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#51
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by Madasasteamfish - March 01, 2025, 04:50:45 PMQuote from: Madasasteamfish on March 01, 2025, 09:16:23 AMQuote from: James Harrison on February 28, 2025, 05:27:41 PMI suspect this is going to be of interest to others who model the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/gcr-15t-brake-van/
Luckily, it being payday, I was able to scratch the itch for myself.
I must confess to being sorely tempted when I saw it, but as I have one in kit form waiting to be built, I'm not rushing for my chequebook just yet.
If nothing else, I'd probably end up ordering several (the NCB liveried example does offer some intriguing possibilities).
And in today's episode of Reasons why I shouldn't be left unsupervised in a model shop:
I continued that great male tradition of going out for one thing and coming home with another by visiting a local model shop with a view to purchasing a Bachmann 9F that caught my eye a few weeks ago (but was agonising over the price until payday proved advantageous) and instead came home instead with a Hornby Stannier 8F.
#52
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by Madasasteamfish - March 01, 2025, 09:16:23 AMQuote from: James Harrison on February 28, 2025, 05:27:41 PMI suspect this is going to be of interest to others who model the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/gcr-15t-brake-van/
Luckily, it being payday, I was able to scratch the itch for myself.
I must confess to being sorely tempted when I saw it, but as I have one in kit form waiting to be built, I'm not rushing for my chequebook just yet.
If nothing else, I'd probably end up ordering several (the NCB liveried example does offer some intriguing possibilities).
#53
Architecture / Re: That 'big project' I've be...
Last post by James Harrison - February 28, 2025, 05:41:15 PM
Well, as you can see I've started staining the woodwork. So far I've done the bits around the fireplace and then worked my way back to and around the doorframe and architrave. That probably needs another coat (maybe two) and then I'm going to stain the door itself.
When that's done I'll size the wall (at the moment I keep putting that job off, because the wallpaper paste only gives instructions for how to mix a 4-gallon batch of it and I probably need only a fraction of that to do the wall I can actually work on).
I'm going to have to have a think, sooner rather than later, about the tools and materials I need to start papering this back wall.
#54
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by James Harrison - February 28, 2025, 05:27:41 PMI suspect this is going to be of interest to others who model the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/gcr-15t-brake-van/
Luckily, it being payday, I was able to scratch the itch for myself.
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/gcr-15t-brake-van/
Luckily, it being payday, I was able to scratch the itch for myself.
#55
Art by Artificial Entities / Re: Playing around with AI art...
Last post by HAC - February 27, 2025, 06:30:27 PMand again...
#56
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by James Harrison - February 27, 2025, 06:24:00 PMAh - yes; that reminds me.
The carriages I'm running in that video are the Hattons Genesis 6-wheelers (I've got two sets of these and @Madasasteamfish has a set in Lancashire & Yorkshire colours). The track is a mixture of Hornby 2nd and 3rd radius (2 2nd radius, 6 3rd radius), which is just about as large a curvature as you can get in 'trainset' type track. The carriage buffers were very close together - practically touching - and when I tried to couple the loco up to run backwards they actually locked.
So if you're running these carriages on tight curves - I'd say anything less than 3rd radius - beware.
The carriages I'm running in that video are the Hattons Genesis 6-wheelers (I've got two sets of these and @Madasasteamfish has a set in Lancashire & Yorkshire colours). The track is a mixture of Hornby 2nd and 3rd radius (2 2nd radius, 6 3rd radius), which is just about as large a curvature as you can get in 'trainset' type track. The carriage buffers were very close together - practically touching - and when I tried to couple the loco up to run backwards they actually locked.
So if you're running these carriages on tight curves - I'd say anything less than 3rd radius - beware.
#57
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by Madasasteamfish - February 27, 2025, 05:22:34 PMQuote from: James Harrison on February 26, 2025, 09:02:15 PMWhatever was causing the sliding, it's gone away now. And with it running more or less to my satisfaction, this then happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSzpgS6yu0
IT'S ALIVE!!!
I'm looking forwards to seeing it in action on a more permament basis.
#58
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by The Bullet - February 27, 2025, 09:56:51 AMLooking good.
I also had a good catch.
Märklin R880, electric, rare green version.
I got it pretty cheap as it did not run.
The carbon brushes had been replaced by the previous owner....
BUT
He did not clean the tubes, so the new brushes could not slide freely.
