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  1. Reading May 1983 edition in the Autumn of 2023 is one serious back log of reading ………… Andy
  2. It is possible that the smaller shows do more to inspire existing and new modellers. Small shows may not have the giant layouts with long trains and maybe that inspires some however you do get a more relaxed event where the visitor can interact with the layout operators, traders and demonstrators. Without 3 deep crowds you can see better, feel more comfortable standing and watching and operators feel more able to discuss the models, why and how they did what they did. I suppose inspiration is a personal thing that comes in many forms. Andy I hint that
  3. If you have not been involved with the management of a model railway show you can’t imagine how much responsibility is resting on a relatively small number of Shoulders. The club members turn out, hump barriers, make tea and coffee, direct folk, take money, run cables etc working hard for one extended weekend. The management / management team live and breathe that show all year, the bigger the show the more demanding. With hall hire, hotel costs, advertising, van and fuel expenses an out right failure can bust a club with expenses potentially running into 10s of thousands of pounds.. Will it fit, will they come, will they spend enough with the traders. often the biggest shows really on a very small number of individuals. Hero’s. I know because I did my share, I didn’t stop because I wasn’t bothered. Andy
  4. Caledonian smokey joe on eBay, buy it now. £11.20 boxed. Andy
  5. I think as a child you play trains (track on the carpet) and if you develop the hobby you may become a railway modeller in whatever way you want that to be. My first loco was second hand in about 1975, it was a triang Jinty, I was 10. then I had a GWR Hornby pannier as new and by the time I had track down on some boards I had a Hornby Duchess, well I thought I was king of the world. Well, I could buy them again today on eBay, the duchess is £15 with the tanks under £10. They almost give away second hand track. it’s not like computer games where old versions are not supported. You can pick any level to enter at. There are loads of wagons and coaches that are dirt cheap. Sure they lack the finesse and maybe sound of the latest models but you get what you can to meet the depth of your pocket. My brother and I had second hand scalextix, loads of rusty track and a whole array of cars that didn’t work and a few that did. Dad was aboard, We soon learnt to clean track, mend pick up brushes, swop motors in and out of different cars. That’s how you learn, isnt it. Today I scratch build / kit build. My modelling time is limited and so projects take a while, my spend is quite small as my expenditure is staggered in line with my progress. Still loving the hobby, wish I had more time to do it! Andy
  6. Is that just a 15mm x 10mm motor? it looks huge.. Andy
  7. Interesting reading from everyone. Nice to see the centre driven roadrunner compact with a 1015 motor vertically in the firebox works, the instructions are not definitive (use of the ‘May’). I was also having the same dilemma re compensation. Driving off the centre axle is not conventional so I will look at hornblocks on the front and back with a rigid centre. Thank you to all that are contributing, I’m just waiting on wheels and motor etc to make a start. Andy
  8. I also have the RT k class to build, I would be interested in you progress, Out of interest what motor / gearbox have you opted for…. And where (if you don’t mind me asking) have you stuck the motor? Andy
  9. There is a few seconds of Cini of the paddy train referred to in Andy’s post. It is Ivo Peter (something like) Midland industrials. The one coach train is coasting down hill with a Victorian Peckett X class on the front in about 1962. Andy
  10. Decision made, simplify the brakes, no sheet bar of any Kind, paint Sr Brown, with LSWR decals and sheets. Thank you to all that contributed Andy
  11. That is the wagon. I can see from the axle boxes, internal bracing around the curved ends etc. Your kit doesn’t have a tarpaulin bar does it. I have seen similar wagons with that sort of arrangement but there are no signs of where that apparatus would be mounted on this kit. From what little I can see on the internet the D1309 was without any sort of bar. Built pre 1913 so all good for a visit to the midlands in 1916. I presume that brake gear. Wondifully moulded as it is, comes from its Southern region days? Prototype would have been hand brake on one side only, thoughts? Thank you all. Andy
  12. Hi I have been working on my wagons for Tackeroo. (Ww1 military camp, near Cannock / Stafford, 1916). Realising from this thread that most of the traffic to the camp including munitions would have been in opens, that is my area of attention. I have this wagon, I presume I bought it second hand because it’s white metal and I know I didn’t make it. I can see it looks pre grouping by the raised ends and it’s style looks LBSC, LSWR maybe SECR…. So if it is suitable by date, then the open wagon common user policy means it may have found itself in Staffs ? Can anyone ID it please Thank you Andy
  13. Am I missing something or does it not say Haslingdon on the wagon. I couldn’t read it at first but once you identified that town / village I can see that is what it says. Andy
  14. Very much so. Earliest days of the camp in 1914, a train of construction workers mostly carpenters there to build the circa 1000 huts. It is a poem written as if by a carpenter telling tails about the Tackeroo Express, and that is where the name came from. From 1914 to 1916 the local colliery at Hednesford ran the rail connection to the Rugeley and the Brocton camp. This is a image of the power station at Brocton after the New Zealand rifle brigade had made it their Uk base ( you can’t go home to New Zealand). The wagons are a west Cannock colliery which is what Iwould expect as the access to the main line at HeDnesford was via West Cannock rails. POW sides do aWest Cannock Colliry transfers but it’s for a side and end door 1923 Rich wagon. That’s way to big . POWsides can’t digitally decrease the print size, this is silkscreen so no chance. So,the artwork is simple, I need a white decal custom printed. Thoughts Andy
  15. What I really enjoyed with Tackeroo was explaining to local visitors that places they knew and regularly walked had such history. After Saturday, A number of people were going onto the chase today with new eyes. Andy
  16. That was this threads 8888 post, that’s got to mean something. Andy
  17. I was at the Stafford show with the WW1 milita4y camp model Tackeroo. Had a great time, great show and made sure I bought 3 Slaters D299. I have learnt from the wise that there should be a greater % of the wagons in my fleet than I currently have. 1 is just not enough! Andy
  18. Well, a call out for Tackeroo…. Tel called it a diorama.. I am hoping something moves, clearly Tel is just covering himself. BTW well done Terry, there is a lot to remember and get out and I think you covered everything. Andy
  19. Tackeroo is counting down to the weekend. Tackeroo is not some Antipodean bush railway as the name might suggest but a representation of a WW1 training camp, just one of many that sprang up like daffodils in 1914/5. This one was Brocton, Stafford and is modelled in 1916 as the ROD took control of rail operations and the camp became the headquarters of the New Zealand rifle brigade. A home to up to 20,000 troops. preparing and resting for and from the trenches. Im in with the demonstrators. I believe. Do come and chat, it’s more of a talkie layout than a full blown all railway action fest. I am happy to talk about the traning camps, Brocton (Cannock Chase)camp, prototype modelling and research that Mr (Andy) York and myself conducted. Why Tackeroo? Come and ask this weekend Andy
  20. ive had to have a look as i cant remember. I have cut the side frames which I think fold down, off the piece that holds the frames at the right width and has the pivot hole in the middle. Looks like I chucked that bit away (lets call it the pivot plate) and replaced with plasticard. there is a little 1mm x 1mm fillet of square evergreen strip tucked in between the 'pivot plate and the bogie sides (just out of sight) for strength and to keep it square. Then there is a reliable but not pretty 4BA bolt which i will have araldited to the underside of the wagon floor, slotted head to the wagon floor. obviously i will have hacked off whatever mounting was there. I drilled a hole in the pivot plate (i will have done that before I attached to the frames. Then a 4BA bolt and a blob of araldite to stop it coming undone. hope that helps? Andy
  21. Apologies if the following post make this clear as to where it is but I can’t see it. Where is this amazing location? Andy
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