Giles

JUBILEE has her plates. She will be serving on 'The Sparrow' (The thread is in the 7mm layout section)

Jubilee now has her plates.....

I have a dozen or so vehicles with plastic bevel gears (0.5 Mod) - non of which have given the slightest problem, also a few locos with smaller bevel gears (brass, loctited on, some epoxied) also with no problems. My locos use much smaller gearmotors (less powerful) and still perform very well. The vehicles use N20s and need to work hard.

Last one I took of Kings Cross Goods yard (looking towards the York Way entrance) - somewhere around 2004 I think. This frontage is now the 'pretty face' of Central School, and doesn't look quite like this any more!

The coaches (or ex-trailer cars) are now completed. I shall weather the roofs when I'm doing a pile of stuff sometime. The coach to the left has two ladies, doubtless complaining about the new Vicar, who foolishly got his wife to do the Sunday flowers, thus offending the Ladies of the Flower Rota. The coach nearest the engine has two Gents, rather more concerned with the forthcoming rugby match. Not a busy train.

Thank you! It's one of the really fun bits! (When it's going right......)

14 side tipping wagons complete - thank heavens! And three coaches just awaiting a couple of passengers before closing up

It would be perfectly possible to slightly adapt my Walking Man machine for a horse to give diagonally opposed motion which would approximate the horse's walk. I hopefully have a book coming out shortly where I mention this. The down-side is that it requires a slot in the ground surface (between 3 and 4mm) which is difficult to effectively disguise. I looked at magnets to transmit the action, but discarded them for my purposes, as they would have needed to be too large, would require a smooth surface, and have a tendancy to polish it. The actual walking man requires a wire support anyway. A horse also might as there would be an instability at mid-stride.

Six are completely finished, and the rest just need the couplings fitted and painting- so they're not far off..... These pics give an idea of size. They work fine. They are rather crude in their build, but they do have their own character - so that will have to do. The only sensible way to have done this quantity better would have been to get some etches made up and approach some things differently - but to be honest, even these have taken quite a lot longer than I envisaged.

I now have six fully completed, the other eight (six production and two prototype) just needing couplings fitted and painting) Being coincidentally the same size as the Bachmann side tippers, they are large wagons, so a total of fourteen will be more than adequate. They are crude models, but will do the job, and what i have not achieved in detail will perhaps be allowed in character and functionality.

I did this LBW series 2 a year ago. The full size one we had forty years ago didn't have as good a turning circle mind!

The wagons ARE progressing..... albeit slowly. The hinged sides are now on, but waiting for the the operating rods. There are 14 wagons in total, which will do me.

Sorry to hear that David - I use the Technobots Mod 0.5 black plastic bevel gears where I can (my narrow gauge locos need the smaller 0.3 brass ones on 2mm axles). If you want to repeat the experiment let me know and I'll drill you out one 1/8" and one 3mm. Giles

Regularity - Indeed..... I had good reason to do it at the time, and also I believe in trying things out. Of course I'm not complaining - but I am hopefully adding to the information out there, and trying to make the point how great the difference in performance is - or if you'd rather - the difference in efficiency of the worm drives that we commonly use (as opposed to the efficient highly engineered worms, whose efficiency can be very high) and bevel gears which are of their nature very efficient. Of course Portescaps used bevel gears on the motor shaft to drive the first gearbox shaft. Slightly off topic, I have also done a reasonable amount with micro planetary gearboxes, and found them excellent. They also provide the flexibility of reducing the number of stages to change the ratios if required, and changing the motor to suit the application.

My experience generally with the N20s is the same as Dave's - that they are unstoppable when driving through bevel gears (also much more controllable when fed 60Hz when using radio control...). I once tried a hybrid drive with an N20 gearmotor and a worm and gear final drive to axle, and the performance was abysmal in comparison (5:1 gearmotor and 20:1 worm and gear).

I keep my eye out for useful things, and I recently ordered this boat from Russia. 1:43 scale (as opposed to anything else!) And a scale 20 foot, it is a nice resin model - both inside and out. The rudder comes separately, and i have added on. Also included are 6 sweeps (oars) with rowlocks cast on. It will certainly find a place on the layout. At 20ft it may be a tad long to hang on the ships davits, but i'll have a look!

Quite amazing! And beautiful!

The Pecketts (and Bagnall) are Wrightlines white-metal kits, with scratch-built chassis. Some say that Wrightlines might re-emerge, which would be nice.....!

I'd go for the Tx22 for locos, as the knob stays where you put it, and you get the sort of control you expect, which I don't fancy with joysticks..... You'll find enough uses for the Radiomaster!

I'll just knock up a dozen side-tippers - won't take long...... it's taking forlever.... especially the ironwork.

Why not print some? Could be in resin and bush them in brass tube - PLA probably wouldn't need bushing.

I used to work at Kings Cross before it was redeveloped.... The wagon turntable as it originally was One thought it was going to be there forever..... i never did photograph the coal drops. When they redeveloped, I believe all the track was lifted, stored and replaced 'somewhere like....' Edit: and this other original....

The next layout, 'The Sparrow' will primarily be radio controlled. This is the primary loco fleet: They are all fitted with Deltang Rx41-22 and 3.7v k20 gearmotors, giving very nice speed control. The Tx 22 of course has inertia as well. These are 7mm 014. Peckett (green) radio controlled 500mAh battery. Should be good for at least six hours Peckett (black) radio controlled 500mAh battery Quarry Hunslet radio controlled 700mAh battery full day operation Bagnall radio controlled 650mAh - full day operation Manning Wardle 'Jubilee 1897' 1000mAh battery - 2-days? The layout will also be wired for DCC so various other locos may take their turns - but the ease, smoothness and reliability of the RC is a joy...... 'handing over' locos, less so...

Just to update, this is the primary loco fleet: Peckett (green) radio controlled 500mAh battery. Should be good for at least six hours Peckett (black) radio controlled 500mAh battery Quarry Hunslet radio controlled 700mAh battery full day operation Bagnall radio controlled 650mAh - full day operation Manning Wardle 'Jubilee 1897' 1000mAh battery - 2-days? The layout will also be wired for DCC so various other locos may take their turns - but the ease, smoothness and reliability of the RC is a joy...... 'handing over' locos, less so...