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Only the detail survives from the previous one Brian! The bogies are a separate laser cut kit. The planks aren't even engraved, they are cut but not right along so that they look realistic. Certainly would take you longer to do this one.

I seem to have had a lot of time available over the past few days to get back into 16mm. Started the day off today by giving Tarn Madoc a steam. He ran very well as normal though I dont know what the neighbors thought of the whistling! I will let the photo's do the talking. http://i1325.photobucket....

There is no real advantage of it. Baguley is the earlier valve gear and was mainly fitted to smaller engines. Bagnall Price came along after and is effectively a rearrangement of Walchaerts valve gear. Its also a lot simpler. Bagnall Price was an improvement and so it appears that Rishra was built b...

This is how it works copied from a Baguley page: The gear is of the rocking sector type but the motion of the sector is obtained in an ingenious way. On the crankpin between the coupling and connecting rods is a third rod, on the other end of which is attached a forked link swinging on a fixed centr...

I will be back with your answer shortly......hopefully

Baguley Valve gear on Rishra. Prize please

If you have a look over at my Perrow Coast thread, I have just posted some pictures of my D class.

ELR got back to me today and the burner should be in the post sometime soon. Anyway, although it was nice weather, I decided to have a day or so getting on with a few different bits. The main one was my Andel D class wagon. Not many photos but I must say, the chassis is superb in the way it is made,...

Andel is in some difficulties at the moment and so may take a while to get through. It rang for a few days before getting through to Andy, but as usual, he was as friendly as always. I got the D class wagon and have got to say, its the most superbly designed kit I have seen! I would highly recommend...

Got to congratulate you! That is one very good looking diesel.

Plenty of market for them! And ELR are making the burner as we speak.

I have some more left but all will be reusable if I want to!

I spent Monday doing some work on the new signal box for Thorpe. This will be Dore Box, being one of many tributes to our late friend David Porter (Dore Lakes Railway). The signal box came from his railway when his collection was sold up. We also managed to get his goods rake in its entirety and his...

Spotted......... Matt pulling away on one of his first solo runs with Mountaineer!

Well, the first thing I can tell you about the ballast is that I have just gone out this morning and the large portion of it is rock solid. Some will need a little more for the surface bits but it seems to be holding.

Finally, I found some time today to do some work on the line! Having Fridays off from college often gives me some time if I dont have any homework. Whilst I was doing the work, a big beast was watching over  :lol:   http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u636/PerrowMatt/IMG_6601_zps4d943bb6.jpg I had d...

Thanks! Generally its some revel paint dipped in water. Makes a nice washed streak effect plus some mixed up to make a darker rust colour.

Tonight saw some work done at last at Thorpe. The road section was demolished for the 3rd time. The 4th attempt will now be in sand with PVA sprayed black which looks quite convincing as a road surface, this will be built up in layers. Aside from that, 5 foundry tubs arrived from the Dingle Leigh Ra...

To be perfectly honest, not much has been done at all on the railway since the last post. Getting Adiela back at Lakeshore had been the main priority, taking up the time before the summer running season when we would have been doing some work. Today though, we carried away about a quarter of the spo...

Sure! Peter is in my area group so I should be able to get some pics of what him and Mike have been building. There is a lot more to add to it on their loco front, such as their 7/8th Woolwich arsenal loco.