Somewhere SW of London. Somewhen before today

Superb photos of my fave locos.

More lovely photos Rick, I'm thoroughly enjoying following this thread.
Michael

[user=1120]peterm[/user] wrote:

I've got a Beattie well tank and tried to get the roof off to aid in the fitting of crew, but couldn't manage it. Maybe I'll try again when I've plucked up courage.

I managed to get mine in through the cab opening without removing the roof.  

 Of curiosity value I have managed to show two views with beehives in almost consecutive posts (717 and 719).  Those views were taken 12000 miles and 12 years apart with the farm scene including the bee hives having been sold to a fellow Aussie modeller before I came home from those distant shores.  

The loco is still in my collection and the new hives at Waddlemarsh are from a reissue of the same pack so look identical but are not the same pieces as I had in Oz.  

Main line stock sometimes provides the local service through Waddlemarsh at weekends. 

I had the same problem with the crew for my Beattie Well Tank. I ended up having the driver stand back a bit using the back of the cab to prop him up and keep him stable. I need to weather this locomotive; it's on the "to do" list.




Your layout is looking superb, Rick. Great attention to detail, and your usual well-observed weathering all go together to give it great atmosphere.

SRman wrote:

Your layout is looking superb, Rick. Great attention to detail, and your usual well-observed weathering all go together to give it great atmosphere.

Many thanks Jeff.  I only wish you were in a position to see it for yourself and offer some of your own experience and advice as an SR modeller.  

All the best.  We'll catch up sometime somewhere for sure.  

[user=1753]Gwiwer[/user] wrote:

SRman wrote:

Your layout is looking superb, Rick. Great attention to detail, and your usual well-observed weathering all go together to give it great atmosphere.

Many thanks Jeff.  I only wish you were in a position to see it for yourself and offer some of your own experience and advice as an SR modeller.  

All the best.  We'll catch up sometime somewhere for sure.  

I really wish I could just pop over to see it too. We ran out of time to do more than meet with you after your shift last time we were there. The catch up was thoroughly enjoyable, though.

We do have plans to get back to Denmark and England, but things are conspiring against us at present.

Great pic.  :thumbs

I love it when members meet up.  I used to be in UK in early November and often met up with members at an exhibition in Gateshead.

Always good to be able to chat in real life rather than via technology. :cheers

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

Great pic.  :thumbs

I love it when members meet up.  I used to be in UK in early November and often met up with members at an exhibition in Gateshead.

Always good to be able to chat in real life rather than via technology. :cheers

It is good, but especially in our case, as Rick and I knew each other from before, when he was still here in Melbourne.

Almost everything on the layout is weathered. Including the signals. Digital photography always renders things differently to the human eye but the posts and arms are lightly weathered and so are the coloured lenses. 

The latter reduces the intensity of the LED glare somewhat. It does not, however, render the green aspect as blue as it should be. Dapol fit green lenses of a totally incorrect shade.  I have yet to find a “fix” for this. 

Who makes that lattice post signal Rick ?

I've only seen them from either Ratio or MSE - both of which are incredibly fiddly to make work …… :roll:

Petermac wrote:

Who makes that lattice post signal Rick ?

I've only seen them from either Ratio or MSE - both of which are incredibly fiddly to make work …… :roll:

It’s one of the Dapol range of working semaphores.  The link shows the home signal but it’s also available as a distant signal item 4K-003-004

https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/55207/4L-003-005-Dapol-SR-Lattice-Semaphore-Signal-Home-Starter

These need a 9v not the 12v suggested when first released. That burned some motors out. Mine are wired through a step-down unit. They are designed for probe and stud or push-button operation but will work (as mine do) if wired to Peco or Hornby miniature on-on levers. 

The motors are noisy and the action slow but at least they work and come ready-to-wire unlike the Ratio kits. 

View at https://gwiwer.smugmug.com/ModelRailway-1/Waddlemarsh/n-w7M85z/i-XDpSvcf

Hi Rick.  Looking good, but in true life the green aspect is blue and combined with the yellow flame of the blue glass shows as green.   Best wishes Kevin 

Thanks Rick.  :thumbs

As soon as I'd asked, I had a look on the Dapol site and saw them.  Not cheap at £35 each !!  :shock:  They do however, look good and the shade of green doesn't matter that much to an old man ………… :lol:

I didn't know SR used lattice posts - I thought they were a preserve of the north east ………… :roll:

I've been thinking of having a bash at an MSE version using servos via the Megapoints system.  They look fiddly but more robust than the plastic Ratio offerings and, at the price (£10.50 I think and servos around £5), it might be worth doing some practice with my soldering iron ……….

Passed Driver wrote:

Hi Rick.  Looking good, but in true life the green aspect is blue and combined with the yellow flame of the blue glass shows as green.   Best wishes Kevin 

Absolutely correct Kevin which is why I wish to change the colour of the green lenses.  The Dapol ones show a bright mid-green which is very wrong.  

 Scaling green seems to be a holy grail of model manufacturers.  Of all the colours in my rolling stock collection it is green which seems to elude them most often and to the greatest extent.  Which is a bugbear when it is also the colour I wish to represent with much of the rolling stock at Waddlemarsh.  

Bachmann Mk1 carriages have been offered in many different shades of "BR Green".  Their electric units are at least consistent and close to correct.  Hornby electric units are way off the mark and also dull when they should appear varnished.  Likewise Hornby loose-coupled green coaching stock which has also appeared in numerous different shades.  

I am well aware of the differences between "Locomotive green", "Multiple-unit green" and "Coaching stock green" and of course between the greens used by pre-Nationalisation companies some of which lasted well into the BR era.  It is the inconsistency of offering from the manufacturers of the BR shades in particular which troubles me and which cannot be rectified without a full repaint.  That is beyond my skill and, if I were to commission it professionally, financially beyond my means.  

The variances in green reminds me of the days when I worked for PMG Telecommunications in Australia ( pre-Telstra) where a so-called standard  PMG grey that was used on a metal racks, varied depending on which State was using it ! Sometimes it varied within the State.

The green of the Dapol signals I can tolerate, but the real gaff is in the Distant signals, where they have used red and green lenses instead of yellow and green.

I agree totally about the inconsistent greens. I do like Bachmann's BR(S) EMU green, and I don't actually mind the green Hornby currently use for Southern Region stock, although it is somewhat bluer than Bachmann's EMU shade. At least we get consistency with the types of units run together - HAL/BIL from Hornby, CEP/BEP/HAP/EPB/MLV (and also the 2H units) from Bachmann.

[user=321]SRman[/user] wrote:

The green of the Dapol signals I can tolerate, but the real gaff is in the Distant signals, where they have used red and green lenses instead of yellow and green.

The GWR Penhayle Bay distant had yellow / green lenses. The current image supplied by Dapol for retailer’s use shows yellow / green in the SR distant. 

At least we LNER followers can claim apples came in many colours ............ :cool wink

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

At least we LNER followers can claim apples came in many colours ………… :cool wink

Well, at least Darlington and Doncaster apples.