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John Darch,
3822 |
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Fylde Area
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Bramblewick
SlideShow with commentary by Tom Harland
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| John
Darch, 3822 |

Photo
of the Month September 2002
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Brassmasters
kit, modified
and detailed to match the prototype that worked Gloucester Docks.
Portescap
motor and gearbox, Alan Gibson wheels.
Six
months from first request for
information on available kits on E4um! |
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kit did need a great
deal of work to get it right. Whether the problems were in the etching
or the original artwork is difficult to say but I suspect more of the
latter
than the former as right and left sides were nor always identical when
they should have been! Portescap is very noisy despite treatments as
prescribed
on E4um - this one is a 'screamer' as opposed to a 'grinder'. Wheels
are
eccentric and wobble on axle. Anyway, it looks good and runs
reasonably
smoothly considering the problems with the wheels. All I have to do now
is build the layout. |
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Clinkerford Wharf showing John's plateway wagon. (Photo
of the Month December 2005) |
Fraser
Donachie, 5724
I'm a
regular member of the 'Sarum
Finescale' Area Group and my very long term aim is to complete a model
of Ventnor West in the post-WWII era. My next challenge will be to
tackle
something with lining! |
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LBSCR E1
No 3 'Ryde' circa 1956, just prior to
withdrawal.
This is the excellent Albion Models kit with Sharman wheels and a
Portescap
motor. |
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LBSCR Terrier
No 8 'Freshwater' circa 1949, before her
return
to the mainland. This is a Branchlines sprung chassis with Paul
Berntsen
wheels and split axles under a modified Hornby/Dapol body |
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| Richard
Dunning, 3772 |
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Two images of 30921 "Shrewsbury",
one of the two
Schools class which ran for a while with tenders from scrapped "Lord
Nelson"s. It's a bit of a mongrel, consisting of Bachmann tender with
Gibson wheels, Dapol loco kit (main mouldings), chassis from the Comet
kit with Sharman wheels, Mashima motor in the tender and High Level
transmission. Transfers again by Fox.
I was inspired to build it by a photo in Brian Haresnape's book
"Maunsell locos" and to test the idea of locating the motor in the
tender to optimise the weight distribution in the loco. It seems to
work well but hasn't yet seen rails beyond my test track.
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Photo
of the month, July 2003
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BR 4MT Standard tank 80079 which is a DJH kit with Alan
Gibson frames, Comet chassis and motion parts, Ultrascale wheels,
Mashima motor. Transfers by Fox.
It was built with SDJR or SR projects in mind.
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| Ian
Everett, 4976 |
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a larger one and here if you want a really big one
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It's a London Road Jinty
shunting an ex LNER brake van (Parkside kit) across the canal bridge
into Clecklewyke goods yard.
The mill is based on a prototype in Hebden Bridge and is made from
Wills stone sheets, as is most of the other stonework. The chimney,
embedded in the stone wall, is a cardboard tube to which I stuck
approximately 7857 (I counted the first 20 then estimated the rest...)
chads rescued when Edinburgh University's card punch machine was
scrapped some 17 years ago. The fire escape is made from two Langley (I
think) etchings, fiddly but nice. The canal lock is actually
Wolvercote, on the Oxford canal - should normally be broad gauge in
West Yorkshire but I reckon it's a branch off the Huddersfield Narrow
Canal.
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| Morgan
Gilbert, 5832 |
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Photo
of the month, March 2006
(left). |
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| The loco was built from a very old version of the
Brassmasters kit that I picked up from a 2nd hand stall. The
loco
is fully sprung using BM/Comet coil spring hornblocks. Motor
is a
Mashima 1420 mounted vertically in the firebox and driving the rear
axle through a Branchlines 38:1 gearbox. |
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The tender is also fully sprung using continuous
springy beams. |
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| Philip
Hall, 2782 |
No 4 is a Riceworks kit for the NBR
Class 'R' 4-4-0T. You may well have seen the one that Editor
John's predecessor built and painted correctly, but I always have
thought LSWR Goods Green a fine colour for an engine, and after all,
Drummond was an LSWR man even if he did work for other railways before
he saw the light and moved to Surbiton. So after mine was
finished that's the way I went. I was going to have find some
considerable excuse for running it in the south-west in the early
1950's, and in the end I didn't bother. It's such a pretty
little engine, after all.
The name? Well, that was my mother's (Robin Arkinstall had etched the
plates for me many years ago) and the number reflects her
birthday. A little more fiction seemed
understandable. As for mechanicals, she rides on
Sharman wheels and has Ultrascale 50:1 gears and a 1224 motor.
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Cover Photo, Dec. 2008 |
111 is a
straightforward conversion of a Hornby M7 to EM, using Alan Gibson
wheelsets. Unfortunately the model was completed with Alan's
original
wheels for the bogie before the improved LSWR pattern with the different rim and larger boss
were produced. The frames were padded out with Plastikard but not
behind the drivers as the steps are in the way and it doesn't show. Widening the
frames means that the guard irons and brake gear stay in the right
place. The
bogie was simply cut in half and widened with Plastikard, a new pivot
pin
being added from a 10BA bolt inserted from underneath, with a 2mm
sleeve of
brass tube above.
It runs beautifully, and has pulled five heavy Kirk kit - based Maunsell
coaches around a testing EM layout with not a hint of a wobble or slip;
just
glides around. |

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Another M7 conversion done to P4 for Peter Swift, using Ultrascale
wheels.
Peter did a much better job of the bodywork than I could ever do!
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