Procrastination, prevarication and part progressed projects!
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:59 pm
Hello all,
The realisation that I have been a member of the Society for nearly 20 years and have yet to build a P4 layout has been causing some frustration over recent years and led to a number of projects that have been started but never finished. I have built locos and stock with various degrees of success and some can still be seen on St Merryn or occasionally deputising on Portchullin and therein lies the problem - quite simply there are too many things I'd like to model!
Just to prove that I have been able to complete some projects, the photos shows 57XX No 3635, a St Blazey based Pannier Tank, built from a Bachmann body, Comet chassis and assorted other bits and pieces - this did appear for a while on St Merryn until superseded by something more appropriate, a 45XX with a similar provenance!
My main interest has been the railways of Devon and Cornwall (heretically not company specific!) but others have influenced along the way. There have been diversions into Great Eastern territory and the S&D as well as the far, far north of Scotland. As a result of frustrations with achieving what I want in a Cornish context in the space I have available I've taken the decision to suspend planning for that project and get cracking with a more manageable layout plan.
Influenced by an interest in Scotland's railways and as a result of operating Portchullin I have returned to an old favourite - the BLT - but not a Great Western one but a Highland version in BR days - the early 1970's to be precise. The plan revolves around the might have been line from Garve on the Kyle of Lochalsh to Lochinver. It won''t be big, it won't be overly ambitious but will (I hope) get built.
This OMWB thread will, hopefully, track some progress in getting that project built as well as finishing off some of the part built projects laying around the work bench some of which will run to Lochinver and others more of a West Country bias but at least I might make some progress if I'm being watched!
The current projects are involve Sulzer Type 2's one a Class 24/1 based on a Bachmann 24/0 with Brassmasters cabs, the other a Class 26 this time based on the Heljan model. Both have sprung chassis using the PenBits systems and both will appear shortly in photographic form.
The other, long running project, is the completion of a Ratio Bogie Van B which has been evolving for years - shown below.
I hope some of this will be of interest and look forward to some comments as I progress.
Jeremy
The realisation that I have been a member of the Society for nearly 20 years and have yet to build a P4 layout has been causing some frustration over recent years and led to a number of projects that have been started but never finished. I have built locos and stock with various degrees of success and some can still be seen on St Merryn or occasionally deputising on Portchullin and therein lies the problem - quite simply there are too many things I'd like to model!
Just to prove that I have been able to complete some projects, the photos shows 57XX No 3635, a St Blazey based Pannier Tank, built from a Bachmann body, Comet chassis and assorted other bits and pieces - this did appear for a while on St Merryn until superseded by something more appropriate, a 45XX with a similar provenance!
My main interest has been the railways of Devon and Cornwall (heretically not company specific!) but others have influenced along the way. There have been diversions into Great Eastern territory and the S&D as well as the far, far north of Scotland. As a result of frustrations with achieving what I want in a Cornish context in the space I have available I've taken the decision to suspend planning for that project and get cracking with a more manageable layout plan.
Influenced by an interest in Scotland's railways and as a result of operating Portchullin I have returned to an old favourite - the BLT - but not a Great Western one but a Highland version in BR days - the early 1970's to be precise. The plan revolves around the might have been line from Garve on the Kyle of Lochalsh to Lochinver. It won''t be big, it won't be overly ambitious but will (I hope) get built.
This OMWB thread will, hopefully, track some progress in getting that project built as well as finishing off some of the part built projects laying around the work bench some of which will run to Lochinver and others more of a West Country bias but at least I might make some progress if I'm being watched!
The current projects are involve Sulzer Type 2's one a Class 24/1 based on a Bachmann 24/0 with Brassmasters cabs, the other a Class 26 this time based on the Heljan model. Both have sprung chassis using the PenBits systems and both will appear shortly in photographic form.
The other, long running project, is the completion of a Ratio Bogie Van B which has been evolving for years - shown below.
I hope some of this will be of interest and look forward to some comments as I progress.
Jeremy