John Tomlinson Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, cheesysmith said: Me, I'm just trying to resist the temptation of the reissue of the chivers MDV. Already got more than a few, some converted to non top flap versions, and some with ex HTO underframes. I have to keep telling myself I don`t need more. I didn't realise they were back in business. Perhaps you could elaborate please? I've only done about four of them, two 21t fitted minerals, and a couple of the LMS plates. Excellent kits I thought and wished I'd bought some more. John. P.S. I've found the section in "Small Suppliers" about this re-release. Great news. Edited July 10, 2020 by John Tomlinson P.S. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 A typical Yorkshireman van! A thirty Bob unpainted Dapol body, Lanarkshire buffers/roof vents/vac pipes/vac cylinder/coupling hook, Gibson wheels and the rest of the undergubbins from the spares box (Lurpak tub) after building the myriad other Parkside kits during lockdown. Weathering to be completed at home. Voila, a half decent van for less than a tenner, luxury! Mike. 10 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 02/07/2020 at 16:52, John Tomlinson said: Now there's a blast from the past! At risk of losing all cred. I rather like his stuff, some of it anyway, it brings back memories of a large "O" gauge public layout in York around 40 years ago where they played one of the LP's - Oxygene I think - as backdrop. Still listen to the LP's sometimes when I'm modelling. At a similar time an old school friend was in HMV in Manchester and overheard a conversation "Have you heard the latest from Jean and Michael?" one person asked the other. Happy days. John. HMV Manchester, Market Street. Three floors of tunes, great folk and jazz sections, with knowledgeable staff. Gone now of course. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Aforementioned Loriot with an eBay purchase as a load. Mike. Hi Mike, Bus on bridge / Digger on a truck ??? Gibbo. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 These are my main Cambrian constructions so far, in chronological order of completion except for the one on the bottom right. Pillbox brake. LNER 16T Mineral. Bought from the scrap box at an old model shop for £1, mainly because it had a set of metal wheels. Addition of weight with unsuitable adhesive had wrecked the floor but the rest seemed to be ok. Carefully dismantled and rebuilt on a bit of styrene sheet. SR 8-plank merchandise wagon ex-works from being vac fitted by BR. SECR design Dance Hall Brake. This one needed a bit of work to get it to fit together well but pleased with the overall result. Boplate E. This went together pretty well. Lanarkshire buffers used as I couldn't get the Cambrian ones to stay together. My first successful attempt at home made transfers. Finally a Starfish which was the first Cambrian kit I built longer ago than I care to remember. May get a bit of an upgrade when I have finished off a few more projects. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Mike, Bus on bridge / Digger on a truck ??? Gibbo. Guilty as charged m'lud! The digger is now in its component pieces ready for a trip to the Nitromors bath of death. Mike. 2 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said: SECR design Dance Hall Brake. This one needed a bit of work to get it to fit together well but pleased with the overall result. I've got one in the roundtuit vault, but an early one which had the wrong roof profile and Cambrian provided a replacement roof. Is it the mating of differing profiles which caused a problem? Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 I've got the London Road Models etched version of the Dancehall, I don't hold out much hope for it, when I too, get aroundtuit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 32 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I've got one in the roundtuit vault, but an early one which had the wrong roof profile and Cambrian provided a replacement roof. Is it the mating of differing profiles which caused a problem? Mike. That may have been the cause, it just seemed that as you went along some of the bits didn't line up right but the usual cheats with a fine file and a tube of filler got it together at the second attempt. I find that with some kits a bit of evergreen angle tack welded inside the first corner helps to get things going. Just has to be carefully removed if you do it on open wagons 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 I put lengths of 080" square plastic on the inside corners and floors of my vans to give a bit more strength, I'm never that confident that the small bevelled surface is satisfactory in the long run. Mike. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 33 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: etched version of the Dancehall, I don't hold out much hope for it, when I too, get aroundtuit. Will you be appearing on Strictly when you do ? Seven !!! 