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  1. Galteemore
    Although Bulmers made a significant contribution to the UK preservation scene. All those apples didn’t die in vain. https://www.kentrail.org.uk/bulmer_cider_train.htm
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    You want to be well pleased with that. Beautifully finished off. It looks like a kit that you have had professionally built - inside and out. That opening scene could almost be Donaghadee harbour siding. The noise thing seems to be a feature of the recording process - mine always sound worse too!
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    Special ‘fly away’ ring pulls.
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    The LRM axles are good classic technology, but the jig lifts things to another level. I have a 7mm one from Hobby Holidays that is worth its weight in gold.
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    Jigs and rolling bars. There’s an answer to everything ! In all seriousness it’s nowhere near as hard as people think. You can probably get rods from a 4mm supplier. Use them to mark out the axle holes and drill. Poppy’s Wood Tech do a 4mm jig which will hold it all together while you solder it. It’s possible to get a running chassis without any fettling that way. As for boiler, brass or plastic tube if you don’t fancy rolling one.
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    Interesting how those little Victorian 2-4-2Ts, both GN and GSWR, lasted almost to the end. I wonder if 42 showed her legendary paces on those Kingsbridge -Inchicore passenger workings she used to do in between pilot turns. In north Dublin, JT no 91 was doing similar work up until 63, I think, having been retrieved from the loco dump at Dundalk. I built 42 a few years ago, but she now resides in the USA!
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    Got to be the BCDR’s speed machine next . The famous No 6…..seen here before her transformative Belpaire firebox went in.
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    It will. Generally speaking enamel on acrylic works ok but don’t try the other way round!
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    They only had the deflectors later in life JB under SR management. Were delivered like that.
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    It is rather puzzling to see that the chassis in the OP seems to have no spacers. Is there anything holding the frames apart, @Westcorkrailway? Looks almost as if the whole thing is being held together by the axles.
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    It could be an old photo JB, but if you want to read the article he wrote it’s in that 1976 mag ! It’s about clockwork mechanisms, funnily enough. Or could we be seeing the airbrushing and filtering of railway modellers at an early stage? Was this a trend we started that the Kardashians followed?
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    A copy of ‘Model Railways’ has just appeared on eBay, the one which features Drew himself on the cover, from May 76. What I think is his Meccano-based rivet machine is also in view!
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    Ok. Have you any J26 drawings to hand? Sounds like an ideal chance to try your hand at plasticard scratch building.
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    Seems a shame when the foundations are there.,Is the footplate etch present? The tanks are square rather than rounded so easy enough to scratch. Chimney and domes are straightforward enough to source in the 4mm market - I think some GW tyoes might be close.
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    What’s missing from the rest of the kit ? Makes sense to build it as a J26 and scratch up the missing bits ? The chassis is the most difficult part of any build. If that’s sound (and it looks it), may as well just finish it as the designer intended!
  17. Galteemore
    Please post what you find. It’s something I use a fair bit!
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    I made up one of his C and L brakes in 3mm. Very brittle axle box castings broke off and ended up adapting another chassis. I know some have found the printing rough. I won’t be making another balcony out of entomology pins in a hurry! I think @KMCEhas experience here.
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    Excellent. That’s very sharp and crisp work for 4mm - looks more like a 7mm scene. But shouldn’t the bloke on the right be in the fiddle yard ?
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    Thankfully at least some of their local operatives still retain a concept of being public servants. Our local round was blessed with one such during the pandemic.
  21. Galteemore
    Look forward to what’s next! This one will have taught you a lot
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    Sobering to think that those who flew them had every expectation of not coming back if they had been used in their primary nuclear strike role. As it was, their only operational use occurred right at the end of their careers - and what a mission that was!
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    Must be something about how they were used - longish runs instead of the short shunts such locos usually did? This was a standard EE class, some of which are still in industrial usage. So it can’t have been a dud design. The notes on this photo tell the whole story of the NIR DHs to date : click on it and read….
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    Only really smart choice for mainline work is another WT. For a preserved line, an MGWR J 26 or Glover tank.
  25. Galteemore
    Wonderful. Incredible aircraft. Was lucky enough to see one in flight. The Vulcan scenes in Thunderball are still worth watching.
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