by moaning about its shortcomings on a forum. Maybe one day I can pick one up cheaply second hand to convert. In the meantime I can live with just having original halls on my layout.

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    'New Colletts from Old'

    in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype

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    Indeed, and as has been shown here some excellent results are being achieved. It is not the quality of the end result that I was critical of, but rather the enjoyment factor. Obviously this is going to be a personal thing which varies from one to another but I just get more satisfaction from building a complete brass coach.

    I've recently completed a couple of rtf conversions for the Balcombe project (Bachmann Mk1 & bulleid resides) and again although the end result is as good as I could manage with a full brass kit it just wasn't quite as much fun.

    But there is no denying that this is a cheaper option and with these particular coaches there are lots of options with cut & shuts.

    'New Colletts from Old'

    in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype

    Posted

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    On a new subject,  I  have made a recent and unwelcome discovery.  I had the altered Railroad underframe and the Comet one side by side on the work bench and noticed that the enlarged bogie pivot holes in the former were closer together than the ones I had drilled in the latter.  I had drilled the Comet underframe at the 43' 6" marks, which is correct for the Collett gangwayed 57' standard types.  The Hornby railroads, however,  are at 41' bogie centres    -aargh! The photo is, from top, Comet, middle is railroad unaltered, under is railroad narrowed and redrilled oval hole to circular one.

     

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    So those holes are 30" too close and thus need to be moved, for accuracy, 5mm each (1' 3"), outwards, which makes an unwelcome overlap with the existing Hornby moulding.  If you remember, Taz had shaved off part of these mouldings to make the heights correct, and I gratefully copied this on mine.   I was also planning to use the Hornby bogies.  They aren't bad and I was planning just to make the bolster spring mouldings 'a bit more like it'  - either coil for the first ones or later the more common volute versions.  I believe the Railroad people modelled from the first works photos which had coil springs.  I don't know why Swindon changed them on the 7' plate bogies to volute.  They kept the coil ones on the 9 foot plate bogies..

     

    I am pondering what to do now.  Pretend I didn't notice?

     

    Ah, I never noticed that. I don't think I'm going to do anything about it. One of the reasons mine are taking so long to finish is because I find these conversions a bit of a faff compared to a full brass kit. So I won't be doing any more conversions after these. I can live with the inaccuracy.

    'New Colletts from Old'

    in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype

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    During the studies on this site I came across the work of Taz,

    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/68260-tazs-rtr-wb-improving-Hornby-collets/

     

    with which I can see from the replies, most of you here are familiar.  There are one or two things I have learned from my own effort that could have saved Taz some head scratching at the start of his, but what I learned from Taz's effort has shocked me that I had forgotten it.

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    I'm embarrassed to say that these haven't progressed much further than shown on that thread.

    I have a long break over Xmas though and have promised myself some modelling time so check back in the new year and they may be finished :)

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    Hornby Announce Mk1 FO and BSO

    in Hornby

    Posted

    You RC.  It is W9276 which is preserved at the Great Central.

     

    Chris

     

    EDIT - most of the BSOs allocated to the WR were formed into excursion sets which were sometimes used for reliefs

    Hi Chris, you don't happen to have sample consist details of how these WR excursion sets were made up?

    Searching For A Better BR Restaurant Buffet ?

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

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    Hi, hopefully someone could help. I'm currently doing a Bachmann RU to RB conversion using comet sides which will end up in a boat train on The Balcombe project (S1767 in BR(S) green).

    However I'm a bit confused as to the finish and use of one of the doors on the kitchen side (as seen above on Brian's model)

    The middle door opens into the lobby next to the buffet counter. So I would have thought it would be for staff use only. I would therefore expect it to be labelled Kitchen. Mainline/Replica produced their models this way. However I notice some of the models shown in this thread do not have the Kitchen marking. The green RB in the Parkin book is also without the marking. Can anyone enlighten me as to how this door was used and what markings were/ were not carried. The second question is was the drop light on this window clear or opaque. Again the Mainline/Replica model has the window in white whilst some of the models in these pages have it body colour or clear. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to what it should have been?

     

    Thanks.

    Brinkly Works! Weathering and self-designed 3D printed models

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

    Posted

    Looking good Nick.

     

    One word of caution. The Bachmann model of the LMS box van (second from left in your photo) is a pretty poor representation of the real thing. The roof profile is completely wrong (I think it is based on the tooling from the original Mainline van with the working doors). I've got a couple as well but I think they are only good for practicing weathering on. All is not lost though as you can save the chassis and put it under one of you Airfix 5 planks.

    Top Gear?

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    I must be the odd one out then as I thought Matt LeBlanc was quite good.

     

    .....The REAL top gear with William Woolard and Chris Goffey and others actually gave the viewer information about cars that were current at the time.....

    These sort of reviews are covered in depth on the web now. Put '#car model# review' into a YouTube search and there will be plenty of content to choose from.

    Peterborough North

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    I'm not familiar with these coaches but I would have thought ressessed vs flush doors would be quite obvious. If it was just the overall width of the coaches I don't think anyone would notice.

    I generally try and build things as correct as possible. If I know something is wrong but still go ahead and build it that way it tends to nag at me. If an error is pointed out after building I tend not to get so worked up as I know I built it to the best of my knowledge and ability at the time.

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