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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.

Hell of a process. Always a pleasure to see how you do it.

I tried the baking soda on my Simplex a while back, to similar effect. Not for me.

You sure know how to pick an interesting prototype. Looking forward to the result, in time.

My ignorance of the prototype doesn't stop me seeing the craftsmanship you're putting into this.

I'd heard of these, but never seen one until now. Yours seems very well-looked-after for it's age.

That's what I like to see.

Work of art, them!

If you want "eccentric", maybe just stick some seats in that cattle van?!! I'll call it "In-Laws Class". :lol: :lol: Not far from the truth, though. The local Moreton/Mapleton tramways were known to add longitudinal bench seats to cane trucks and flat wagons, for special excursi...

25/09/19 The 1mm styrene sheet from the kit was cut to length, and scribed as needed. A bulb mount (I believe salvaged from a car instrument panel many yeas ago) was fitted with a 3V bulb. Superglue and a ruler made for a tidy visible wiring run, though I did get carried away - the wires need only g...

A "little" :lol: project from my defunct blog, that I've been meaning to contribute to the forum for quite a while.. Back in early 2019... I wanted an end-platform carriage, reminiscent of the various carriages found on the 2ft gauge sugar tramways of Queensland. Several of these were buil...

I'll second the suggestion of the pin vice. I love mine.

Looking forward to seeing the new loco come together, always nice to see a new build.

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 pm Thankyou. You will have to come around for a afternoon and evening session on the POR before we go to Wales. [/color][/b]

I'd be up for that. When are you leaving?

Nice and practical, love the coffee shelf. I'd like to put something similar under a workbench one day, so storage yards like yours are always worth reading.
Suitably tiny yet grunty shunter for such a tight space, too.

Masterpiece as always, Darrell.

Not looking to win here, (there are much better shots already ) but this one does have the smallest creature so far.