BrushType4
Western Thunderer
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Re: West Mersea
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Scale7JB
Western Thunderer
Fantastic day yesterday at the Monthly West Mersea gathering.. (i.e. the layout behaved itself) although it was too cold to get the extension up sadly.
Phil (BrushType4) came along, and I think we might have convinced him that S7 works well, so we could see a few more S7 diesels on here... Welcome to the dark side!
A little video of yesterday, and after a few little niggles, the L1 is now running very nicely indeed.
As you can see in the video, the ballasting is coming along very nicely. Its still a bit monotone grey, but ash, puddles and pigments will be added to whats there to give a lot of tonal variation.
JB.
Phil (BrushType4) came along, and I think we might have convinced him that S7 works well, so we could see a few more S7 diesels on here... Welcome to the dark side!
A little video of yesterday, and after a few little niggles, the L1 is now running very nicely indeed.
As you can see in the video, the ballasting is coming along very nicely. Its still a bit monotone grey, but ash, puddles and pigments will be added to whats there to give a lot of tonal variation.
JB.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
I think we did enough to to persaude Phil that there's a lot to be said for the darker side
looking forward to seeing some diesels on the WMR, in fact it's prompted me to start looking into building one myself, really fancy a 15 or 31 in early livery
.Hey JB that niggle
wasn't the hand controller I found outside the broken window of WMR headquaters mate
Loco's are looking good
ATB, Col
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Yep, It certainly was very cold outside, but on the inside it was warm and with cups of tea, cream cakes and not to mention hot sausage rolls it was a very enjoyable day even before playing trains.
Looks like S7 for me is the way to go when there is such a great club is on my doorstep.
It wasn't all Steam and Eastern though. I made sure Blue and Western Thunder was represented, though not running.
Looks like S7 for me is the way to go when there is such a great club is on my doorstep.
It wasn't all Steam and Eastern though. I made sure Blue and Western Thunder was represented, though not running.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Phil Next meeting we'll line 'em up and take some photo's I forgot to take my camera on this occasion
Col.
Buckjumper
Flying Squad
Sausage rolls before playing trains...?!?!
Yes, can't you tell from my double chin in the clip? Actually, that's probably c/o Danny's cream cakes.
Lots of greasy fingerprints to clean off the trains afterwards, then......
Medical gloves must be worn at all times. I timed my proctology joke perfectly yesterday, just as cake and coffee was being consumed.
Meanwhile, just wondering if S7 really qualifies as "Dark Side" around here, these days.....?
The $64,000 question!
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
7mmMick
Western Thunderer
Great Video JB, nice to see some up to date footage. Who's is the N7................. you've not started another one Looks great in any case. Any chance of a few pics on your work bench. I didn't feel too bad about my complete lack of modelling in the past couple of months until I saw you'd started another one
ATB Mick
Looks great in any case. Any chance of a few pics on your work bench. I didn't feel too bad about my complete lack of modelling in the past couple of months until I saw you'd started another one ATB Mick
Buckjumper
Flying Squad
Who's is the N7................. you've not started another one
Channelling the Christmas panto season; oh yes he has!
However, we're all expecting to see fully working inside long-travel valve Walschaerts for that one which should keep JB busy for a bit.
Perhaps you can get it to disintegrate at speed in the prototypical manner?
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Buckjumper
Flying Squad
Yes it did, and it made quite a mess. I am somewhat bemused by Hill's decision to use Walschaerts though, as really there wasn't enough space to do it justice. The N7 design was constrained to fit the same footprint as the F4/5/6 classes - in other words the engine bays at Liverpool Street - and the space for the motion to fit in was very cramped with a short eccentric rod and long expansion link which placed a lot of strain on the gear, particularly the combination lever pins and the anchor bracket bolts - a feature not remedied until WW2. The long-travel valve variants introduced by Gresley following comparative tests between his Pacifics and the GWR Castles was fine for locomotives with lots of room for the motion, but in the cramped area in the N7s resulted in an eccentric throw of 1 ¾" longer than Hill's original short-travel valves and the greater forces exerted on the motion caused numerous problems with sheered anchor brackets and bent valve spindles. The old GER way of driving didn't help either. Traditionally they coasted in full gear, but when doing so at speed, changing from early to late cut-off caused a sudden acceleration of the gear and inevitably resulted in catastrophic failure. A policy change of driving full regulator and only coasting mid-gear reduced the forces on the motion and there were fewer failures, but there were still problems including the famous disintegration of 69721's motion at Ingatestone in 1956. I suppose the big unanswered question is why didn't Hill use Stephenson's well tried and tested motion on the prototype.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Ade,
Maybe he thought that with a more powerful loco ( 20,000 lb T.E.)than had been built previous ( regarding GER tank loco's) Walshaerts gear would be more reliable in service, I wonder if the Stephensons link would have stood up to it. I know that more powerful loco's used Stephenson's but probably not thrashed on commuter trains up Bethnal Bank.
