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Big fan of funny little cars myself, especially Messerschmitts... (Try making one of those into a railcar! :D) Never realised they built things without wings. Old and weird, just how I like a car. :thumbleft: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/KR200_1959.jpg/800px-KR200_1959....

Cheap, effective, good-looking track. Can't beat that.

I thought about trying out a speech to text program, to shorten the excessive lengths of time I spend translating my thoughts into written words.

They all just leave too many mistakes to fix.

Forgot about those two. Terrific little conversions.

Nice work. The battery voltage reminder underneath is a great idea. Beats my method of "forget, then check the loco's records and hope you've recorded it when the loco was built".

Sorry to hear your life is being uprooted like this, it's not an easy thing to go through. Pleased to hear nobody was injured though.
May the repairs be swift and of good quality!

Good going.

Damn fine.

I don't know why, but BR blue really suits such a large loco. A nice change from the usual LNWR-style black.
The GIF is a great touch, too.

Very interesting. Looking forward to having a gawk in person.

Sounds frustrating. I hope it's just the grate that sorts it, that is a ridiculous bar gap - even 16mm locos have wider spacing..

Alright, the job I've been saving for a rainy day. For whatever reason, I was looking forward to filling the wagon with a plethora of tiny tools - that I'd spent far too much money (and time) collecting. Passing time getting over my first bout with The Plague™, several days were spent picking and pa...

Beautiful.

If you have the original diecast Mamod wheels with those useless tiny square-shaped flanges, you can get aftermarket machined wheels with proper flanges. I haven't owned a Mamod in almost a decade, but suppliers like DreamSteam and Roy Wood come to mind. Alternatively, you could find someone to re-m...

I've never seen anything like it. The build quality approaches something commercially-available, but the differing screws between bonnet and roof, and what I can make of the chassis, screams "home-built".

I handlaid a lot of track using panel nails as spikes. I ground the round head to a half-moon shape to improve the appearance. Cheap, effective and looks okay. My track was assembled on the bench (or concrete floor!) but with some care, you could install your new timbers in-situ. I'd get the sleeper...

I see your point re: shunting speeds. Surprisingly quick. Beats pushing 5 minutes doing a scale run around at a crawl.
I wouldn't be game to stand between wagons to couple up at any speed, never mind putting appendages anywhere near it!

Cheers gents! Some pictures of one made by F C Hibberd in 1959 that's in Bundaberg as a loco shunter that may help with painting ideas. Funny that, just about the livery I was planning on. 8) Speaking of Bundaberg, I'm up to Maryborough in September, and plan on visiting ASCR while I'm around. Will ...

28/01/24 Over the past few weeks, a mostly-welded mill workshop cab has slowly come together. Still deciding on adding sliding windows.. Radiator hoses were added to the whitemetal pipe castings by way of heat shrink. Tiny slivers of the stuff were then cut with a razor blade, and shrunk in place to...

No worries Grant, got your message. I'd highly recommend using a flat bar, (preferably aluminium so it doesn't rust away) as a "spine" down the length of both the moving stub and it's fixed diverting section. The real problem I had with these, (besides the superglue and lack of experience)...

I'dve thought pole shunting in such a small scale would be too fiddly to work. Fastening the pole to the loco though, never thought of that one.
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays.