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- Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Class 33
- Replies: 9
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Semi-scale BR: Class 33
https://youtu.be/PMGxso8UvsA G-scale 33, supported by bashed Bachmann shunter, performs for the camera A sunny fun day with not too many derailments (usually the oversized ballast lodged against the rail, or more spectacularly, crossed-up couplings — keep watching at the end). With, inevitably, add...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
33_runs_7.gif It goes! I’ve stuck a couple of large lead ingots over the bogies — and it runs pleasingly smoothly. It was time to finish wiring up the 33 and give it a go. Switching it on and fiddling with LocoRemote, you can imagine my surprise when the front, directional lighting glowed bright re...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:23 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3007
Re: Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch, again
“…to both build items of rolling stock and remember to take pictures…” Thanks. It’s useful to have taken snaps, I find, when you go back a few years later, to repeat, repair or modify — and you can’t remember what you did (especially electricals, which I’m clueless about). They fill up web pages to...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:17 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3007
Re: Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch, again
“…pondering what I built a garden railway for, really...” Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it. I’ve gone on before about my early fantasies regarding an agreeably laid out, lush garden, with a lengthy railway meandering through it (not unlike the BLWR on this very forum!) populated by chirpy t...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
pannier_clip_400x15fps_2.gif Cheeky tank engine and coaches. What more could I want? Now posted to 'Videos' is Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again , a few minutes with the coaches that began this thread, being pulled and pushed round the garden by most of the (battery-pow...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 12:54 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3007
Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again
Steam (outline) locos do laps with the relatively recent coaches.
Little line-side interest (beyond the weeds) I’m afraid. With added noise, for those who like that kind of thing (like me).
- Wed May 10, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
- Replies: 939
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Re: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
Too right. Very nice.Soar Valley Light wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 8:50 pm “Not many models would stand up so well to such close up photography”
Re: NGG16
I recall reading the suggestion that, inevitably, all garden railway builders will eventually succumb to doing a Garratt (I certainly intend to). This one will be terrific, I’m sure. Love it.
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: June 2023 Gallery now open for entries
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10917
Re: June 2023 Gallery now open for entries
Giant bluebells and BR’s smallest 2-6-0 (and cobweb)
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
https://youtu.be/ccrhiVj2DOo It's a bit silly. More to come... I spent a couple of days digging the weeds and tidying up the permanent way, while the shunter trundled round (for the first time) at very slow, scale speeds —without incident, until I decided I should film it for a few minutes. Of cour...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“…the courage to start hacking the body about” The cab is moulded (and attached to the chassis) separately from the rest of the bodywork, so it could be used as a risk-free template for making a plasticard duplicate, with amendments as required… Shell-BP_1760_1.jpg A bit scruffy now — but it’ll loo...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Jon — Of course. Thank you very much. I’ll get in touch
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5769
Re: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
That’s terrific. It looks great.
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thanks, Aaron. The shunter could never have been a ‘scale model’ (obviously) but now, several weeks later, I’m inclined to think that I ought to have taken the surgery a little further. Reduce the height of that bit with the angled top, immediately in front of the cab — and the cab front windows and...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
I was told recently, by someone engaged in magnificent, main line, steam loco restoration how, for a full-size replica of ‘Percy’ from the Thomas stories, rather than recreating the GWR original on which the character is allegedly based, in the US they referenced the Bachmann version. It’s true! Her...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:30 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8572
Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Ooooh! That 47/57’s very interesting…
A garden railway just can’t have too many big tank engines and even bigger diesels, I reckon. Here’s my fun-scale Class 73 from not that long ago (I assumed I must have posted a snap of it complete before but it seems not).
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“The ‘as delivered’ model is so out of proportion it’s not even funny…” Thanks. Bachmann, presumably deliberately, chose not to follow the proportions of the original. It seems perverse. They don’t appear to have been limited by any obvious practical or manufacturing issues. But I suppose their int...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 133866
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
"... those suggestions were a little tongue in cheek..." Me too. Well, a bit. The Lymington branch (for a ferry to the Isle of Wight), continued using two mid-60s, 3CIG, slam-door EMUs, as a kind of ‘official’ heritage railway, long after they had disappeared elsewhere — one in green and ...