Dublingham Goods Station

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Oh, that's not good, well, I was uploading from the Middy, which had a patchy phone connection, so here they are again.

The Middy has a really lovely atmosphere, it's almost as if Iain Rice built it.

 

[Simpas]

Tony,

Brilliant, it's all so clear to me now....!

cheers
Mick S

 

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Ok, so progress has been ongoing in many areas.

Leg arrangements finalised after stability issues.

Track painting and weathering started.

Remaining two 08's nearly finished.

But what I'm really excited about is buying an eBay £30 Dublo 8F with Romford wheels, converting it to three rail and fitting my favourite Romford 60:1 gears. It fits in the run round and and fiddle yard, so very happy!

Below is the proof of concept, a Rocket shaped 2-2-0.

 

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Machined holes in the top of the tender frame to accept the 16mm wheels and drilled the axle boxes to take PECO round end axle bushes. Started cleaning up the parts for a repaint.

 

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I've been thinking that as the layout has no curtain/skirt, I need something to hold small valuables, up to loco size.

I googled around and found the LockaBox, made here in the UK.

LOCKABOX™ | Compact & hygienic lockable storage box

I've bolted it to the underside of the fiddle yard tray, finally getting round to bolting the tray itself in. The box has a three digit code, should put off all but the most determined...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Very neat idea. Put a few dummy wires to the box and it'll look like a electrical/electronics cabinet.

Where's the all important fridge?

 

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If by fridge, you mean beer fridge, then that would make me drunk in charge of a model railway. Mind you, reading some of the old Bradford Barton railwayman memoirs, it seems a cheeky pint wasn't particularly frowned upon.

Tony

 

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So more progress today, the deadline of the next exhibition at Kempston on 9th November is rapidly approaching.

Finally started ballasting today, felt like a big moment as the blue foam is starting to disappear. I was paranoid that I'd get ballast in the points and stop them working, but all seems ok so far. I also painted my bufferstops, track dirt, with a rust wash, I was quite taken with the effect. I bought a pack of the new PECO bullhead buffers just to mix it up a bit.

Hopefully it will be set solid tomorrow and the point will still be working, then scrape off the paint from the rail tops.

Tony

 

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Couldn't resist pairing my new mechanical horse with a presflo, ok I know it's 'small beer'. The horse needs a repaint, but some research using 'Railway owned commercial vehicles' by S W Steven-Stratten see's this type of horse still going in 1961. The tank is close enough to the cement type for me, with the pipe holders down the sides.

 

[Simpas]

Tony,

This is all good stuff and at least on your thread I can see the images. I seem to be having trouble elsewhere and not sure why...

Mick S

 

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Thanks Mick, It's all coming along now. I have three exhibition bookings coming up over the next year so very happy.

Not sure about your image problems, I guess you might have to speak to an admin as the problems I have are those members that link from other sites and the original image has been deleted.

Cheers
Tony

 

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A bit of fun is making a carry box for the loco fleet. That's three of Neasden's four 08 shunters from the late 50s.

 

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One of the low relief buildings has been completed. A slightly modified Scalescenes kit.

 

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The cattle dock is coming on, has been electronically scratchbuilt from Scalescenes parts using Affinity Designer. The ratio cattle dock posts will be fitted with evergreen styrene rod. I've modelled it on the Welshpool cattle dock that has just been restored, figuring that the GC and GW might have wanted to co-invest in the facility.

Tony

 

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I've been refining the slides on the monitor, this seems to be at the very limit of too much information. Hopefully is clear enough for the viewer.

 

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Had some fun painting my Ratio coal bins. I'd lightly modified them before painting with acrylics. Black to start followed by light grey, rust, biege, a touch of green, then a black wash.

I based the colours on the one at Haworth on the KWVR, link below.

Coal bins of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

 

[Simpas]

Tony,
All excellent work, I can see all the pictures on my phone but not my laptop so it's obviously my end, but I haven't a clue how to rectify it.
Mick S.

 

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Thanks Mick. On another thread here some readers claimed it was their windows browser not refreshing itself automagically when visiting the page. You mobile does it properly.

Ctrl+F5 I think refreshes the page.

Tony

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

The cattle dock is coming on, has been electronically scratchbuilt from Scalescenes parts using Affinity Designer.

The Scalescenes brickpapers are some of the best I've seen.

 

[Simpas]

Thanks Tony, all clear now and much better on the big screen

On another thread here some readers claimed it was their windows browser not refreshing itself automagically when visiting the page. You mobile does it properly.

Ctrl+F5 I think refreshes the page.