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Started by James Harrison, April 28, 2019, 05:13:51 PM

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James Harrison

#725
October 28, 2022, 09:10:20 PM
I approve. The backscene looks particularly effective and gas got my thoughts going about disguising the wall when I do get around to making a start on RLS.
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

The Bullet

#726
October 31, 2022, 05:29:34 PM
October 31st.
Great weather, feels like summer.
So we had to run 5" gauge.
I brought out my Reichsbahn class 55.
The right piston valve had shifted ans I spent some tine finding out how to get the timing right.
today was the big day.
Fired up, tested the injector and steam feed pump, put her in forward gear, opened up the regulator and.......she went off like a rocket.
We put quite a few wagons behind the tender but she did not seem to notice.
Timing is right and she´s back to 100%.
Happy day.
If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.

The Bullet

#727
November 02, 2022, 08:23:45 PM
Seems the pic did not come with it last time:



If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.

James Harrison

#728
November 03, 2022, 10:08:08 PM
Colour me impressed. Lovely piece of engineering there.
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

J. Wilhelm

#729
November 03, 2022, 10:45:40 PM
Quote from: The Bullet on November 02, 2022, 08:23:45 PM
Seems the pic did not come with it last time:



Very nice!

mizzarrogh

#730
November 04, 2022, 10:15:07 AM Last Edit: November 04, 2022, 10:17:49 AM by mizzarrogh
Awesome! I am just happy i managed to fix the last functional part on my 0 gauge Basset Lowke single action 2-2 ( or 4-4 for my American friends :-) )... Ha Ha!

The Bullet

#731
November 07, 2022, 03:45:27 PM
Quote from: mizzarrogh on November 04, 2022, 10:15:07 AM
Awesome! I am just happy i managed to fix the last functional part on my 0 gauge Basset Lowke single action 2-2 ( or 4-4 for my American friends :-) )... Ha Ha!

Pictures please.
If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.

mizzarrogh

#732
November 07, 2022, 06:09:30 PM
Where do i upload pictures to show on the forum?  :)

James Harrison

#733
November 07, 2022, 06:24:40 PM
I put mine on flickr (other photo hosting sites available) and then just link back to them. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

SeVeNeVeS

#734
November 07, 2022, 06:43:06 PM
Quote from: mizzarrogh on November 07, 2022, 06:09:30 PM
Where do i upload pictures to show on the forum?  :)

You will have to register with an e-mail and username..............https://imgbb.com/signup

All free and easy to use.

Madasasteamfish

#735
November 29, 2022, 05:32:30 PM
Well, despite putting it on the back burner I keep finding "inspiration" for Dukeswood. The latest round of which is thanks to this latest addition to my reference library.

Which of course features lots of lovely trackplans, such as this one for Sheffield Victoria

There's also plenty of other plans covering sheds and goods yards. Now the question is sorting out what I want to include and where.....
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

James Harrison

#736
December 17, 2022, 02:48:06 PM
As it turns out, buying second hand/ new-old stock carriage kits isn't the money saver I originally thought it was.  I've got six.  I've attempted one (and it's so badly warped and mis-moulded that I think it's fit only for scrap), and inspected the parts for three more.  Of those three;
- One 'might' result in an acceptable model;
- Once could go either way;
- One is fit only for the bin.
There are two more yet to look at (hiding somewhere in the railway room) but I'm not holding my breath.   

So I think at this point my options are
1. Standardise on Triang/ Hornby short clerestories and resort to some cut'n'shut bodgery;
2. Stump up £70 per bodyshell for some 3D printed GCR non-corridor carriages;
3. Hold tight and hope someone decides to make generic pre-WWI bogie stock. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

Madasasteamfish

#737
December 29, 2022, 10:16:36 PM Last Edit: December 30, 2022, 06:04:34 PM by Madasasteamfish
Well, it may still be twixmas, but I reckon it's close enough to the turning of the year for me to be doing a review of the year and announcing plans for 2023.

