Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
I had a lovely day out in not-quite-sunny Hertfordshire yesterday with other S7 modellers at Richard Carr's home for a running day on Croscombe.
We'd been asked to bring something to run. I took along the RMB coach I'm building for Richard, partly to show where things had got to and partly to discuss options for fitting the roof. I tested the coach through the point work, and the MMP knuckle coupler with Kadees, with success.
Others brought along new models to show.
Peter Mann brought along this lovely Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo, build from one of Ken de Groom's kits, and painted by the kit designer. It would have been lovely to see a train of Dreadnoughts for it to pull around the circuit. Perhaps next time…
Meanwhile, The Inestimable Mr Beare and Son arrived with some interesting models. Peter has been working on an MMP Dogfish for a while, with several more on the shelf to be built. Also in attendance was a JLTRT Class 37, under construction but which still managed to hare round the layout making pretty much the right noises. There was quite a lot of comparing notes about problems in the bodywork build and how to overcome them.
The next visitor caused quite a lot of comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_Railways_930_class
Not quite what you think, this model is actually to 1/43rd scale, and certainly made its presence felt as it growled around. Sadly, though the couplings did match the various articles of coaching stock around, coupling was not possible as the loco's were set lower than the UK standard. A first big train set outing of this loco owned by John Birch.
Thanks to Richard for the usual excellent hospitality. I certainly enjoyed the day.
We'd been asked to bring something to run. I took along the RMB coach I'm building for Richard, partly to show where things had got to and partly to discuss options for fitting the roof. I tested the coach through the point work, and the MMP knuckle coupler with Kadees, with success.
Others brought along new models to show.
Peter Mann brought along this lovely Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo, build from one of Ken de Groom's kits, and painted by the kit designer. It would have been lovely to see a train of Dreadnoughts for it to pull around the circuit. Perhaps next time…
Meanwhile, The Inestimable Mr Beare and Son arrived with some interesting models. Peter has been working on an MMP Dogfish for a while, with several more on the shelf to be built. Also in attendance was a JLTRT Class 37, under construction but which still managed to hare round the layout making pretty much the right noises. There was quite a lot of comparing notes about problems in the bodywork build and how to overcome them.
The next visitor caused quite a lot of comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_Railways_930_class
Not quite what you think, this model is actually to 1/43rd scale, and certainly made its presence felt as it growled around. Sadly, though the couplings did match the various articles of coaching stock around, coupling was not possible as the loco's were set lower than the UK standard. A first big train set outing of this loco owned by John Birch.
Thanks to Richard for the usual excellent hospitality. I certainly enjoyed the day.