Otto bash

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:02 pm

Great loco Rik. I would like to clone your railway and somehow squeeze it into my smaller garden!

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:08 pm

Looks right at home on your railway Rik, another video triumph too..... beautiful framing for the shots.

LNR · Post by **LNR** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:27 am

The engine certainly looks right at home on your railway Rik, particularly in the copper mine sidings. Another great bash and a superb video.
Grant.

Post by **FWLR** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:12 am

She looks brilliant Rik, great video..

Post by **ge_rik** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:41 am

Thanks folks. It's very gratifying to get such feedback.

I bodge together these locos and things largely for my own amusement but, through my blog and posts on the forum, hope it might encourage others to have a go. I like to think that my modelling is generally 'kitchen table' style - a few basic tools and materials, plus odds and ends from what Cyril Freezer et al used to call the 'bits box'. My mechanisms are generally recycled from cheap secondhand off shelf models picked up on eBay and so, not including labour, each loco costs around £100 - £150, including the radio control and sound, or around £50-£60 for the basic loco. Of course, I could do it more cheaply if I made my own mechanisms and chassis, but I know my limitations.

Rik

markoteal · Post by **markoteal** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:46 pm

As the others have said, great loco and you do provide inspiration for others - me included!

markoteal · Post by **markoteal** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:53 pm

And you increase my knowledge - just watching on the BBC iplayer the tv programme The golden Age of Steam Railways - episode 1 which is about the early preservation days on Talyllyn and Ffestiniog and lo and behold what comes up in the opening sequence at 15 secs but your loco

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There is a short clip of it in action - spooky as it came up as I was writing the previous post!

PS - if anyone hasn't watch this programme, its great - first class inspiration for those of us 'narrow minded' people

Post by **FWLR** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:57 am

Seen this the other night on BBC4, it was on last year as well. I did say to Anne that a guy was building one just like that and he has done a brilliant job on it.

The program itself is brilliant too, it’s well worth watching again.

Post by **ge_rik** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 8:26 am

I've seen that programme a couple of times and forgotten there's a clip of this loco (or her twin). Thanks for the reminder.

Rik

PS - Found it on YouTube - 14 seconds in ......

jim@NAL · Post by **jim@NAL** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:43 pm

Looks brilliant just shows what can be done .looks very good may have to copy this and make one myself

Post by **ge_rik** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:57 am

jim@NAL wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:43 pm Looks brilliant just shows what can be done .looks very good may have to copy this and make one myself

Hi Jim
I'm in the process of writing up a more detailed account of the build on my blog. Hopefully will post that in the next few days.

Rik

Post by **ge_rik** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:36 am

More detailed account of the bash now available on my blog

https://riksrailway.blogspot.fr/2017/09 ... rt-of.html

Rik

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