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Andrew Jones – trackwork, built with Exactoscale components for his Forest of Dean layout
Andrew Ockwell – . Two views of the bridge over the River Meon. This is based on the one at Wickham, which can still be seen (indeed, walked over). It is pretty much to scale but widened by one bay to accommodate the extra width where I have squeezed it into my model. I have etchings for the unusual balustrade stanchions, but have yet to work out how to solder them together (I haven’t tried too hard so far).
Andrew Ockwell – An overall view of my embryo layout based on the Meon Valley Railway. I chose it because of the interesting track layout (after much travail with which maybe I wish I hadn’t!), the good looking station buildings and the motive power seen in photos of the line. The embryo is taking a mighty long time to hatch! Please don’t look too closely at the trackwork, you experts out there….. The layout is based on Tisted, which has a very useful view blocking road bridge halfway along the platforms, but with a slightly simplified track layout, some reduction in length and width and a river bridge; therefore, in deciding on a name and seeing that the prototype station signs say Tisted for Selborne, a simple reversal gives me Selborne as the name for the model.
Andrew Ockwell – The goods shed. This is a standard design found all along the line.
Dave Keeler – A D & S kit of a GW 6 wheel low siphon dig.O4
Dave Keeler – Another D & S kit this time a carriage truck, a “Scorpion”, dig. P8, the carriage is a Langley Models kit.
Dave Keeler – One of the four Colin Waits etch kits, horse box no.88 the only one bit to dig. N13 built in 1889.
Ian Harrison – No.5339 is a Churchward Mogul 2-6-0, for my alternative 1950s depiction of Dulverton. The model is very much a ‘bits and pieces’ loco, with a Mainline body picked up on Ebay sitting on a shortened Kemilway large prairie chassis kit, modified with conventional beam compensation. It has Gibson wheels and a Mashima motor. The tender is also a Mainline body, on a Comet chassis.
Ian Harrison – No. 2261 is a 2251 class 0-6-0, modelled as running shortly after construction in 1930. It is one of the first batch, which were built with lever reverse, later batches having a screw reverser. The model is built from a Finney kit, and has working inside motion. The motor is a Portescap, and the wheels are by Ultrascale. It is running with a Finney 3000 gallon tender. The loco will be rostered on the daily Bristol to Barnstaple goods train.
Ian Harrison – No. 3444 is a Bulldog class 4-4-0. It is one of the final ‘Bird’ series of Bulldogs with deep frames, and carries the name ‘Cormorant’. This loco was allocated to Taunton shed in the late 1920s and 1930s, my main modelling period, and appeared regularly on the Barnstaple line. The model is built from a Martin Finney kit, with working inside motion and a Portescap motor. It has a Finney 3500 gallon tender, and will haul passenger services through Dulverton. I have two more Bulldogs to build, one with curved frames and the other with the shallower straight frames.
Jim Summers – North British Railway 55. Scratchbuilt by myself from drawings by Euan Cameron, chimney and dome turned by Bob Hetherington.
Jim Summers – North British Railway 55. Scratchbuilt by myself from drawings by Euan Cameron, chimney and dome turned by Bob Hetherington.
Mike Ainsworth – The real 48075 was “just another 8F” which lived out a blameless existence at a series of resolutely unglamorous sheds, mostly in the East Midlands and West Riding. But her smokebox numberplate has been hanging on my workshop wall for upwards of forty years and so, when I got around to building an 8F, 48075 it had to be. The model is basically the Hornby one. It has acquired Gibson P4 wheels and new coupling rods but the valve gear has been left as Hornby intended. Otherwise, it has benefitted from a Brassmasters detailing kit and a new front pony truck and that’s about it. The tender is Brassmasters.
Mike Ainsworth – The real 48075 was “just another 8F” which lived out a blameless existence at a series of resolutely unglamorous sheds, mostly in the East Midlands and West Riding. But her smokebox numberplate has been hanging on my workshop wall for upwards of forty years and so, when I got around to building an 8F, 48075 it had to be. The model is basically the Hornby one. It has acquired Gibson P4 wheels and new coupling rods but the valve gear has been left as Hornby intended. Otherwise, it has benefitted from a Brassmasters detailing kit and a new front pony truck and that’s about it. The tender is Brassmasters.
