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Going through some old copies of Backtrack filleting out what is of interest to me and I noted a colour picture with a couple of these in the background.  One looks to have some sort of "Return to" or similar instructions painted on and the other looks to have/have had some sort of large label on its side.  Unfortunately I couldn't read either.   

Cannot post here because of copyright but the picture is from 12/10/63  in a spread by Dick Riley about Banbury shed and in Vol. 5, No. 4 (July/August 1991) if anyone is really keen to see it!  Sorry if so esoteric but I don't think colour images of these are common?  (Not aware of them running in Scotland, my area of interest, so haven't paid too much attention to them).

Sorry to disappoint anyone looking for an update on introduction of this kit!

Hi.  
 

I’m pretty certain you will have seen it, but just in case not there was a colour picture of Larbert North signal box on the back cover of the July 2018 issue of Backtrack magazine.  Found when disposing of some back numbers.  I have kept the covers, just in case you want it.

4 hours ago, Not Jeremy said:

Yes, the Titfield Thunderbolt received supplies on Wednesday, it is very good.

 

Here's my take on it:

 

https://www.titfield.co.uk/Books/Wagons-det.htm#5481

 

Simon

Thanks for the information and summary.  You mention in your description Twilight of the Goods by Don Rolland.  Are there any plans for further volumes of that book?

Website updated about this:

https://rapidotrains.co.uk/gunpowder-vans/

And more information and 3D renders in their latest UK newsletter:

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Rapido-UK-News-No--2---More-product-news-.html?soid=1101318906379&aid=5aKNWwZoCqM

Text from latter (hoping it is okay to copy and paste it.  Please say if not and I'll edit post):

Gunpowder vans - in tooling!

The design work for our ‘OO’ gauge gunpowder van has been signed off and the tooling design finished. We expect that the mould shop will actually start cutting steel just after Chinese New Year (so late Feb/early March).
We’ve been able to incorporate key detail differences in order to produce BR’s Diagram 1/260 van (Lots 2490, 2499 and 2544 only), the GWR’s Diagram Z4 and the Railway Clearing House’s standard gunpowder van design.

The eagle-eyed will no doubt spot a couple of minor differences that we haven’t been able to include. We’ve not managed to model some tiny bracing plates that were on the end stanchions of some vehicles but not others and that we have had to include lamp irons on all versions.

Rapido’s philosophy, be it in North America or the UK, is to try to offer every detail difference that we’re physically able to make. But there are limits. Jason talks more about making decisions from a manufacturing rather than a modelling point of view in the latest newsletter from our colleagues across the ‘pond’. Please click here to read it.

Saw this announced on page 10 of this thread:

However, no mention of it, that I could see, in the “trade etc” sub forum.

I also offer my condolences and would also echo the above comment about at least some of these books being worth selling.  
 

If that is too time consuming then perhaps an alternative might be donating them to a charity shop or a preserved railway, when they are open again, so that they can benefit from selling them on.  

Maybe a further alternative would be to offer them free on here in return for a donation to a charity of your choice, although that might not be permitted on here, as maybe too close to “selling”?

I would also be interested in a list of them, if that is the way you choose to go though!

Harburn Hobbies list some items on their website, but I think online listing is quite a new thing for them so perhaps if what you want is not listed it might be worth a phone call to see if they have it anyway.

https://www.harburnhobbies.co.uk/acatalog/_00__H0_Track___Accessories.html

New to me, although it looks to be a new/revamped version of a previous site.  Not just timetables but maps as well, including BR and RCH ones.  And some other miscellaneous scanned documents, e.g. I saw a leaflet about a "Western" tour, maybe the last one?  Anyway, at:

https://timetableworld.com/index

Navigation might take a while to understand, e.g. I seemed only to get to the maps viewer by clicking on a link in the current article about  an "1872 Railway Map by R. Price-Williams".  Link to that in the viewer is:

https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer?token=760f8471-ba74-4d68-a7eb-aa269affc10d

This then has an index of the other maps available.

Hope of interest!  Apologies if it is already mentioned on here somewhere.

A very small number of railway books in the Waterstones sale:

https://www.waterstones.com/campaign/sale-2020/sort/bestselling/page/1/category/2394

On 18/01/2021 at 12:47, brylonscamel said:

Yes Scott - I do indeed take commissions. I switched to being full-time with my model-making at the end of last year. I have picked up bits of work already and have some ideas developing to make some limited-edition buildings.

You can always drop me a personal message to chat about it. I have a web page that gives some basic info.