(I think this is also the reason for the replacement.)
The brushes did not contact the collector.
So I cleaned the tubes, put brushes and springs back and....off she went.
NEver got a rare loco for such a good price.
I also had a good catch.
Märklin R880, electric, rare green version.
I got it pretty cheap as it did not run.
The carbon brushes had been replaced by the previous owner....
BUT
He did not clean the tubes, so the new brushes could not slide freely.
(I think this is also the reason for the replacement.)
The brushes did not contact the collector.
So I cleaned the tubes, put brushes and springs back and....off she went.
NEver got a rare loco for such a good price.
#59
Portrayal / Re: Homecoming
Last post by MWBailey - February 27, 2025, 03:30:59 AMAuthor's note: I'm not dead yet, contrary to popular speculation(lol). Sorry for the long wait. Taking care of the folks, in addition to everything else, tends to put things like this on the back burner whether i like it or not.
kind of a truncated installment, but more's to follow soon. I think Mad Jack will turn up in teh same space sooner than late...
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It was about three days later; Dreyfuss and his crew had escaped the clutches of the latter-day Aether League's security squadron with the help of the Black Suits, and taken up the assignment to take care of the ersatz St. Elmo Doppleganger. There had been general consternation among officers and crews of the Aether League's corvettes when the St, Elmo suddenly charged up and disappeared, the sonic boom accompanying it's sudden absence from the air that it had theretofore been located in deafening both airship crews and groundspeople as a few stray blue arcs played about the empty air, as if trying in vain to follow their previous owner.
The transition to "between" space was no smoother than it had ever been, but the commodore and his students and crew were used to it all by now. Dreyfuss listened to the Dr.s report on the status of his convalescents and the rest of the current population of Sickbay.
"Very Well, Doc," he said as the Dr. concluded his report over the squawkbox. "Keep the patients moinitored and let me know if any start to exhibit signs of prescience or portal-sense."
Until the scantanks on the bridge had been modified to shoiw portal formations, "disconnect" patients, in addition to the travel behaviors of the air krakens, had been their only way iof tracking the formation of interdimensional portals (and the Krakens were still the preferred method, as they generally only showd up when the ambient electrical fields would support such anomalies as dimnsional portals). The St. Elmo's Dhopper Drive could make its own portals, but the natural ones the patients often sensed and that the krakens used tended to save huge amounts of energy from and wear and tear on the Dhopper machinery and circuits.
Now, where was this "doppelganger," and how should they go about finding her...
kind of a truncated installment, but more's to follow soon. I think Mad Jack will turn up in teh same space sooner than late...
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It was about three days later; Dreyfuss and his crew had escaped the clutches of the latter-day Aether League's security squadron with the help of the Black Suits, and taken up the assignment to take care of the ersatz St. Elmo Doppleganger. There had been general consternation among officers and crews of the Aether League's corvettes when the St, Elmo suddenly charged up and disappeared, the sonic boom accompanying it's sudden absence from the air that it had theretofore been located in deafening both airship crews and groundspeople as a few stray blue arcs played about the empty air, as if trying in vain to follow their previous owner.
The transition to "between" space was no smoother than it had ever been, but the commodore and his students and crew were used to it all by now. Dreyfuss listened to the Dr.s report on the status of his convalescents and the rest of the current population of Sickbay.
"Very Well, Doc," he said as the Dr. concluded his report over the squawkbox. "Keep the patients moinitored and let me know if any start to exhibit signs of prescience or portal-sense."
Until the scantanks on the bridge had been modified to shoiw portal formations, "disconnect" patients, in addition to the travel behaviors of the air krakens, had been their only way iof tracking the formation of interdimensional portals (and the Krakens were still the preferred method, as they generally only showd up when the ambient electrical fields would support such anomalies as dimnsional portals). The St. Elmo's Dhopper Drive could make its own portals, but the natural ones the patients often sensed and that the krakens used tended to save huge amounts of energy from and wear and tear on the Dhopper machinery and circuits.
Now, where was this "doppelganger," and how should they go about finding her...
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#60
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by James Harrison - February 26, 2025, 09:02:15 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxL4mjXVeN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtkhrdzoREQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BhZC5nCiDo
Whatever was causing the sliding, it's gone away now. And with it running more or less to my satisfaction, this then happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSzpgS6yu0