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I'm with Nigel here. I use Vallejo Model Air straight from the bottle in loads of cases. Just today I was weathering some track with their US Earth Brown. Sometimes I need to add a drop of "thinner" (see below) into an airbrush cup full but up to 15 drops I never bother, and to me it seems...

Mike I made up a mount plate with the two bolt holes and slot for the shaft to solder in as a frame spacer. Thus I can un-bolt and slide out the whole motor to remove it. You can just see the spacer, top of the slot and the two mount bolt-heads in my pic. The hole diameters and positions are part of...

Thanks Dave. That also explains why the mitre gears are sold in pairs. Fortunately I've found the 20T mitre pair worked fine with the 300 rpm N20 but I might try the 16T just to see how bad (or not) the meshing is with a 20T. Looking at them, they both state they have a 45 degree angle and certainly...

I've found the 300 rpm motor with 1:1 mitre works well on my 0-4-0 shunter. I was a bit worried about low speed running but that seems to be fine with the 300 rpm too. I've got 100 and 60 rpm motors to try also and I've also got the 0.5 MOD 16T mitre to try which in theory should work with the 20T t...

I've certainly found this one to be powerful and damn near impossible to stall. It consistently turns the wheels at around 1v on my DC rolling road! If there is a drawback it is noise. This combination is nowhere near as quite as the Highlevel gearbox and motor combo I use normally on Cadhay's locos...

If you don't want to wait for the really cheap ones from china I got my 0.5MOD 20T mitre gears next day from here: https://www.beltingonline.com/dbm05-20-delrin-500-mitre-gears-7084?zenid=1b52rnt72ujdco7frqfcdd7a07 To go in here with a 300 rpm N20 motor: Kelly Chassis.jpg I needed to cut off the bos...

Echoing others that does look good Dave.

Another vote here for epoxy for the handles.

Cheers

Chris

Just found this thread. I have been using the Lifecolour rail weathering set for ages all across Cadhay and it's all been fine, thinned either with water or acrylic thinner. Horror of horrors I actually let some dry completely in my (best!!) airbrush at one point. Thinking back someone had rung the ...

Julian - traversers are not all about carpentry - there's potentially a pile of electromechanics too!!! Happy to have a chat about mine at some point. David - I thoroughly recommend the type of sliding guides referenced in your post. Generally they have much less slop than drawer runners and as a re...

Thanks Allan, you beat me to it!

The point rodding is looking really good Tim!

Chris

Neil - definitely worth making them operational. I do like it when a Cadhay operator derails their yard exit loco only to find that they had in fact ignored the ground signal and tried to exit the yard before the road had been set for them - says he who managed to do exactly that on show at Houten l...

Personally I think there is a place for both dark and light weathering and also powders on most (not all though) vehicles and as Noel said very few last long in decent clean condition. I use the dark washes like the military modellers do to pick out the detail and shadow lines. Then I usually use li...

I agree this looks great. I'm a big fan of these washes. I also have a set of Vallejo acrylic washes in various colours that achieve the same thing but you do need to be quick to avoid patching if you want an all over cover - although does prototype weathering actually weather evenly all over anyway...

She’s a Connoiseur kit I built a few years back. Has CSBs and a High Level gearbox and runs like a clock. Here she the build thread with a video of her on Mark and Dave’s setup at GBTS in Toronto. https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1761 Having followed your link I now remember...

Very nice Neil.

Loving the G6!

Chris

HI Colin, Welcome back. I believe either Nigel or Allan has given you contact details. If not then post on here and I'll PM you with them. We have a meeting on Saturday in Dechmont near Livingston, consisting of a morning just modelling and an afternoon talk/demo on re-wheeling RTR locos. Be good to...

Had a great weekend operating Bob Hetherington's Garrigill layout at Model Rail Scotland.

Here's a quick video of a couple of services and the lovely rotating platform signal....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicXSKZ ... e=youtu.be

OK so in spite of a load of work on at the moment, I've made a bit of progress on the traverser. In fact today it had it's first full testing of a run round and an engine swap. There's some video of the engine swap at the youtube link following. Excuse the dodgy camera work - I was operating and fil...

Correct length timing belt arrived earlier in the week which allowed me to get the traverser motion fitted up and trialled. So far it's looking very accurate in repeat positioning. Spent some time yesterday evening sorting out the Arduino programming for an emergency stop (I envisage the operator ma...

Well flipping heck, over 6 months since I posted anything on this! That said not a lot has happened in Cadhay world since March other than the implementation of the speeded up clock and LED Scrolling Matrix displaying the next train details and a successful outing at Cupar MRC Exhibition in July (vo...

Dave this is looking excellent. Watching with interest for the next stages. Keep it up!!

Chris

Our monthly group meeting at Dechmont on Sat 13th was a session concerning AJ couplings. We started with a talk about the basics from Ray and then various members demonstrated which jigs they use and how they bend/fix/locate/drop their AJs. Several folks had a go at bending the coupling head (some f...

I was looking forward to attending S4N this weekend for both days and operating Ray's United Mills layout. UNfortunately Jacki done something drastic to her back and I can't leave her on her own. That leaves me with a hotel room and breakfast booked at the Rhubarb Triangle Permier Inn in wakefield (...

Yes it was. As mentioned in the original post, I had a long chat with Robin about LSWR cattle wagons whilst enjoying watching the Rolvenden trains go by.

CDG

I'll just jump in and beat Terry to saying Burntisland 1883 will be at Scaleforum in September!

I might start a new thread detailing our exhibition commitments beyond that, once I've verified with the Hon Sec that my recollection of the calender is in fact accurate!

Cheers

CDG