Oz7mm
Western Thunderer
Aside from Love Lane, there is other stuff, not least my rather slow efforts to but build a layout (in S7) of New South Wales Railways in the late 1950s, early 1960s.
A long dormant project has been a 5" Gauge Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo electric loco. The castings and other parts came from Steam & Diesel Castings by Dan Jeavons, now retired. My friend and neighbour, Malcolm Ewen, of the Chelmsford Society of Model Engineers persuaded me to dust it off and we now get together on Thursday afternoons to work on it. He recently completed a Maxitrack Class 25 which arrived much more complete than the Bo-Bo (the chassis is virtually complete) but he wanted to make a decent job of the body - perhaps not S7 standards - and I helped with some etchings and laser cut glazing.
This week we hit a milestone on the Bo-Bo and have completed the first of the bogies with the exception of the shoe beams and pickups. The second is not too far off as well and it's a very pleasing point. It feels like we are coming on to the home straight. The bogie design follows the prototype quite closely with working leaf springs on the axleboxes and coil springs which act to dampen movement between bogies and superstructure.
John (the other JB)
A long dormant project has been a 5" Gauge Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo electric loco. The castings and other parts came from Steam & Diesel Castings by Dan Jeavons, now retired. My friend and neighbour, Malcolm Ewen, of the Chelmsford Society of Model Engineers persuaded me to dust it off and we now get together on Thursday afternoons to work on it. He recently completed a Maxitrack Class 25 which arrived much more complete than the Bo-Bo (the chassis is virtually complete) but he wanted to make a decent job of the body - perhaps not S7 standards - and I helped with some etchings and laser cut glazing.
This week we hit a milestone on the Bo-Bo and have completed the first of the bogies with the exception of the shoe beams and pickups. The second is not too far off as well and it's a very pleasing point. It feels like we are coming on to the home straight. The bogie design follows the prototype quite closely with working leaf springs on the axleboxes and coil springs which act to dampen movement between bogies and superstructure.
John (the other JB)