We'll never really know I suppose.
Col.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
A mid-week meeting/working day at the WMR yesterday, with the two John's, Steve, JB, Phil and myself in attendance.
Phil's diesels made a refreshing change on the WMR with his two-car DMU set and cl47 loco. in glorious GREEN which he's going to change to....sshh quite everyone... blue.
JB kept the flag flying for steam with his lovely L1 running very smoothly.
John Birch showed us some fine 1/48 scale wheel sets he is using for his S7 OZ stock.
Work on the layout was basically down to more ballasting and rail cleaning.
ATB, Col.
Phil's diesels made a refreshing change on the WMR with his two-car DMU set and cl47 loco. in glorious GREEN which he's going to change to....sshh quite everyone... blue
.JB kept the flag flying for steam with his lovely L1
running very smoothly. John Birch showed us some fine 1/48 scale wheel sets he is using for his S7 OZ stock.
Work on the layout was basically down to more ballasting and rail cleaning.
ATB, Col.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
I do like that DMU 
Thanks to JB for helping work out that it was the dirty wheels that was stopping play for a short while.
Thanks to JB for helping work out that it was the dirty wheels that was stopping play for a short while.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Good to see you Phil yesterday.I do like that DMU
Thanks to JB for helping work out that it was the dirty wheels that was stopping play for a short while.
The day we figure out how to power without picking up through the track there will be the biggest chear you've ever heard, and I don't mean batteries and radio control
ATB, Col
7mmMick
Western Thunderer
The WMR seems to be coming along nicely and the L1 looks very nice indeed, a good advert for roller bearings by the sounds of it. I bet the brush 4 and DMU raised some eye brows, what did Peter say ? The more the merrier I say, the last time I was there I mentioned I modelled North Eastern and that raised a few eyebrows, nowt like a bit of friendly banter with the oldies
ATB Mick
The more the merrier I say, the last time I was there I mentioned I modelled North Eastern and that raised a few eyebrows, nowt like a bit of friendly banter with the oldies ATB Mick
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
All joking aside I can appreciate anything that's railway orientated and although I'm mainly steam I do like diesels especially the early ones in green pre-yellow front panels. Somewhere Peter even has an MOK? kit for an 08 waiting to be built.The WMR seems to be coming along nicely and the L1 looks very nice indeed, a good advert for roller bearings by the sounds of it. I bet the brush 4 and DMU raised some eye brows, what did Peter say ?
ATB Mick
ATB, Col.
7mmMick
Western Thunderer
I agree mate, my tastes are a bit later though. Although I like Green I fondly remember Large Logo Brush 4's and early railfreight sub sector stuff running through Doncaster Station to Carr Loco. One Day when I've fulfilled my Steam Dreams I may build one of the above who knows
ATB Mick
ATB Mick
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
I agree mate, my tastes are a bit later though. Although I like Green I fondly remember Large Logo Brush 4's and early railfreight sub sector stuff running through Doncaster Station to Carr Loco. One Day when I've fulfilled my Steam Dreams I may build one of the above who knows
ATB Mick
The diesels that I remember and will probably build first off are the cl15 and 31 as these featured in my childhood and closely followed by the 37. But there a little way off yet.
ATB Col.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Looking forward to Sunday? Peter called me and said the boards for outside running would be going up and to bring my finescale trains to run.