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  1. Hi Laurance Firstly I have sent you a personal mail (top right on the top of this page)- just exploring some memories. The model is initially based on the 1970's so I guess a bit of second hand lock furniture would have been in place. The projects objectives is to make the layout as typically Black Country in 1975' ish as possible. It's a tough call in a small space that is pretty well dominated by the railway. The group believe that the canal and the railways in the black country are unseperable. We picked Ryders Green / Tipton as a basis because we are only dropping 6 foot per lock and there are many examples of shallow locks around the BC with single bottom gates. This we believe is more common in the BC (factory locks, ryders green, the walsall canal) than elsewhere around the UK and so a nice regional feature. We need to scratch build some lock furniture / gates / paddle gear so I guess this is the area we need some help - we have measured up Tipton and Ryders green so if there are some 1970 traps please shout. The plan is to capture a scene that is like looking at the two locks on the Wolverhampton Flight that are adjacent to railway whilst standing on Carvers rather smokey carpark. The towpath is on the carvers side of the canal and the locks are built to Tipton spec with Ryders Green overflow arrangements. The length of the pounds are a bit short but tollerable I think... The third lock, only just on the board under a road over bridge is adjacent to a canal side pub which is to be broardly based on the 8 locks at Ryders Green. I hope to have given you an idea of the layout, what detail are we missing ? We imagine that this is a backwater canal so how overgrown might it have looked ?? I have part built a joey for parcial sinking and I am guessing that is about all of the boat traffic we need. As I said in my personnel mail, Barnet looks great, I saw her at Tipton factory locks in the summer a far cry from my dasys with the Working Boat Project where we were instructed not to volenteer to move Barnet for H&S reasons.. Andy
  2. I do have some Evergreen planking that you are welcolme to. I will measure up tonight (can't come out to play today but could run it out to you if it is what you were after. - did you try Modellers Mecca, I am within range today !! Andy
  3. sorry, which one is the block of wood?
  4. I've had to look up some of those words!! A
  5. Mark I know that we have determined the number of levers but which picture above best matches the BCB Trafalgar sidings box? A.
  6. I like that Geoff... i'll give it a go. It is for the undersides of the viaducts arches, I have a piece of plastic in place to form the arch but I now need to apply embossed brick. Andy
  7. I will have a look at that.... I want to apply slaters embosed brick to the underside of the viaductrs arches that have been formed by 20 thou plasticard so I do need some grab!! A
  8. I wonder if you could get away with a thinner dropper and therefore less length on the counter balance ? Comparing them to the axle, they are a lot thicker than the ones on New Haden (Not sure if my wagons are fitted with the final dropper design) Do we know what is going to provide the magnetic 'pull' yet so you know what force is required to drop Andy
  9. looking forward to the curved one !!! Andy
  10. The progress on the viaduct was halted a month or so ago when I shifted my attention to the skew bridge and some coil wagons. I need to post some shots showing the construction of the viaducts flared arches, the castings made for the stone work and the 50 odd wall plates. In the mean time, I need some help. What is the solvent / liguid adhesive I need to use that is slow to evaporate to enable me to bond large areas of plasticard to each other Andy
  11. These looks really good. Do you have to create your own balance wieight or is it part of the kit ?? Andy
  12. Just someone looking for his next beer.... give him a brake !! A
  13. Just look at the consentration !!! Andy
  14. Frank Pleased to here it..... We once moored over night at the bottom of the Delph locks. A walk up the hill to Bathams Bulll and Bladder, great night great beer. Andy
  15. Frank, I don't want to know how you know that !!! Andy
  16. Thanks for that Arthur, I was intrested to see how little over hang of the load there is on the bolsters. The BDA's are a tiny bit moden for us but there are plenty of other bogies that do the same job. We will be using pre assembled loads made from Evergreen strip. A quick switch in the fiddle yard !! The lastest project is a train of eye to sky coils. A mixture of BAA's and BBA's with some resin cast coils . This is passing traffic since coils have escaped our little billet bashing rolling mill. I will ppost some shots of the coils loads over the weekend. Andy
  17. Have we talked windows yet, Sir Spams has offered two buildings that are window hungry.... Chris, is this another one for the lazer ? Andy
  18. You will read in other threads that the pub has been agreed on and it is the 'The Eight Locks' at Ryders Green. It was picked for its proximity to the canal and fits the scene. It is a relativley straight forward pub, and fairly typical of black country pubs. It ceratinly is not a 'Landmark' pub like the crooked house, the pie factory, the bottle and Glass or the fountain at Tipton. At the moment it is a free house and visibly a 'Baggies' pub, we need to establish if it was free in the 1970's. I will not be drawn into wolverhamptons membership of the Black Country other than to say there are plenty of places today that you would consider to be the Black Country (Bilston, Willenhall, Heath Town, Ettingshall and others) that have a Wolverhampton adress. Certainly Banks's brewery is and was a sucessful brewery in the region and it geographical coverage of pubs spreads right accross the black country. Since we are modelling a real pub I guess its brewery will be what ever it was !! (unless it is something completely in appropriate like Courage !! ). So, do you know anything about the 8 locks at ryders green ? Pics, contacts, trivia. Andy
  19. I know the plasters skrim well and have used it for its intended purpose in the past, the older it gets, the less sticky it gets. A
  20. Chris You had me conserned there for a bit, I thought the truncated corner on the orange cut out was the main entrance. I thought how am I going to tell you that grand entrances didn't face the canal..... Patiance and more careful ready and I realise that the truncated section on the orange cut out is a lump off the building to make it fit and the reception is on the board edge. looks great - I trust Flavio knows he's getting two!! A
  21. After some nibbling of the track bed the skew bridge abutments are offered up to the poly cutting. A few things are clear. The wing walls need to be higher to suite the track bed height and at the 1 : 1.5 gradiant. The plan is to lay the bridge deck level and use plastic strip to represent timber packing between the tops of the 'cross' girders to create the gradiant on the bridge. You can just see a bit of packing in the picture, this is the front abutment and therefore the highest point of the track on the bridge. From what I have seen on the part skelatal bridge (posted earlier on this thread) the packing runs the full width so that the timber planking rises at the same time. Finally it looks as though I need to raise the height of the wall to at least above the track bed and maybe higher (comments welcome). Also it need to be extended further back into the embankment The two upright butresses (sorry if that is the wrong word) need extra height adding. I have imagined that the current arrangement was constructed to suite the two big beams however the board of trade regulations introduced after construction meant that a minimum height if 4' 6" was required from rail height to the top of the big beams to stop people falling off. I am opting for this approach: http://www.google.co...r:10,s:36,i:222 or like this on the Bilston Road http://www.google.co...29,r:5,s:0,i:86 On the Bilston bridge the brick work has been extended to accomodate the increase in the side beams height There were a couple of comments recently that the abutments becoming too narrow and would have been further truncated, Note also the 'flush' heavy capping on the brick uprights. This is the ex Midland line at Heath Town and the source of the main design. The castellated brick work the houses the side beams appears present in Skew bridges and I think it is to stop the ballast falling through Andy
  22. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/56607-black-country-blues-the-winning-rmweb-project-layout-proposal/page__pid__775572__st__200# We are going to need one of these at the right hand end where the oss ramp goes up to the pub. A
  23. He means he will be waxing later !! A
  24. Looks like we have found an 'insider' in Steve !!!! A
  25. That is a lot of belly button fluff you must have been saving for years ? A
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