Jack

On 09/08/2022 at 12:27, Jack said:

Duck is in use as the test engine.  All my other stick is fitted with Lenz gold decoders and stay alive.  Duck is still only fitted with a Lenz silver as I have a custom sound project to go in there eventually.

 

Duck is nearly finished. In 2018 I recorded my mother reading some of Duck's sayings from the TTTE book. She died last year, and I have finally cleaned up the audio. YouChoos then put a couple onto an Zimo MS440C chip and the quality is really good.

Mum was the reason I got into trains in 1977/78 as she used to take me to the local steam railway (sklr) so dad could catch up on sleep when he was on night shift. It seems like a fitting tribute ... and I always thought Duck was a bit effeminate when I read the TTTE books 😂

No movement on the layout, although that should change in the autumn with a return to working regular hours and the space to leave the layout up.

Our club have used flat head screws secured at the baseboard edges and adjusted to the height of the rail. The rail is then laid over the top with the webbing trimmed back. It's then soldered to the screw then cut at the joint.

I haven't used them on my O gauge because the peco track is very sturdy and the layout has protector plates for storage and transit.

Defo recommend pattern makers dowels.

The chapel and balcony were full to standing room only this morning for Bob's funeral. A fitting tribute to a top bloke and a superb craftsman. He'll certainly be missed.

I hope the recovery is going well Dave?

I always tune in here for my pix-fix. Looking forward to some more when you're fighting fit again.

Thanks for keeping this part of the forum interesting!!

Huge thanks to everyone who came along. It was another fantastic weekend, and there were some cracking layouts.

We really enjoyed ourselves 😊

My son did this badge a couple of years back.

The scout troop had been able to buy a bulk order of Airfix Spitfires and me109s at a discounted price. The price per plane was very reasonable, and John made a pretty good job of it.

it would be great to encourage more troops to do a railway kit, but the planes were quite appealing. For the price I think they'd only have been able to get some unsexy 4 wheel open wagons!

Not a layout, the Wagon Yard (Trader) has had to pull out, so we have an extra layout instead.

I saw Brief Encounter at Maidstone last month. It's a really interesting layout concept, although it did take a few minutes for my brain to adjust! Definitely brings something different to the circuit, so hopefully other exhibition invites will be forth coming.

Although, come on Dawn, could you not afford a colour layout license 🤣

LAYOUTS

Conyer Creek Signals - O gauge - SECR                             

Outwell Village - OO scale - Wisbech Tramway          

Wittenden - O/16.5 - Freelance                       

North Cornwall Brewery - OO - BR(S) 1960's                  

Lisworth Bay - N - BR(S) 1950's-60's          

Alpenbahn - N - Swiss Alps                     

Santa Maria - HOm - Switzerland 2000's         

Old Parrock - OO FS - LBSCR                           

Bottom Works Sidings - OO FS - BR 1970's                     

Cessy en Bois - HO - SNCF 1970's                  

Four Feather Falls - OOO - Lonestar                                   

Lego City Railway - Lego - Modern image                 

Frittenden Road - O - Pre-WW1 Colonel Stephens   

Bletchinghurst - OO scale BR(S)

Dydley Junction - N - LMS/GWR/BR(W) 

Coalhouse - OO - Private Owner 

Canterbury and District Model Engineering Society - Model Display and Train Rides

TRADE 

Invicta Model Rail

Carriage and Wagon Models

Kent Garden Railways

Flexxgenix

DOW Scenics

Supercast

Kent Model Exchange

Doug's Tools

Heritage in Motion

Euroscale Models

Coastal DCC

The Wagon Yard

CCMRS Sales

Golden Arrow

4 Sub Association

Network South East Society/Southern Electric Group

Best Model Toys Auctions

Back this year at St Anselm's School on the Old Dover Road.

Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 10am - 4pm

Adults £7, Children (5-15) £1

Layouts, trade, demonstrations, food and (weather permitting) outdoor train rides.

Please note, sadly as per last year, there is only limited parking (for disabled visitors) on site.  We ask everyone else to either park in the Dover Road Park and Ride (next door) or use the bus (numbers 15,16, 17 and 89).

See the club website for more details and updates : www.ccmrs.co.uk

12 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

From the website, showing the middle module. 
 

That's great, thank you - must look harder next time!

Ta

On 23/10/2023 at 09:25, PaulRhB said:

 

 

 

Which layout is this?  There is no label above that I could see, and I couldn't see it on the show website.  It looks intriguing, and I love the way they have done the bridges between modules!

