wagonbasher

Thank you all for your input. I was looking at an eBay post shortly after posting when I spotted the ‘Euroslot’. The thing you hang the model from wether a single or double peg when I realised the horse bus was too small. As it says, designed for the box, Looks like the die cast route is not an option, odd that Odell started lledo with variscale vintage horse drawn vehicles, I can’t see the market, even then.,, maybe looking for gaps Again, thank you all, I will put my £0.99 plus postage to a worthier cause. Andy

I have been looking at lledo days gone range and they have a small selection of horse drawn vehicles. Considering buying, improving, repainting etc for a 7mm Victorian model but are they all 1:43 scale. eBay lists some at that size but most sellers have excluded scale in the write up. Looking at the horse drawn bus they are a very low price, would need to change the horses (they are quite corse), wheels ? etc. You get 5 passengers, maybe it’s 4 and a driver, if they are 7mm the figures are worth £4 a piece anyway. Anyone know this range. Andy

I don’t. There are two locomotives preserved from the same Irish tramway, the Portstewart tramway which only had 3 engines in total, number 1 is in Hull and number 2 is on display at the Ulster Folk Museum. So they sort of had a spare. Andy

I haven’t and I have bought the steel strip. I will explain later. Just realised from the photo it’s not clear what I’m doing, There is a little jig I made. It is aluminium extrusion in a sort of square horseshoe section. Sliding in the channel is a bit of a plug it’s the brass head of a plug connector, a little block of brass with a screw running through it, I slide the block to the correct length for the sleeper and tighten the screw. Now fixed, I slide in the copper clad sleeper strip and snip to length with side cutters, missed out from the shot. the gauge is 24.5 mm and then the sleepers extend another 12mm ish. On that extended sleeper I will put a small strip 10.5mm of resin cast cobbles. That is the 18 inches of cobble required by the board of trade. Andy

Away for a few days, left the kids (well they are not kids anymore) to trash the house. Can’t waste quality time away from work. Bought a little kit with me to cut and tidy up sleepers for the tramway. l have been doing quite a bit recently, will post some pics when I’m back home. Andy

Does anyone have an update on this? I can’t even find a web site that works? In no rush for anything just curious as to what lighting is available. Andy

Either way I have no idea what this box of electro bits is going to give me lighting on a model isn’t a tick box, join red wire to black connector. What is it going to look like. I want subtle lighting, in my scene, candle, oil or gas, not something from close encounters. let’s start with why and what, not how! personal views obvs.. Andy

That is a great shot. What could be more Scottish than an Andrew Barclay leading a train through cobbled streets surrounded by granite houses. Fantastic. Andy

I think Johnr want to renumber some wagons in the same private owner livery. I believe you assumed, as I first did, that the objective was to renumber as if an ex private owner on BR If my interpretation of the objective is correct then you will just have to match them as best you can with Cambridge POW, or fox or other offerings. There were No rules around private liveries in terms of font.. the example you have shown is an internal user wagon and will not have even ventured onto the main line. there is a photo on line of the Aberdeen gas works… you will see a number of wagons maybe numbers…. They are lucky to have any paint. my only advise would be to change all the numbers on any wagon. Don’t try to change 12 to 16 by changing the 2 to a 6…. Change it all…. good luck Andy

If you look at 'The trams that time forgot' in 'trams and tramway modelling' you will see a post on the second page by Red Devil who shows how he has constructed the grooved rail by using 4mm bull head rail along side 0.8mm square section bar and a strip to form the check rail. all on copper clad. I am adopting this technique for my 7mm model and my test pieces show that if you put down more sleepers (or part sleepers) then you don't have to solder everything together at the same time. Have a look. Do you intend to run trams ? Most kits will run off 00 track. Trams systems were most likely 4' 8 1/2 ", but there were systems like Birmingham at 3' 6". Derby at 4' etc Andy

