RMweb Gold Taz Posted January 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2013 .... ( It'll be at the front, just off centre to the right, not far from the sunken barge, near a car park). Handy to know in case anyone gets caught short 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2013 Handy to know in case anyone gets caught short You'd need to be Very short ! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2013 I intend to start a thread on my personal project soon. At the moment I am building the final baseboard arrangement after two abortive trial runs which didn't work as a railway should. The paper prints are currently pinned to the tops to get the last shapes to what I want. It will be midlands based, again perverting history as with BCB. My slant involves rewriting the map of the Birmingham area using various abortive schemes such as the London, Worcester & South Staffordshire Railway, which would have become part of the LNWR, the connection between the Oxford & Birmingham and Grand Junction at Proof House, the Shrewsbury & Birmingham running powers over the Stour Valley and proposals for a link from the West Suburban line into the Black Country via Halesowen. There are two levels. The bottom is a roundy to amuse the grandsons, having a 12' scenic section finishing part-way along a station with an overhead ticket office. It also lets me run main line passenger and lumbering freights with the Super D. The upper level will be a branch with a passenger platform and goods branch set-up like Stourbridge Town to let me indulge in shunting. There will also be some industrial connection, and hopefully if I can get it to work in the space available an incline to connect the two systems but not entirely in a straightforward manner as the time frame will be early an 1960s state of flux. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted January 31, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2013 I see an update of this thread is long over due! Last weekend, adjustments were made to the embankment to accomodate the retaining wall for the signal box, seen towards the top left of this photo: Last night, details such as finials, guttering and the stove pipe were added to the box and it was then treated to good clean up followed by a fresh coat of grey primer: Having sorted out the height of the base and retaining wall in relation to rail height last weekend, I now need to trim approx 1.5mm off the top of the base to lower the operating floor slightly. I've also noted on looking at the photos tht the landing isn't quite square so this will be adjusted (toilet isn't fixed in position; it will be after painting and glazing). Then it's just paint, and a few more detail parts...... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 31, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2013 Squareness in a timber box on an embankment was an optional extra ! As long as the frame wasn't twisted and the box was not moving too far out then it was left so don't get too hung up about everything being true. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Even brick built 'boxes could display spectacular ability to wander about the railway on their own. Droitwich, in the vee of a junction on an embankment springs to mind. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 31, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2013 Kingsbury Branch Sidings was a bad one. Look at the angle of that fire bucket. http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/mrk1118.htm 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Arthur Posted January 31, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2013 With the decals fitted and trimmed they were left to dry out and then the final few details were added. The pre-painted buffer housings, jacking points and the resin handbrake handle cover, on the cab rear, were fitted with superglue. Handrails and door handles, fabricated from .45mm wire, were also superglued in and strengthened with a smear of araldite on the inside. Final fittings were the etched plates onto the bonnet front, one of a Yorkshire Grey, symbol of the Yorkshire Engine Co, and one for British Thomson-Houston, suppliers of the electrical equipment. I had painted these gloss black and, using fine abrasive paper, exposed the raised brass of the etchings. To protect, and blend it all together, I spayed on two thin coats of Dullcote; and a couple of works photos; Nearly there, weathering and final details, and she’s done. TBC 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I've been making up some billet loads from Evergreen 1.5mm x 1.5mm styrene. They're 8 billets across by 3 high, and like Marks, they're hollow. Only the top and sides are full lengths, the ' inside' ends are just short lengths, and they're not glued along all the length, just at three points, so that it doesn't look like a single block. Humbrol Polished Steel Metalcote, given just a light polish, finished them off. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 That is some very impressivelly neat decal work Arthur...! keith 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Lovely job Arthur....very impressive. Look forward to seeing it in the flesh. Regards Dave 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Very nice representation of 4.5" square billets, Arthur. Ready for re-heating and processing into (most likely?) forgings for the car industry. You have "caught" the look of the cropped ends beautifully! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Excellent. The quality and attention to detail is outstanding. Can't wait to see the finished product. Duncan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Very nice representation of 4.5" square billets, Arthur. Ready for re-heating and processing into (most likely?) forgings for the car industry. You have "caught" the look of the cropped ends beautifully! And bed springs for Slumberland... Duport's works was at the bottom of our street, and on quiet nights, you'd hear the 'clang' as billets came off the 'mill and were cropped. Those look pretty much as I remember them, though I think they used some sort of colour coding to identify the different batches. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 It's been a while since I was involved in taking delivery of such billets, and I had forgotten the colour coding on the ends of billets and bar stock. The colours indicated the specification of the material rather than the batch. There were always paper certificates to show batch identification, specification and the chemical composition of the supply. The last of these often checked by the receiving company's laboratory, and (pre-computers!), diligently recorded in vast files, which in my experience rarely got consulted except in the cases of warranty or insurance claims following a component failure. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 STATUS UPDATE Following a BCB team discussion, it was decided to obtain either laser cut or etched windows for the Tennants Building. Given that it makes sense to utlise every square mm of the materials sheet, and given that there is enough space, the Oldbury Road building will also benefit from laser cut/etched windows (and I admit I'm relieved as I was not happy with my efforts [pics to follow]). This means that the Oldbury Road Building is partly on hold, until the arrival of the windows. However, in the interim I will rebuild the office (complete with piles of paper and a John Player Special cigarette packet) finish the chimney stacks (I have to drill out and paint the chimney pots) finish weathering the doors and install them There will also be a lot do on the Tennants building... Oldbury Road pics this weekend! Promise! iD 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 STATUS UPDATE I've heard from Mark and laser cut/etched windows will be created for the Tennants Building, which will certainly increase the quality of the final model. Whilst awaiting the windows I will be finishing the painting of the brickwork, lintels, "stone" entrance and watergoods (the latter in that rather fetching "Dirty Budgie" yellow of the original). I will also resize the 1st floor emergency exit door and make a start on the fire escape etch. Pretty pictures by end of the weekend... Now, further questions to the BCB team; Firstly, would an open plan "typing pool" interior be a suitable interior for part of the Tennants Building?; Secondly, there is now a blank wall behind the building (it was decided to do away with the loading dock) - I am proposing to build a small chain-link fence enclosure for that area, an enclosure that will contain large cylinders of medical/industrial gasses (remember, I pointed out that I know of a number of industrial buildings, in the UK, that used to be combined offices and labs), is this agreeable. Do let me know iD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 ....and what about the BCB groupies????? Are any foreseen/expected/wished for/dreaded? I think we should be told.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Intending to be at Doncaster (SWMBO doesn't know yet!).....Be Afraid.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2013 So this is how the two middlish (of 5?) boards arrived last Sunday evening. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2013 First of all there was a good amount of filling of holes and gaps to do... And the cutting of a road under the viaducts...got to have somewhere else for all those vehicles! And then the wingwalls and end pillars for the industrial viaduct were made... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2013 Now, the interface between the two viaducts...a bit tricky as the industrial line embankment ran through one of the wingwalls of Andy's old viaduct. In the end I decided that the old wingwall would have been retained, so as not to effect the stability of the mainline, and earth piled between the new viaduct's wingwall and the original wingwall / embankment... A slight hint of the old wingwall will be seen (sorry Andy). 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2013 And now my favourite bit..green stuff... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2013 And the new blue checked work shirt... Not as clean and new as it was last Sunday! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Very impressed Mr T! You've been rather busy. I like the idea of the residual wall. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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