RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted August 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2019 Starting to add detail with microstrip. 17 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coal Tank Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi the layout looks good is there a separate thread for it John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted August 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Coal Tank said: Hi the layout looks good is there a separate thread for it John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Are these plastic so you can drag them up the incline more easily than a whitemetal one? 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 I've just discovered this thread, the quality of the modelling is superb. I cannot wait to go back and start from page 1. In the bolster wagon 71782 - what have you used for the chains and shackles please, they look really good! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted August 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2019 7 hours ago, Jack P said: I've just discovered this thread, the quality of the modelling is superb. I cannot wait to go back and start from page 1. In the bolster wagon 71782 - what have you used for the chains and shackles please, they look really good! Not sure off hand but probably Slaters chain and Smiths screw couplings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted August 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2019 A couple of finished G2 vans but not the plastic ones seen above, these are a couple of David Geen kits glimpsed occasionally in the background before, the problem with finishing them has been finding suitable numbers for this type, there are a couple of photos in the NERA archive and these are the numbers I have used. The photos also show sliding roof doors and full loop steps. 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2019 Whose microstrip are you using? It may be my imagination but it looks as if it might be thinner than 10 thou, which I've felt to be frustratingly just a little a bit too thick for the purpose - scale 3/4" rather than 3/8"! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted August 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2019 The 40x10 and 30x10 are Slaters and the 40x20 is Evergreen. 6 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2019 Thanks. I'm a convert to Evergreen for the thicker sections - they're cut squarer than the Slater's equivalent, which are concave on one side and convex on the other. For solebars, I imagine I'm using American oak rather than English oak! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted September 16, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2019 Where did that come from? Well I'm not that quick at building them, although when I built it back in 2001 it only took a couple of weeks! It started out as LNER N10 No 9092 in 00 and ran on Fellburn and Felton Lane, earlier this year I stripped off the lettering, rubbed down the paint and re-gauged it to EM (it has Romford wheels) and over this last weekent I've fitted a Westinghouse pump, re-painted and re lettered it as NER class U No 89. The headcode discs - and I'm guessing the red one is red - are for a Stanghow Mine to Middlesbrough train, according to a photo in the NERA archive. 32 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 That looks fantastic. The fidelity of those head-code discs is very impressive! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 (edited) Paul it shows that once you can build locos even 18 years ago. the skills keep improving. I look at the latest finished loco a D17 and compare it back to a Bradwell J27 from 1998! the finish and build has improved! The other thing is shows is that once built, kits can be modified in the dim distant future if needed. Edited September 17, 2019 by DougN 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Lovely N10 , she is crying out for a real brass safety valve !! (unless my screen is wrong). What have you used for the Bunker works plates ?. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted September 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2019 It would be better in brass but it's finding one the right shape that's well cast, I've had a few over the years but never been really happy with them. The plates really belong on a B17... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 The one on my LNER F8 which you have seen on here before, is from I believe Arthur Kimber. It cleaned up well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosedale Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 A lovely engine Paul! Which transfers do you use for the side and buffer beam? I'm asking because I'm about to paint my S Scale Y7. I'm going to use Fox transfers for the lining but need to use something for the letters. Thanks. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted September 25, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, Rosedale said: A lovely engine Paul! Which transfers do you use for the side and buffer beam? I'm asking because I'm about to paint my S Scale Y7. I'm going to use Fox transfers for the lining but need to use something for the letters. Thanks. All lettering is HMRS Pressfix, N. 89 E. from the LNER Yellow sheet, Fox lettering seems to have too much white highlighting and they don't seem to do full stops, there's not many so I have used the bottom of a 7" '1' as an experiment and it has gone well. The buffer beam numbers from the NER loco and carriage sheet. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted September 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 After a bit of research last night I've changed the disk with the cross from red to green, we were looking at the club last night at a list of local headcodes for Teesside that Ben has and they used disks during the day white and green with a white X, at night these were a white light and a green light (all lamps were red, a lamp contains a light remember), so tonight it has had a repaint. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted October 21, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 And another one re-gauged, back dated and generally improved. This time class C, one of my earliest kit builds. It has had quite a bit more done to it than the class U, it has had everything removed from the frames as for some reason I only fitted bearings in the rear, driven axle! getting the gear off was a bit of fun as I remember when I built it the top of the grub screw sheared off, it was in enough but was just a bit slack (there was a flat on the axle) and the gear wuold move quite a way before the wheels, the way I got it off was to push the axle through as far as I could, file more flat right to the end then push it back the other way, luckily it came out, didn't matter about the axle as it was being changed for the EM one anyway, luckily I managed to find another gear that fitted perfectly. The next job that I discovered as I was re assembling was the wheel flanges were way too big, these are the old Romford profile and were bouncing over the chairs, so each wheel was in turn put on one of the old 00 axles and popped in the cordless drill in the bench vice and gently re-profiled with a small file. The loco body was pretty much stripped of paint and chimney, dome, valve cover and boiler bands removed. Clack valves were fitted, boiler fittings 'seated' better and refitted along with boiler bands from sticky paper labels. The smokebox handles were replaced with a handle and wheel and vacuum pipes removed, this is an unfitted loco. the only job in the cab was to fit a handbrake on the fireman's side. There are a few more little jobs to do, coal in the tender, a crew, the weight back in the boiler. Oh, and there was a lamp bracket at the foot of the chimney before I painted it, 'onest... 23 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Very nice work! It's subjective, of course, but the brass finish looks more authentic on the C. Less yellow? Cheers Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted October 22, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2019 7 hours ago, jukebox said: Very nice work! It's subjective, of course, but the brass finish looks more authentic on the C. Less yellow? Cheers Scott Ah, well, as I was cleaning it up it appeared to be brass, until I got all the black paint off and I realised it was nickel silver! Nice shape but wrong material. What I painted it with (and I'd already redone the U) is Vallejo 'Old Gold'. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 24, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2019 Guesses as to what this is going to be. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cram Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 E class? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 24, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Paul Cram said: E class? You'd think so, looking at those wheels... but no. It's a nice runner, no adjustments needed! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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