wagonbasher

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

3 hours ago, ELTEL said:

Apparently so…. 

Oh dear…..

Andy

3 hours ago, AY Mod said:

@ELTEL hijacked Stafford FM this morning to talk about the exhibition and Stafford Railway Circle. Hit the play button.

 

 

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

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
 

6 hours ago, dave75 said:

Can you describe what you did as I'm building one and have run into trouble with the bogie fastenings breaking.

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 

On 20/08/2023 at 18:13, Compound2632 said:

 

Back now!

 

 

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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

On 21/01/2023 at 20:11, corneliuslundie said:

Michael is right, so perhaps simply open wagons with side hung doors - or an artist with a vivid imagination.

Jonathan

My first thoughthis were compartment stock. So, just as you see in many churches, particularly the reformed church varieties is panelled booths for the more wealthy families to sit in rather than shuffle up with the unwashed on the pews. So maybe you booked your compartment to guarantee space and your travelling companions.  
 

Then I thought but why the gap?  On the leading wagons you can possibly see doors.  No such doors on the potential compartment stock.  Maybe access was gained from the gap with a central doors or openings leading from the gap (corridor) to the two compartments?

I know it’s only a drawing and not a photo but, there are top hats on display in both types of wagon, rather than bowlers or flat caps?

Andy

3 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Needs a 12'6'' beam on the first bridge !

in front of…

Andy

3 hours ago, AY Mod said:

A few enjoyable hours spent, quality bacon butties and bags of sweeties brought back to keep Mrs Y happy.

 

 

@ELTEL asked me to watch the layout whilst he went to the loo, then he scoffed his lunch, came back and saw I hadn't broken it so off he went again for tea and talking. I still hadn't broken it!

 

@wagonbasher showed me his efforts to create my family tree in 3D introducing me to my great-grandfather, Atterley York, who was a Victorian photographer - obviously before he was involved in taking scandalously lewd pictures of the Earl of Dudlai's niece for the 'What the butler saw' machine down at the Bottle and Glass.

 

 

Here he is, polishing his equipment as usual.

The close up is cruel.  I think all of the light coloured specs are from the carved out HD polystyrene foam I made into a little protective case.  The Modelu Andy York 3D printed model has a sort of sloppy hoody so I had to carve off great chunks and extend the coat with Aluminium tape.  In its khaki extended form it does have a look of ‘Arkwright’ open all hours look of it.  The site of Andy with hair is unsettling and the black bowler, white shirt and narrow Black tie does draw unintentional but inevitable similarities with Olly Hardy.

Despite this, Andy seamed pleased.

Andy

I returned to my house this evening which involves passing the church.  Can the Stafford Railway Circle have put up more directional signs,  there are little train cut outs directing everyone to the church car park.  If you get lost tomorrow you need to have a word with yourself.

  If you are travelling by car it is just 2 miles from junction 13. 

maybe buy some sweeties for the drive home?

Andy

3 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

Got any kali or lemon sherbets mister?

Lemon sherbets are there in the jar poised like a preying mantis.  
 

Andy

I work for Tarmac / Blue Circle, I’ve been to our cement works across the country, you will need some big trestles.

Andy

On 17/05/2023 at 08:45, ELTEL said:

Oh Yes & cakes 

Not just cakes. Local business, pop up, mobile sweetie shop will be on site.  The big pink gazebo will provide classic traditional confectionery, those jelly and fizzy pick n mix along with a variety of sweet treats.  Little indulgence will be there with their mobile sweet shop, whether your taste is classic liquorice, toffees, boiled sweets or those pick n mix jellies the shop has it all.  Who needs layouts when you can mix with your likeminded mates with burgers, cakes and sweets.

Its my daughters business and she’s not available this weekend so Mr and Mrs Waggonbasher have been trusted with ye olde scales.  

Andy

9 hours ago, ELTEL said:

Oh Yes & cakes 

Is your layout there Tel, I see Nick’s is.

Andy

I will have to walk about 300 yards to attend this event.    This is the second year that Stafford Railway Circle are hosting this spring expo ahead of the usual Uber exhibition at the counties exhibition grounds.    I couldn’t make it last year count me in for a the event and a burger.   
 

Andy

8 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

It's as if someone has taken the livery details for the comedy wagon from the cad render but as others have said, how on earth was it approved for production and why are retailers not only accepting them but then sending them out to paying members of the public ? 

