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by Bill/Rubery
Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:41 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: 7/8ths water tower
Replies: 7
Views: 5005

Re: 7/8ths water tower

Hello, I don't really think you need to worry too much about proper looking rust. As 7/8ths scale is viewed at about 30 feet on average, a darkish stain....paint! can pass as rust! I have noticed passing corrugated tin buildings gone rusty the above applies...you do not see the rust detail...just th...
by Bill/Rubery
Tue May 31, 2016 6:39 pm
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: 7/8" scale Directors Coach.
Replies: 4
Views: 4592

7/8" scale Directors Coach.

At the moment I am making a scratch build of a number of wagons in 7/8" scale. The first item has just been finished...what could be called a..... 'Company Directors Coachette'... This small coach is fully supplied with canvas curtains plus a gas hob for that important coffee break, and also a ...
by Bill/Rubery
Mon Mar 28, 2016 3:11 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Whistle for Millie
Replies: 31
Views: 18392

Hello, I have a whistle on my 2003 Millie that runs off the boiler take-off that would normally have the water glass thingy there. I have a two pipe screw on attachment. One pipe goes to the whistle under a false side tank and the other pipe goes up the chimney for dramatic steam effects...for photo...
by Bill/Rubery
Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:12 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 7/8ths wagons
Replies: 5
Views: 5972

Hello T.T. You could buy 35mm plastic waste water pipe and have the wagons carrying a sewage? pipe load??! The flat buffer on your wagon may cause buffer locking if going round tight bends. You may consider a buffer with a half moon curve to the face...these can be knocked up cheaply. I replaced the...
by Bill/Rubery
Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:54 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: 16mm association
Replies: 17
Views: 11395

Hello Keith. S, Regarding your message above about not being able to do garden railways by oneself...actually prior to the internet that was the case. A issue of SMT every two months and the rest of the time...just me and my imagination!
by Bill/Rubery
Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:40 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Realistic figures for coaches
Replies: 1
Views: 2873

Hello John, If you are not too picky you could try 'Model' Town' as they sell stuff like you want though you have to paint the figures yourself. At least your coaches will have passengers in them, far too many coaches in SMT look stupid with no one in them!
by Bill/Rubery
Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: Mamods & MSS
Topic: Centre buffers?
Replies: 9
Views: 7838

Then again you could make the buffers out of wood! I did this after having had enough of 7/8" scale 'link and pin' coupling messing about. I worked out that I had saved just over £67 making the stuff myself!......
by Bill/Rubery
Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:59 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: loco servicing cradle
Replies: 6
Views: 4986

To tell you the truth I just turn my engines upside down on a large rag on my lap! Its worked for pushing 30 years!.......
by Bill/Rubery
Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:02 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Hello 'BB', I am surprised you have not heard of it before! It's what you could call a "great cover-all" as regards to scale...You don't have to worry about the straight-jacket of precise scale and the equal straight jacket of 'correctness'...Long live Rubber Scaling!!
by Bill/Rubery
Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:02 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Irish Pete's message above made me smile! My wife's parents lived at the top of the Lickey Incline. There was a 'holding' siding at the bottom of their garden. My Mother-in-law used to put bottles on a beam for the train crews to throw coal at!...Free coal!!
by Bill/Rubery
Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:43 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Hello Tony (Willamore), Thanks for that picture of what I presume are some prototype locomotive and no doubt made to exact?? scale? However I am not bound by the two words I don't like in our hobby....'Prototype' and 'Correct'...my models are made to 7/8" 'Rubber Scale' and therefor there is no...
by Bill/Rubery
Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:35 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Hello Peter, Thanks for the kind reply. Yes of course, feel free to chuck my item in the bin! No worries. I too tear out the rare items that interest me in SMT then throw the magazine into the bin when the next one turns up. I used to have bound SMT's going back to 1986 but thought after a while the...
by Bill/Rubery
Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:50 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Thank you all for your comments. I was not moaning/complaining about the Ffestinog guide, I was mearly wondering how the guide was picked! Peter Butler.....I joined the Association around 1987 after very much thought and phone calls from the membership secretary! No internet then...or local associat...
by Bill/Rubery
Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:47 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Who decides what come's next??!
Replies: 38
Views: 19300

Who decides what come's next??!

Hello, Below is a topic about the latest offering from the 16mm Association...a guide to the Ffestinog Railway. I was wondering how...and who decides what topic is going to be done next?? As a freelance modeller of a agricultural tramway set in the middle of the country I have utterly no interest in...
by Bill/Rubery
Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:09 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Any idea when the 16mm ffestiniog edition is coming out?
Replies: 34
Views: 21971

How about that! I remember that brass fletch. I think I gave mine away....
by Bill/Rubery
Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:41 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Any idea when the 16mm ffestiniog edition is coming out?
Replies: 34
Views: 21971

I have often wondered how these guides are selected? My guide turned up today. I suppose its alright and I flicked through it but as I am not interested in North Wales narrow gauge I don't suppose it will get much use. Just like SMT the photo's are in part un-natural...totally clean engines and un-b...
by Bill/Rubery
Sun May 17, 2015 8:33 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Tribute Page for Tom Cooper has been started!
Replies: 2
Views: 2713

Hello John, May I ask if you ever purchased anything from this company?
by Bill/Rubery
Wed May 13, 2015 10:53 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Figures
Replies: 4
Views: 4256

If you walked around local pound shop's you would find 16mm scale figures selling at dirt cheap prices. A bit of time spent cutting and altering plus painting gets you figures without paying through the nose!....try it...
by Bill/Rubery
Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:51 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Converting a Mamod into a 7/8" scale locomotive.
Replies: 8
Views: 4964

Hello Chris, I find Jakarna has a quite a long run anyway. I paint calibrations on the regulator and gas controls. Doing this I now know exactly how much to turn up the gas without getting 'flame-creep' out of the burner. As the amount of gas used is not much the runs last a long time! I have to han...
by Bill/Rubery
Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:36 pm
Forum: Mamods & MSS
Topic: A 7/8" scale Mamod!
Replies: 2
Views: 2881

Here it is Mike along with more detailing
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