Scale7 JB Workbench.

[7mmMick]

Cheers JB, don't look far off now, you're just short a regulator

ATB Mick

 

[Scale7JB]

Entirety of what I shall do to the Y6 before the show... I need to give myself some sort of a challenge..

JB.

 

[Buckjumper]

I've been parachuted in as cavalry because East Lynn is an operator down due to illness, so when the rotters fill my quay with an impossible amount of wagons, as is their wont, I'll up sticks and wander over, casually mentioning, as you discuss the finer points of Scale Seven to your enraptured audience, 'But don't you think the Skytrex one looks more prototypical...?'

 

[Dog Star]

Surely you are going to ask about the repair facilities on the Island of Sodor? Or what Humbrol enamels Jonathan is going to use to replicate the livery of Toby?

You could be helpful and man the stand for a while... showing the rapt and junior audience how to build Henrietta from a D&S kit two tin cans and a bit of blu-tack.

 

[Scale7JB]

And I thought my non-modelling friends were bad enough..

JB.

 

[Buckjumper]

I'll bring you a great big yellow number 7 transfer...

 

[Dog Star]

I'll bring you a great big yellow number 7 transfer...

Just one? What is on the other side?

 

[Buckjumper]

Made in China.

 

[Dog Star]

Made in China.

Go on... I thought that the number was on the side of the body rather than on the roof!

Adrian, as you are going to the show... please take a camera... for the inevitable embarrasing shot which can be offered for the Newsletter (you may need to take the picture as our esteemed editor is indisposed at the moment).

 

[Scale7JB]

Made in China.

 

[Scale7JB]

Well worth it.

Though of course, as soon as you put the roof back on......

JB.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Entirety of what I shall do to the Y6 before the show... I need to give myself some sort of a challenge..

JB.

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Very nice, I take it that you soldered the layers together and then cut them with the piercing saw?

You mentioned on my thread that you were using box section - which bits are you enhancing with it.

 

[Stevesopwith]

Again on the Y6.... as a recent convert to the excellent products from Scale Hardware, I'd like to know which size of rivet you used for the top buffer-beam detail, and how are they fixed ?

 

[Scale7JB]

Look, I built a Y6 spongebob today...

Not running just yet, need to solder some wires on and test on the Hemyock layout tomorrow..

JB.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Hi Jonathan,
It looks like you managed to find time to make good progress. Not ever having demonstrated but having waited to talk to demonstrators at shows, sometimes it a wonder that you actually get anything done.

Going by the bearing on the cutting mat it looks like you might have fitted hornguides?. If so can we have shot of the chassis to see how you did it?

 

[mth]

work in progress today........

 

[Eastsidepilot]

And just incase JB had trouble I had some back -up waiting in the wings

ATB, Col.

 

[Buckjumper]

work in progress today........

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Intense concentration as JB solders his thumbnail to the skirts...

 

[Scale7JB]

Done....

Well, not quite, but so close !! It ran perfectly pulling its first train (don't worry I have video evidence, just need to edit it) on Hemyock, the S7 layout next to the demo stand, but I didn't quite get to the interior. If my Dad hadn't turned up all the way from Kent (I had to spend some time with him really) I would have had an empty box of bits..!

Also in the picture is an S7 turnout started at the same time yesterday morning by S7 member John Day.

JB.

 

[Buckjumper]

Well done that man!

It'll be forever known as the tram that took two days to build and two years to paint...