7mm Tedcaster Sidings - Shock horror, permanent way at last.....

[Dog Star]

There seems to be a pecking order in that there yard.... just what has Toby done to be run off of the rails?

 

[Rob Pulham]

I haven't made much progress on the J63 for the last few days as I have been assembling and painting some more of the Skytrex bits and pieces.

I put together the Coal crane and Water crane to go with the coaling stage.





I also assembled the engine shed. The photos in white resin didn't come out too well so I waited until I primed it.

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Rob,

The J63 will look really at home in that shed.

cheers

Mike

 

[Rob Pulham]

I hope so Mike, once Chris has weaved her magic on the paintwork

 

[Rob Pulham]

Well Chris has weaved her magic on the weathering of the engine shed and coaling stage.

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Rob,

very nice indeed - another pat on the back for Chris. By the way, what is the base colour that has been used for the brickwork - I'm contemplating colours for my boundary wall at the moment.

cheers

Mike

 

[Rob Pulham]

Hi Rob,

very nice indeed - another pat on the back for Chris. By the way, what is the base colour that has been used for the brickwork - I'm contemplating colours for my boundary wall at the moment.

cheers

Mike

Hi Mike the base colour was Halfords red oxide primer.

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Rob,

many thanks for that info, I have an aerosol in the workshop, so no excuses for not getting on with the job now.

cheers

Mike

 

[Rob Pulham]

A lot has been going on at work recently which has reduced my modelling mojo with regard to the 06 (and modelling in general) . So I decided that I might try something different and that something being my Metalsmith turntable kit.

It's for a Ransomes and Rapier 70' table and this is what you get in the kit. This is the kit itself and the additional turntable installation kit.







This is how far I got in a very short space of time. The nickel spacers were folded up and soldered. and a couple of bearings were soldered into the centre bottom spacer. The rest just screws together...





After dinner I will start on the riveted angle plates. I expect that these will take a little longer to make progress.

 

[lancer1027]

Hi Rob,

Very interesting project.

I've always fancied building one of those kits but the price and the no real need for one ( at Penzance ) put me off.

But i will be watching this build with great interest

Rob

 

[Rob Pulham]

Thanks Rob,

To be honest I hadn't really thought about it until tonight but you get a lot more in the kit than I imagined (which you will see as I progress) and I should say that compared to many loco kits its actually quite cheap.

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Rob,

best of luck with the build, they are enjoyable and 'something different' to get you back into the mojo - looking forward to seeing the progress. What control system are you going to use?

cheers

Mike

 

[Rob Pulham]

Hi Mike, at the moment I haven't decided - I couldn't afford a metalsmith motorising unit at the time I bought it. I may se how it works manually before splashing out.

 

[Ian G]

Enjoy the build, yoo may want to change the whitemetal chairs for plastic ones in the well.

Ian G

 

[Rob Pulham]

Thanks Ian, I do have some plastic ones in stock so it wouldn't be too much of an issue when I get that far.

 

[daifly]

Enjoy the build, yoo may want to change the whitemetal chairs for plastic ones in the well.

Ian G

Can yoo (sic) explain why this may be necessary please?

 

[Ian G]

When I built one for our MRC I found that the whitemetal ones in the kit were a pain to fettle for a good fit onto the rail, with the plastic chairs I had no promblem and could use butanol to fix the chairs to the base, Slaters brick card was used around the sides of the well, with no gaps and with each joint spliced into each side with no visable vertical joint, the biggest problem I found was filling the holes with solder to cover the screws.

Ian G

 

[Rob Pulham]

the biggest problem I found was filling the holes with solder to cover the screws.

Thanks Ian,
I had a little go at filling one of the holes with solder myself and I think it will be Milliput for the rest....

 

[mickoo]

I'm watching this with interest, I have an eye one one of these in the future, just need to find out whcuh sheds had them fitted, not sure Kings X passenger loco did? Top shed might have had one fitted mind.

 

[daifly]

When I built one for our MRC I found that the whitemetal ones in the kit were a pain to fettle for a good fit onto the rail, with the plastic chairs I had no promblem and could use butanol to fix the chairs to the base, Slaters brick card was used around the sides of the well, with no gaps and with each joint spliced into each side with no visable vertical joint, the biggest problem I found was filling the holes with solder to cover the screws.

Ian G

Thanks for the explanation.
Dave