7mm Yorky D's LT - Wagonery tales from the Met.

[Yorkshire Dave]

Aye folks - we now have headlights.

The decoder has been programmed so I can scroll through the headlight codes by tapping the F0 (lights) button on the handset.

 

[Scale7JB]

Clever!

JB.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

For the lighting looms I made up two PCB boards to hold the resistors and sub-miniature plugs. They are stuck to the false roof with double sided foam tape - the type used to mount car rear view mirrors to the windsrceen.



PCB board used for the current collection and motor connection sockets (rear) and lighting connections (front).

Lighting sockets from Decoder PCB.

Lighting sockets connected.

Speaker connections - the socket is from the decoder and the plug from the speaker. I always wire up my decoder plug and socket connections like this i.e. decoder wires have the sockets to prevent any accidental shorting and damage to the decoder.


The speaker

And finally the louvres - these are cast resin and require cleaning up. I have painted them grey to reveal any small air bubbles from the casting process which require filling - and there are a handful.

 

[oldravendale]

Speaker connections - the socket is from the decoder and the plug from the speaker. I always wire up my decoder plug and socket connections like this i.e. decoder wires have the sockets to prevent any accidental shorting and damage to the decoder.

Been there, done that, T short worn etc.....

Brian

 

[simond]

A wee while back, in this thread I think, there was a discussion of seat fabrics. I can’t find it.

This morning, I found this, hope it’s useful

All aboard: London transport seat designs – in pictures

Atb
Simon

 

[Oz7mm]

Simon

The development of design, including seats fabrics is well covered in the book Underground Movement

John

 

[Engineer]

Metropolitan Railway Third Class 1920s 1930s

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

The development of design, including seats fabrics is well covered in the book Underground Movement

Another book to acquire

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Chiswick and Aldenham have been temporarily relocated to West Yorkshire.....(with a bit of Neasden in the background).

This has been passing through the paint shop....





And there's plenty to do..... interior, glazing, destination blinds, handrails, decals, radiator, etc, etc.......

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

A trip into the paint shop for Sir Ralph Verney...

....all Vallejo acrylics and the body colour was a mixture of dark red and mahogany. I also cheated with the lining and used yellow lining decals - which took one day to apply in several stages!

Now awaiting number and lettering decals before glazing, final details, assembly and light weathering.

 

[Scale7JB]

That's lovely Dave!

Very probably one of, if not the best build of this kit out there.

JB.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Just printed off some destination boards I've either photographed, found on the LT Museum collection website or from t'interweb.

They have been re-scaled but a test reveals further resizing is required.



There are obvious omissions from the list on the left for which I have not yet found suitable photographs and they are - WATFORD, HARROW, LIVERPOOL ST., BAKER ST. and WEMBLEY PARK.

The ones I did not know existed are on the upper right and was surprised to see GREAT MISSENDEN ! Of course the one on the lower right is before LT ceased running trains to Verney Junction.

Another missing destination board is EDGWARE ROAD which I only found out from the RAYNERS LANE board. It appears some of the destination boards are double sided and the RAYNERS LANE board has small lettering running up outer ends and on this face they read RL - ER (Edgware Road). As can be seen below MOORGATE has M - WM P (Wembley Park) on this side.



NEASDEN shows N - BK (Baker Street); BAKER STREET shows STAN (Stanmore) - BK and UXBRIDGE shows UX - H H (Harrow on the Hill). I would assume from the destinations it appears these boards were interchangeable with T stock which would imply there are other destination boards yet to be located. Some of the boards are Met in origin e.g. Baker Street/Stanmore, Verney Junction.

And being tested... A end (from photos I've seen the A end always faces London).


D end

Still waiting for the decals .....

 

[warren haywood]

Ended up getting the brushes out for mine
Absolute pig to set out

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Looks very good Warren - you can spot the City of London and the county emblems of Buckinghamshire (swan), Middlesex (three scimitars) and Hertfordshire (hart).

Any chance of a pic of the entire loco?

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

And I forgot ALDGATE from the list of destinations !

 

[Engineer]

To help with scaling and sizing, Metropolitan Railway destination plates are, I believe, 2' 9" overall length including brass mountings, and height 4".

For plates made in the LT era, the character set definitely changed, also the pairing of destinations, and the plate height may have changed. For example, I believe Edgware Road and Addison Road were paired in the set of destination plates for H&C trains - in Metropolitan times. By the end of loco-hauled trains, plates were a mix of LT and Met styles.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Thanks Engineer - very useful measurements. I'll resize the destination plates to 2.5 x 20mm. 20mm which fits within the brackets.

I did notice the typeface of the AYLESBURY plate is P22 Johnston whereas the remainder are I suspect original Met.

 

[P A D]

I also cheated with the lining and used yellow lining decals - which took one day to apply in several stages!

Not cheating Dave, just an alternative to using a ruling pen or spring bow pen! I've got dozens of both instruments in my collection but wouldn't dream of using them for lining, as I know I can get a better result with transfers.

Lovely model and very nicely painted and weathered.

Cheers,
Peter

 

[P A D]

Ps.

Have a look here. Wear a bib though, there are lots to drool over.

Metropolitan Bo Bo built by Derek Mundy

 

[Neil]

That's a handsome loco Dave, I absolutely love the finish you've achieved on it.

Also the thread title reminded of this other belter ....