jonte
Western Thunderer
I’ve been wondering for some time about Precision’s/Phoenix dirty black for some time and intend to opt for one at some point so thank you, Nigel.
Jon
Elmham Market in EM
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I’ve been wondering for some time about Precision’s/Phoenix dirty black for some time and intend to opt for one at some point so thank you, Nigel.
Jon
James Spooner
Western Thunderer
I have now glazed the cab, coaled the tender and, apart from affixing the smokebox plates when they arrive from Narrow Planet, I think that is a wrap. It has been an instructive build and, as my first soldered whitemetal kit, I have learned a lot from it. At times it did feel as though it was fighting me all the way, but I suspect some of that was my inexperience with the medium. Overall, I’m reasonably pleased that I have managed to turn a £25 purchase into a working loco, that bears at least a passing resemblance to an Ivatt 4MT.
Whilst waiting for paint to dry etc. I have also started some scenic treatment of the left hand board on Elmham Market. I attach photos both the of Ivatt and progress to date on the scenery.
Nigel
Whilst waiting for paint to dry etc. I have also started some scenic treatment of the left hand board on Elmham Market. I attach photos both the of Ivatt and progress to date on the scenery.
Nigel
James Spooner
Western Thunderer
The last few days have largely been spent on the dreaded M word (maintenance!). I had invited a fellow FR driver with railway modelling interests over for an operating session and when I tested the layout there were a couple more Fulgurex point motor failures (actually it doesn’t seem to be the motors themselves but the switches controlling the motor movement seem to go) so too much time was spent on my back under the baseboards replacing them with some of my supply of Cobalt motors, then fine tuning the movements. After all that effort, yesterday seemed to go reasonably well, with not too many glitches.
I have therefore today turned my attention back to scenery. Looking at old photos of the bridge over the line at Lavenham, there seemed to be a typical concrete post with something akin to two horizontal scaffolding bars fitting through holes cast in the concrete. I couldn’t find anything that replicated that in 4mm scale so dug out some Evergreen 60 thou by 80 thou plasticard rod, some 0.7mm (don’t we just love mixing Imperial and metric?!) brass rod and made up a simple jig to get the holes in a consistent place. The rest of the afternoon was spent happily drilling, sanding, gluing and painting so I now have a sufficiently long length of railing to suit my needs. A few photos show what I have been trying to explain.
Nigel
I have therefore today turned my attention back to scenery. Looking at old photos of the bridge over the line at Lavenham, there seemed to be a typical concrete post with something akin to two horizontal scaffolding bars fitting through holes cast in the concrete. I couldn’t find anything that replicated that in 4mm scale so dug out some Evergreen 60 thou by 80 thou plasticard rod, some 0.7mm (don’t we just love mixing Imperial and metric?!) brass rod and made up a simple jig to get the holes in a consistent place. The rest of the afternoon was spent happily drilling, sanding, gluing and painting so I now have a sufficiently long length of railing to suit my needs. A few photos show what I have been trying to explain.
Nigel
James Spooner
Western Thunderer
And I have trial fitted it…
Nigel
Nigel