On the review we have, my V3 and Jinty tanks, my colliery sidings signal box, some scenic work on my OO9 micro and the amassing of a multitude of kits and other things for future use as well as increasing the size of my reference library. Unfortunately, I've not been particularly good at keeping you all updated, so there's probably more that I can't recall or haven't mentioned.

But, looking forwards, as I try and get a handle on my flighty brain and maintaining my mojo, I have a clear list of objectives for 2023.

1. First off is finishing my OO9 micro, which I've broken down into several steps;
i) Finish off the backscene (I have some low relief buildings that need some finishing touches before they can be fitted)
ii) Lay the track. I should have everything I need to do this, but don't want to be fiddling with the backscene afterwards.
iii) Wire everything up. I'm not planning to include point motors or anything complicated, but electrics are something of a dark art for me, so hopefully this will be a good project to cut my teeth on and build some confidence.
iv). Scenics. I have a plan for the ground cover, and the buildings ready, I just need to fix them into place.

Then there are a multitude of other things planned for Dukeswood:

1. Figure out the necessary dimensions. I'm not looking for anything specific so much as I am a definite minimum length which will allow me to include everything I want to (as opposed to the erm...15ft maybe that I'm currently thinking about) that I can then work from and adjust accordingly to the available space (when it actually happens)
2. I acquired a Wills craftsman country station kit a while ago that I intend to use as the basis for one of the intermediate stations, so putting that together is the first build plan (I may expand this out into a scenic plank effort in the style of Mr Harrison's Cremonre for Pittance)
3. Attack my kit stash to build up at least 1 full rake of coal wagons (If memory serves I should have at least 14 16 ton mineral wagons so I should be able to marshal 2 full coal trains)
4. Achieve the beginnings of a steel train (really this is just going to involve obtaining some bolster/trestle wagons loaded with styrene sheet or similar)
5. A clear plan for what I've thus far taken to calling my War Department train (some pieces of heavy military engineering to go alongside the steel train help give the flavour of Sheffield without actually specifying a real world location) as I have 2 possible ideas for such a piece, but both of which require further investigation
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

James Harrison

#738
December 30, 2022, 10:12:09 AM
Looking forward to seeing progress. 

For myself?  Well, you might have noticed I have another project on the go that's taking up the majority of my spare time.
That said, I am getting on with various little things- mostly locomotives and rolling stock as the mood takes me.

If I can get my railway room cleared up this year - big if because it's the very bottom of my to-do list - I have enough bits and pieces to turn Cremorne and Pittance into an actual working part of the grand plan.  But don't hold your breath...
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

Sorontar

#739
December 31, 2022, 12:43:03 PM
For Xmas, both my wife and I were thinking similarly. I got her a couple of the Rolife small diorama sets so she can make up scenes as she wished. For me, she got a bookend diorama. However, it was much worse quality than the photos showed on eBay (the eBay photos were probably pinched from someone's nicer Etsy construction). It was of Bag End from Hobbiton with a boring garden and a flat front facade. My aim is to give it a proper front door, an inside foyer and windows and nicer front fence. Luckily many have made similar scale cheap Bag End (e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AcEUDRF8eg) so it shouldn't be hard to do... once I work out how to break down what has already been made so I can then build it up again.

Sorontar
Sorontar, Captain of 'The Aethereal Dancer'
Advisor to HM Engineers on matters aethereal, aeronautic and cosmographic
http://eyrie.sorontar.com

The Bullet

#740
January 05, 2023, 12:43:44 PM
I have received this loco today.
Can anyone identify it?
The only marking is "Made in Germany" in front of the cab.



Looks like Bing for Basset-Lowke to me.

The rotor is burnt out so I need a new one.
The motor is DC.
A rod is missing, so are the two nuts holding it in place.
If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.

