Adam

The Stanier is no worse for being effectively RTR (though you really should line it - waterslide lining only really needs patience and it'd be a good bit of 'your' input and there isn't really a more handsome livery that black lined red in my view). You may find yourself warming to it more while you grapple with things like crosshead clearances on the Fowler... You saved me on that front, at the price I'd have struggled to resist despite the things never being seen south of the Thames or west of Bristol! If you really don't want it, you'll make a profit by moving it on! Adam

I suspect that, in this case, it's a reflection of the colourisation (not one of his best - not declaring that is a bit off in my view) of the image - and possibly a misunderstanding of how copyright works which is very common. For that reason I wouldn't trust any of the colouring shown. Adam

I will be back - and the wagons too - just not on this thread. It's done its job and is no longer fit for the purpose I created it for. Thanks though, I'll be looking out for more on Coldstream, too. Adam

Alex - I absolutely love that. Thank you for sharing it: that's the sort of thing I'd really hoped might happen; a simple modification of a simple kit to replicate what happened in reality. Brilliant! Thank you everyone. This thread has run its course for a variety of reasons. First is that the rejigging of the site URLs will have broken the last surviving cross links. Second is the images - I suspect many, if not most, will come back, given time, but a fresh start is probably no bad thing. I think a more focussed, project-based, approach would work better here. Some of these wagons have appeared in MRJ and other projects may yet appear in print, subject to my time and the whims of editors. As for public appearances. Yes, if Yeovil MRG's South Junction goes on the road, some of my wagons will go with it: https://yeovilmrg.org/south-junction/ I'm working on my own layout and that could be exhibitable, just not in the near future. Similarly, if anyone in the SE of England would be interested in a wagon demo at their show I might be available for that, family permitting. Time for a cuppa. Adam

That's very kind - thank you. Adam

I think the time has come to draw a line under this thread. The vast majority of the pictures are (currently) lost and I have no real desire - and no time, either - to go through and reinstate them. Sorry about that, no one's fault, but the purpose of this thread, for me, was really as a sort of notebook and it now only serves part of that purpose. I may be back, but if so, I'll be starting again. Adam

The one thing I would say is that the wheels are far too small and ill-proportioned (they're far too small for both the Bedford and the AEC as well of course) since they should fill the mudguards. See these images for a reference: https://ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p414366842/hfe9ad85#hfe9ad85 While I agree with the expense of the full package - and I only ever buy the wheels, cabs and, occasionally, chassis, I never bother with the bodies which makes a great saving. In this case, treat yourself to some wheels, they'll be the making of the model. Adam

As Mike says, you can get the bits from AMBIS Engineering: http://www.ambisengineering.co.uk/ (or complete chassis from Rumney Models - a bit more involved, sure - https://website.rumneymodels.co.uk/). As to why, well I have no idea - the lifting link was the 'other' way of reversing the motion and had been around in various forms for ages at the point the BR standard form was developed. It had been an RCH standard fitting for long wheelbase (12') vehicles. I wouldn't like tosay whether it offered an engineering advantage or not. Adam

You may think it ugly (and maybe it is), but it's perhaps the most 'Sentinel' of Sentinel's designs, something with real engineering 'personality', taking their proven tech* - the vertical boiler and high speed engines - and taking them to their logical extremes, though Mike is right, sticking a diesel engine on the frames was a more efficient result. I've always wanted model of one as soon as I learned of their existence and now I can, and will. Adam * You should see the Sentinel fireless (which isn't quite an accurate description, nor was the tech' proven and no, they didn't really work...).

It's a foreign country (in some ways) after 1923! It gets more foreign still after the Second World War... And thank you for that excerpt from the drawing. The internal chamfer forming the barrow plank is not something I knew about. A bit late for the pair of 1666 I have on the go, but the *next one* will be right in consequence. Adam

I'd agree with that. Statistically that's far more likely, because there were a mere 1,200 1895s (Essery has caused a bit of confusion on the 'later' 1895s - in fact 1896 - which were really quite different in constructional details - and the two lots differed from one another - there were 1,800 of those). There were 55,000 dia. 1666 built from 1923 onwards and that's certainly what you're looking at. They're truly ubiquitous and there's no good excuse for not having a couple at least on any layout set after about 1930. Adam NB - in case you're wondering about the differences: the dia. 1896 had angle iron external knees instead of the forged outside knees of the dia. 1666 and dia. 1895. The lot 1118 wagons reverted to having curb rails which did not appear on the earlier lot 809 of D.1896 but the ironwork was the same for both lots and quite different to the D.1895 wagons.

Agreed, though it’s a rather bigger crane and I think(?) the OP works in 7mm scale. The rest of that set is more problematic - the Bedford tractor measures out as spot on. For H0. I’m not sure about the trailer. Adam

That’s wonderful, Stuart! I especially like the transfer numbers in lieu of the brass plates - painted names and numbers on industrials are something we don’t do enough as modellers (we’re all suckers for a bit of brass…). Adam

Superb! Adam

Maybe, but not impossible - one of the local operators in south Somerset ran a few for some years. Can’t recall - because the book is with dad In Somerset - which it was (I think Safeway’s of South Petherton). Ten mile runs would be punishing but not uncommon. Adam EDIT - PS, here were are: Merriott is just shy of 12 miles from Yeovil...

Nice. I’d go with satin rather than matt as a finish - bus bodywork normally has some sort of sheen, even in the post war years. Adam

This one you mean? They're nice kits (I have two more to do in the drawer - between those they'll be sufficient spares to make up one of the variations - unbraked and/or welded). These were built by Hudsons from scratch (though I suppose some wheelsets might have been recycled). Adam

Hello Jack, I’m as sure as I can be that the quartering of the wheels is off. Assuming it worked properly in 00, the only thing you’ve changed is the wheels for EM which has meant the wheels came off the axles. My guess is that one has gone back on one spline over relative to the other. That’s a bit harder to correct than with, say, a Gibson wheel which you could twist but should be possible. So plan A would be to look at that, plan B replacement drivers. Adam

What a magnificent beast, Mike. I’ll start saving for this missing link in my post-war Sentinel collection. Adam

Ha! What I think he typed was something like "yjkkkkl - o". Make of this what you will... Adam

Edit - toddler playing with the phone...

That's really coming on nicely, Gareth. I take it the sandboxes are 3D printed? And does the same apply to the wheels? Adam

A lovely bit of work, Laurie - I hadn't realised that the aim was a fully modelled(?) Pen Mill as well as 'Town. One of the advantages of the somewhat odd* railway history of Yeovil - especially in 2mm - gives the opportunity to represent an interconnected system. Adam * If you're not familiar with it: three different railways - which gave rise to, at one point, five different stations (ok, not all passenger stations, but still) - sort of converged there with more and less convenient methods of exchanging traffic between the GWR and the South Western.

That rendering of Mortenhampstead is really very good indeed, isn't it? My mind's eye isn't helped by knowing full well that there was a 4mm (00?) version on the exhibition circuit a few years ago. Thanks to @Not Jeremy for some enforced isolation reading. Adam

An Austin, but effectively the same thing, barring the grill (the cab came with BMC badges too, I think) - the motor might well have been different? Adam