diesel

I've started a new 2mm finescale project I'm going to call Greenacres Pass. The name, like the layout is completely freelance. Greenacres being the residential area of Oldham where I grew up and Pass because, well, its just a double track mainline passing a private siding leading to an industry...

Good morning, it’s been a while since I posted and so much has happened, I moved up from EM gauge to 7mm which I loved but after making quite a bit of progress and accumulating quite a few locos I realised the reality that I’d probably never finish the project due to the size and lack of space I...

Nearly all the early Heljan diesel models have been known to suffer from split gears. Those affected seem to be mainly the Hymek, and Class 47s, but the other week Scale 7 JB told me his class 26 was suffering this too, and last week we tried mine and yes it has got split gears as well...

I have 2 main diesel projects on the go at the moment, the first is D206 This is a JLTRT kit that a friend started about 10 years ago and got parked on his to do shelf , so I bought it off him about a year ago in a half finished state. It's not fully finished yet, there are a few more bits...

It's been a while since I had a finished commission to show off. Looking back, it seems the last completed builds were in the summer of 2016. It seems so long ago. Anyway, here's 10001, as built and entering service on British Railways metals in the middle of 1948. The first two...

This recent Dapol loco has proved popular with some of the S7 guys and I now have the fifth example on my bench for conversion. Start by removing the coupling rod crankpins, be careful with these as they are fitted with some sort of thread lock fluid and I have already had one shear, spares...

I'm hoping to place a driver and 'second man' in my early 1960s diesel locos. However, my layout will be terminus to fiddle yard without turning facilities. So how do you guys populate your cabs? It seems an overkill to have four crew aboard the loco. Would there be instances where the second...

Good morning, I thought I'd share my bodging efforts on my new o gauge micro layout set in North Devon in the 1970s/80s. It's not finished but has made its first public appearance and with bookings coming in,it's spurring me on to keep developing the layout to completion. As I say, Its not...

Posted below are a few photos of our 7mm layout, Invermire (loosley based on Wick/Thurso in the North of Scotland) which is currently being constructed by members of Hessle Model Railway group. The photos were taken at a test session yesterday when we hired the large room at the Hessle Town Hall...

My brother took this picture at West Drayton Middlesex about 1964 and I thought it might be useful for those modelling the early WR diesel scene who don't have room for long trains.

Apologies up front if this is a known resource, but I just stumbled on this site and thought it could be of use. I've certainly bookmarked it myself! The Driving Cab

This is how I did mine very photo intensive. The basic strip down A bit of time with a fibre scratch brush The chassis had a large amount of plastic removed, angle brass around the edge and cross members, some fittings added and the fuel tank molding filled with lead More to follow Ian G

Found on Youtube enjoy, cheers Rob

As promised a workbench thread to chart the kits I am working on since skipping a gauge and going to 0 Gauge Excuse the state of the work area, I do know which kit each part belongs to. So we have three kits here. I will cover each in turn M&M Lowmac My initial purchase to get to feel the O...

Photos of D3358 at the Mid Hants Railway. What is the purpose of the inlet (outlet?) pipe under the buffer plank? What is the purpose of the round black body to the immediate right of the foot step? Are either of these fittings contemporary with an engine in BR days? What is the purpose of...

Refound this mostly built RJH kit in a shoe box recently, now to be County of Essex so have removed the boiler water tanks and done some remodelling at the ends and the roof, progress so far.

As you might have seen at Telford, JLTRT are to produce a limited amount of wagons in RTR. The first being the Dog fish & Cat fish hopper wagons, they will be available in a variety of liveries and options. The first batch should be ready for the reading trade show. These will be followed...

See how my first thread goes... My personal layout project is based in North Lincolnshire in the early 1990s, 1992 to be exact. It based on the North Lindsey Light Railway (a little known branch which ran north from Scunthorpe towards the River Humber) and I've amended history just a tad; this...

1971 - Western Technicolor at Paddington by rgadsdon, on Flickr What a state :eek: Link to two missing photos added by S Cook 261015. Photo 1 Photo 2

Wencombe/Kingsbridge Regis As stated in my New Members thread my 00 gauge layout Wencombe is based on an imaginary line from Churston via a viaduct over the R. Dart to Kingsbridge with passing stations at Dartmouth and Wencombe, with a branch from Wencombe to Slapton (upgraded during WWII for...