darren chpamn

13 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

K40 Full brake from Comet sides and Airfix B set body/bogies

Mike Wiltshire

Thanks that's kind of what I want to do   

Do you know if the drop lights come  with the sides?

I know I need end details, underframe  bogies and roof vents to finish is there anything else that's needed

Hi everyone

Being a novice with great western  I may be asking a stupid question 

I have a few spare  airfix b set coaches  that I would like to convert  into some different  coaches  for my BLT  layout  are there any comet sides  that I could use to expand my fleet 

Parcels or coaches  

Regards darren

I've emailed  trevor but so far no responce  yet 

10 hours ago, 57xx said:

There are some more topics covering this:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for this link  that's been very useful

Thanks for all your input  

Darren

I'm in the process  of building a small station  terminus exhibition  layout  and I want to use either 3 link coupling  or sprat winkle

Being  it's a small layout there will be lots of shunting of wagons and coaches  

Stock wise it's about 6 locos 5 coaches and about 15 to 20 wagons 

So what are your thoughts pro and cons on both types of coupling 

Regards darren 

Thanks I've got a extra 2 foot to play with  so maybe able to squeeze  mediums in 

Jules 

Do you remember what radius points you used?

11 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

A small chance but you just might find one of the Model Wagon Company Cambrian cattle wagons for sale somewhere. It was a cast metal kit.

And David Geen had W8 and W10 GWR cattle wagons on his list but I don't know if they were ever re;leased. David has now retired.

ABS also had a W2 kit, though also no longer available.

This website is a very useful resource:

http://www.gwr.org.uk/kits4wagons.html

but an awful lot are listed as NLA.

See also the comments on RTR cattle wagons elsewhere on the site.

Jonathan

Hi jonathan 

Thanks for the information  I did see that wagon list when I stumbled  across  that website .  

I think it does come down to either converting a airfix kit or living with the inaccurate  Bachmann  model  ,  who knows if every gwr modeller badgered  peco they may end up producing  a model 

Daz

15 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

Options are to scratch build, source Coopercraft via EBay or conversion of the BR design.  
 

so far I have sourced 4 of the Coopercraft kits via eBay (although two of them are missing their chassis which will need scratch building) and backdated one Airfix kit. (There was an article published on the conversion although the magazine escapes me)

 

It would be a very good shout for Peco (Parkside) to do, especially as the Coopercraft kit had some pretty fundamental issues in the profile of the ends / roof

thanks for quick reply   looks like converting airfix ones is my only option

hi everyone 

being new to modeling GW  what are my options for cattle wagons obviously coopercraft kits are hard to come by

daz

thanks for everyone help on this question

Hi 

This may sound a stupid question  did the station building  signal boxes and other station equipment get repainted after nationalisation or did it stay the same colours  ,if it did change when did that happen? Hope that makes sense 

Darren

Hi 

What is your loco fleet that you use on the layout ?

Quick question 

Does anyone know what pacers have now been preserved  and where

During the  great storm of 87 we lost our club room for a long period during this time we started a news letter so we could keep the club alive this news letter has been going ever since 

With all these  show now being cancelled  please remember  some of the trade survive on going to exhibitions to make ends meat  , so now it's time to support our traders 

I will certainly be ordering kits that I would of purchased  at shows  because I dont wish to loose more traders because they have lost out on our money not going to the show 

Just plug to push this post to get information  out to people who would come to our show 

I'm going to be renaming  and numbering a few west country and battle of Britain' locos  and wanted to know who's name plates are the best to use  modelmasters or foxes 

Kind regards  daz

What would you  say is the ratio of T9s ,WC/BBs  and  n classes that you would need to run a north Cornwall layout   

I have a ratio 1 t9 to 2wc/bb and 3 N class would you say  that looks correct 

Daz

I Was told this very sad new  on the day of his passing  away and was shocked by the news i was fortunate to work with Vernon in the days of modelzone,  He was a amazing guy to work with  he will sorely be missed by the model railway community  my thoughts go to kerry and the children at the hard time  

I'm going to wire for both I'm going to use  t track standards  too

47 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Good question, my gut reaction is no as I know on Treneglos we spent a lot of time looking for the Bachmann right-handed Ns with straight-sided 3500gal tenders. The U1s that visited had the slope-sided. I'm away from my books but will look later.

I've been looking through my books too Chris and I can not find one but as I know you have  a wealth  of knowledge  on ncr  so thought I ask   just in case you knew of one

Did any  right handed slope side tendered n class work ncr between the late 50s early 60s  

22 hours ago, Adamphillip said:

Me and the girlfriend are going to be doing T-Trak as a little project so she can have her own layout.

Are you running dcc or dc