Skinnylinny
-
Posts
2,128 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Exhibition Layout Details
Store
Everything posted by Skinnylinny
-
I've an Airfix Castle sitting on my shelf here that was obtained second-hand (or more probably, fourth- or fifth-hand. Unfortunately the bodyshell shows signs of melting (!) around the splashers and other parts. Could anyone with both a GBL and Airfix Castle tell me how easy it would be to attach a GBL bodyshell to the Airfix chassis? Many thanks to TheWeatheringMan for another comprehensive and useful review above. Thanks in advance, skinnylinny
-
Looking carefully at the picture, I'd be tempted to suggest that the "brake gear" looks more like the "web" between the tender wheels, due to them being cast as one piece. If it is, that'll be a huge pity as it will ruin the open look of the tender chassis, and will be nearly impossible to hide without taking a saw to the metalwork.
-
Morning, all. Just to wish anyone else with examinations (be they school, college, university or employment-related) some good luck; I'm not looking forward to the five university exams I have this week. The first one starts in a little over an hour, so I'm in the computer labs, frantically trying to cram a few extra marks' worth of knowledge into my skull for a few hours, before forgetting it all to learn more for tomorrow!
-
Got my first ever kit-built chassis up and running. It's cogging a bit but otherwise smooth, just need a replacement bolt to hold the dummy bogie on (oops!)
-
Honours Project tproposal accepted - I get to build a model railway. Not bad for a computer science degree!
-
Just submitted a proposal for a fourth-year university project involving model railways...
-
I was recently at Shildon for the Great Goodbye, and had been hoping to get a set of *something* featuring all six A4s. Even the little enamel pin badges would have come to over £20. However, I bought a copy of this magazine today to see if it had the potential for some bashing into another variant of A4. I'm not too worried about little detail differences, but my main concern was whether the side skirts could be removed. As it happens, it can: This was done simply by scoring the inside edge of the skirts (following the corner in the moulding) with a scalpel, then snapping the skirts off - they come off remarkably cleanly. The photo is pre-tidying up and fettling (and shows the body just mounted on the chassis and wheels without the brake gear). It still needs the front skirt section removing too. I might end up with a set of six of these in various conditions. After all, one of them is done already, and they'd be cheaper than (if not quite as finely detailed as) the Hornby set!
-
Managed to pick up a Bachmann short 20T brake van... in bright red! Think this might need a new paint job...
-
A strange moment when in the Pendon video, the commentator proudly states "The overall scale of the viaduct and the train is one centimeter to the foot, or one seventy-sixth of the actual size." Um... does this mean I've been scaling things wrongly all these years?
-
5 x Hachette Mk1 SKs... Check. One bottle of T-Cut... Check. Dremel? Where's the Dremel?
-
I've just got hold of the last Esso one from my local model shop. Living in Edinburgh, one of the two model railway shops had completely sold out, the other had one left in the display cabinet so I snapped it up. Got it home and it seems to be missing the detailing pack. However, with many places having none left, I'm loath to take it back.
-
The wonderful moment when you open a kit that's a good two decades older than you, only to find a piece missing... And the relief when it turns up wrapped in the instructions!
-
Loving the fact that my Operating Systems lecturer keeps explaining concepts in terms of railway signalling. Mutual exclusion and deadlock in terms of single-line working today.
-
Fiddling around with a Hornby Pug, a Dapol Pug kit and trying to make a vaguely industrial-looking shunter...
-
Manning Wardle 'H' Class. Or a Pug Bash. Part 1
Skinnylinny commented on 46444's blog entry in 46444's Blog
Looks interesting. I have found that the valve gear covers on the Hornby pug actually pop off with a little persuasion leaving two slidebars (no crosshead though - just a rivet between them to guide the connecting rod). They weren't glued on at all - simply lever the bottom of one of the covers down with a screwdriver or thumbnail. -
That wonderful moment when you realise you have nearly two dozen coaches... and only one shunting plank with (barely) enough space for four of them in all of the sidings!
-
That wonderful moment when you realise you have nearly two dozen coaches... and only one shunting plank with (barely) enough space for four of them in all of the sidings!
-
Just found the remains of an old City of Truro kit. My Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead.
-
Just found the remains of an old Dapol City of Truro kit. My Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead!
-
Just found the remains of an old Dapol City of Truro kit. My Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead!
-
Just found the remains of an old Dapol City of Truro kit. My Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead!
-
Just found the remains of an old Dapol City of Truro kit - my Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead!
-
Just found some bits of an old Dapol City of Truro kit - my Mainline Collett Goods now has a backhead!
