RMweb Premium MAP66 Posted February 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17 3 hours ago, JimRead said: Thanks Mark, Good of you to say that, you've bcome one of the most impressive modellers on the site, fair play to you. Cheers - Jim Thanks Jim, Wish I could say the same for my DIY endeavours 😄 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post JimRead Posted February 20 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 20 (edited) Hello there, I thought that I would just do a corner of the layout first, Mrs Smallgains Creosote Co. I found this pic from when I made my first micro, I went to Sheffield on a Sunday afternoon a few times to grab soome shots before some of the areas were 'gentrified'. With a some windows and gates from textures.com turned it into this. I flipped it because the right hand side will be against the edge of the board. A lot to do to it before I can turn it into a low-relief building but at least it's a start. Cheers - Jim [Edit] The left hand end above was too short and the text reversed, silly me! Edited February 21 by JimRead The bit between my ears failed, so another pic 20 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JimRead Posted February 27 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27 Hello there, New motors arrived from China. Blimey!! From the left, a proper brush holder with a proper spring not a tiny bit of graphite stuck to a brass strip. A 5 pole motor, skewed armature, close pole pieces and heavy windings. Large but not too powerful magnets. Brass bushes at each end, A test with a GM UF Style controller at the slowest speed, max pulses, it did not jump about on the bench at all, some I've bought have jumped off :-) Impossible to stop with my finger nails at the slowest speed. Cheers - Jim 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harris0169 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 17/02/2024 at 13:48, JimRead said: Hello T, It was not Peter I've not seen his stuff , but then I never buy magazines. :-) Is he on RMW? I think the one I know was a member of an RMClub in Nottingham on the right as you go into Nottingham on the A60, Woodborough? [edit] Woodthorpe they used to have a site looks as though that's gone. Blogger is much better and can be turned into one easily and it's Free Yippee :-) Cheers - Jim Hi @JimRead Don't want to cause thread drift...yet here it comes (!)....Was it John Fownes (who I think we spoke about)? When trying to find out more about the cardboard locos I did find this article: https://issuu.com/mortons-digital/docs/rmm007 on page 56/57 And I think Phil Parker mentions the team at the Club here: https://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/2015/06/#:~:text=slice or two...-,One,-very unusual demo and the link in Phil's post has one save on Wayback Machine/internet archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160418021844/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/instalek/cardboard.htm How did my Sherlock sleuthing go? All the best Andy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JimRead Posted February 28 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28 Hello Andy, I don't mind a bit of drift at all, it's all very interesting. Yes indeed it was John Fownes, I liked the way he blagged the kit manufacturers to sell him lots of useful bits. He once accepted a challenge to make a loco and have it running in one day. He uses 0.9mm card from Rymans for bodies and chassis. Interesting links thanks for sharing them. Cheers - Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harris0169 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) 3 hours ago, JimRead said: Hello Andy, I don't mind a bit of drift at all, it's all very interesting. Yes indeed it was John Fownes, I liked the way he blagged the kit manufacturers to sell him lots of useful bits. He once accepted a challenge to make a loco and have it running in one day. He uses 0.9mm card from Rymans for bodies and chassis. Interesting links thanks for sharing them. Cheers - Jim Thanks Jim for confirming. The biggest thing with cardboard modelling of locos and chassis, is trying to find the details. This is why I appreciate that you have posted so much about the skills and knowledge you have developed and acquired so that others - well me - can have a go and develop their (my) skills too. I did contact John by text a year and possibly a bit ago to see if I could find anymore information which I shoulda followed up with a call I guess when I didn't hear back. Anyway - I have you in the here and now so that'll do nicely! Along with @cornamuse and @Annie too. All the best Andy Edited February 28 by harris0169 Added a bit 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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