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Afan visited the Moel Rhos on Sunday, you can see it from Tony's video but it really runs beautifully. Here's a couple of pics showing the flywheel and reverser. What they don't show - because I didn't get any pics of the other side - is there's a small knurled knob linked to the flywheel/crank whic...

Posting this video from Phil on his behalf - Phil, quote this post and give us the context

This is a prototype "electric locomotive" model-1082 made in Austria in 1932. The current flows in the following order: pantograph → transformer → rotary phase converter (converts single-phase AC to three-phase AC) → DC generator → DC motor. At first glance, I thought this was like the Sw...

Fast work Phil - it's looking great!

Very envious of the couple sitting right at the front of the observation car with a superb view of Russell. Makes me wish I was 9cm tall.

I don't know about quick(!) but if you are looking for inspiration, I'd recommend having a look at Yr Hen Felin in gilfachphil's thread - it's a picturesque but compact inglenook.

Well this is a stunningly lovely model. Well worth waiting 7 years for that kind of quality.

Phil.P wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 2:16 pm The gates would obviously be made from wood, and the paint is peeling off.

The horizontal rods would be metal?

Looking at older photos, I think the rust effect may be naturally achieved?

I printed some cranks for a Jessie, which a friend was repairing for another friend. They worked fine in PLA. (Original steel conrods had survived but I don't see why 3D printed ones wouldn't work.) https://photos.simonwood.info/uploads/h/h/7/hh7xrynhca//2023/05/03/20230503143052-11ca83fa.png Sounds...

Fantastic project! I am in awe at the ambition, and excited for the updates on here. Double header with Victoria once it's finished?

Superb! Looks wonderful with Linda giving a sense of scale.

Isopropyl Alcohol rather than Indian Pale Ale. Both have their uses but it’s best not to mix them up.

To my untrained eye, that looks very much like Boston Lodge, with the mainline on the right there.

Very nicely finished. Like the figure - the specs are an excellent detail.

Love it! Balcony coaches are my favourite, one of the reasons I love the Welshpool & Llanfair. It's spoiled riding trains indoors for me. I agree, a train of variants on the theme would be fantastic.

I have some deck printed. That really looks the part! Deck, sleepers and chairs all printed together? It has inspired me to think that I could upgrade the look of my bridges, not to anything as impressive as you are printing, but with a deck and handrails it would be a big improvement in appearance.

Looking great Trevor. That was printed in 8 sections, 2 at a time flat on the bed of the printer. I used the "tree like" supports which enabled the true shapes of trelliswork to be printed. What do you mean by 'true shapes' here? Is that in the sense that you could have fudged things and d...

Instantly recognisable!

My first book on the Welsh narrow gauge was Prideaux's pictorial history. There's a superb double page spread of a photos of a passenger train posed in front of the viaduct with the rows of cottages behind. Very memorable.

Oops. Misremembered her age despite the extra couple of years suggesting a more plausible date. Glad you’ve found your answer, Rik. Though I’m now feeling sad that Jeanette, who I’d never heard of a couple of days ago, dies so young and is not around to tell her (great) grandchildren about the day s...

Seven million by even by the late 70s seems quite impressive! How about this? A Jeanette Gardiner died in New Zealand aged 52 on 8 September 2010. She would have been 23 either 21 April 1981 or 1982. That’s still a reasonably impressive number of passengers in under 30 years, but certainly fits with...