BG John

doesnt a search mainly work with titles and descriptions, most of my photos dont get seen because i dont annotate them as they are just uploaded as hosting for RMweb so i dont care about them not being seen directly

Why use it for hosting for RMweb when you can upload directly to here? For those of us with slow broadband, it makes your interesting topics verge on the unreadable, because of the time it takes pages to load, and the way the page jumps around, and ends up on a post I'd already seen days ago, rather than the first unread post.

As I've recently bought a CNC milling machine and a 3D printer, I'd like to make one of these. Do you think it would be difficult?

Some crackers here

 

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Is a seance with a homicide victim admissible as evidence?

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Only if it really is Hattons!

It really is them, as I've chatted to them online about it!

Just had an e-mail from Hattons: "Our latest information from the supplier suggests this item will arrive with us on or after Monday 11th December 2017".

On or after!!!!!!!

Hattons seem to be trying to extract money from my bank account. Or at least they want updated card details as my old one expired months ago. Is this a hopeful sign?

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Imagine being able to 3D print ready ballasted track like that .

Designing for gauges other than OO is a huge step forward. I suppose it's logical for a manufacturer based in a country where OO gauge is 13½" under scale, rather than the 7" different we have. I wonder if it will have any effect on manufacturers based outside of Ireland.

The only real options I can see are the offerings of Tata and Mahindra, maybe Great Wall as well. Even these have a few (admittedly legally required) bits and bobs I'm not fantastically keen on

A reason why I want my old car, from the days before all this new legal nonsense, back, rather than a modern basic one. The only annoying gimmick my Escort Estate had was central locking, and I suppose I could have disabled that. In fact, I wish I'd done it before my dog locked himself in, with the keys in the ignition!

Lots of exhibits at York, a long time ago.

Next, more stuffed and mounted exhibits.

 Needs some spec checking of the polymer to assess whether it is a goer. Intuitively, free rolling smooth tyres on plain straight track should not cause much wear. Curved track, there has to be more wear. Possibly make all unpowered vehicles with a loose wheel on the axle to limit this effect if necessary? The location which would need particular thought is pointwork where there are scrubbing actions, metal components for the moving parts and crossings perhaps?

 

Interesting idea altogether which will become of broader application as on board power and wireless control develops.

It also depends on how often you play trains operate the layout! The best way is to try it. The materials are cheap, and the human time involved in production shouldn't be too long. There seem to be people out there in the big wide world who have their 3D printers running 24/7. Printing all the track for a layout could be very slow, but would only need human intervention whenever the print bed is full. I wasn't intending to use RC for my BG layouts, but it's getting more tempting. I've got other projects on the go where I could print some track though.

What you might just get is the odd slipped slate where the fixing nail(s) have rusted through. Normally they slipped straight down, constrained by the remainder of the slates. A slate that had slipped right out of position might well still lie on top of other slates on the roof, pushed around by the wind and so lying diagonally. The odd chipped slate is a possibility too - although really I would have expected the Caley to have ensured that slates on its signal box roofs stayed in good order.

If the roofer doesn't turn up before it's light to fix my hole, I could take some photos in the morning if you like. I suppose I ought to have some for modelling purposes anyway!

It seems that I have solved the problem, but I have to browse and upload each file individually. Anyway, here at last are the photos, which I hope fulfil expectations. The figures are by ModelU.

 

Regards,

 

Chris

That seems like the problem I was having. The Advanced Uploader was making Flash crash whenever I tried to select files, so I had to switch to the Basic Uploader, that worked, but one photo at a time. When I updated to Firefox 57, the problem went away, and I'm back to using the Advanced Uploader.

And not just British tramways, although strictly speaking this is an 020, being from foreign parts.

 

GWR No 101, made famous/infamous by Hornby, was built to work passenger trains on the Wrington Vale Light Railway. The reason it didn't was more to do with the technology incorporated into the loco than the number of wheels. I'm tempted to put an EM chassis under one of my spare bodies, and assume the technical problems were overcome!

Some steam railmotors were built with what was effectively a separate 0-4-0 loco, and the some locos were later detached, but I don't think in general they were then used on passenger trains.

How many of the RTR wagons are actually models of SECR wagons, and how many are bog standard off the shelf products in SECR livery? A quick look at the Dapol produced K&ESR wagons suggests the similarity ends at the number of wheels and the number of planks in the body! To match the accuracy of the RTR rolling stock, Hattons could have commissioned Hornby to produce a batch of Terriers in SECR livery, and passed them off as Ps .

Is it a steep learning curve...  or a slippery slope....  or just a leap over the cliff......

No, it's quite easy. Just search for the best price on Aliexpress, and click Buy .

The rails were long gone from here too. My best mate and my bike at the end of the High Peak Trail, north of Parsley Hay, on 13th April 2003:

My current van at Bronwydd Arms on the Gwili Railway:

My first car (Morris 1300), at Newbury:

My Polo at Chard on 2nd August 1987, although the rails were long gone!

My Dad's Vauxhall Viva (far left), that I used until I could afford my own car, at Pewsey in July 1975:

My Opel Ascona visits the West Somerset Railway:

No photos exist of me refitting the Opel's automatic gear selector in pouring rain in the car park at Highley on the SVR, when it came off in my hand .

Keep going with the same subject.

Motors ordered from China. Oh dear, what have I done?

Not sure what Scale he means.  He says 1/32 which is Gauge 1ish (Not going to open THAT can of worms) but then states its G scale (1/22.5 aka Gauge 3) 

1/32. I've just measured it (roughly) in FreeCAD. I updated the topic title too.

Wantage Tramway Station has a good example.

It's easy to model in Lego too .

For an idea we haven't tried before, how about your car parked outside a station!

My yellow Escort Sport at Chepstow in May 1980

Next: Your car parked outside a station

RM Web sometimes leads down some odd byways...

Sometimes? I think you should seek help if you can only see it happening "sometimes" .

My aim is for everything on my layout to be radio controlled, so I could operate it from the exhibition hall cafe if I wanted! As long as I have a video link to see what I'm doing, but I'm not planning that . It will be narrow gauge, so I'm not restricted to 3-link couplings. Some form of chopper coupling, maybe even butchered tension locks, wouldn't be out of place. I think that after putting so much effort into controlling viewing angles, giving the opportunity to do some really creative things with the space, sticking a giant hand into the scene as part of routine operation would totally destroy the illusion.

I think some kind of hands free coupling and uncoupling is essential. Maybe this is an area where some creativity is needed, so that something that looks like a 3-link coupling is seen by viewers, but an unrealistic coupling/uncoupling operation takes place hidden behind some scenic feature.

I was once rather taken by this canopy at (unrebuilt) Lewes.

That's a useful picture, as it clearly shows track ballasted over the sleepers, and is not too far from the K&ESR. Its quite clear where parts of chairs are visible, and a few areas where there's less ballast. It would have been nice to have a good view of the area around the switches on plain points though. I think my idea for Holman's End, of using bodged up second-hand copperclad track, with extra detail in just a few areas, should be practical.