Diesel bashing

[Cliff Williams]

Hi Paul
That’s the one! Didn’t spot it myself when taking the pic, the shunter has been on the job and sorted it.

 

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I thought it was only Thomas that had troublesome wagons !

 

[paulc]

Ho ho ho whatever gave you that idea .
Cheers Paul

 

[Cliff Williams]

A few locos on shed with 24069 being the most recent.

 

[Cliff Williams]

Bashing one of Arun Sharma’s engine kits, but first I had to build a wagon to store it on so threw together one of the Skytrex lowmac wagons.

The engine kit is proving to be an absolute breeze so far.

 

[Cliff Williams]

A successful ECS move from @Ressaldars workshop all the way to Arley, resulting in a quick check of Victoria Bridge this evening.

Slight artistic licence, Steve Fay posted a 1980s shot with a LLB 37264, this is close enough.
A lovely model!

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Cliff

Here it is at the start of its journey,



obviously requiring a change of motive power when the 50 failed!

regards

Mike

 

[Cliff Williams]

Hi Mike
I was hoping someone might have caught it coming over the Forth Bridge!

It is rostered for a 50 test run this weekend from OOC depot, hopefully catch some shots.

Rgds
Cliff

 

[paulc]

Hi Mike , the saloon coach looks much better behind the 37 posed on the bridge , mainly because its behind a 37 .
I do like a 37 .
Cheers Paul

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Mike , the saloon coach looks much better behind the 37 posed on the bridge , mainly because its behind a 37 .
I do like a 37 .
Cheers Paul

Hi Paul,

totally agree with you, currently I do not have a 37 in my fleet, but have had them in the past





carrying out similar duties


and could possibly do with having this one back (detailed Heljan from 2008) for the current thinking.

regards

Mike

 

[Cliff Williams]

Back to diesel bashing, pushing on with the 37/4 bogies saw them fitted with all the wiggly bits.
The ploughs on the front have been revisited as I was simply not happy with the angles on them.

They were stripped back and I added the front mounting face plate to the pylons (the column support for the plough) this immediately got the angle reproduction the way I wanted it in my plough jig. The two ploughs side by side in the first pic show the before and after. The pylons in green are the ones I cleaned up and prepped for a loco at Bo’ness.

 

[Andrew eaves]

Good evening all. The Arun Sharma engine kits. Does anyone have any contact info or a website. A google doesn’t show much. Stunning locos cliff

 

[Cliff Williams]

Good evening all. The Arun Sharma engine kits. Does anyone have any contact info or a website. A google doesn’t show much. Stunning locos cliff

Go here Andrew
https://www.radleymodels.com/prods/345793/english-electric-16svt-mk1-engine-.html

 

[Andrew eaves]

Thanks cliff. All ordered. I was trying to find something interesting for a well wagon

 

[Cliff Williams]

A recent purchase has started its journey through the workshop, commencing with replacing worm and cog drive to something much quieter, sorting ride heights out and other minor tweaks.
It is a Dave Parkin kit, now PRMRP, I first saw this model eighteen years ago and put first refusal on it then.

Here is the 7+2 HST in action on the Bo’ness Gauge O Group layout on the Winter Diesel Running Day for full sized things.

Now to start on the dcc sound with synchronised smoke. The video has some other lovely models too.

 

[LarryG]

Very impressive stuff particularly the clickety-click. Are there large gaps between rails at certain spots? Stopping "when they're all dead" needs sorting Cliff

 

[Cliff Williams]

The coaches can get hot in the summer so the expansion gaps appear bigger in the winter.

The start and stop will be fine on dcc when I get it done Larry

 

[richard carr]

That's a beautiful model Cliff, it is the one thing that I would like to have at some point in BR blue livery.

What was the green DMU ?

Richard

 

[David B]

I love the HST - the last (and only) time I’ve seen those kits made up and running on a layout was back in the mid 1980s, on Jim Harris’s Lifford Lane layout. I think it was a shorty 2+3 set, in the (then) brand new Executive livery, from memory - Jim had done a great job with it (nearly up to the standard of his superb WMPTE class 116 Derby Suburban DMU with class 127 trailer). I‘m sure I have some photos of the HST somewhere…..

That’s a cracking paint job - I’d love to know how the window frames have been painted so neatly. Looking forward to seeing how it gets even better as you work your magic on it.

 

[Cliff Williams]

That's a beautiful model Cliff, it is the one thing that I would like to have at some point in BR blue livery.

What was the green DMU ?

Richard

Richard it is an ex Bachmann Brassworks/San Cheng Derby Lightweight. I am not sure who painted it and fitted out the interior but it looks nice. The ends needed reglazing and I temporarily fitted some cross bars to the “cathedral” windows.
These will get changed to something better once I DCC sound convert it.

I have made some new destination boxes up for it too, which seem to have come out well.