All the best with your enterprise!

A few discounted railway books currently with a further 20% off here:

https://www.naval-military-press.com

Specifically at:

https://www.naval-military-press.com/product-category/other-categories/non-military-titles/

Pick of the bunch, in my opinion, is:

PETROLEUM TANK WAGONS OF BRITAIN, R Tourret at £10.39  (9 left in stock).

Also:

GWR ENGINEERING WORK 1928-1938, R Tourret at £7.99 (3 left in stock).  I got this last time they had this 20% off, in a moment of madness, but a quick flick though suggests it might be heavy going.

GWR EXPOSED Swindon in the Days of Collett and Hawksworth at £7.99.

GREAT WESTERN COUNTY CLASSES Churchward 4-4-0 Tender, 4-4-2 Tanks and Hawksworth and 4-6-0 Tender Class at £7.99.

REGIONAL TRAMWAYS: WHALES, ISLE OF MAN AND IRELAND POST 1945 at £7.19.

No connection, other than as a satisfied customer.

On 13/12/2020 at 23:37, PenrithBeacon said:

.... but a way of inserting pin point bearings has eluded me.

 

There is the Knowle Wagon Works tool, see here:

Seems to come well recommended.  One recently obtained, partly on the basis of “get it while you can”.

Also, further images here:

https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/wor/news//first-look-Hornby-a2-2

With some first thoughts from Tony Wright.

Maybe need to start at this page, as above link doesn’t seem to work?

https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk

Noting that this is described as a proving model, the first, close up, side on, picture shows daylight between the front frame and footplate, whilst another similar shot shows a tiny bit of daylight between the cab and the end of the boiler.  Just observations!
 

7 minutes ago, danstercivicman said:

 

Great pictures

 

Yes NATO black is a mix between dark grey and black- quite a faded colour.  It looks spot on for most of the coaches  

 

Interesting the variety of freight roofs. 

No problem.

Ah, I read "black" too literally.  Would be interesting to see what it looks like when you do one. 

Another thing is to very subtly vary the colour on each one.  Either by painting or subsequent weathering.  As shown on the Kyle and NS pictures.

I want to say the Kirkcudbright one is at the "black" end of the scale whilst the Crossmichael one is more typical but that is just what I have in my head.  You also need to bear in mind the vagaries of colour films, scanning of slides and computer monitor colour balances etc.  I had fewer decent examples saved on Flickr than I thought - a lot of B&W pictures and of good stock, locos, Edinburgh and D&G locations etc. but not many colour views of coaches.

Robert Carroll's and John Turner's  Flickr sites are pretty good for rolling stock views, after all it doesn't need to be your particular vehicles, just those in your chosen era.

 Robert Carroll.

John Turner.

1 hour ago, danstercivicman said:

 

 

Yes, but I couldn’t work the plural out so I used lids! 

At least you din't use "rooves"!

Black doesn't seem appropriate, better with various shades of grey.  Same  for goods vans.  I think you can get tins/jars of "roof grey" but that is maybe for new or overhauled stock. 

Maybe best looking at colour albums or on Flickr.  Some examples I have saved on the latter (coincidental that some are Port Road!):

Newton Stewart

Crossmichael (there is also a shot of this train approaching, if anyone interested in the self weighing tender!)

Kirkcudbright branch

A few more goods orientated ones:

Kyle of Lochalsh

Elliot junction.

Hope this helps gets you started down this particular rabbit hole!

On 06/12/2020 at 05:25, danstercivicman said:

 

Very!

 

No it’s pretty permanent I used either Vallejo tyre black or Tamiya nato Black.  

 

It does seem from pictures that BR coach lids were quite drab! 

Coach “lids”?  Do you mean roofs?

16 hours ago, jwealleans said:

 

Someone must want a set of forty or fifty DX containers?

 

Peco?!

On 28/11/2020 at 22:33, robertcwp said:

Or use the Hunt Elite magnetic couplings, which come in various lengths.

Having not heard of these I searched online and found:

https://westhillwagonworks.co.uk/hunt-couplings-new-c-2/
 

Not sure how I have not been aware of these before, or the range of 3D printed parts they supply!  Maybe I missed reference to them in the small suppliers sub topic?

I remembered that Nbrasslocos do a fine chain.  See: https://www.nbrasslocos.co.uk/fitall.html

£2.80 for 300mm.  At 48 links per inch seems too fine for chaining down loads, given information in earlier posts, but might have some other uses?  
 

