Hal Nail
-
Posts
5,255 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Exhibition Layout Details
Store
Everything posted by Hal Nail
-
CRT on their compensation unit etch https://www.crtkits.co.uk/index.php/9/94114/
-
I think theoretically the physics says it is rubbish but fortunately no one has told Jimmy Anderson that! Conversely of course, everyone knows a shiny new bike goes faster.
-
In cricket, I believe reverse swing, when the ball is older, involves the rougher side going through the air faster than the highly polished shiny side (hence reverse).
-
I stripped a Dapol brake van in IPA and the lettering came off well before it had any impact at all on the body colour. No guarantee that would work when needed of course!
-
Problem with the speaker or the chip?!
-
I must put some shots up but I've been working on a second hand ABS LNER high goods which I picked up for £15: generally in pretty good shape but was missing the yokes. I confess I was going to make do with just the visible rod between the brake arms but I have a slightly looser attitude to the underside detail!
-
Hi, About half way down the text it says price list (underlined) and still links to the old one, so you've got both up at the moment!
-
For what its worth my Dapol locos (14xx, 57xx, 08) all run impeccably smoothly and if I had one that didnt, I would check it is actually ok before modifying it.
-
I live in West London on the Greenford branch right next to the old GWR sports ground but mum lives in Allbrook. I got drenched just cycling the couple of km from parkway up Twyford road!
-
Not a phrase you hear often! I'm heading there now to see parents and I suspect I'm going to get very wet.
-
I do like that carflat. Did your Wayoh bogies turn up? I've just got some GWR 9 foot Americans and the cast sides are a different wheelbase to the brass etch (the sides are in between 8 and 9 foot). I've got in touch with where I bought them but just interested if that's normal? Are the carflat bogies Wayoh or the Easy builds own?
-
Funnily enough I read how to do this 2 days ago (may have been on PWR's thread come to think of it). A wooden peg, self tapped using the nut. I've never had to do this but such a neat solution I'm looking for an excuse now!
-
Hither Green TMD project Chunnel and Workbench
Hal Nail replied to 47606odin's topic in 7mm+ modelling
All looks very convincing. Is the frame dirt a blend or just one the standard colours? -
Hither Green TMD project Chunnel and Workbench
Hal Nail replied to 47606odin's topic in 7mm+ modelling
Yes and the other method, covering the lot with rust, letting it dry and then roughly removing it, works best on a factory finish, otherwise you just take the main colour back off as well! -
Hither Green TMD project Chunnel and Workbench
Hal Nail replied to 47606odin's topic in 7mm+ modelling
Its working fine now. My phone has being doing random things for the last few days - call me a cynic but I suspect they send stuff overnight to mess them up once they decide its time you spent more on a new one. Anyway enjoyed that vid. I've tried the salt method, and covering the lot in rust before rubbing most off but haven't done the sponge yet so will give that a go. -
Hither Green TMD project Chunnel and Workbench
Hal Nail replied to 47606odin's topic in 7mm+ modelling
Is this a new format? Phone says it doesnt support it although I think my phone is on its way out so may be me. -
Presumably if you are doing something long like 90 degree turn in a solebar, you just have to do a section at a time and only bend it slightly, then move along and do the next bit to the same shallow angle, then go back to the start and bend a bit more etc so the "twist" in the bit being bent up is never very great?
-
I wanted a lined green without topfeed in 7mm some time ago and as a result did loads of research for a west country loco c1958 and drew a blank. I ended up doing 1451 and bending the timeframe as it lost its topfeed c1961/2 after a boiler swap. I now have a Dapol as 1419. ironically their black version has a top feed so I used their 58xx which came without and retro fitted the autogear.
-
Now for many years I have been convinced that mr mmp has an extensive spy network - like a sort of modelling secret police - that picks up whenever his kits are discussed. We shall soon see if I have a mole
-
How about two next to each other and create an incline railway?
-
I rather like that tractor - who makes it please?
-
'Maud' was always black (in BR days) and never had a top feed. In fact it probably didnt even leave Cornwall all that often although 1408 did get itself snapped at Lostwithiel when covering once. I've never seen a loco in green, no lining, early crest. Did this combination actually exist? In terms of records mentioned above, they are about, as Richard the Lionheart man quoted some mileage and boiler swap dates on the Dapol 14xx thread.
-
I missed this originally. Would you recommend these? I'd read that bending bars are pretty essential and since I don't have anywhere to put a vice, have avoided things like bogie bolsters or coach sole bars with long bends for now.
-
Super news! However given you love a new project, will we actually see Seven Mills mk27b or will you start again with a new space to fill?!
-
The salt was still damp when I sprayed the grey enamel over and I brushed most of it off before the grey was really hard. I've only actually kept one. I made the fatal mistake of adding up what my stock had cost so decided not to buy anything new for a while and have fun doing up what I had, before selling things on. I've kept one riveted that I rescued and will do a welded for me eventually.
