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- Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Best side-cutting pliers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 778
Re: Best side-cutting pliers
A few years ago I bought some replacement side cutters from a jewellery supplier. The quality was surprisingly poor and in the end I thought I would probably have been better off buying from Lidl. I've not come across Lindstromm cutters before but the best I have had were bought from MicroMark in th...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:16 pm
- Forum: On My Workbench
- Topic: 16T Weathering Experiments
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1436
Re: 16T Weathering Experiments
Some beautifully workaday wagons. One point I would like to add is that the inside of 16 tonners seems to have been much more orange than they are usually portrayed. A good source for this is the scene in The Ladykillers film. When the corpse of one of the (spoiler alert) would-be killers is consign...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: Painting and Weathering
- Topic: Recommend a Primer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6089
Re: Recommend a Primer
Tamiya acrylic primer is ok too. More expensive but I've heard it said that it covers more thinly.
Tony
Tony
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:12 am
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Design for Shunting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 714
Design for Shunting
The new Scalefour News has a tantalising article by Noel Anderson describing a Windows goods traffic management system he has written for his own layout. It dwarfs my own efforts to model a realistic traffic flow and I would be very interested in playing around with it. So this post is an enquiry to...
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: Wagons
- Topic: How can a chain securing link be made?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1504
Re: How can a chain securing link be made?
There is a very useful bending template attached to one of the plastic bolster kits, which gives a creditable and above all uniform shape. They are good for a surprisingly large number of loops considering they are softish polystyrene. I'm sorry that I can't remember the kit concerned, but I am pret...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:09 pm
- Forum: Scenery and Structures
- Topic: Tanks (Septic?) as wagon loads?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2252
Re: Tanks (Septic?) as wagon loads?
Irrelevant rubbish: One of the funniest moments of my childhood was seeing one of my uncles falling through a flimsy outhouse floor into a disused (but still very cessy) cess pit. The memory of the look on his face still brings joy to my heart - and it is one of his most-told stories. Not hurt, no n...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:16 am
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Glazing - your thoughts please
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2144
Re: Glazing - your thoughts please
For years I've used Wizard Models glazing and found it pretty well perfect. You can score, snap and file it pretty much like plasticard and it doesn't scratch or craze at the sight of a bladed article. I've just finished a set of glazing for a SEF flatiron, and while it wasn't exactly fun nor did I ...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:58 am
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: Boiler Bands
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1590
Re: Boiler Bands
If you don't fancy the home-printed waterslide transfers (some brands of paper are awkward to use with inkjets, apparently), you could print onto self-adhesive labels and then varnish them. For the sort of precision you need for boiler bands, I would consider going to a proper print shop and ask th...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:43 am
- Forum: best33
- Topic: High Level Fowler.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: High Level Fowler.
Lovely mode, and the paint finish is particularly convincing with its metalllic sheen. How did you achieve this?
Tony
Tony
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:52 am
- Forum: Coaches and NPCS
- Topic: 1938 SR coaches query
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1757
Re: 1938 SR coaches query
About 10 years ago I purchased this image from Getty Images (not cheap!). I was wondering if any of you SR folk might know what coaches we are looking at? I dare not speculate as I remember once asking on SemG about some birdcage coaches in a 1920's photo that turned out to be Pullman stock in a pu...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:18 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Mousa Models
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1571
Re: Mousa Models
If they are not commercially viable, perhaps they could be offered to the Society so they can be made available as free downloads.
Tony
Tony
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: jim s-w
- Topic: Brettell Road
- Replies: 599
- Views: 170043
Re: Brettell Road
Inspiring pictures, and I don't think I could have brought myself to paint the minfit underframe. I really like the weather sheet on the 0-6-0 how have you made it behave properly when it goes round corners?
