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- Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Altering plastic models (kitbashing)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 438
Re: Altering plastic models (kitbashing)
A big 'thank you' to all who have responded above, plenty of good advice and ideas there. Much appreciated.
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Altering plastic models (kitbashing)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 438
Altering plastic models (kitbashing)
I'd appreciate some hints and tips from any one on here with experience of carrying out alterations to plastic carriages/locomotives, in connection with a small project I have in mind. I would like to remove some fixed bodyside doors (at present depicted in relief on the bodyside) to make an apertur...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:27 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Leaning Hornby Hymek
- Replies: 1
- Views: 199
Leaning Hornby Hymek
My Hornby Class 35 Hymek has always had a rather pronounced lean to one side, and the model in general seems rather lightweight although it has a decent haulage capacity (sufficient to easily get 5-coaches up my steep flyover). I decided to investigate the cause of the lean, and possibly cure it. Di...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Lighting the layout
- Replies: 3
- Views: 335
Re: Lighting the layout
Thanks for some inspiration and ideas, Timbersurf. Your steam-era shed with the incandescent-effect lights (and hidden wiring) looks particularly good! The next phase for me is lighting my 2-road PECO diesel depot which I have done with a 6-strip of LEDs glued to the ceiling, as they are out of sigh...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Special Service Trains?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 313
Re: Special Service Trains?
Some good suggestions there, Glencairn. May I add a couple? In the period up until the mid-1960s there were often 'pigeon specials' organised by pigeon-fanciers to take racing (homing) pigeons to a start point, where they were released and flew (hopefully) home. These trains were made up of parcels ...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Lighting the layout
- Replies: 3
- Views: 335
Lighting the layout
I'm currently working on a project that has been a gleam in my eye ever since I first built my layout in my loft nearly 30 years ago - the ability to create a night scene with street lighting, building lighting, etc. The appeal is that the layout lighting focuses the eye on the models and the scene,...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:55 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: Hello From 'Sunny' Kidderminster
- Replies: 8
- Views: 577
Re: Hello From 'Sunny' Kidderminster
Hi John
May I add my welcome too.
I'm a 'returning' modeller (retirement has given me the luxury of having enough time to restart my hobby) but relatively new here too. Your experience of figure modelling will, I am sure, come in useful to some of us railway types.
May I add my welcome too.
I'm a 'returning' modeller (retirement has given me the luxury of having enough time to restart my hobby) but relatively new here too. Your experience of figure modelling will, I am sure, come in useful to some of us railway types.
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Replacement Lima (Pizza cutter) carriage wheels
- Replies: 4
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Re: Replacement Lima (Pizza cutter) carriage wheels
Thanks 'Bufferstop'. It is the points which are the problem; some of them have been in situ for over 20 years so might be suffering from some track spread as you suggest. My track is almost exclusively PECO code 100 - except for a few Hornby curve sections. Its not the joints that are rough :o but o...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: One never stops learning
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1810
Re: One never stops learning
Interesting topic. Often the retailer, although with perhaps some railway/prototypical knowledge, will know a lot less about particular rolling stock than a specialist modeller who may well have built up a knowledge store over many years in the hobby. I travelled on many Mk2d and e/f vehicles back i...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:53 pm
- Forum: Real World Railways
- Topic: Palma - Soller - Port De Soller Train and Tram
- Replies: 13
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Re: Palma - Soller - Port De Soller Train and Tram
Thanks for posting these photos, my other half has been pestering me for years to go to Mallorca and i've finally relented - we're going next March and staying in Puerto de Soller. Looking forward to some vintage traction!
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Replacement Lima (Pizza cutter) carriage wheels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 400
Replacement Lima (Pizza cutter) carriage wheels
I have just obtained two sets of these from Peterspares for a trial. I had a couple of wobbling Mk1s and had robbed a spare vehicle of its pizza-cutter wheels to get them running smoothly again, so I wanted to replenish my stock of spare wheelsets. My rough Code 100 track and Lima points is intolera...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: More eBay nonsense...........
- Replies: 1226
- Views: 135476
Re: More eBay nonsense...........
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- Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Rubber wheel bands
- Replies: 5
- Views: 338
Re: Rubber wheel bands
I'm with Geoff T on the merits of running grooved wheels sans traction tyres, and always replace mine if they break. I am old enough to remember steel driving wheels with milled edges on some old OO Tri-ang kit from the 1960s; not sure if Hornby also did this. The milled edge was designed to give mo...
- Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:30 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: Another new member
- Replies: 5
- Views: 489
Re: Another new member
Thank you John. You are correct that the point crossings appear to be the main problem. I did some testing whilst watching the bogie wheels of a Heljan Class 35 at dead slow speed. It ran fine until the leading wheels came to the 'X' of the points, then there was just too much clearance/not enough g...
- Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:18 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: Another new member
- Replies: 5
- Views: 489
Re: Another new member
Thank you both. I am finding my feet again and re-learning a lot of things that had lain forgotten in the corners of my (ageing) brain for many years. One thing that I never did was to make a wiring diagram of the main control panel - time got the better of me. I can now do this but its a job for a ...