North East Victoria Railway

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:45 am

Great update Jake. Agree with those bogies, they are brilliant. :thumbright: :thumbright:

Can you do a powered bogie? :roll: :roll:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 am

Alexander (Melbournesparks) has used an axle hung 12v motor bought off ebay and ive been slowly developing a 3d printed mount for that purpose so the answer is yes, hopefully soon!

Thanks for the kind words gents
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:10 am

Tropic Blunder wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 am Alexander (Melbournesparks) has used an axle hung 12v motor bought off ebay and ive been slowly developing a 3d printed mount for that purpose so the answer is yes, hopefully soon!

Thanks for the kind words gents
Great to know Jake, thanks.... :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:08 am

Some random photos of the NEVR, Past and present...
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:28 am

Big change there Jake. It looks great... :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by DonW » Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:02 am

Nice plantings the feel of running through woodland.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:13 am

thanks gents the railway is still pretty much the same now apart from the last pic that area has been levelled for a station to be erected.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:41 am

Finally got home before the sun went down last week and managed to have a run
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The MM is seen running a empty car movement down to the workshops
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I've recently begun converting all my bachmann wagons to tie them together a bit more (company colour scheme) and to try and Australianise them a bit, this includes moving brake wheels, removing grab irons, removing uncoupling levers, repainting in the railways colours and soon hopefully lettering and possibly 3d printed brake gear.
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Shunting onto the wagons
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Waiting on a continuity and the green
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rounding the curve out of the yard
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Grinding up the highline
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Cresting the grade into yard limits
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For anyone wondering how small the MM actually is...
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A friend lent me his Newquida Harz loco while I installed some RC gear into one of his locos, impressions are mixed but it was some fun at least!
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after running light engine down the hill
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The next day i managed to snag another day off early and #14 had a run! it ran quite well but some settling has caused the grade to fluctuate a bit in places (which is expected) but its also brought to the fore exactly how garbage bachmans stock pilot truck arrangement is (it could barely haul 3 cars up the hill when the MM had no problems with 6!) so that will be rectified sooner rather then later although id like to clear a few more projects off the bench before it gets a look in
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:30 am

What is under the tarpaulin in one of your photos if you don't mind me asking? (rolling stock looks good in uniform colours).

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Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:30 am

What is under the tarpaulin in one of your photos if you don't mind me asking? (rolling stock looks good in uniform colours).

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:19 pm

I was wondering when someone would ask, Ex Queensland Railways Fairmont M15 434
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Long term restoration project, it'll eventually run at the Bellarine railway in Queenscliff.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by DonW » Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:48 pm

Some great photos and an interesting restoration project.

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:21 am

I cant remember if i posted photos of the DH being transported to the railways workshops for assembly but it has finally happened!
everything is 3d printed by yours truly riding on two Hartland Mack motor blocks. Internals are Deltang although im going to have to do some investigating because for some reason it has a range of about 15cm regardless of transmitter.
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after first assembly with a temporary roof 3d printed for the weekend. its still missing glazing, handrails, cowcatcher and lights
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Coupled to the transfer train ready to go to Rays for his annual CFA fundraiser
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at speed on the trestle
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running down the final straight into the yard. Its first proper run was a success although it was hampered a bit by its scale sized fuel tank hitting on point motors and power feeds. some quick work with Rays dremel and it didnt have a problem
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Towing Melbournesparks's Sentinel steam railcar. this project was started not all that long ago and has come along in massive strides.this is what the bogies i posted earlier were for, I wont put in too many details incase he wants to do a build log here but its a spectacular model that ran extremely well.
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towing the Sentinel up the grade. Based on a bit of a mix of Tasmanian and Western Australian prototypes it has the ability via a 2 speed gearbox to freewheel and become a standard (although very heavy) piece of passenger stock. All the prototypes in Australia ended up having this fate and surprisingly quite a lot of them still survive in this form including 2 at the Bellarine railway in Geelong where I occasionally volunteer.

There has been a bit of progress on other projects so hopefully I can update the thread with those soon too.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by LNR » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:40 am

Hi Jake,
That DH looks good, I guess being re-gauged doesn't help but that fuel tank does look vulnerable. You seem to have grasped 3D printing well.
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Post by Tropic Blunder » Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:13 am

Thanks Grant, every project is better then the last but theres still a fair way to go with improving the quality of my prints. I've just bought a new printer so hopefully I can push it along a bit further in the next few weeks. The models actually 1:24 so correct scale for the gauge, I knew it was close but it didnt have any problems at home so as usual these things only rears their head when there is two manual live steamers bearing down on you :roll:
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:36 am

Very impressive Jack. You have learnt so much already with your printer. :thumbright:
Just wish I had the courage to invest in one :(

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Thu Nov 28, 2019 8:31 am

Good work mate! Don’t forget to mention my asbestos fingers!
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Jimmyb » Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:55 pm

Very, impressive, maybe the printer is to be invested as part of my retirement.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sat Nov 30, 2019 12:17 am

Thanks for the lovely comments, while the finished product looks good enough inevitably you dont see the 3 misprints, 15 hours of design and the weekly breakdowns that mean that even though i have 3 printers only one is ever going at any one point! Certainly handy when you're making multiples of certain objects but i do often wonder if i should have just bought some extra tools and just continued with building things out of styrene...

food for thought though I was just extremely lucky to be taught how to use CAD at school and to have quite a bit of experience with printing objects through engineering classes.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by GTB » Sun Dec 01, 2019 12:44 am

Tropic Blunder wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:21 am I cant remember if i posted photos of the DH being transported to the railways workshops for assembly but it has finally happened!

Towing Melbournesparks's Sentinel steam railcar. this project was started not all that long ago and has come along in massive strides.
It certainly looks like a DH, it should be impressive when finished. Have you decided on a paint scheme yet?

I've been looking at building it's older relative, the EBR 10 class, but that will have to be built the old way, unlike you I can't get my head around CAD software...... :roll:

Also interested to see the Sentinel railcar, as I've contemplated building one with a steam drive, possibly Leaping Lena from the NAR. Given the Tassie ancestry of the model is he going to be game enough to paint it in the original green flame livery?

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