7mm National Railway Museum Workbench

[James]

Ellis Clark very kindly donated one of his Black 5s to the layout - in addition to twelve coaches!



Straightforward weathering job and a Modelu crew.

 

[James]

The LMS mogul mentioned above is back with me for overhaul - look at the wear on the axle, all four of the loco's axles are in the same condition.

Maybe in excess of 6,000 miles, six thousand real miles, worth of wear and tear.

New axles all round I think!

 

[James]

Ellis Clark very kindly donated six of his lovely Presflos to the NRM.



Aside from the filth they're just as they come - though I have polished the buffer shafts on the Oleo buffers.

 

[James]

A bit of a cheap and cheerful model, a Lima 1/45 scale GWR Toad.

Another volunteer had replaced the wheels, buffers and couplings; I painted, glazed and weathered it.

There's so much wrong with the Lima model - the ever so slightly smaller scale isn't a real issue but the lack of depth of the body side details, position of the footboards, etc are. But from a distance, passing by, just about acceptable perhaps?

 

[James]

 

[James]

I'm trying to find where the a Duchess is - I have a kit built Duchess to strip and rebuild as it happens.

I'm looking at refurbishing 'your' coaches later this year. The paintwork is still in excellent condition but buffers, corridor connections, etc, have signs of wear.



The biggest issue is axle bearings being mounted from the outside of the bogie frames within the cosmetic axle box castings and these can fail so we need to address this.

We estimated that they have done over a six figure mileage! Perhaps quarter of a million miles.

They have incredible durability.