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aaaaah rest day - fire up the soldering iron again and stumble through the instructions
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Oswestry Works Diorama
Steve Taylor replied to alanbuttler's topic in Boxfiles, Micro layouts & Dioramas
Err just a thought. Have you allowed for the combined thickness of the mortar courses? On my prototype I measured the overall dimensions of key sections of brickwork and sampled some individual brick dimensions as well as noting the number of courses, headers, stringers and closers and if the mortar lines (approx 1/8-1/4") weren't factored in then the measurements never tallied, despite it being clearly visible how many bricks were used and how they were arranged. -
but I note a theme: if you build one, then they make them commercially. Please build the following - J21, j25, G5, A5, A8, K1 and Q6. To refine the request/hint to Bachby, please make them DCC,P4 and fully sprung. ta.
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motor and gearbox in the frames... it would be rude not to run them in. J72 sat up on blocks whirring away right up until one crankpin comes undone. Permission to wear a large grin
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Following prototypical recycling practices
Steve Taylor commented on Fen End Pit's blog entry in Fen End Pit's Blog
So reopening Geneva Central reclamation yard is on the cards then ? BTW - ta for showing a shot of in progress trackwork. I understand the edge protection factor going on and was pondering osmething similar. Have you used this method before and what effect has it on noise? Oh and whats the underlay? Cheers Steve -
RSU set to mild stun. An hour to spend before lunch and work. This is how wintry mornings should be
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Barrow Road Blog - Lawrence Hill Junction Signal Box - Update
Steve Taylor commented on barrowroad's blog entry in barrowroad's Blog
Hi, I'm revisiting your blog for "how-to" clues because I'm interested in getting my structures done in a similar way. The Signal box windows are really impressive and something that has caused me much puzzlement in trying to work out how to do my own ones. Is there any chance of you posting a section of the relevant artwork please so that I can see how to lay it out? Cheers Steve Edit> Ps aah having read on and re-examined I see the laminate construction now. -
Now, for you the audience at home: fingers on buzzers. Today is a rest day. After the household stuff is done, do I: (a) plod on with ongoing wagons, (b) plod in with a j72, © plod on with baseboard design, (d) get on with transcribing period drawings, or (e) say buggrit and get the Ivatt 4mt or V2 kits back out?
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first baseboard ribs glued up. I love the smell of mild solvents in the evening... smells like progress (at last)
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polyboard baseboard construction underway.
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Just consulted the original drawings for my prototype and compared against photos and it appears that even Victorian builders were not adverse to making it up as they went along when they got to site!
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Springing BB w-irons and I appear to have inadvertently invented a torsion bar version! Now sorted and normal boingy-ness resumes
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THanks for posting those up. Did i see a locking bar in that lot?
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Dingham's Modified - Now More Realistic!
Steve Taylor commented on Knuckles's blog entry in Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog
Ta for pursuing this and posting your findings. I've a set of Dingham etchings to play with at some point but had held off due to not being entirely happy with the finished appearance - this goes some way to helping solve that. Thanks Steve -
back in business again: templot and helicon safely installed onto new macbook. Time for a large sigh of relief and to get stripping and rebuilding the imac to sell it
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with call attention rung from the phone, a faint yellow smudge in the sky and the microwave announcing porridge ready it must be morning again. Another early shift in a big tin shed. Its probably not what I had in mind when going to careers meetings at school many years ago but possibly fits with the careers master's view of my future. Ironically up at seven for lates and i get loads done in the morning, but home at 2.45 after an early and I'm a zombie. Ironic as they pay less for ab early and demolish me in the procccess. Still, musn't grumble an 'aw that. Have a good day you lot in web-land.
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Eugh - early shift. 'nuff said, though I appear to have slept through the effects of a small sea washing round the house.
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Caw, a vast improvement on my last two experiences of carriage based accommodation. A roll-top bath in a mk one! When can i move in? It doesn't need TV but broadband is a must for work - can i move in on tuesday?
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The Model Signal box portfolio
Steve Taylor replied to Gravy Train's topic in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
Howard - any chance of bringing that box to a NAG meeting .I'm impressed with how tidy it all looks even in body-in-white mode. Steve -
aaaah. Relax. Breath. It's Monday, the house is quiet, "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" is on the wireless - ITS MODEL MANGLING o'clock
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oh blinking flip - having been playing with 12":1' real 66s and hoppers I might be having a mid-life crisis conversion
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csb-ed j72 frames are now dry built with blocks hangin nicely. WEight of desk has doubled due to missing self-propelled handrail knobs hiding arund the place
