RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway
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A nicely detailed piece Tom, and happy birthday for whenever it is!
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Snow today in Kent and more is falling this evening:
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Looks good for me Tomtom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2018 7:39 pm I bought myself an early birthday present and this evening put it together. The trouble with plastic models is mould lines but I have tried to file and hide them with textured paint:
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The buffer stop plate is a piece of metal cut and bent into shape that will rust over time.
I need to add additional colours to weather but it looks better than the original gloss brown when received out the box as can be seen in the sleepers.
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That’s about the same as up here in Longton Tom, although it’s cleared up a bit now
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great pic had a bit of snow in Suffolk too
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I should invest in a snowplough or somehow fit ploughs to the front and back of a loco on a temporary basis to clear the line.
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The snow was not too bad today so I braved the cold but don't fancy doing that again!
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Very nice Tom, good to see that low speed.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
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I have the drivers I just need to find some time to install magnets to position them in the cab.
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It amazes and infuriates me to see so many live steam locomotives without drivers in their cabs. I thought the whole idea of live steam was to enhance the realism
of the model? Without driver figures they are just runaways!
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Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?
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The smooth realistic speed.
That is nice
That is nice
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SSP Slomo, nuff said...
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Not at all Tom, I fully appreciate the effort you have put into creating a wonderful model which is superbly controllable at slow speed. My remark was not directed at any particular individual, just that having spent time watching so many youtube videos posted by proud owners of beautiful locomotives, steam or otherwise, so many are let down by the lack of footplate crew. Strangely these same people go to extraordinary lengths to place figures at stations etc. but the image of the incomplete locomotive is striking.tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?
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Depending on the loco, there often isn't room in the cab if there's RC servos in there as well. In my own case, driving manually I've got to get very over scale fingers in there, so "guilty me Lud".
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Well Tom I love it with our without a driver, but I do get Peter’s point and I don’t think he was pointing any fingers, just making an observation about others.
More videos please with or without crew, preferably when it’s not has cold....Brrrrrrr
More videos please with or without crew, preferably when it’s not has cold....Brrrrrrr
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Cracking viewing but you call that snow...we have huge 3 inch drifts! The wind has been, and still is, a bone chiller so credit to you for getting out there.
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Hopefully with winter far behind us on the RWLR we can start to resume evening and weekend running.
The new PW bogie wagon earning it's keep clearing the leaves before a run:
The new PW bogie wagon earning it's keep clearing the leaves before a run:
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Now those are "leaves on the line"!
Where did I put that uncoupler?
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