I also see that they do load securing chains in both 2mm and 4mm scales.  For latter see:

https://www.nbrasslocos.co.uk/oovaried.html#other.   £2.80 for two sets.

No connection but I probably have both in the “that might be useful” collection.

5 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

Logically, that's only going to happen if it doesn't add significantly to the time or cost involved in developing the product.

 

Years ago, Alan Gibson described the spread of his wheel sales as 95% OO, 4% EM, and 1% P4. Bearing in mind that almost all rtr buyers just keep the wheels their models come with, P4 probably represents 1% of 1% of the overall market.

 

We must also consider that for many who adopt the gauge, plastic is an anathema, so the figure reduces some more....

 

Sorry, but if you get into this area of modelling, you'd best be prepared to do a lot  more for yourself.

 

John

You are taking this into a far wider area than my query and the response.  
 

My point was simply with regard to this new use of gearing between all driven axles which, presumably, makes conversion (to EM or P4, I never mentioned just one) more complicated.  Modern models of steam locos driven on one axle seem to run fine, so why this recent change?

I would have thought driving all axles with gears was something that added to cost and time of development!

Finally, where do you get your idea that “many” that want to use a more accurate gauge are opposed to plastic centred wheels?  Indeed what wheels do they use if not plastic centred ones?!

4 hours ago, micklner said:

Jonathan

 

      Do you know if it possible to buy the Parkside Container S Wagon  from anywhere, without the Open Container ? I need six at the moment !!

 I have recieved the decals for the conversion of the  A Containers,  from John Peck good service .

 

 

cheers for any suggestions

 

Mick

I think I read that Peco will still sell individual Parkside kit sprues, although I also seem to recall that it was at a more expensive price than from Parkside.

9 hours ago, 5050 said:

Well, to me it means that swopping wheels and axles for suitable alternatives such as Gibson wheels could be rather difficult given all the cogs and suchlike that would have to be transposed to the new axles.  Captain K's idea of  JE chassis would work I suppose - but what would you do with the OO chassis?  Find a 7mm narrow gauge modeller possibly that would pay a realistic price for it?  May as well buy the JE kit and have all the pleasure of building it.

Ah, right.  It is the use of connecting gears to all axles that is possibly an issue.  Just a general query, I have no specific interest in this model, but I would like to see models being easily convertible to more accurate gauges.

41 minutes ago, 5050 said:

Well, that answers the P4 query!

What does that mean then, for those who haven’t followed other Rapido releases?

1 hour ago, davefrk said:

Didn't realise there were unread posts on this thread, I do apologise. Been in a bit of a black dog mood recently due to some extended family problems with a nasty brother in law from London who is interferring with what Fiona as 'Power of attorney' is trying to do for her mother. The police have been involved which has shut him up for a while....

 

Anyway, finally got the website to upload, there had been a problem with the host saying our account was out of date to which I countered but we're still being billed for the website, oh they said.... Eventually they sent a patch and a new pass code number and we've spent all afternoon trying to get it all to work, it did work eventually through Opera but wouldn't work on Firefox until we deleted our cache/history and uploaded again then all of a sudden it was there, way hey.
So, the Stanier 3P tank boiler fittings for the Judith Edge kit are now on the website in the 'miscellaneous' section.
The LMS home page is showing November 2020 date, if you don't get the right page with a link or favourites then use the address www.lanarkshiremodels.com and save that as there may be a couple of ghost pages still around.

Cheers all
Dave Franks

Viewing the new 3P listings on iPad, something seems to have gone a bit wrong with the details of which items are in set  LDB01B?  i.e. the “curly vent pipes (left and right handed)” looks to be part of LDB01C (opening bracket also missing!)

Would it maybe also be possible to make the pictures clickable to enlarge them so your handy work can be seen better?  Or to have separate, close up pictures?  Thinking about it, clickable images, to enable them to be seen at a larger size, might also be worth considering for other items?  Would then let folk see the details incorporated more easily! 

I must look out my Nu-cast 3P and see what parts come with that and whether they are suitable for one of the Dumfries based ones.

Hope some of this helps or is worth consideration.

17 hours ago, D9001 said:

Thanks, yes, but they are flat brass which needs shaping, attaching and filling which may be the most basic of modelling but my old eyesight isn’t very good and getting progressively worse, hence the suggestion for pre-shaped plastic versions.

 

Age gets us all. 

No problem, thought it worthwhile mentioning, just in case you were not aware of them!