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tomlinson Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I've got one in the roundtuit vault, but an early one which had the wrong roof profile and Cambrian provided a replacement roof. Is it the mating of differing profiles which caused a problem? Mike. Like "The Signal Engineer" I was pleased with the final outcome on mine, but there was a problem fitting the roof. As well as fitting snugly along the top of the sides, it has to meet up with the four corner stanchions, which are very easily broken off once you start fiddling about. I got there eventually by filing bits off the corner bottom of the roof and adjusting the stanchions out a bit after they'd broken, plus a bit of carefully placed microstrip for packing. Basically I think the roof isn't quite the right shape, and it's a bit thick to bend much. John. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, John Tomlinson said: As well as fitting snugly along the top of the sides, it has to meet up with the four corner stanchions, which are very easily broken off once you start fiddling about Same problem with mine. The one on the far side in the picture is definitely not square on. I think that was the one that didn't survive 'adjusting' and was refitted last after the roof was in place. Edited July 10, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer Typo 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) Thought you guys might like this, there's also some women in it for young Clive. Edited July 10, 2020 by Andrew P 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Without wishing to appear dumb could someone please explain what a dance hall brake is called such 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said: Without wishing to appear dumb could someone please explain what a dance hall brake is called such They thought it was big enough to hold a dance in. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Andrew P said: Thought you guys might like this, there's also some women in it for young Clive. Oh dear, thankfully I did hear Bon Scott sing it in 1978 at the ABC in Colchester. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 minute ago, richard i said: They thought it was big enough to hold a dance in. With the Andy Peters quartet at one end playing that ghastly rock and roll. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwal Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Keeping the wagons rolling on this otherwise passenger line here we have another tube wagon. It represents an LNER dia199 wagon with no doors. The Ian Kirk kit of the LMS wagon shown earlier formed the basis with buffers from Lanarkshire Models and springs/axleboxes from Rumney Models. The brakeshoes are 51L, the levers and vac pipes are ABS (I think!) whilst the brake linkages are mostly Ambis as are the axleguards. The axleboxes probably should be the LNER open front type rather than the BR version for the late '50s early '60s. 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Better than mine, made from the kirk kit with the centre drop door replaced with a section from the parkside BR kit. Still waiting couplings and vac pipes. A kirk original A MDO attempt at the heavier sprung 25t version, springs replaced with spares from the cambrian air opens and roller bearing axleboxes. And a trio of pig iron wagons built from trix bodies with replacement kit underframes. And in the backgroud, a dinosaur i am making from replica suburbans and DC kits ends. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2020 Clive's got me at it now!! Mike. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) I'm not saying I am going to be building it, but I am saying, I've just broken the 'things that must only be bought & sold on eBay and never opened or used' rule... Anyone know where I can get haloperidol over the counter Edited July 12, 2020 by Tim Dubya Harsh reality 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tomlinson Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 12 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: I'm not saying I am going to be building it, but I am saying, I've just broken the 'things that must only be bought & sold on eBay and never opened or used' rule... Anyone know where I can get haloperidol over the counter That looks rather good, have to see how well it fits! I made their GC15t Fish van once, turned out fine but took forever with well over 100 parts, all soldered. I wonder if you will fit the external sides onto the inner part before or after bending up, or indeed the optimal time to fit the vertical stanchions? I can't work out what the two long lengths at RH top are for though. John. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2020 17 minutes ago, John Tomlinson said: I can't work out what the two long lengths at RH top are for though. John. According to the scibbles, those are folded into a u shape and make up the sole bars. Yes, I shall do as much detailing as possible before folding it up. I have the plans/and or photos in one of the volumes on Southern Railway wagons, so hopefully should get everything where it's supposed to go Of course, soldering advice shall come from Ricey's scribblings on the matter in his etched loco construction book. I'm still no committing myself though... 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: committing myself Should have been years ago ! Come in the waters nice !!!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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