Scalefour Forum

Can anything been worked out from these? Unfortunately, that's the wrong loco. D11700-11707 are different to the later NB locos, specifically the brakes which are between the wheels on the earlier locos. One brake shoe moves forwards the other backwards when apply braking forces. - Nigel Ooops! Sor...

Can anything been worked out from these?

I've mixed Carr's Yellow with London Road's paste, but am unable to give any idea of how it performs for the reasons David outlines...

Ambis Engineering do some laser-cut clear plastic discs for spectacle lenses. Note sure they'll have the right size but might be worth a look.

several A4's ran around latterly without their dome covers on - never seen one modelled that way. Strikes me that the streamline casing was slightly different in each case as small differences made individual engines stand out at a distance, or am I the only one who noticed this? I did it on my mod...

Well done Charlie! I have a memory of measuring the J36 at Bo'ness and think the centre "stem" was 3 inches - but I may be wrong. Measuring a few models last night I've tended to do 0.9 with 0.4 for the handles. Hornby's J36 is 0.97 with 0.5 handles. Be nice if anyone could confirm what th...

Both locos look very nice, but they're marred slightly by the overscale smokebox door handles. I'd recommend making your own as they can be much finer. The principle should be clear from the photo below. I used tube as it's easier to drill, especially if you nick it with a triangular file. I can't r...

WestonBoxes.com I use A4 Weston Boxes for loco kits while they're being built - they allow you to keep etches flat. I got five for £16.99 here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324017392410 The HobbyCraft stores stock a range of "Really Useful" Boxes in sets of handy sizes for component stowage...

Can't offer much, except to say that the brakes look like they're already set at P4 width, being at roughly 22mm centres. I can't see anything that would make it any harder to convert than any other diesel - except catching all the bits that fall off it every time you pick the model up.... Actually,...

Thanks to both. I got the 7mm version of the Brooks drawing, just in the interests of clarity.

Will L wrote: The E4 drawing included in this lot is the Lyn Brooks drawing a copy of which is included in the Alan Gibson kit

Thanks, Will. So not worth investing then (all I need is the E4) - too many errors and no dimensions.

Pretty soon after starting to buy them, I lost faith in the accuracy of kits, although will admit there's been a considerable improvement since those days. I avoid the usual modellers' scale drawings which I regard as a form of censorship - somebody takes a real, reliable drawing, redraws it to our...

To sort out my E4 I have been using both the Lynn Brookes and the John Edgson drawings. With the Brookes drawing I have used the 7mm version . The JE drawing is useful as it has more dimensions. Two of the most useful ones are the boiler diameter which shows that the model boiler should be 18.6 mm ...

Firstly, and I have seen this mentioned elsewhere, the Alan Gibson kit completely omits the small splasher over the leading wheel. Secondly, no one appears to have mentioned Isinglass drawing No 457 for the class. Whilst Isinglass drawings are not always as sharp as some other drawings, No 457 has ...

What to do? Well this model has spent some years in the 'to complete heap' and I have decided that the only course is to construct a new smokebox and boiler to replace the existing one. I'm coming to the same conclusion on mine. And that's in addition to the new footplate (none of the dimensions of...

I see what you mean about the tender sides, I'll need to have a think about that. I'd sacrifice the sides in order to keep the flare. Cut the flare off with a craft knife: on a 3038 tender the flare is exactly 3mm when in the flat, and will probably be the same on the tender fitted to D17s. Then re...

Well done Pete (and Charlie for undoing and redoing!). The dome is totally the wrong shape for the 1960s locos. Not sure what the solution is there. The tank fillers hadn't even occurred to me - I was so fixated on the injectors and the sanding gear that I hadn't seen them! Nice (and necessary) back...

Good luck with this. Nice to see something North Eastern. Do you model the Alnmouth area? I notice that the kit seems to have a reasonable dome for once. But there's an error in the tender sides in that the flare and the sides are etched as one part, whereas the flares should be separate and sit pro...

One thing I will say is that if you download the whole lot, set your computer running and leave it to it. Out here in the country, our broadband isn't great, and it took around eight hours to download the zip file. Took less than an hour with a broadband speed of 37mbs - this is not to rub it in, P...

Le Corbusier wrote:presumably if the edges have been either grit blasted or fibre brushed they too will have the microscopic roughness for adhesion.

That would be my understanding.

Regarding primers, not so long ago I pulled a piece of n/s out of my drawer and sprayed the bare, uncleaned surface with gloss Humbrol black. It seems to have stuck far better than any of my more refined methods with Shiny Sinks, etched primer, etc. I just can't shift it and it's stuck right up to ...

Re Allan's post just above, what I don't get is this: we use phosphoric acid flux....which makes crud...we then use phosphoric acid.... to get rid of the crud!(?) There seems to be more traffic on this thread than where I posted this idea, a citric acid "pickle" to, I assume, do the same ...

Neil Smith wrote:I may be completely wrong, but that looks like a displacement lubricator carrying oil for the valve chest and/or cylinders.

That makes sense, Neil, as in the photo Charlie mentions in Record 3, the device is in the same position (smokebox waist) as lubricators often were on NER locos.

I feel guilty that we have hijacked Peter’s post but hopefully these are relevant details ! The valve by the chimney has at least two small wheels on it. There are similar looking items on NER locos eg A , B1, C in ex works grey photos in K Hoole’s book. Also in traffic see p 92 NER record 3. Those...

We had a discussion on Mike Edge's thread on RMWeb recently about the mods necessary to make the indexing work properly; these are simple, but shouldn't be necessary on a piece of kit of this price. David, I've spent some time looking on RMWeb but can't find this thread as it is relevant to Paul's ...