7mm Aneurin Bridge ( St Stephen’s General station )

Steph Dale

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
mickoo said:
Right!, I'm done being a miserable git, off to Autocad for some etch work for a new project, if I can decide which one that is :headbang: , choice of three and it'll probably come down to spinning the bottle LOL.
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Just stick the kettle on and see what you feel like doing after a cuppa.
I'm off to do the same...

Steph
 
Compton castle

Compton castle

Western Thunderer
Ok chaps now everyone has a say on the JLTRT debate can we leave it at that as my thread is fast becoming a boxing match into
The pros and cons of JLTRT.
All I will say is Im thoroughly enjoying detail my Hymek and if me doing that because I'm a friend of Pete's and he allowed me to purchase separate castings has now made jltrt see that there is a demand for after market detail projects then great for all not just the few.
So Back to all things Ranelagh Bridge related, uh well except that for 2014 I'm going to build a photo plank at my club meeting on a Friday night, old oak approaches,
It will be the length of a piece of C&L and about 1 foot wide, Jon fitness will be building the signals for it. As canton will be sold in April this gives me something to display at my two local model shows.image.jpg
 
Compton castle

Compton castle

Western Thunderer
mickoo said:
Will you include the canal up behind the wall? I believe it's a canal up there.
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No, I want it as simple as possible, so it's easy to transport and store. It's not going to be very exciting but 7mm has such a presence that I can just stare at a loco for quite a while and hopefully others will want to as well and photograph them also.
 
OzzyO

OzzyO

Western Thunderer
Hello all,

when I said that all of use 7mm modellers have befitted from PWs injection of cash, I was using the term with a broad brush. As an example over 40 coach kits in the range etc. plus all of the track side bits.

mickoo, nothing that I said was aimed at you or any one person. If I want any parts that are not for a JLTRT kit I have to wait my turn and also pay for them, so I would not say that I can dip into the parts bin and just get what I want.

Someone mentioned the old boy net work and that is how we can get the parts. When you read Martyn's (3link) message about getting the wrong boiler and just getting the correct one sent without having to send the wrong one back (to buy one of them cost approx. £30) is that a Co. that is not trying to help.

Just about all of the JLTRT kis that I have built have more casting than I can use to build the kits, with most of the options built in.

OzzyO.
 
OzzyO

OzzyO

Western Thunderer
Hello all,

before Steve nicks my Thunder (like that)? Some more photos of Pete Harvey's steps for the Hymek, after a grit-blast and clean up,
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Then it was a wash in meths to get the last of the grit off,
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Then it was into the Birchwood Casey metal black (Aluminum black[that is how it's spelt]).
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On the finished job I've polished up the treads to make it look like the ware of a few sets of boots .

OzzyO.
 
alcazar

alcazar

Guest
Back on topic indeed.

The steps are so much finer...imagine trying to replicate that, four times, from strip brass?:eek:

I keep toying with the idea of a sort of test track/display plank, but I'd like to nick an idea and use the side of the Crimpsall Erecting Shop at Doncaster......it even had points. Plus I can show off newer locos on their way to, or from, the paint shops or well-used ones coming in for a repair. And bits and pieces of locos.

A bit like this:

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Now I just need to get on and do something..........
 
Compton castle

Compton castle

Western Thunderer
Jeff
That's sound alike an interesting project,
I've decided to make a small change on the hymek, I'm going to leave off the ploughs and do D7022 which was in the first batch of Hymeks sent to canton in 1962 so I've chopped off the head board mounts. That's it really, il keep the ploughs for something else.
 
alcazar

alcazar

Guest
Overseer said:
That would be the good bit. How would the driver feel with the loco speeding down the main line and all the controls have seized solid - speedo not working, unresponsive throttle and no brakes? .....if they were sentient.
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What?????? They AREN'T sentient????????

I'm agrieved.

CC: Your GvSYP Warship's face looks different fron normal, doesn't it?
 
Alan

Alan

Western Thunderer
D845 and D857 had the very small yellow panels according to Hugh Dady in his book Heyday of the Warships. Although D845 had a narrow white band above the cab windows. As the one in the picture doesn't it could be D857
 
Osgood

Osgood

Western Thunderer
In order to help resolve this sticking point - may I respectfully suggest the use of swivelling bulkheads, with empty seats on the other side? Both bulkheads worked by solenoids linked to direction of travel, with neutral being empty seats showing both ends.

:drool:
 
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