Tony
Tony
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:44 am
- Forum: Recommendations
- Topic: Guttering
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1959
Re: Guttering
The 4D model shop carries a good range of extruded plastic shapes, including one that serves as very decent 4mm guttering - and is easy to work.
https://modelshop.co.uk/Shop/Strip-Shap ... ?orderby=1
Tony
https://modelshop.co.uk/Shop/Strip-Shap ... ?orderby=1
Tony
- Tue May 12, 2020 9:25 pm
- Forum: DCC
- Topic: Poor running with TCS decoder
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2996
Re: Poor running with TCS decoder
This maybe an obvious suggestion, but do you know anyone with a functioning DCC layout, or someone from your local Area Group who might know someone? Posting the loco to them would at least eliminate or confirm the duff controller possibility. I would offer, but I'm still at the novice stage myself ...
- Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: jim s-w
- Topic: Brettell Road
- Replies: 599
- Views: 170043
Re: Brettell Road
Lovely photos, and I will cherish the idea of the royal family travelling through the midlands by railbus. I can still remember the fairground-ride trackholding when trsvelling on them on the Barking to Tottenham line. More generally, the illusion of the nasty wet night is beautifully sustained. Tony
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2020
- Replies: 115
- Views: 19003
Re: Scaleforum 2020
I reckon that the whole covid thing will be over by the end of May. If shows are cancelled into the autumn it will be because of 'civil unrest' caused by the government playing safe and not lifting the lockdown. Of course, we all have a choice of whether we listen to people who look at the real dat...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:16 am
- Forum: Will L
- Topic: Buck Jumping on Mass
- Replies: 125
- Views: 51461
Re: Buck Jumping on Mass
My experience is that the RSU is an absolute godsend for the hamfisted modeller, Its one of those equaliser tools that enables you to work far above your innate skill and dexterity level. The two professional modellers I know manage perfectly (literally) well without one but for me it makes Bradwell...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: Goods Sheds and Warehouses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5151
Re: Goods Sheds and Warehouses
As you would expect from English Heritage. it's a very nicely printed book, and I've enjoyed thumbing through it.
Tony
Tony
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:25 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Eileens, Corona Virus and Shows
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4925
Re: Eileens, Corona Virus and Shows
Good luck, Derek, during the national hiatus, and thanks very much for the speed with which you are turning round orders. My recent one came almost be return of post, double welcome since i was right out of .4mm drill bits.
Tony
Tony
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:16 pm
- Forum: Couplings
- Topic: Accurascale couplings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2832
Re: Accurascale couplings
That was the gist of my question. They look well made and ok, but I don't have a layout to allow me to put an Accurascale-coupled wagon at the front of a long, grumpy goods train and see what happens.
Tony
Tony
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:22 am
- Forum: Couplings
- Topic: Accurascale couplings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2832
Accurascale couplings
I've bought some Accurascale instanter and screw couplings - sadly almost the only items on their website which are in period for me. They look really fine, but in my glass-half-empty moments I have been wondering if the shank and the couplings themselves are robust enough to hold up to heavy use in...
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:01 am
- Forum: Painting and Weathering
- Topic: Railmatch paints
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1794
Railmatch paints
I've used Railmatch paints for many years, mainly as the basis for working wagons. Their black, rust and filth colours can be very effective. Recently is seems to me that they have become more glutinous, even when using a new pot for the first time. They're still usable (though I've not tried thinni...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:54 am
- Forum: Trains: Model and Prototype
- Topic: A question of colour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3774
Re: A question of colour
What is really needed is a chemist who knows how to make a black paint! When I worked in a factory, in another life, we dyed man made materials black but, there is always a but, there was no such thing as a black dye. We had to mix different colours to make black and one of the main ones was red. N...
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Trains: Model and Prototype
- Topic: A question of colour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3774
Re: A question of colour
Google image comes up short when you are looking for hard-worked BR locos, but I have two colour albums - BR steam in colour and British Railways seam in colour which include many engines that show a red-brown tinge. In his book Martyn Welch recommends including Humbrol 62 (a matte, fairly pale brow...
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: Trains: Model and Prototype
- Topic: A question of colour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3774
A question of colour
In many colour photos of working BR steam locomotives, there is a distinct reddish tinge to the black shades. While working out a paint mix to replicate this I found myself wondering whether the photographs were recording the result of 1950s paint technology degrading from the heat of the metal, or ...