Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by angr607 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:02 pm

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G-scale Class 33. I’ve boosted the colour a little, it was all looking a bit dull and gloomy

Well, it’s certainly bright and cheerful now. I’ve not stumbled across any evidence of Class 33s actually in a ‘large logo’ livery, let alone this one. And I’ve decided it must be from the 33/3 series as the bogies, among other things are, erm, different...

Some months ago (the previous page of this thread), I pompously declared that Class 33 cab window surrounds have to be black, ‘to disguise the loco’s dodgy aesthetics’. Complete cobblers, of course, as I have now demonstrated.

In poor light (like today, on the way to getting dark at 3pm) the cabs on this one can look like they’re wearing those airline sleep masks — difficult to make out the windows within the black surround. This kind of thing wouldn’t have happened with any of the original 1960s liveries that I rudely dismissed — but I’ve always fancied a loco in this scheme, although I never thought it would be a 33 (and, needless to say, really it shouldn’t be).

It’s not quite done: lights, wiring, blokes in driver’s seats, cab floors, etc, still to do (and as I was taking these snaps some of the cabside windows fell out). I hope to be be trying it outside, incongruously coupled to (what purport to be) much older rolling stock, when the weather’s improved and the garden’s not so muddy. Looking forward to it. April?

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm

John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:49 pm

Jon — Of course. Thank you very much. I’ll get in touch

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Johnnie1000 » Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:06 am

BertieB wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?
Well, I have yet to get up the courage to start hacking the body about. It would be OK if I could find a replacement body in the UK so I had a back up. But there are a number of bits and bobs I have yet to 3D print such as sandboxes, air receivers, springs, shunters front end standing position etc..

Love these tanks, cheap as chips with a couple of sets of metal wheels. :)


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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:51 am

Johnnie1000 wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:06 am
“…the courage to start hacking the body about”
The cab is moulded (and attached to the chassis) separately from the rest of the bodywork, so it could be used as a risk-free template for making a plasticard duplicate, with amendments as required…

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A bit scruffy now — but it’ll look OK when it’s wiped down, touched up and varnished (and viewed from a distance)

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Johnnie1000 » Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:38 am

BertieB wrote: Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:51 am ...

A bit scruffy now — but it’ll look OK when it’s wiped down, touched up and varnished (and viewed from a distance)[/size][/b]
As are we all. They look excellent.
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:15 pm


It's a bit silly. More to come...

I spent a couple of days digging the weeds and tidying up the permanent way, while the shunter trundled round (for the first time) at very slow, scale speeds —without incident, until I decided I should film it for a few minutes.

Of course, this has been grossly exaggerated in the resulting video, which has become a brief taster for the forthcoming epic (which I haven’t done anything about so far).

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Lonsdaler » Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:29 pm

Most amusing! I hope nothing was damaged :shock:
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by FWLR » Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:48 am

Brilliant, laugh first thing in the morning is what the doctor ordered..
:lol :lol

Love the colours and finish on the loco too. :salute:

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Phil.P » Wed Apr 12, 2023 11:12 am

In the garden, something stirred..

I watched this, as the latest 'use the train' ad was playing on the TV...
The music was quite appropriate!
8) :lol: :lol:

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:08 pm

Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by ge_rik » Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:47 pm

BertieB wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:08 pm Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.
I did wonder about the significance of the sound effect which ended the video ..... :shock:

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Lonsdaler » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 pm

BertieB wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:08 pm Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.
All's well on that front - still works over 12 months on! I must let Chris Rennie know that his gravity train is submersible :lol:
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:20 pm

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Cheeky tank engine and coaches. What more could I want?

Now posted to 'Videos' is Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again, a few minutes with the coaches that began this thread, being pulled and pushed round the garden by most of the (battery-powered) steam fleet, at last.

Here's a GIF to promote it.

Cheers!

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:26 pm

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It goes!

I’ve stuck a couple of large lead ingots over the bogies — and it runs pleasingly smoothly.

It was time to finish wiring up the 33 and give it a go. Switching it on and fiddling with LocoRemote, you can imagine my surprise when the front, directional lighting glowed bright red (and I haven't done any rear lights). This is despite having retrieved the LEDs from an envelope clearly marked (in my own hand) ‘3mm, 3v clear white’…

Here’s a picture (below) but as you can see, the red LED doesn’t show red in the photo. But they have before. Weird, huh?!

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by FWLR » Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:27 am

Fantastic.. :woo


No idea about why your led is a different colour, but it does run great.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by ge_rik » Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:54 am

It does look good. Nice idea to make it an animated gif

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:14 pm

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Thank you.

And at last, the Class 33 makes it round the garden (with wagons), though without functioning directional lighting at present (see above*), in another noisy video, now posted in Videos > Semi-scale BR: Class 33.

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 24&t=14387

*It WAS me who mixed up the LEDs and labelled them all incorrectly, of course.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by Old Man Aaron » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:33 am

On a barely-related tangent..
This reminds me of the time my father fitted red LED tail lights to one of his R/C cars. He switches it on: It's pink! We didn't know they even made those. :lol:
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Post by BertieB » Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:08 pm


Branch line, BR Standard mogul revisited

Please excuse the self indulgence here. I’ve been toying with this for years, and now an opportunity has presented itself.

Here’s the short BR 2-6-0 sequence from the recent ‘branch line steam’ video (see ‘Videos’) with previously abandoned shots reintroduced (there were mismatched frames-per-second, ‘jerky’ editing issues). But now it features a glorious Bach soundtrack, turned up to 11 in celebration of, erm… the magnificence, the grandeur… of the garden railway experience, I suppose. Cheers.

You could also see this on my website, where you won’t get bombarded with tiresome advertising ('...it's taking the UK by storm') or get ‘profiled’…
https://www.toytrainsinthebackgarden.co ... ml#issue/2

Refresh the browser, if anything doesn't load. Looks best on a tablet, I'd suggest.

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