Unfortunately I didn’t get any snaps, but there were some enticing samples of these at the Folkestone show today.

Not my era, but still very tempting!!

2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

I'm hoping the brake rodding and yokes will unclip to give me a little elbow room!

Yes, the brake rodding unclips - it is also quite flexible, so you can almost work around it.  The NEM363 coupling mount also unscrews, which makes life a bit easier.  Be warned, if you take both pockets off at once, the screws also hold the body to the chassis.

I went for the option of gluing an NEM pocket on because I didn't have any other bits in my Kadee box and I was being impatient.  It would be good to know which of the 140 series couplings works best with these.

So, being a Kadee users I was a little disappointed by the lack of NEM 362 pockets.

However, thankfully the coupling mounts unscrew, so I cut them down and glued a spare pocket onto the remains, then replaced it and clipped a #19 kadee in. All good 😁

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

The next batch are from Didcot on a visit in May 1979.  They had Morris dancers as an extra attraction.

 

Didcot Morris Dancing May 79 C4536

 

Wow - we often bemoan the aging of the model railway community, but look how young those Morris Dancers are ... I don't think I have ever been out and about in the last 20 years and seen Morris Dancers looking that youthful!!!

As always David, such a great thread, thanks for sharing all the piccies!

A great weekend show ... despite the lack of parking and heating!

Some fantastic layouts, and a fun weekend.

huge thanks to those exhibitors who travelled such a long way - hope you got back ok?

Please note that this year we have lost our visitor carpark - the school are re-surfacing the area we normally use.

Parking is available next door at the Dover Road Park and Ride, and there is a frequent bus service into the city.

There will be a limited amount of disabled parking on site, but I must stress this is limited.

Layouts

Holt Street 

Wellbridge

Lemanis Light Railway

Great Endon

Parrot Hall

Medway Quay

Docklands Like Railway 

Hoppers End

Ulvaryd

Cedar Canyon Junction 

Lancaster Lane

Lockdown Sidings 

Southwark Bridge

Tanners Hill

Freshwater 

Sible Road

Trade

Invicta Model Rail

Kent Garden Railways 

The Wagon Yard 

Dougs Tools

DOW Scenics 

Supercast 

Kent Model Exchange 

Carriage and Wagon Models 

NSE Society

4SUB Association 

Flexxgenix

Double O Gauge Association 

David Wills 

Euroscale Models

Heritage in Motion

Coastal DCC

Rail Books

CCMRS sales stand

Canterbury and District Model Engineering Society 

Details in the flyer ... 

Poster Flyer 2023.pdf

I've been trying to find out some information on this as well. 

1 hour ago, Hippel said:

I see that one of the first offerings will be in WD black. May I ask the learned people on here what time period would this be suitable for, also what time period the WD green livery would cover? Thanks, but I'm normally a banger blue 08 fan.

 

Cheers,

Paul

Black for those on home service from introduction (1943) until demob (in the 7xxxx number range), green or kahki/brown for those destined for overseas service ... except some of the green ones didn't go straight overseas , so you can justifiably run both colours on a WW2 era layout ... although whether the green ones would have been seen on Big Four metals is another matter.

Post war / demob (1947/48) all the military ones went green ... aside from the LMR blue ones of course (1945 onwards).

On 24/09/2022 at 21:41, PaulRhB said:

Simplified but effectively chosen underframe details. The couplings are prototypical so no NEM pockets. There’s a cutout slot to allow the couplings to negotiate 2ft radius but it will be easy to blank off and add other coupling mounts with minimal effort. 

Hmm, I can kinda see where they are coming from with the lack of NEM pockets, but it doesn't take into account those customers that want to run them with other stock. I would have thought that if those couplings had been mounted in pockets, everyone would have been happy. This does seem a little retrograde. On models of this price I'm not sure I'm brave enough to start hacking around too much ...

... shame, as they do look exquisite!

I put mine on the rolling road today to run it in (I know the instructions say there is no need, but it has made a difference to the noise level).

It has left a couple of small piles of what looks like brass filings on the test track. I can’t see where these have come from. Anyone else had this? It doesn’t look like they’ve come from the wheels or motion.

Thanks John. I think you're right about the couplings and I'll try some different tools.

As for Duck, well I stopped short of hacking a Dapol Jinty into Thomas 😁