RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by LNR » Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:49 pm

A nicely detailed piece Tom, and happy birthday for whenever it is!
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:32 pm

Snow today in Kent and more is falling this evening:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:35 pm

tom_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.
Looks good for me Tom :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:37 pm

That’s about the same as up here in Longton Tom, although it’s cleared up a bit now

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by jim@NAL » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:34 pm

great pic had a bit of snow in Suffolk too

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:28 pm

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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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:03 pm

The snow was not too bad today so I braved the cold but don't fancy doing that again!

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:49 pm

A small video of running in the snow today:


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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by philipy » Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:58 pm

Very nice Tom, good to see that low speed.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:15 pm

I have the drivers I just need to find some time to install magnets to position them in the cab.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:26 pm

philipy wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:58 pm Very nice Tom, good to see that low speed.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
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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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm

Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?

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Post by Hydrostatic Dazza » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:48 pm

The smooth realistic speed.
That is nice
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:54 pm

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:48 pm The smooth realistic speed.
That is nice
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:06 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?
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.
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by LNR » Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:35 pm

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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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:32 am

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 :thumbright:
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:32 am

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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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:40 pm

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:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by markoteal » Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:19 pm

Now those are "leaves on the line"!
Where did I put that uncoupler?

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