James
Western Thunderer
See how my first thread goes...
My personal layout project is based in North Lincolnshire in the early 1990s, 1992 to be exact. It based on the North Lindsey Light Railway (a little known branch which ran north from Scunthorpe towards the River Humber) and I've amended history just a tad; this leads the way to have much more freight traffic surviving on the branch. Most of the workings will be trip workings to and from Scunthorpe. These workings will be the preserve of class 08s and class 20s.
The first of the class 08s is this -
Based around one of the original releases of the Bachmann model. The model isn't perfect and lags behind the Hornby model but its running qualities are on a par with a decent kit built loco. For the later style of bonnet doors, the raised area is missing and once this has been added, the difference is huge. This idea was blatantly stolen from Gareth Bayer's article in RailExpress Modeller a few years back - very few of the techniques I use are new, most are copied from elsewhere! The wheels haven't got cranks at this stage as the project was set back somewhat after I dropped the box it was in outside a signal box one morning. Replacements have been sorted!
Now with new springs and new steps; the steps are a mix of bits of Crownline from a teenage effort which was never very good but useful experience with brass strip and new handrails. All the handrails have been replaced which makes a great difference over the chunky moulded items. The springs are from Tim Horn and are laser cut card and give more depth to the underframe - for a couple of quid they represent great value too!
Replacement and recovered cranks in place, 'loctited' and quarter. The balance weights are Brassmasters infilled with Milliput. These are from the etch for new rods too which the model will have to replace the chunky Bachmann items.
It's not just diesels of different sizes with cabs and long bonnets, the layout will also have a small number of mainline locos. This is one, a heavily detailed and rebuilt Lima loco -
Diesel modelling is now made much easier thanks to Brian Hanson's efforts at Shawplan too!
The fan grilles are superb but very, very delicate!
More updates very soon I hope!
My personal layout project is based in North Lincolnshire in the early 1990s, 1992 to be exact. It based on the North Lindsey Light Railway (a little known branch which ran north from Scunthorpe towards the River Humber) and I've amended history just a tad; this leads the way to have much more freight traffic surviving on the branch. Most of the workings will be trip workings to and from Scunthorpe. These workings will be the preserve of class 08s and class 20s.
The first of the class 08s is this -
Based around one of the original releases of the Bachmann model. The model isn't perfect and lags behind the Hornby model but its running qualities are on a par with a decent kit built loco. For the later style of bonnet doors, the raised area is missing and once this has been added, the difference is huge. This idea was blatantly stolen from Gareth Bayer's article in RailExpress Modeller a few years back - very few of the techniques I use are new, most are copied from elsewhere! The wheels haven't got cranks at this stage as the project was set back somewhat after I dropped the box it was in outside a signal box one morning. Replacements have been sorted!
Now with new springs and new steps; the steps are a mix of bits of Crownline from a teenage effort which was never very good but useful experience with brass strip and new handrails. All the handrails have been replaced which makes a great difference over the chunky moulded items. The springs are from Tim Horn and are laser cut card and give more depth to the underframe - for a couple of quid they represent great value too!
Replacement and recovered cranks in place, 'loctited' and quarter. The balance weights are Brassmasters infilled with Milliput. These are from the etch for new rods too which the model will have to replace the chunky Bachmann items.
It's not just diesels of different sizes with cabs and long bonnets, the layout will also have a small number of mainline locos. This is one, a heavily detailed and rebuilt Lima loco -
Diesel modelling is now made much easier thanks to Brian Hanson's efforts at Shawplan too!
The fan grilles are superb but very, very delicate!
More updates very soon I hope!