Corbs

Just now, gwrrob said:

 

How did you do it @RapidoCorbs

Roof off, scalpel blade to break the seal on the sander rod (which is in a slot) and popped it out, then manipulated the interior wall (and gently pushed the side walls outward) to break the bonds and slide it out.

Two razor saw cuts, then scored the top of the door with the scalpel (in hindsight it could likely have all been done more neatly with the scalpel by scoring the door frame).

Slid the wall back in, glued the sanding rod back on, then cleaned up the door itself , painted the edges and glued it in (all with Roket card glue).

3 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

You must be representing a balmy, warm summers day, Corbs, although opening the door is one way to see some of the interior!

 

No good on a bitter winters night with a freezing easterly wind blowing...

 

Haha true! On the BHR we operate with the door latched open (so that we have direct line-of-sight into the passenger wagons) so I wanted to mimic it, although don't think I'm brave enough to open up the central rear shutter.... yet.

Mine's changed...

Can I have it

pls

I rather like the renders, the green one especially.

One of the things I really like about HZD is that if you die, it actually puts you back to a save point and everything that happened since that point is forgotten. I love the Assassins Creed games but hate their save system where most of the time, everything up to the point you died 'stays happened' even if you respawn.

El bumperoonie, just want the cost of postage really as I hate throwing things away.

58 minutes ago, Classsix T said:

Lol, which "Redhead-badass-sim" in particular Corbs? I was having some grief with the RMWeb image editor posting pictures when you posted so don't know if you mean Horizon or Jedi?!

 

C6T.

haha, both come to think of it! Did Jedi  last year and really liked it although I did find the lack of fast-travel once you were 'on world' a bit tiring.

Currently playing HZD and trying not to fall in to the trap of trying to 100% it on the first go as I did with Jedi.

Awesome, I am part way through the first one having been recommended it, very much enjoying it.

Tears rolling down my face as I write this. I never got to meet Neil in person but he was a lovely person to talk to online and I am such a fan of his modelling. I'm really happy that he got to see his creation in print. He will be missed.

We are chuffed to bits at Michael Russell's build of our 16" Manning Wardle saddle tank kit in this month's issue of British Railway Modelling!
Michael has gone the extra mile with this version, adding the reversing rod, modifying the wheels and even including DCC firebox glow.

AND open cab windows, the absolute madman.

Maybe it's a sign of my age but I can't read MICA B without the voice in my head putting it to the theme tune of 'Byker Grove'.

Well….

11 hours ago, spsmiler said:

This might be of interest for creating decals ... whilst researching colour printers I came across this office printer that can print in white - it uses cmyw (cyan, magenta, yellow, white) toner cartridges. 

 

This is the Xerox VersaLink C8000W (White Toner) A3 Colour Laser Printer C8000WV_DT

 

But whilst perhaps suitable for a commercial trader the approx £2,500 cost of this machine is far greater than most home users would be wanting to spend!

 

Also, I assume that since the paper / decal sheet will pass through it  it will only be suitable for single print runs - ie: no printing on top of printing.

That's the same system as on my OKI laser by the sounds of it. The main problems are:
-Laser printers use dot dithering to print colour (so no colour is truly solid).

-The white toner is last in the printer whereas for decals you actually want it to be first so that it can be the base colour. As it stands, you have to print colour decals upside-down and flip them over, using a ton of setting solution.

Adam and I are planning to come to this :)
 

I seem to remember something about name badges, I was wondering about doing it anyway as sadly I no longer have the cat-eating-pizza-in-space hoodie from my avatar.

On 14/04/2023 at 10:38, NZRedBaron said:

Hey, Corbs? Just asking for reference purposes, but it looks like the "Woolworths" have quite a short cab, right? How did you attach the Stanier cab on the frames? Did you just hack the whole Maunsell cab off, frames and all?

 

And connected to that, how did you go about bodging the new connection between loco and tender?

Yeah I removed the cab and then cut the back of the footplate off with the razor saw, then glued the Stanier cab and running plate on.

I don't remember exactly how I did the previous tender coupling but it involved styrene and I imagine this one will too.

These are left over from a Frankenstein Class 31 conversion, they worked when they were removed from the loco, a bit filthy though. Surplus to requirements so am selling in case they are useful for anyone else.

£5 posted in UK.

11 hours ago, Ruston said:

I know all this Sodor stuff is related to Reverend Awdry's books but where does all of this fictional history of the island come from? Do you just make it up yourself, or did Awdry publish it in other books? It wasn't in the original books as far as I know, but it is around 45 years since I read them.

Sooo Wilbert and his brother George wrote up a big history of the island, notable people, and the railways, as well as drawing up the map. He used to give a lecture on it, the notes for which are held at the NGRM in Tywyn as part of the Awdry study.

I've taken the background of the stories and most of the book, then mixed it up with some of my own ideas, changing dates, numbers etc. to suit what I want to model. I think he was partially constrained by framing the stories as if they were happening contemporaneously, so I've just rearranged things to how I want them to be. I enjoy the world-building aspect of it.

Any accusations that I do this in order to justify building more locos are well-founded.

Adam and I will be at the Nailsea MRC exhibition this weekend with his layout 'Erebus Pit', featuring plenty of Railway Mania kits including the two new Avonsides.

If you are coming to the show it would be great to see you!

Awesome work on that 13-tonner and fixing up those vans, I need to do something similar to the old junk I have lying around.

2 hours ago, Mike 84C said:

  Corbs how is the door fixed ? does it just plug in and can it be removed without taking the body off the chassis?

Starting to doubt myself now but I think I removed it by putting a screwdriver in the boiler and ramming it on to the desk to pop it off, but the body isn't hard to take off the chassis, just a few screws.