Scalefour Forum

Hi gents, Thanks for your replies. Following on from Steve's post I've gone through the wheels again, removing the pips on the rear of the wheels. I checked again in the Exactoscale back-to-back gauge and the little brass C&L gauge and now all bar two of the 14 wheels seem to be running smoothin...

Hi Jim,

Thanks there are 1year or so, not ancient. And until yesterday hadn't been removed from their bag.

Kind regards,

Nick.

(edit for spelling! Predictive text working faster then my brain!)

Hi gents, Another general question and any tips would be really helpful. I've been building wagons over the weekend and found a box with a number of Alan Gibson wagon wheels. I checked the back to back, using my Exactoscale gauge, popped them into the Masokits W-Irons and a 'wobble' can be seen - th...

I had always reckoned 40g to 50g for a (short) 4-w wagon (60 to 70mm in length), but that if a wagon is to be marshalled with heavier (e.g. whitemetal) models, this has to be beefed up to at least 60g (maybe more). For a BR 50ft full brake, this would give us 120g. A 4-w CCT would come in at rather...

Thanks for that Keith.

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Nick

Thanks gents.

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Nick

Hi, I'm after a bit of advice please. :) Presently I am plodding through quite a lot of half, to three-quarter finished projects and despite having been a member of the society since 2008, I still think I am relatively inexperience with P4 modelling. I've nearly completed a Parkside ex Southern Rail...

Lovely work so far Denis, I really though 'wow'. Look forward to seeing Honiton progress.

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Nick.

Hi Tim,

Well I don't mind how it's built really, so long as I can make use of the Perseverance chassis that I already have.

Cheers Tim, I will send you a PM with the photos of what I have, then perhaps we could go from there.

Regards,

Nick.

Hi Tim, Thanks for posting the photos, that is really helpful. What chassis would be suitable for the tender, I had thought about using the Perseverance TC2 sub- frame? If I did go down this route Tim could you act as a mentor, as clearly you seem to have a good grasp of this way of working! Kind re...

Tim V wrote:That's the one, and Will in the background too...

Well what are the odds of that!?

Tim V wrote:I could put some pictures up of how I did it if you like?

That would be really useful. I know there is a tender driven loco in Tim Shackleton's book, but I can't remember what type.

Cheers Tim.

Regards,

Nick.

Hi Will,

Many thanks for your advice, I forgot about the High Level guides.

Mr Venton, I like the sound of this, how complicated is it to do? As Horrabridge will have gentle gradients.

Would it be this particular loco? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXyxb6-5N0

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Nick.

Thanks Rich,

I plan to do quite a lot of basic upgrade work on the body, smokebox dart, sprung buffers etc. I did think about replacing the chimney and top feeds.

Kind regards,

Nick.

Greetings, I’m after a bit of advice from the learned members of this good forum. :) I recently purchased a Perseverance 43xx chassis from eBay; the chassis is unbuilt and appears to be complete (the cast parts and instruction sheets appear to be present, including P4 spacers). Last week a nice set ...

I do feel very lucky to be part of such an excellent area group.

And the fruit cake was excellent, nice that James May turned up to cut the cake....

Well done Rod.

Nick.

Phil O wrote:

Brinkly wrote:Yeah we don't have electricity in Devon yet! he he he!

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Nick.

Wots that thing that built at Langage e few years back, then?

Phil

Makes us our cream & icecream my lovely!

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Nick

Yeah we don't have electricity in Devon yet! he he he!

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Nick.

Gosh I might just buy a set simply to paint, they are wonderful.

I wonder if he will expand into other eras?

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Nick.

That list looks like it has been produced on my late grandmother's typewriter!

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Nick

davknigh wrote:For those of us over the seas an far away, is there anywhere to get Mike's bits online? I used to get them through an earlier incarnation of Blacksmith Models but sadly no more.

Cheers,

David

Hi Mike,

Sadly it is all mail order.

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Nick.

Mike Clark was present at Scalefour as a punter, but pressure of work has I understand not allowed him to participate as a trader this year. He hasn't attended as a trader for a while now. But I can confirm he is still active, I put an order in last week and the cheque was presented yesterday. Kind...

Will Scaleforum be at the same venue again next year Terry? (Thinking ahead for booking accommodation.)

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Nick

Terry I have copied this onto an RMWeb thread. Hopefully the owners can be found.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index. ... try1175653

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Nick.

Hi Terry,

That sounds really positive. Nice to hear that we as a Society aren't being tribal! haha thumbs up sir, well done!

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Nick.

.. I'd rather see good modelling from other gauges and scales, than poor modelling in 'our' gauge... Seems reasonable to me that you should see neither. Will I do understand that layouts have 'hic-ups', but it is disappointing when you see a badly behaved layout at a show, which is down to design o...