Scalefour Forum

One of my pet hates on model railways are buildings that float a fraction above the ground because they have been plonked in situ, not bedded in. For me, it completely destroys the illusion and I can get quite wound up about it when I see it (…..and it is pretty common, so this is fairly often!). Oc...

Whilst I wish to use most of any free time when I am not working from home trying to finish things, I will rise to this challenge. The next thing I had in mind tackling is a bit of a beast of a coach; a Caledonian Grampian Stock brake composite. This will be the construction of a Caley Coaches kit (...

With apologies to Peter for hijacking his thread for the moment, but I followed Dave Franks youtube links and found a fabulous clip of a high speed reverse of a substantial freight train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vNZioYlss

Its very impressive; so worth a look.

For the person that asked me what the taper was on a wooden post signal, the following is an answer from the McKenzie & Holland catalogue (1893 - ish!) I have is: • Single post wooden signals – 6” square at the top and then tapering out 3/16th of an inch for each foot of height (1.5% or so) • Wo...

As of yet Rumney Models don't do a 10' bogie, so that option is not there for me in this instance. I do think that some experimentation is in order, but before I send off an order to Eileens, may I just ask you Mark what it was about the secondary springing that you "didn't really get on with&...

Hi Neil, Coming back to you on a couple of the points. End handrail I have taken another look at this and as you say, the Ratio kits have this on a gentle curve and I copied this in my build. Looking at both the Midland Railway carriages and my other big source book (Carriage Modelling Made Easy by ...

Andrew Bluett-Duncan wrote:
Do I gather though that you’ve made some significant progress with yours? If so I’d be most interested to hear more.
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Maybe; but I want to test it for a bit longer before I go into print on it!!

……….so watch this space but don't hold your breadth for when!!

Part of the concept of the back-story for Glenmutchkin is that it is at the end of a long line so that locos need to be serviced and it was also at the foot of a steep gradient, so trains need to be banked out of the station. All this is creates a lot of thirsty locomotives that would have needed se...

David, I think the Fox 8 foot bogies have this issue. If you know about it and have not already soldered it solid, can you not flex the brake hangers forward. In theory you will narrow the width but only by a fraction? I use a fair number of Bill Bedford sprung units and getting the brakes in the ri...

Bernie, thanks for this I will ponder it and probably have a go at some point! I have a few similar looking wheels already discarded, so I will have a go on these. David, Colin Seymour (aka Gibson) does sell his tyres independent from his full wheels. You need them to use his cast brass wheels (whic...

https://www.hornby.com/media/gene-bluefoot/e/s/es-terrier-exploded.jpg https://www.hornby.com/media/gene-bluefoot/e/s/es-terrier-exploded-2.jpg I think we all know that the r-t-r guys are putting more effort into the fidelity of their models, especially in terms of variants but this image has rathe...

Looks very tidy Tim!

Tony Sullivan wrote:Mark Tatlow has just thrown his hat in the ring after I promised him unlimited supplies of Tea!

Every one has a price!

Sorry to disagree but I found they were a bit more flimsy than the Draper ones. I modified mine to be fully adjustable as the basic builder's trestle only jumps in 100mm increments; see here: https://highlandmiscellany.com/2014/04/27/baseboard-supports/ And this is what they look like with the board...

Allan Goodwillie wrote:Hello John,

Here is Corrieshalloch. Well presented and lit, without being over the top - I like the appropriate lettering style used.

Allan

This is a link to Anthony's blog page; worth a scroll through to get to the pre-grouping stock.

https://ayeates2mm.blogspot.com/

Back in November 2015 in this thread, I posted about the troubles that I had with the Chatham Turntable drive; Andrew Bluett Duncan was encountering similar issues - mentioned here https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5427&hilit=turntable&start=25 I am most of the way thr...

Hi Bob. Unlike you I am not so enamored with the Cobalt connector system. It is fiddly to wire up . I quite like the cobalts and find them reliable. Like Tony, they are so much quieter (and more reliable) than Fulgerexs, I am happy! I am using the IP versions though, so they are a lot younger. I ha...

......I'll be there too if anyone wishes to give me abuse (that list is normally lengthy.....).

With a narrow gauge offering of coal/coke grot which, because it is the Spa Valley Railway Beer Festival the same weekend, might have a foreground like this:

I'm a 100 degree solder man. As Will says most castings have sufficient mass that it actually takes quite a lot of heat to get them above their melting point. So as long as you don't faff about repositioning the piece with the iron in contact with the part or underlying body or the casting very slen...

Terry Bendall wrote:

David Bigcheeseplant wrote:Has the stadium sorted out the lighting inside the hall?

Yes they have David. All new fittings and you can now actually see what you are looking at.

Terry Bendall

..........and there was me busting my gut to get Glenmutchkin's layout lighting sorted last weekend!!!

I think your description is actually after the buffer gauge that is held by the stores?

Ref AJHG

Is that the most P4 locos in one location ever? It must be up there at the very least?

The advantage of a railway company using standard building designs is that you can get to use them more than once. Thus Portchullin's goods shed will be getting to have a new lease of life on Glenmutchkin. I think my goods shed is the oldest model that I still have and over the years it is fair to s...

Paul Holmes' Borth Y Gest was at Scaleforum in 2007. There is You Tube footage of the layout: S_FCiAjSUds All the Best Danny In 40 years of going to Scaleforum, i have only ever missed one and that was 2007 so i haven't seen this - and i a heartily disappointed now i have seen the video! So if a hi...

A bargain, I would suggest for that quantum of layout. It seems not to include the smoke generator that exercised the minds of Leatherhead's Leisure Centre team so much in 2011! Also, the resale vale of what look like four OO locos (they are sitting drunk in the ballast) would be close to the same.....