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After a number of people have asked if these will be available to other people, I've decided to start producing a series of kits for the 16mm Market based on the stock of the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway/Bowaters Paper Railway under a completely different identity 'Bowaters Models'. After...

Erm, Which Excelsior are you on about? The Bowaters/Whipsnade Excelsior or the other one?

Cheers,

Jon

Any chance of a couple for me!? Sure! Which ones would you want? After the second set of headstocks arrived today, they've been fitted and the Butterley Wagon painted to go with the Staff Coach. Plus since it was not raining/snowing today, I went outside to get a couple of photographs of them both ...

Hi,

Apart from Worsley Works, I don't think anyone does anymore at least not in 32mm. GRS do a 45mm version but its a based on rather than a prototypical model. I could draw some up for you if you wanted? PM me privately if you're interested.

Cheers,

Jon

Is that the Australian version of vale of ffestiniog in the left of the picture? Nope, its what's left of my Locolines VoF that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Also its the wrong gauge to run with the rest of my stock now. Those look great! Did you send your CAD drawings to be 3D-printed...

Hi Jon, Yes that was me... I have the drawings for the pulp wagons and a friend built the chassis for me... They're a simple design that there aren't really that many of about in our scale... Let me know if you want the drawings and how you get on! Hi Laurence, Thanks for that. I've also got a set ...

Thanks for all the comments. Laurence, were you the one with the article in Garden Rail? As its that article that got me thinking about it in the first place :) I've spent today drawing them up using my normal CAD software (which is normally used for much smaller models in 4mm:ft) and come up this. ...

Cheers for the nice comments! Unfortunately since the last post, the MSS engine has been sold as it just wasn't living up to expectations and with a paycut (new car etc etc) on the horizon, I got shot of it. That said, after a post on this very forum, I've been able to acquire a second Accucraft Lea...

Well after some time, and finally getting agreement on the matter, the line has been extended in two key areas. The main station area and the running line. https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2946/15428131055_ac5f869c72_c.jpg The new main station area The station area has been doubled in length with the ...

JMORG:104759 wrote:Awww no Funkey Diesel?
Someone needs to do a model of Vale of Ffestiniog...

Someone is..... abet in kit form as far as I understand:- http://www.djbengineering.co.uk/new.shtml

Back on topic, it does look great. Will have to look into getting one at some point.

Cheers,

Jon

Just to bring this upto date, time for some shots of the completed line in use over the last couple of weeks. With the bulk of the hard work now done and enough stock from accucraft to work trains, the main job is sorting out No.3 (aka the MSS engine) then working on some more specialist stock such ...

I am a newcomer too to the steam locomotives world, my MSS , fortunately, since the beginning had no troubles at all to steam up. Only the wheels have the same problems of yours, i can run the loco safely only at low speed. Is is my intention to replace the wheels, is it a ddifficult job? Hi, It wa...

That is great to hear Jon. Hopefully PeachBottom will see your posting and similarly get some replacement wheels from Dream Steam for her problem MSS loco kit. Chris Cairns Well the wheels arrived yesterday which considering I picked them up from the sorting office the day after Royal Mail tryied t...

Hello,

Cheers for that. How easy were the etched parts to assemble as I have next to no experience when it comes to working on etched metal.

Cheers,

Jon

Afternoon all,

Anyone built one of these kits and if so, how easy are they to put together? I'm considering one to pull a FR train on my line.

Cheers,

Jon

I've contacted Dreamsteam and they've been very good about sorting it out. They're sending out a complete spare set of wheels so that a good pair can be made out of the four wheelsets for the engine. Hopefully that problem should sort itself out over the next few days.

Cheers,

Jon

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Definately food for thought. I've put the engine on a flat surface and it wobbles enough to say the wheels are buggered. When running over the points, it would get into the vee then either wedge or it would physically lift the engine out the point and off the railw...

Should have put that, make is Peco and its two of thier newer left hand 38" radius points. I've already checked them with other stock and only the MSS engine has problems.

Cheers,

Jon

Afternoon all, After buying a MSS engine from Dreamsteam, I've been slowly starting to run it in after flushing the boiler multiple times to remove the . After a few days running, I'm starting to get a number of problems. 1. Rate of steaming. With the original tablet burner it was terrible and its n...

You are going to get fit chasing after a runaway MSS on an out & back layout. Make sure you attach a reasonable load behind it initially. First thing I would recommend is to flush out the boiler prior to starting the running in process. These locos usually suffer from quite large priming (water...