7mm National Railway Museum Workbench

[James]

Now coaled and crewed and ready for service. It'll be delivered on Monday

 

[James]

 

[James]

 

[James]

 

[James]

This rather lovely Duchess was in store with the Dubdee and needed a few chips repairing. The paintwork was glossed to protect it and give it some depth.

It runs beautifully!

 

[James]

One of the coaches by @LarryG is on my bench. It's had a knock and a very poor repair. Its bogies have gone under other vehicles.



Aside from damage, it's lovely handling models like this.

 

[James]

I might be the only person to have taken a hammer and chisel to one Larry's models! The model is rather vulnerable at this stage, the damage has weakened the structure but once it's all back together it'll be absolutely fine.

My ten year old daughter, Abbie is currently painting passengers

 

[James]

46226 Duchess of Norfolk is now ready to return to service. It's a beautifully built model, sadly we don't know who built it.



A Modelu crew and lamps complete things.



A clean but hardworking top link express passenger locomotive.

 

[James]

Progress with the Stanier coach - new Wayoh LMS bogies fitted and passengers fitted.



Incidentally, who supplies Wayoh bogies now? I bought these from Invertrain some time ago.

 

[MarkR]

Incidentally, who supplies Wayoh bogies now? I bought these from Invertrain some time ago.

Not sure, Walsall Model Industries(?) comes to mind, but I may be wrong!

 

[Richard Spoors]

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Progress with the Stanier coach - new Wayoh LMS bogies fitted and passengers fitted.

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Incidentally, who supplies Wayoh bogies now? I bought these from Invertrain some time ago.

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1039 models supply Wayoh bogies.
Cheers
Richard

 

[James]

1039 models supply Wayoh bogies.
Cheers
Richard

I've bought various things from 1039; the lack of detail in descriptions makes it hard to find things.

 

[James]

A pleasant little job - the delightful Dapol B4. New plates from Narrow Planet have been added and everything toned down.

 

[Dave Holt]

Nice, but that joint in the chimney catches the eye somewhat.
Dave.

 

[James]

Nice, but that joint in the chimney catches the eye somewhat.
Dave.

It does sadly - it's stuck very firmly (super glued from the factory perhaps) so I couldn't shift it to try and achieve a better fit.

 

[RichardG]

On my model, the chimney is a flush fit. So, the parts can fit together snugly.

The whole chimney is hollow all the way down to the circuit board. I guess this is to let sound come out of the model. I would be tempted to cut off the chimney with a razor saw (being about 0.5 mm thick) and re-seat the moulding over a short length of styrene tube.

 

[Dave Holt]

Sounds drastic but doable and would make a huge difference. Otherwise filler?
When I click on your current page, the first thing I see is that marvellous WD - 90045. It brings joy to my heart as it's such a convincing model that really captures the essence of thise rather ungainly but effective locos. I have deep affection for WDs, probably stemming from seeing (and hearing - the distinctive rod clank) so many round Manchester and Pennines area back in the 50s and 60s.
Dave.

 

[James]

Dave I'm so pleased WD has had that reaction

The loco itself is delightful - wired for both two and three rail with a changeover switch between the frames, though there's no pick up skate. It's very heavy but runs beautifully.

My dad, who's 81 now, has often mentioned the distinctive clank they had - describing it like milk bottles banging against each other! He approved of the loco when he saw it too

 

[James]

The @LarryG coach has now been completed - it's lovely working with such beautifully made models

 

[Mike W]

Have followed this thread with great interest. I assumed these models were the ones that ran on the NRM's big layout. If so, what do you use the B4 for? Just intrigued.

Mike