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- Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:15 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Signalling
- Topic: Build your own Tippler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14106
Re: Build your own Tippler
Lets build some Staiths Doug can design the dock I will buy a Collier and Ballan Can get a trawler to add to the ambiance . Is that spelt correctly Hummmmmmm Brent Fancy an orange lifeboat really
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:11 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Signalling
- Topic: Build your own Tippler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14106
Re: Build your own Tippler
What fun baggy I drive the digger ! Brent
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:07 pm
- Forum: Passenger Rolling Stock
- Topic: Mounsell passenger brake van c
- Replies: 8
- Views: 22329
Re: Mounsell passenger brake van c
Dear All NEVER I REPEAT NEVER scale up from a model like a double oo . You will end up with a result that is so wrong ! For example the class 31 diesel which is far too narrow and too high . When asked the designer said he scaled up a OO model . I asked had he seen a full size one , a photo or a dra...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Signal box, looking for ideas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6054
Re: Signal box, looking for ideas
Hi Buy a book and scale one to inch and 1/6 then you can get it correct or am I saying the obvious . So many people make approximate models that are totally incorrect e.g - Class31 Deltic and all these other approximate models , the person admitted he scaled up the Class 31 from a Hornby Model and i...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: a.g.m
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6470
Re: a.g.m
Thank`s for being there to help
Brent
Brent
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ride on tender springing??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9604
Re: Ride on tender springing??
Hi
It`s easy shove some rubber on the top of the axle box , have used it for 30 years never needed replacing .
Brent
It`s easy shove some rubber on the top of the axle box , have used it for 30 years never needed replacing .
Brent
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:42 pm
- Forum: Track and Earth Works
- Topic: Wheel back to back dimensions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25290
Re: Wheel back to back dimensions
Hi So much sense from Eddy . Brent house railway is built to 4 5/8 back to back as when I started building back in 1964 that was the standard ! I now use 4 11/16 and have no problems on any track . The real broblem now is the 7 1/4 people using a narrow gauge fiange profile on scale multi gauge trac...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: Freight Rolling Stock
- Topic: Mobile Cranes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19052
Re: Mobile Cranes
Hi Brian Camps has made a 5" Cowan and Sheldon crane which is a huge Hornby type crane and has made a full train to go with it . There is a photo in an old G L 5 mag . There is also video of it on my complimentary video being run by radio control ! Do post photos of your crane as we would like to se...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Members in £ counties
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13135
Re: Members in £ counties
O K Don`t all rush . Is it that you lot only want to sit and watch Telley after supper ! When we all get together we cannot stop talking so it`s not lock jaw . Last saturday we had a fantastic work party and never stopped talking so for the effort of getting off your back sides you get a free coffee...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:43 pm
- Forum: Freight Rolling Stock
- Topic: LMS Milk Tank
- Replies: 60
- Views: 115999
Re: LMS Milk Tank
Got 4 tanks of first batch of kits but a few bits missing and lost interest ! For sale £300.00 each includes tank and ends . Onto NEW project More soon
Brent ops must be the wine!
Brent ops must be the wine!
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FOR SALE G W R "B" Sets
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4551
FOR SALE G W R "B" Sets
For Sale Great Western Railway "B" sets . Your chance to own a pair of "B" sets . No full size pair exist although one coach does still exists I am led to believe . The bodies have compartments installed and are strong enough to ride on . The bogies are Aristocraft design but G W R style with the co...
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:02 pm
- Forum: Freight Rolling Stock
- Topic: Workbench: BR 21 ton hopper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 56808
Re: Workbench: BR 21 ton hopper
Get a move on then we can finnish my Milk Tankers before I leave Brent !
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Loco and Brake Van Lamps
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17797
Re: Loco and Brake Van Lamps
Brake vans had lamps showing white forward on both sides of the van for the driver to check it was still behind these showed red to the rear . When a train was in a passing loop then the side nearest the through running line was changed to white to show the passing train that the goods train was cle...
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:34 pm
- Forum: Track and Earth Works
- Topic: Comments sought on laying track
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17881
Re: Comments sought on laying track
Humm all suggestions seem good . Terram is a must its function is to stop ingress of soil into the hardcore and to enable any water to pass through into the soil . when you get the terram there is a top side and this can be found either printed on the matting or pour a cup of water on the material a...