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- Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:38 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12113
Re: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
...an improvement on all Swindon built GWR locos. Er, Thank you, but - Strewth! You're sticking your neck out a bit there. Watch out! ...I like the lining is hand applied or tape? Ta. I do the lining, cycling lions and the rest in Photoshop and use an inkjet printer to print on to DIY waterslide de...
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12113
Re: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
Hold fire, I think the wheels are nickel chrome plated so you can't do anything with chemicals. Oh well, Ta. I suppose I've had at the back of my mind to paint the wheels - but on the other hand, when it's on the move I'm not sure you notice much below the running plate beyond the rods, which are s...
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12113
Re: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
Thank you. When I started doing this sort of thing (completely unaware of Gauges 1 and 3) it never crossed my mind that the railway should appear to be anything other than UK mainline - you know, like Hornby or the Southern Region.Peter Butler wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:03 pm no reason why you shouldn't narrow gauge a standard gauge loco
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:51 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12113
Re: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
Good idea. Don't know anything about it though. What would you recommend?
Rods are bendy plastic and I suppose could be painted.
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12113
Semi-scale BR: a GWR mogul, kind of…
It's the parallel universe where British Railways seems to have been 3'11" gauge, again - with some sort of smaller GWR mogul, with inside-cylinders (!?) and other untypical GWR features. Well, really it's just an attempt to put a more agreeable body on a Bachmann Large Scale 'James' chassis: m...
- Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:26 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: PLR - This weekend's operating session
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12435
Re: PLR - This weekend's operating session
Wow! There's so much to admire here. It's all beautifully realised. Some very nicely composed and satisfying shots too. Strewth... [shakes head, slowly]
- Tue May 22, 2018 12:02 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Re: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
Thank you. Signal kits (and ladders) are from Cambrian Model Rail.tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 10:02 am I like the signals you use, did you make them yourself or can you buy them as kits/ready made?
- Mon May 21, 2018 10:41 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Re: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
Here’s another daft video:
https://youtu.be/5Ih5wtEAnxU
Still struggling to get it sharp, mind.
Probably best watched on a phone or small tablet (with headphones), to tighten it all up.
(Oh. And I broke my soldered connections to the smoke unit while inserting the batteries...)
https://youtu.be/5Ih5wtEAnxU
Still struggling to get it sharp, mind.
Probably best watched on a phone or small tablet (with headphones), to tighten it all up.
(Oh. And I broke my soldered connections to the smoke unit while inserting the batteries...)
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 5:52 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Re: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
...mixing post-war BR livery with pre-war syncopated musical stylings ? Preposterous ! ;) Sorry I can't help the crotchet counter in me. Max Tingewickmax - Quality feedback, thank you. I'm still after reasonably brisk tempo, agreeable British instrumental sound track, without copyright issues... Pl...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:37 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Re: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
Ooo-er. Well, there's a bright and chirpy video of the pannier tank but, rather dozily, the subject's often not sharp... https://youtu.be/az58bWCXHP0 Another one with more, um, variety: https://youtu.be/sJODAcNDmmI [link fixed] Both have G-scale stuff masquerading as BR, not always convincingly. But...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Re: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
Ho Ho. Thank you. Same size as G-scale (fortunately, as they use a lot of it) but to a different, inevitably elastic, scale - smaller than G3 (not that I've ever seen any). I have to cheat with the proportions because of available motorblocks, wheel sizes, track radius and so on. Gauge, I suppose, w...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14725
Semi-scale BR: Leader and Pannier Tank
Welcome to the parallel universe where British Railways seems to have been, in some strange way, metre gauge, or thereabouts... and where the Bulleid Leader was fabulously successful. Here's the smaller, shorter derivative, the 'branchline' version, I guess. It's plasticard on LGB motorblocks and in...