Willy

Great work again Jinty. 

Absolutely, for as long as you need.

 

Steve, if I were to order a Class 15 from you in the next week or so would you hold it for me to pick up at the GOG Kettering on Saturday 4th March.

 

Cheers

 

Willy

Kind comments, thank you.

 

 

I was given a 'Royal Mail' Heljan GUV to re-work.

I decided that it would have a replacement door (in blue) and a patch repair along the hinge line.

The body was to be toned down somewhat as the owner wasn't too keen on the bright red livery, so passes over with the fibre brush, then MIG rainmarks stain, worked into streaks with IPA and left to dry white. The body was then attacked with various weathering liquids and pastes and eventually passed over with the airbrush with soot and dirt tones.

 

I'm quite pleased with it, maybe it's looking a bit too forlorn, but RM red did fade quite quickly in service!!!

 

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Another blue GUV and a 'Blue Circle' Cargowaggon are also underway, so should be completed by mid week.

 

Jinty

 

 

 

Superb!

Another very happy customer with Paul’s sound system fitted to D3043 (green, no stripes). It is superb.

For all you gripers here there is an MMP kit for a class 08 for sale on the GOG website for £160. All you have to do is; join the GOG, buy the wheels and motor, build it and then paint it and I am certain it will be absolutely perfect. The paint will be perfect for which ever loco you choose at what ever time and don’t forget it would have had a different shade of blue depending on how long it had been out of shop, etc. because some of them faded rater badly. They will also have the electrical trunking in the correct place but you will have to be sure and see a photo of the rear of the cab on your chosen loco, at your chosen time, just in case someone in the electrical shop didn’t reroute the conduit because it was more convenient to do so at the time! Also, did you get a photo of both sides of your loco, just to make sure! Meanwhile, the pragmatic amongst us will either ignore the various ‘problems’ or get a paint brush, or a modelling knife, and set about them and have an excellent loco up and running in the time it will take you to read the kit instructions.

 

I am no apologist for Dapol nor do I have any connection with them other than owning 2 very good little Terriers which were a fraction of the cost of a brass kit, or RTR brass, and to my mind, are excellent value and I have another one on order. If I were in the market for an 08 I would buy the Dapol without hesitation and if there was a minor ‘error’ I would either ignore it or put it right and get on with life. 

 

Willy

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/425_1.html   have SR green in stock.

 

Willy

 

 

They do say that further Ex-Lionheart releases will be announced soon so I wonder if the small prairie is on the cards!

 

Willy

 

 

  

Willy,

 

This sounds like the problem many had with the first batch of sound fitted Terriers.

 

The problem is with the add-on interference suppression circuit board and is well known to Dapol. They have a solution available via DCC Supplies who will change the faulty/incorrect components for you.

 

Contact DCC Supplies and they will repair your model so you get back the one with the livery you need.

 

(Actually, the suppression circuit is not needed when you have a decoder fitted so if you are confident enough, you could remove the small board below the board with the decoder socket, and solder the orange and grey motor wires to the main PCB direct).

 

I am not advising you to remove the suppression PCB, although I have done this sucessfully to several Dapol Terriers. I just added the note for completeness as you asked for a 'not return to base' solution.

 

My advice is to contact DCC Supplies to arrange for a repair.

 

Kind regards,

 

Paul

 

 

Thank you Paul, very useful. I thought the problem was mechanical and I hadn’t considered that there may be a problem with the ‘electronics’. 

 

I will contact DCC Supplies in the morning and see what they say.

 

Thanks again.

 

Willy

Hi Willy,

 

It sounds to me like the quartering is out especially if the wheels lock up on each revolution , and the buzzing is the motor straining to turnover.

 

If it's not the quartering then it sounds like the bushes are binding on the centre axle, in which case you might need to ream the bushes out a fraction.

 

Hope this is of some help.

 

Martyn.

 

 

 

Thank you Martyn and you are probably right but I have only had it a week and it is brand new so I think I will return it. 

 

I am keeping an eye on ‘Church Norton’ and it is coming along nicely, I am very impressed.

Willy.........  you  dont  say  where it  was  purchased,  but   I would  simply  return  it  and  ask  for  a  refund  and  repayment  of  your  postal  costs,  most  retailers  are  happy  to  do  this  without any  problems.

 

 

Willy

 

If it runs that badly out of the box I would just send it straight back. If you start tinkering they may well not take it back.

