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- Thu Oct 30, 2014 1:27 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Airbrush - advice needed
- Replies: 13
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Thanks again Graeme That RDG website looks very useful - and the airbrush you've suggested looks just the business. Getting the hang of it now. I think a single-action sounds more in my line - I'd imagine a double-action would take quite a while to master and would prove difficult to get an even spr...
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:14 pm
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: East Fen Railway.
- Replies: 9
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Neither of those links work for me... Ditto. Looks like they both take us to our own accounts. It took me a couple of seconds to realise that all the picture on the Google page were actually of my own railway. For a moment I thought, Wow! This chap's built a railway just like mine (or vice versa) Rik
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:10 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Airbrush - advice needed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6906
Thanks Graeme Wow - a far more comprehensive answer than I deserve - but illuminating - thanks. Just a couple of questions (hopefully not too naive). 1. When you say the Chinese one's piston rings have worn out after a couple of years - how much use has it had? I don't envisage doing an enormous amo...
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3388
- Views: 1104847
I do like the idea of raising the roof on your Bachmann coaches Rik. I must admit I hadn't thought of that! Equally, I am impressed by your orderly storage on the workbench. How anyone works with clutter all around them and tools misplaced is a mystery to me. Organised and tidy workspace is the w...
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:35 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Airbrush - advice needed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6906
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:07 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ip engineering gear box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4357
Re: ip engineering gear box
I have just acquired an ip Jessica kit. It is lacking it's motor and wheels. I see ip still do a motor and gearbox set but I am rather tempted to go down the route of bevel gears and an elliptical gear box and motor combo. What are peoples thoughts on the matter before I spend the wife's housekeepi...
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:48 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Airbrush - advice needed
- Replies: 13
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Airbrush - advice needed
I'm just flogging off some of my redundant DCC gear as I've now converted to battery power and radio control. With the proceeds I thought I'd invest in an airbrush. Up to now I've just used rattle-cans but I realise that an airbrush would offer more flexibility. I just wondered if these cheapo kits ...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:13 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3388
- Views: 1104847
Thanks Peter The Cambrian bolt heads are so fiddly to deal with, especially as they are cone shaped and can't be picked up with tweezers. I cut a few off the sprue and place the right way up on a piece of paper. The solvent used shouldn't make much difference as they work in similar ways but my me...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:10 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3388
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Peter Just read through your entire thread and found it enormously interesting and full of useful stuff. I'm in envy of the quality of your modelling. I'm more of a bodgeller but have picked up some useful ideas - hope you don't mind if I pinch a few. eg I'm just in the midst of bashing some Bachman...
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:15 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Australia - Garden Railways and other railways to visit?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4281
Why not drop Greg Hunter a line via his website - http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/satr/gLinks.htm
He's just spent a couple of weeks over here enjoying the railways of Wales and playing trains with me. I'm sure he'd be delighted to advise. He lives near Sydney
Rik
He's just spent a couple of weeks over here enjoying the railways of Wales and playing trains with me. I'm sure he'd be delighted to advise. He lives near Sydney
Rik
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:30 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
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- Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:15 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6631
Cracking looking model of one of my favourite engines. I have an almost completed O gauge one hidden away somewhere, I must get it out and finish it. I know there were 3ft versions of them, were the any 2ft ones. Similar but not quite the same ..... http://www.ngrm.org.uk/Collections/IndustrialRail...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6631
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:51 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6631
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:54 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
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What a nice smooth runner and very powerful by the looks of it. I like the look of your rolling stock as well, more pics please :) Hi I've a stocklist showing the rolling stock on the line here: http://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2011/07/stock-list.html It's about a year old and so I need to do a bit ...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6631
ex-Davington 0-6-0ST joins the fleet at Peckforton
Recently put the finishing (is a project ever really finished??) touches to my latest loco build. Based (loosely) on the Manning Wardle 0-6-0 saddle tanks which operated on the Davington Light Railway, she's based on the Piko 0-6-0 motor block. Plasticard body, brass motion (with copper pipe fitting...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:09 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Sandstone & Termite visits Peckforton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3057
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:27 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Sandstone & Termite visits Peckforton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3057
Sandstone & Termite visits Peckforton
Hi folks It's been quite a while since I've posted here but my log-in has just been re-energised so I thought I'd post the latest event on the Peckforton Light Railway. We've just played host to a visitation from Australia by Greg Hunter of the Sandstone and Termite Railway who brought along one of ...