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That is pure genius... Why not disguise them as beer kegs? Or wooden beer barrels?

I was thinking the other day that before I joined this forum and explored the wider world of 16mm, I was just the only mad person I knew.......

So, c'mon then James - who's gonna make the first working sanders, you or Zach?!

Allready done I beleive on a super detail WLLR earl, coal fired with working sanders. Not sure where to get scale sand though...

A folk song comes to mind, the first line of which goes;

No man that's a drinker
Takes ale from a pin
For there is too little
good stuff there within

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:65756 wrote:Not sure where to get scale sand though...

It's simple:

Find a 16mm quarry, with 16mm machinery, which quarrys out 16mm scale sand, then build a 16mm scale railway with 16mm scale trains to take the 16mm scale sand to the 16mm scale sanders on your 16mm loco!

Has anyone seen my coat?

Its on the 16mm scale coat stand in the 16mm scale corner...

A fanatic is someone with more enthusiasm than I. If you can name 5 fanatics you are not one.

What amazing attention to detail. Just a thought but would the DVLR vinager transporter be useful for the liquid carrier?

Might well come in handy although I may make one specially...

Working bar, that is superb indeed. I take it the fire won't be a working version?

Pendo Pilot:65815 wrote:. I take it the fire won't be a working version?  ;)

I'm sure something can be arranged

No but the fire will be lit be LED, was musing about smoke generators but feel it could be a step far...

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:65819 wrote: was musing about smoke generators but feel it could be a step far...

Oddly enough I was thinking about smoke generators just the other day. To be used in a brake end passenger vehicle & deploy via a pipe at the rear to mimic steam heat escaping. Put on back burner for now..

If you want to put in a smoke generator why not just butcher a Hornby 28XX for the Smoke generator which runs off the power from the track... more power, more smoke and do it that way?

I didn't even know such things existed! Will investigate...

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:65845 wrote:I didn't even know such things existed! Will investigate...

The Hornby smoke generators mentioned aren't very good, as the casing is plastic and they have been known to melt the plastic loco body.

Do a Google search for Seuthe (a much better unit) and you'll find UK suppliers and drawings for sizes. They are easy to find in model railway shops catering to the small scales.

Smoke units work by vaporising light oil, so they will oil up the area around them and they get hot enough to melt plastic, so that also needs to be considered. They also use as much current as a small motor and run on 12-15V, so a battery power supply might be problematic.

On the plus side, the standard HO/OO ones would be about the right size for a normal stove chimney in SM32.

Regards,
Graeme

I think Zach's original idea of glowing embers is MUCH more sensible and do-able!

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A small stove with glowing embers wouldn't flicker like a candle, I've got some gel from school and some LED's so I'll try out a few things and post pics...

Been busy making an old hag of a bar lady/ land lady who everyone hates.
She is of a certain, erm, frame...

Maud Cooper




She'll look better for painting.

Also made some provisional start on beer bottle carrying wagons.