Scale7 running quality.

[john lewsey]

All our original S7 builds are rigid. John Lewsey now owns our LNWR G2, which apparently runs well through the Hartley Hill track work, even with its unsprung and fine scale profile tyres.

Hi Heather I know some of you have seen it but the G2is on video on page ten of the Hartley hill thread running on Croscombe Magna it sailed through the point work
John

 

[Osgood]

Hi Heather I know some of you have seen it but the G2is on video on page ten of the Hartley hill thread running on Croscombe Magna it sailed through the point work
John

I'd really like to see that video (I got the G2 blues), but I cannot find a page 10 of the Hartley Hills other side of the fence thread,and it isn't on p10 of HH the diamond Xing takes shape

Help please!

 

[john lewsey]

Hi sorry page 11 I've just watched it
Ps it's on Hartley hill circa 1900 not Hartley hill the other side of the fence
My apologies
John

 

[Osgood]

Thanks John, got it now! Was this a kit or scratch-build? I've been looking at what G2 kits are available, found 3 so far.

 

[DavidinAus]

Somehow this ended up in the wrong thread, presumably as the transfer occurred.
Perhaps the moderator can erase my mesage on the other thread.


Hester, I live in Australia, which I think gives an advantage when it comes to SPACE: I have a colliery layout in my cellar. All based around a 4m diameter circle of track (because I like to see continuous running), with deliberately-made gradients, viaducts and embankments, which means that my trackwork is, in places, very colliery-like (ie uneven).
S7 in my experience means that you have to be a little more careful with trackwork, and I haven't yet built my first eight-coupled locomotive. However as I am the only S7 modeller in NSW, as far as I know, it's possible to do it without a lot of hands-on help, and I'd NEVER go back to Finescale: it's too difficult to make all the compromises work together.
An 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt makes for a very interesting and prototypical locomotive for a colliery layout (see my "avatar"!).
If you have good broadband (and ideally an Apple - my PC definitely doesn't like large video files), look at my video of the model Garratt ("William Francis") running, half-way down the page on

http://69.195.124.76/~coulshed/australian-family-events/page/2/

You can see the piles of coal, the "screens", etc., of the colliery. And the rough trackwork ....

David

 

[Heather Kay]

Thanks John, got it now! Was this a kit or scratch-build? I've been looking at what G2 kits are available, found 3 so far.

From what I recall, the kit was Gateneal, or sold via the much missed Home of Gauge O. It probably dates from the late 1980s, and was one of the earliest builds I recall helping Best Beloved with.

 

[john lewsey]

Thanks John, got it now! Was this a kit or scratch-build? I've been looking at what G2 kits are available, found 3 so far.

Hi I only know about the David andrews kit which I think one of which appears on the Peter Waterman video's on his layout
It would be nice to see a similar kind of video of Hayside
Regards
John

 

[Dikitriki]

It would be nice to see a similar kind of video of Hayside
Regards
John

Hi John

There are a few videos of Heyside over the years on my YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/NotS7Dikitriki/videos?flow=grid&view=0
.....and a bit of Couperin and Beethoven

Cheers

Richard

 

[ZiderHead]

An 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt makes for a very interesting and prototypical locomotive for a colliery layout (see my "avatar"!).
If you have good broadband (and ideally an Apple - my PC definitely doesn't like large video files), look at my video of the model Garratt ("William Francis") running, half-way down the page on

http://69.195.124.76/~coulshed/australian-family-events/page/2/

You can see the piles of coal, the "screens", etc., of the colliery. And the rough trackwork ....

David

That Garratt is lovely Nice layout too.

Is the 6-wheel open sprung at all? A light 6-wheel wagon strikes me as a bit of a challenge to run through point work with tiny (but scale!) flanges …

 

[7mmMick]

Hi John

There are a few videos of Heyside over the years on my YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/NotS7Dikitriki/videos?flow=grid&view=0
.....and a bit of Couperin and Beethoven

Cheers

Richard

I sat and watched most of these today, I never knew you could tinkle the ivories A very enjoyable half an hour or so

ATB Mick

 

[DavidinAus]

That Garratt is lovely Nice layout too.

Is the 6-wheel open sprung at all? A light 6-wheel wagon strikes me as a bit of a challenge to run through point work with tiny (but scale!) flanges …

Yes it's sprung. It is the kit now sold by Powsides, which has compensation, but that didn't work at all in S7, so I fitted some Bill Bedford sprung W-irons. Even then I had to fill the wagon's load ("iron" girders) with about 100g of lead to weigh the wagon down, in order for it to negotiate the S7 pointwork on my layout! As I said, the track and pointwork is a bit uneven though. The wagon will not run even on my "main line" if it is empty!

David

 

[richard carr]

All my Heljan Diesels are rigid with the centre wheels able to move up and down but the centre wheels are not sprung in any way, they run great in S7. Some of my JLTRT class 37diesels are rigid with sprung centre wheels and some run on home designed brass compensated chassis's. I have given up with the compensated chassis as they don't run any better than the rigid resin ones.
Class 40s though are the different case the rigid resin bogies does not work well, its the sprung radial truck at the front it doesn't work that well either in S7 or Finescale, my brass chassis's work much better in this case.

Richard

 

[john lewsey]

Mine too Richard they

run fine I also have two locos that have finescale wheels and they run very well too
John