James Harrison

#741
January 05, 2023, 05:10:01 PM
It looks like a Great Northern 4-4-0, in Great Northern livery, so 'feels' like pre-WWI. 
The fact that it's an identifiable model of a prototype, rather than a generic toy locomotive, suggests that it's more of a high-end product (I'd agree that it's likely a Bassett-Lowke product, the other high-end shops of the period tended to build their own rather than out-source to the likes of Bing or Marklin). 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

The Bullet

#742
January 06, 2023, 09:23:16 AM
I have received an email yesterday stating it as
"Bing for Gamages Ivatt 4-4-0"

I do not think that getting the missing parts will be easy on this side of the channel.
I´ll try
If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.

Madasasteamfish

#743
January 06, 2023, 07:42:47 PM
So it seems my post festive shopping has bourne fruit with some more additions to my reference library and 2 "rountoit" jobs for Dukeswood.


The D49 Hunt/Shire kit will make a nice weekend project for whenever I have the time to devote to it (and I've been able to do the research into an appropriate prototype). The 2 coke wagons are reasonable enough on their own (although I think they'd benefit from a bit of extra weight and a load), but as a Cumbrian coal merchant won't work for me, I'm planning to re-livery them in LMS grey (I reckon I can get away with that as the RCH set standards for wagon designs in the early 1900s which persisted (in some cases) until nationalisation).

I'm especially pleased with the Great Central East of Sheffield as just flicking through it has set the wheels turning and given me plenty of prototypical aspects I can incorporate into my plans (although I am slightly annoyed that whilst it was presumably intended to be a multipart work, I can't find any evidence of Vol. II onwards, and searching for the author spits out results relating to some footballer).
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

James Harrison

#744
January 06, 2023, 09:00:19 PM
I recognise that book.  I also recognise the 'Volume 1' lie.  If you ever find a Volume 2 please let me know. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

Madasasteamfish

#745
January 06, 2023, 09:19:26 PM
Quote from: James Harrison on January 06, 2023, 09:00:19 PM
I recognise that book.  I also recognise the 'Volume 1' lie.  If you ever find a Volume 2 please let me know.

Well, a little bit of research says all of his works were first published between 1989-1993, so I suspect if it doesn't exist now, it never will.
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

James Harrison

#746
January 07, 2023, 12:22:22 PM
The Great Central Railway Society's bibliography page lists only Volume 1, it's doubtful a Volume 2 exists.  Which is frustrating. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

James Harrison

#747
January 30, 2023, 07:04:01 PM Last Edit: January 30, 2023, 07:20:05 PM by James Harrison
Quote from: James Harrison on November 21, 2021, 05:06:42 PM

Well I can't get the Hindenburg, which would have been my first choice, but somebody is obligingly tooling up for Derfflinger and Lutzow, full hull, in 1/700 scale.  So guess what I have on preorder....

I still can't get the Hindenburg, but I was able to get a model of the Lutzow.  And it's still sitting in it's box, two years and more after it arrived.
The same manufacturer has now tooled up for the Derfflinger in its 1917 rig....



That'll do. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

Madasasteamfish

#748
February 02, 2023, 01:29:43 PM
Well a (somewhat) unplanned trip to the parental units has led to me clocking off at least the first of my tasks for this year.
After playing around with a tape measure I reckon I should need about 17' of linear scenic space to incorporate everything I want to on Dukeswood (although I may be able to shave some of that off if I need to) which I reckon should  fit into a small bedroom/box room without too much trouble.

I've also made a start on converting my coke hoppers

after separating the bodies I set to attacking the existing livery with a combination of meths and wet/dry paper., quite quickly reaching the point of diminishing returns.


They're now sat with their new grey body colour drying (photos to follow) I also have plans to attend a show next weekend so hopefully it won't be too long before they're finished.
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

Madasasteamfish

#749
February 03, 2023, 07:19:41 PM
Well, painting has happened



As usual I've tried to avoid a specific colour and mixed up multiple similar shades to produce something approximating the right colour.
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
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