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- Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: Electronics
- Topic: peco pl-11 point motor
- Replies: 9
- Views: 662
Re: peco pl-11 point motor
Does it fire correctly both ways when not fastened to the point ? If it does then the wiring is fine. They can need a bit of tweaking / fiddling about with to get them correctly centred under the point.
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: Installing my line side fencing...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 781
Re: Installing my line side fencing...
I don't claim to know what the original Acts of Parliament stated about fencing, but certainly, to my knowledge, it has been the responsibility of Britiain's railways for the best part of the last 100 years to erect and maintain fencing to keep people off the railway for liability of safety reasons...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 4:13 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Manchester Railways
- Replies: 4
- Views: 371
Re: Manchester Railways
Unfortunately those services are largely in the hands of Class 323 units with a few 319s and 331s thrown in, and none of those are available ready to run. In 4mn there is a chap doing resin 323 bodies on Ebay (thread on Rmweb) and I think Bratchell did a 319 kit. No idea about N/2mm, sorry. If you g...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: Scratch and Kit building
- Topic: Poor instructions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 564
Re: Poor instructions
I was specifically addressing the "do it like Tamiya" part of your response. Proper isometric exploded view drawings cost a fortune, which is fine if you're Airfix or Tamiya with illustrators/designers in house and volume sales in the hundreds of thousands. If you are a volume kit manufact...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Scratch and Kit building
- Topic: Poor instructions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 564
Re: Poor instructions
Instructions to the standard of Tamiya and Airfix were produced by a draughtsman or technical illustrator on an hourly rate commensurate with the evident skill needed. Which is fine if you expect to sell a million units globally, the cost is spread over a very large production run. I doubt whether a...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:46 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: Farm tracks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 588
Re: Farm tracks
Not sure anything printed is the best media for this, it's a bit flat to say the least. Textured paint or plaster* painted grey with flock/foam/static grass down the middle is the usual method.
*Whatever you normally use - Modroc, Sculptamould, filler, crumpled newspaper/PVA, whatever.
*Whatever you normally use - Modroc, Sculptamould, filler, crumpled newspaper/PVA, whatever.
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:05 pm
- Forum: Real World Railways
- Topic: GUV
- Replies: 12
- Views: 654
Re: GUV
If carrying passenger-rated traffic (parcels, perishables, milk in churns, newspapers) then yes, it would be attached to a passenger train or run in a parcels train. But if working back empty it would go in whatever was most convenient, which might well include an ordinary goods train. Having end do...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 1:12 pm
- Forum: Model Railway Shop
- Topic: Any recommendations??
- Replies: 7
- Views: 475
Re: Any recommendations??
It's a horribly clinical place and bargains are Scotch mist but if you just want to look at things in the flesh before perhaps buying them somewhere else cheaper, they have masses of stock. Gaugemaster don't discount their own lines because they won't undercut their stockists. They stated as much i...
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Mail train help needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 339
Re: Mail train help needed
Yes sorry. BR livery, not necessarily maroon depending on exect date. But definitely not PO Red.
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Mail train help needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 339
Re: Mail train help needed
I concur, BR maroon on everything except the Mk1 Royal Mail vehicles.
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Scale confusion.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1199
Re: Scale confusion.
The crawler unit (without the jib) looks similar to a Leibherr 960 which is nearly 8m long, so your 90mm dimension is correct.
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:27 pm
- Forum: Items Wanted
- Topic: Wagon load
- Replies: 7
- Views: 316
Re: Wagon load
Bachmann apparently sell (sold ?) the boilers separately: https://www.hattons.co.uk/6979/bachmann_branchline_36_001_2_x_boiler_load/stockdetail.aspx JH Russell's book "Freight Wagons and Loads in service on the GWR and BR" shows a variety of heavy castings/forgings and other bits of machin...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: The Purist
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1488
Re: The Purist
Found the BNS thread - https://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=49549 There was nothing but practical advice until his ideas started to get so bizarre we began to think it was a wind up. But if your friend is just belittling your ideas instead of pointing out genuine pitfalls the...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: The Purist
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1488
Re: The Purist
Ha, yes I remember than BNS thread! I think he called us all trolls at the time. :roll: wonder if he managed it in the end... Given that he was also trying to make the iron girder bridges out of real iron, and resolutely refusing all advice to do them in styrene instead, I doubt it ! The really fun...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: The Purist
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1488
Re: The Purist
Did he explain why it wouldn't work ? Or was it just a case of he wouldnt have done it like that ? Some "that won't work" advice is worth listening to, some isn't. If he's telling you that something physically won't fit then he may be saving you a lot of grief later. Somewhere on either he...