richbrummitt

Ive owned a couple of Renaults, a Peugeot and a couple of Citroen. Weird engineering decisions seem to be de rigueur for French car makers, the trim is impossible to maintain and the electrics are a lottery. Maybe the kit was trying to be true to reality.

10 hours ago, WillCav said:

Excellent advice.  I am researching the O11/O15 and V12/14/16 types at the moment as there seems to be some uncertainty as to where the V hanger should go (central / slightly offset / more offset) on somw types and Atkins is not that helpful in this instance.

I have too many DC1 braked vehicles thanks to Cooper craft's instructions too!

Thanks

Will

For the Minks: V12 offset V hanger, central on V14/16. I haven't actually finished any Opens so unable to help on those. I found this out after I finished bending a PECO body and NGS ends into a V12 so have the same issues as you and @Enterprisingwestern have found yourselves in. Since I'd already done the painting and lettering I hid behind a parapet. 

I used an inkjet. 9 years ago it would have been an HP one I think.

Ian and I both made ours by printing onto Rizla. 

2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

 

Thanks for that Pete, I didn't know GW Models had one of those in their range.  I see there's a fairly recent (late 2018) price list here: 

 

There's a more recent one on the scale four forum.

3 hours ago, queensquare said:

 

 

 

 

More often than not the eye is going to be following a train in or out of the tunnel, which obscures most of the opening. In the picture above the hole is only more noticeable because the sky is missing. 

There's nothing unprototypical about mixing sleeper types. 5 minutes up the road at our nearest station there's a mix of wooden and concrete sleepers with timbers mixed in.

There's sometimes a mix for all sorts of reasons. The two applying to you also apply more generally.  Having through hole components gives a more robust fixation to the board for anything that is touched or shaken. An SMD is only attached to the pad(s) on one side and they can delaminate. A through hole should have solder all the way through the hole onto the pads on both sides. 

I agree with Nick. The latest example for me was an eBay 7x16 coreless motor that is no longer in the model having spent out on a Tramfabriek one because the first was unsatisfactory. In this case I bought cheap to buy twice but I think it's a similar lesson...

Serious, well researched, modelling presented in a lighthearted style. Bravo!

Did you rule out fixing the insulating layers to the central block? I'm assuming there's limited soldering there, if any.

Delighted to see another 2mm blog 

Lovely ropes. So often overdone or fuzzy. What did you use?  

Another general question (Mikkel's image got me thinking again): why is a deep red/brown colour so often referred to as lake?

56 minutes ago, kitpw said:

"GWR Freight Wagons & Loads In Service On The Great Western Railway And British Rail, Western Region" has a picture (Fig 11) dated to 1910 of a 4 plank open (No 54156) with a caption "...a different system of loading sawn timber into open wagons" - although the "sawn timber" looks to be riven, not sawn, and may be protecting another sort of load behind  a "hedge" of timbers standing upright in the wagon.  Nevertheless, JH Russell suggests that sawn timber was carried in GWR 4 plank opens in 1910 and I dare say it was already established practice. 

I've made a model of that wagon and will always wonder if it is atypical. 

I assumed the surrounding timber was increasing capacity for more timber. 

My memories of going to the Pontefract show years ago (with someone else's layout) are largely to do with how good the hospitality was, especially the exhibitors lunches. Good to hear you were well looked and after.

Congratulations on the silverware.

I used to walk the path adjacent to Basingstoke regularly as our first home (the wife and I) was just off the top edge of your crop of the nls sourced map on the RHS of the top edge and when we bought our first house it was only a few minutes walk to the north.

The 'pop up' car parks, as at Basingstoke, were installed in the last couple of years to increase capacity at a number of stations between here and London Waterloo (and probably a number of other places also?).

If you had a passenger train between 8 and 6 then it is unlikely a freight would precede it and therefore your first scenario seems void in real world situation. To shunt freight out in front would be improbable. More likely a head shunt (siding in the opposite direction at the entrance to a fan of sidings) for the sidings created by 2 through 4 would be provided with a LH? connection creating a line parallel to the track 6 to 11.

Sidings in the bottom right could work well and add interest in the opposite direction main running line.

I'd hazard a guess that resting horses were essentially spares, that inferred from Mikkel's quoting of Janet Russell. 

 for big trees.  

2 hours ago, Kylestrome said:

 

I am sold on the big stuff but I need more space!

Best of luck getting sound into a 2mm Class 08 ... 

 

David

I think the way to do it is probably a sound decoder in the layout consisted to a locomotive. Might not work convincingly for anything other than small to medium layouts but to fit a larger decoder and speaker in our little engines is asking too much. 

An enjoyable few hours spent in great company.  More on the business 2mm when it's ready. 

I'm not sold on the big stuff for myself but I do need sound. 

Hand built track seen from that kind of vantage point shows off to advantage why it is worth the effort. I would certainly be interested to hear more about your beautiful Swan

It takes more coats to paint red over black - the red is always dull and dark, in my experience. I'm thinking about brilliant reds e.g. buffer beams, signals here. Brown reds do not suffer the same. I treat red as a weak colour in the same way as yellow.

Van would be the term for a full brake. I.e. capacity to carry things but not passengers. 

I believe that the GWR were particular with their language regarding brake third and van third. It is clear they made the effort to distinguish.

I therefore suggest that your trains in the post would - in correct GWR parlance - be:

*Stands up for shooting*

Van Third, Third, Composite, Van

Brake Third, Composite, Van Third

Brake Third, Composite, Third, Van Third

although I haven't looked in Williams' books for a long time to check his terminology.

Red is not a good colour to over paint with. I usually go for a coat (or more) of white base in between.