 

As I said in an earlier post, with this attention to basics, let alone detail, I have even less confidence in their proposed locos. 

 

Rob. 

To be honest from the Rail of Sheffield advert you linked to, the customers should not be surprised, the promo shots on the ad show exactly what you are going to get, pink wheels and everything. 
 

Andy

9 minutes ago, DLT said:

Fabulous photos of a fabulous day!  My HUGE thanks to everyone involved. 

As has been said by many, this has become one of the main "must attend" events in the calendar

Not sure what else to say really!

Dave.

That’s a bold claim, is it cake induced.

Andy

28 minutes ago, Jenny Emily said:

With a few minutes of weathering it actually looks okay. 
 

 

I really like that.  personally I would fully embrace the idea of weathering that wagon down.  But, I realise that people have paid good money and shouldn’t have to invest time and resources to make your purchase acceptable.

Andy

Martin Welch’s Wild Swan book is called the art of weathering.  Looking at the Paul Bartlett photograph that Andy linked to we can see the exact vehicle that was being represented (maybe not the pink wheels).  You can’t weather by numbers.  It is an art.  The prototype has naturally evolved with shades of rust, with faded colours from different periods and dozens of winters and summers you can’t just put some generic colours on an otherwise mint vehicle and expect it to make sense.

Andy

6 hours ago, hmrspaul said:

JSA as modelled by Accurascale https://www.accurascale.com/collections/wagons/products/jsa-bogie-open-steel-wagon-twin-pack-vtg-1

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/jsa

 

Paul

Is that a BAA on its own in the middle of that rake?

sorry for continuing the wagon invasion of Jim’s thread.

Andy

45 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

Setting up is going well. 

 

I see spams has dressed down for the occasion.  Always try to blend into the crowd.

Andy

3 minutes ago, Jason T said:

What I want to know is how long it took you to get all the mud out of the back of the van prior to loading it. I can’t imagine the trails near Barmouth were dry…

I remember the Stafford Railway Circle being offered a layout for parts.  The owner was moving the next morning and if we didn’t want it, the owner was taking it to the tip first thing the next morning.  Without notice there was only one way available to the club of moving the layout and tha was a members cattle truck.  That evening I went to the farm to find our club member emptying water out of the light fittings on the trailer.  I’m not sure they work, we don’t use it at night.  Then he lay a tarpaulin over 18 inches depth of cow manure and straw!  I don’t even think much was recoverable from the layout.
 

Some one once asked him what the difference is between a horse trailer and a cattle trailer, he said, about 2 or 3 feet.

Andy

5 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Fiddle yard???

 

Mike.

Mark did say he had a few bits to put in the van, suspect Fiddle yard is one of those things, once he’s finished it’s legs?  Or wiring up?  Maybe a lick of paint?  
 

Mind you, mess around with details like that, what’s he going to do when he gets there?

Well other than eat chips.

Andy

On 11/04/2023 at 19:55, Worsdell forever said:

I've been looking for a while for a horse and rider, it needed to be quite a large horse to represent a Cleveland Bay, this of course ruled out all the H0 scale ones, there are some 4mm ones but these either have huntsmen riding them or look very pony club gymkhana... Dart Castings though do an 'Arabian Horse, with rider' I thought I'd have a look at it at York and decided it's big enough and the rider didn't look like they were after a rosette or a fox's brush. What I was hoping to represent is this -

 

 

Jack Welford, known as America Jack or Mister America (he lived at America House Farm), he was a local Character, savior of the Cleveland Bay horse and friend of my grandad. 

 

The Dart horse and rider were a good start, a bit of filing was done so he would sit a bit further back and his riding helmet eased into a flat cap, might have to have another go at this as it's still a bit domed.

 

 

A plastic sheep, possibly by Preiser, was gently butchered to fit across the front of the saddle and after the horse and Jack were painted it was glued on and the gaps filled a bit at a time with thick super glue and painted. 

 

 

I like it, A fascinating incite into North Yorkshire pastimes.

Andy

12 hours ago, Jason T said:

Way less buildings needed for Sandside but conversely, they are all way more complex to build 

 

 

Just clicked like then retracted it.

looking at the work you have put in to get the stone work around the windows and the doors (corbels, is that the right word), gets you a ‘saw and screwdriver’ that is meant to represent craftsmanship.

Andy