OK I will add new posts to that. cheers Andy

There is movement at the other end…. I am back in the office in Wolverhampton a few days a week. I work in i10 (interchange 10) a relatively new office block that sits behind the LNWR station arch and adjacent to station road, the road that leads to Wolverhampton station. For the last 2 years construction has continued on the i9, across the road from the i10 and adjacent to the Chubb building. Yesterday there was some sort of shift from construction to fit out, lots of jet washing, cleaning and people without hi viz and bump hats coming and going. The design of the i9 is a red brick triangular design which is clearly a nod to the Chubb building. Apparently the government housing department is being moved out of London to Wolves and this is their new home. anyway, from my elevated position I saw a flat bed vehicle with mounted crane reversed passed flashing and beeping and full of tram sleepers. Now worked stopped on the tram lines just after the bridge that spans the ring road. About 100 yards short of the station building. I think the project was meant to get to that point and then wait for the construction of the new station building and maybe the i9 to complete. I can see they have laid the concrete foundation for the track bed and it curves around in front of the station. I will keep you posted. Andy

I was in Croydon for the first time ever. I had travelled 4 hours to West Norwood on business but needed a pit stop first. For miles South of central London the screen is small Victorian high streets often quite up market and then rows and rows of housing, Victorian, Edwardian and interwar before another busy little high street. The same streets the trams would have rumbled through. Outside the metropolis it is far more common to drive a mile in a town and find some ex industrial site that has retail parks and super supermarkets. My need was becoming pressing when I drove into your scene, I don’t know how faithfully the model represents the scene, but I sat at those lights and new I was ‘in the model’. Croydon’s landscape is very different to the urban sprawl to its North. Thar was my first look at Croydon trams, quite a system,. Found the retail park and a big Sainsbury’s. Andy

Not if you are already on the bottom because the tides out. Andy

Gulls are ubiquitous in seaside or inland settings, we have a school field behind us and black faced gulls have been in abundance since I went to that school 40 years ago. Today in Lichfield the mill pond was a mass of black faced gulls including all of the juvenile examples. In my home town of Stafford there is a significant presence of herring gullin thvtown centre whilst where I work in Wolverhampton from a lofty office block a few examples of greater black back gulls are magnificent. Probably Wolves’s top airborne predator. Andy

I have / had a 500ml plastic bottle of limonene, I need it because I use a silhouette cutter to cut 10 thou plastic shapes to laminate up…. I have transferred about 100ml to a glass Bottle because the limonene escapes the plastic. It just passes through the plastic causing the/bottle to suck inwards in a twisted and distorted bottle. I must have lost half of the contents. Do others have this program or/aretgey/bu6ing from sites with more suitable containers? Andy

Ok, But your prototype does have rounded corners... At least I hope it does Andy

No need to answer the above, I have found yours and others previous quotes on the topic and I can see the functionality in my own silhouette sofware. thank you anyway Andy

Hi Jo, I also recognise this problem of not quite finished corners. Are you saying if I choose different colours for lines (horizontals and verticals as you describe) the machine will just know to cut them separately regardless of colour etc ? Andy

Inspector Frost worked for Denton police. Andy

Very unrestored state. Unless there is more of it out of public view there is just a pile of parts at the end of one of Crich's running sheds, no admittance. Andy

It is a massive topic, from horse drawn 4 wheelers, to the 20 years that’s steam commanded the urban street, to the polished Edwardian electric open toppers, then with balconies, then upper deck roofs, enclosed balconies ( upstairs) to enclosed vestibule (lower deck - the driver was thought of last) to air brakes, forced air ventilation, regenerative braking, electric doors, pantographs and a bunch of crazy ideas, schemes realised and dreamt. Find out what rocks your boat if you have something in mind, something you like, tell us, a photo, something written let us know and I am sure we can name it, bag it and find you more of the same. was your interest current / historically or do you have a desire to make model? It doesn’t matter which I just want to tailor my responses. andy

It must be true then. Andy

As you say, it beats modelling... Andy

I could edit, and then anyone looking would think "what are they on about " Happy to take my typo on the chin, sorry 1995. Andy