Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:08 am
its looking great william 
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Heywood Style 4w Brakevan
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:02 am
I've completed it this evening, and shall post some piccies tomorrow !
!Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:25 pm
LOOKS GREAT!!!!!!!SillyBilly wrote:I'm using Accucraft round head choppers (as shown in the photos below), becuase 'Isabelle' my 'Edrig' is fitted with them.CCairns wrote:What type of couplings are you using?
I've made masses of progress since the last update (only yesterday). No kidding I'm close to the painting stage! It's turned in to a sort of 7/8ths scale brakevan, but I like a bit of variety. The base turned up this morning, which has allowed me to make up the full chassis, and then begin on the roof. Hopfully I'll pick up a couple of welding rods tomorrow, and make up the handrails. I'll probally put the roof on the roof base later on today. So maybe I'll manage to build this one in a week? Who knows.
WELL DONE!
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:25 pm
OOOOOH CAN'T WAIT FOR PICS!SillyBilly wrote:I've completed it this evening, and shall post some piccies tomorrow
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:28 pm
very good! Is it me, or is there not much activity on the forum atm?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:36 pm
Loving the breakvan! Maybe you could build a whole heywood style train to go with it*. Heywood did make a dining car, a sleeping car and a few other designs of stock, whilst his open wagon design was so brilliantly simple that the ratty pway train is to this day composed almost entirely of heywood design wagons
*ok, maybe a bit ambitious
*ok, maybe a bit ambitious
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:38 pm
Yeah, and we're still using the origanle couplings up there on the Ratty. Watch out for the Heywood 'Katie' that DJB engineering are going to lauch sometime in the near future.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:14 pm
Ta Guys, it is likely I may build some more Heywood stuff in the future (open bogie coach), but my bank acccount has just hit rock bottom, so I think I'll finish the projects I've started in the meantime (that's correct, not even enough for a set of Binnie/Cambrian bogies) 
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(unless somone wants to buy me one? )
!Pheeeeesh, £400 was over my limit, I'd love a 'Katie', somehow I think that is somthing that'll have to wait till I'm older and one appears in the GardenRail Ads sectionMatt wrote:Yeah, and we're still using the origanle couplings up there on the Ratty. Watch out for the Heywood 'Katie' that DJB engineering are going to lauch sometime in the near future.
(unless somone wants to buy me one? )Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:20 pm
Oh, meanwhile, here is the promised photo,sorry for the appauling photography skills, it was a rushed photo taken during a gap in the typical welsh weather!
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:30 pm
Great captured the look of the real thing very well. All those who are intrested in Heywood please remember that the 2 surviving locos (of sorts) are at Ravenglass River Irt has the frame and other bits of Murial whilst Katie is the real thing
Ps when i was last at Ravenglass River Irt was over the workshop pit with the axels out for maintenence, I was allowed to go underneath to look at the underside of the loco, very interesting
Ps when i was last at Ravenglass River Irt was over the workshop pit with the axels out for maintenence, I was allowed to go underneath to look at the underside of the loco, very interesting
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:04 pm
I'd love if they built a new chassis for the Irt, and re-built Muriel, or have the frames been extended? Personally I find in the category of miniature railways (I class 15" as a miniature) you can't better Heywood.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:56 am
That has turned out well William, and a nice moody photo to show it off.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:32 am
that is great mate well done
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:36 am
Looks great Will! Wish I could get of me bottom and build something other than locos
Anyone have any idea about the price of the DJB Katie?
Anyone have any idea about the price of the DJB Katie?
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:37 am
Yeah, get model SillyBilly . I guess it's going to be too complicated, and worthless, to fit it with Heywood couplings.
. I guess it's going to be too complicated, and worthless, to fit it with Heywood couplings.Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:27 am
wow, it's great SB!!! well done!
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:16 pm
Yep! It doesn't work properley with the choppers, as my corners are too sharp!Matt wrote:I guess it's going to be too complicated, and worthless, to fit it with Heywood couplings.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:25 pm
The Irt had its frame extended to make it an 0-8-2 so that a boiler with a proper firebox could be fitted. Not sure if it could be unextended, and it would be a major job to build a new one
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:57 pm
You've made a very nice job of that Jim. I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Heywood's designs
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:16 pm
Its not mine, its Wills