wagonbasher

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

sorry, which one is the block of wood?

I've had to look up some of those words!! A

Mark I know that we have determined the number of levers but which picture above best matches the BCB Trafalgar sidings box? A.

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

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

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

looking forward to the curved one !!! Andy

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

These looks really good. Do you have to create your own balance wieight or is it part of the kit ?? Andy

Just someone looking for his next beer.... give him a brake !! A

Just look at the consentration !!! Andy

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

Frank, I don't want to know how you know that !!! Andy

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

Have we talked windows yet, Sir Spams has offered two buildings that are window hungry.... Chris, is this another one for the lazer ? Andy

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

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

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

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

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

He means he will be waxing later !! A

Looks like we have found an 'insider' in Steve !!!! A

That is a lot of belly button fluff you must have been saving for years ? A

Do you know who owns that building now ? Those windows seam a strange proportions for that age of building. You would expect Portrait rather than Landscape ?? ( I know there is a prototype for every thing). I have been planning to enter the pub.... often pubs have an old photo of the pub hung on the wall. Note sure I can gather enough blue clothing to risk going in. I would also be intrested to know what brewery owned it - I think its a free house now but I suspect it would not have been. A