s7

This might sound like a silly question but I'm going to ask it anyway There are 2 categories Scratch Built (not commercially available parts) and Kit built. Which category would a 3D printed wagon body come into if it was not on sale to the public? I'm asking this from a personal view as as...

I have just looked and found that it is a year since I posted anything on my layout building. There has been progress on Holme Wotsit and I shall detail such progress on that layout thread. This thread is going to be about my replacement of my layout of a life time, Aberbeeg. It was ambitious...

The background. My family moved to Swansea in 1963, missing the end of the Swansea & Mumbles Railway which closed in 1960, but the Swansea Harbour Trust lines around the docks and surrounding streets were still in use (just!). Track ran at two levels in places between the King’s and Prince of...

I'm looking for a j67/69 kit and noticed Ace do one. As their reputation goes before them. Has any built one? and if yes how did it go together and what do you have to do to it to bring it up to S7 standards? Marc

I have bought a lot of these wagons as I think they are really nice and they managed to keep going in service until into the 1990s. I asked Malcolm Fisher at Peartree to do some replacement wheelsets for me to make converting them to S7 fairly easy. They have taken a while to get here, but I...

As a first post I thought I'd better write something showing a crumb of modelling ability.... so what better than a kit with only about 20 individual parts. Like most of my modelling this is pure nostalgia. A PCA tank, hopefully the first of 5, that will replicate the colourful Ketton Cement...

I was just informed that this show has now been cancelled for a second year due to Covid-19. Not a great shock but I did have my fingers crossed for this one. Looks like I will be going for an online launch of the G1 1/32 range now. Marc

Has anyone built a working wagon turntable? If yes how did you do it? Im working on a layout idea and it hinges on getting one to work. Marc

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...

Good morning, and reight good it is to be here. I’m a Yorkshireman, or more correctly nowadays, a Northumbrian, for I’m living in what we now call Northumberland, though I have documentary evidence that the old kingdom of Northumbria included Leeds so I claim the best of all worlds. No...

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...

I have just bought one of Jim's J65 kits of a well known auction site. I haven't taken delivery yet and Jim no longer lists the kit in his range so I have not seen the instructions. I'm presuming that I'm going to have to make some new frames to get horn blocks . Has anyone built on in S7? Marc

I saw a GWR wagon chassis (or components thereof) on the S7 stand at Reading last week. It looked interesting and I made a mental note to return to enquire about it, but didn't get an opportunity. Would anyone like to fill me in in on what I missed please?

Hi all, Just thought I'd post a couple of pictures of my first 7mm wagon kit which I started recently... For those who do not want to guess this is a Parkside Dundas Double Bolster Wagon Yes it is being built as an LNER version.