Mike Ainsworth – This is a marriage of loco and tender bodies from Hornby with a SE Finecast chassis for the loco and a scratchbuilt one for the tender. The loco wheels are Gibson but modified by Brian Pearce. On the prototype, the wheel centres stand proud of the tyres, only by an inch or two but enough to be surprisingly obvious once you spot it. Brian pushed the centres forward and then trued up the tyres and the effect is subtle but, to my eye, makes all the difference.
Mike Ainsworth – This is a marriage of loco and tender bodies from Hornby with a SE Finecast chassis for the loco and a scratchbuilt one for the tender. The loco wheels are Gibson but modified by Brian Pearce. On the prototype, the wheel centres stand proud of the tyres, only by an inch or two but enough to be surprisingly obvious once you spot it. Brian pushed the centres forward and then trued up the tyres and the effect is subtle but, to my eye, makes all the difference.
Mike Ainsworth – Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and etched kits were still in their infancy, Mallard produced one for the Brighton K class 2-6-0. It’s fair to say it was a bit less sophisticated than some of the more recent etched kits. It wasn’t unbuildable, as I remember it once being described, but more parts needed modifying, or simply replacing, than you might expect nowadays. So it’s essentially the original kit with a lot of modification especially around the slidebar/cylinder/motion bracket area. A Mashima motor in the tender drives a North Yard gearbox in the firebox via a universal joint.
Mike Ainsworth – Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and etched kits were still in their infancy, Mallard produced one for the Brighton K class 2-6-0. It’s fair to say it was a bit less sophisticated than some of the more recent etched kits. It wasn’t unbuildable, as I remember it once being described, but more parts needed modifying, or simply replacing, than you might expect nowadays. So it’s essentially the original kit with a lot of modification especially around the slidebar/cylinder/motion bracket area. A Mashima motor in the tender drives a North Yard gearbox in the firebox via a universal joint.
Philip Hall – GWR Dukedog No 9003: Bachmann model converted to P4. It has Alan Gibson wheels, a new chimney, dome refitted to remove the awful trench around the moulding, better smokebox handles, extra weight in the tender with some of that weight transferred to the engines rear drawbar via a spring. Will happily pull 750g and will manage 1Kg at a pinch. (4-6 carriages) Brush weathered with Humbrol acrylics.
Philip Hall – Two Hornby Van Bs, converted to P4 with Ultrascale wheels, a little extra brake rigging added and new tie bars to the bogies. The buffers have had the springing much reduced and weight added to bring them up to 190g. Brush weathered with Humbrol acrylics.
Philip Hall – Two Hornby Van Bs, converted to P4 with Ultrascale wheels, a little extra brake rigging added and new tie bars to the bogies. The buffers have had the springing much reduced and weight added to bring them up to 190g. Brush weathered with Humbrol acrylics.
Philip Hall – Powderham Castle was converted to EM by David Barker and came to me for some attention to the wheelsets and straightening out of the ‘ski jump’ front footplate common on the Hornby models. I was also asked to weather it in my usual way.
Philip Hall – 30471 was interesting to work on being a 00 Works ex-LSWR D15 which I was asked to convert to P4. It had the American style of pickup, which had to be ditched as Alan Gibson wheels were to be used. I left it as the very rigid chassis supplied, but allowed a little downward play in the non- driven axle. The coupling rods were plain so fluting was added from nickel wire filed flat. The bodywork is composed of quite nice whitemetal castings, but I felt the fit could be improved at the front end. It runs quite beautifully courtesy of a small coreless motor and Markits gears. I imagine it will pull a house down as it’s very heavy!
Philip Hall – The two cattle vans are the Hornby models with a little brake gear added and the couplings replaced with my own brew of modified W&T centres and Ambis hooks. Nothing more apart from a touch of weathering.
Philip Monte – Home 3d printed MTVs
Philip Monte – Home 3d printed MTVs
Richard Stevens – My scratch built ex Brighton C2x
Richard Stevens – My scratch built ex Brighton C2x