 

John

 

 

 

Thank you both.

 

I purchased it from Antics and I am sure there would be no trouble returning it for a full refund or a replacement.

 

I was just hoping that there may be a simple solution without returning it because that is the last one in that livery. 

I have just bought a new sound fitted Terrier from the first batch (⌗2644 in Southern livery) and I have a problem with the running and I will try and explain what I mean.

 

If I start off at slow speed it stops just about every revolution of the wheels and sometimes there is a slight buzzing from the motor or speaker and sometimes not. If I turn up to half speed or so it will run but when I reverse it stops again. If I do get it to run in reverse it seems to lurch along as though it has a tight spot. I did notice that sometimes it rocks on the centre axle and if I put it in my ‘maintenance’ cradle one wheel on the centre axle has reasonable up and down movement but the other side not so much! As I say, it is new so I don’t want to tinker just in case I need to send it back.

 

I have another Terrier and it runs fine, as does my Peckett and my kit-built locos so I would say there is no problem with the track or controller. (NCE Power cab)

 

Has anyone else had a problem like this?

I had this on my Apple mini for a couple of days till I installed the updates and restarted it.

 

 

Thank you for your response.

 

I am using Apple so I will try that update later today.

 

I had a few minutes spare so I took the opportunity to update Adobe and I have my picture back, so thanks again.

 

Willy

Is anyone else getting this bank screen?

 

It has been like this for the past couple of days!

 

Willy

Thank you Dr.

 

Willy

What livery is this please?

Thank you both.

 

I though it was going to be like yesterday when I missed a train of UP passenger cars go by behind a train of double-stacks that was stopped across the crossing. I could just catch a glimpse of the yellow cars between the containers but not enough to see what they were.

 

Willy

I have never seen anything like these before but I assume they are new coal hoppers but who owns them and where do they normally run? They were part of a complete train of the same cars but I just caught the tail end because it was mostly hidden by a double stack.

 

Willy

Has anyone considered repainting one in GWR livery or would it involve a lot of extra modification?

 

Willy

Chris,

Willy thanks

------------ My personal modelling  philosophy is I'd rather have something 90% "accurate" well modelled than something "prototypically accurate" badly done  - the wrong number nicely done with a smooth finish is better than the right number with decal film etc. ------------

Chris

Chris,

 

This philosophy is commendable and I would like to think that most people are more than willing to share their knowledge and skills with others.

 

Willy

Thank you Steve.

 

Willy

Whether you require pre- or post 1937 GWR livery, or BR, I can supply the necessary transfers.

 

See Sheets C102, C103 & C104 at http://www.cctrans.freeserve.co.uk/products.htm .

 

Regards,

John Isherwood,

Cambridge Custom Transfers.

Many thanks for your offer John but I already have a sheet of HMRS transfers which will be adequate for this project. However, for future reference I will keep a link to your website.

 

Willy

Willy

------------- I understood exactly what you wanted and I'm prepared to go along with the information Jim provides in his instructions where the word Lowmac is used on the basis that his research is likely to be rather better than mine. -------------

 

Chris

Chris

 

As I said, I purchased this wagon without instructions and, as I am not a GWR or Ex GWR expert, I had nothing to go on as far as livery was concerned, so your link to the instructions was a great help. I know you understood what I wanted because of this and the other link you posted and indeed you were taken to task yourself for that help. Anyway as a result of your help I know what I am going to do now so I will get on with it this coming weekend.

Thank you again.

 

Willy

My heading may have been ambiguous but under "Topic Description" I entered "Placing of running number, etc, in BR days" and in my first post I said "GWR Loriot M Diagram G14 Machinery Wagon from the Connoisseur range which I have painted in BR grey" so I thought my request was clear enough. However to some I seem to have not been perfectly correct so I must think more carefully before posting in future.

 

Incidentally, I wasn’t aware that this wagon was called LOMAC in BR days so I could not have mentioned it in my heading so I take issue with your criticism on this point. You have to remember that not everyone is an expert like yourself and hence the need for topics and requests such as this.

 

Willy.

Morning all!

 

What I meant Nick is that I have painted it more or less the same as Steve's in post #11 in this thread. That is BR grey side curb rail and black sideframes. I had already painted the black patches for the number, etc. when I realised that I wasn't sure of the correct placement.

 

Willy