Mike 84C

Your work never ceases to amaze! It all helps to raise the bar for the rest of us! And a bridge with no bus on it; excellent. Ken, please keep the very good work coming.

Love the weathering on the J15! Rusty chimney and smokebox looks brilliant! I want to give mine the treatment, as also my 121, buuuuuut! So I'm thinking shut the eyes and dive in.

I have used resin from Alex Tiranti , bought as a kit and found both resin and rubber had/have a very long shelf life. I also found you have to be prepared to throw away unsatisfactory castings or repurpose them as grounded bodies. I also found a mix of thin superglue and talcome powder is good for fixing small holes etc; Thank you Alan for sharing your excellent layout and models. I'd travel a few miles if you exhibited your layout!

J-Mo heres my 850 starting from a V3 and my Woolwich with a few "tweaks" With 850 you have to be willing to take the saw to the patient! I was quite brutal! and did wonder if it would work out OK!

Was David the guy who ran DJ Models and had links to Dapol? Rather a shame the loco never happened, maybe one for IRM to run with ? As the loco is/was visible on the preserved railtour scene, would it sell? only market research would establish. I hope it happens, hopefully before I loose the ability to use a controller!

That really needs a 7-1/4" gauge crew to operate it! Amazing

Where can the story of these government flog offs be found?

Nice one Leslie I can almost smell the smoke! I get severe footplate envy when I see those sort of things!!

Poppys Wood Tech jig was how I did the chassis for my Bandon tank, worked a dream, well worth the small outlay. Am now doing a kit? ha ha for an L&Y 4-6-0 .How inaccurate can a kit be???? Tullygrainey with your skills and patience you should go for it. Locos flying off the workbench!

Fabulous! And worth all the trials and tribulations. Thank you for posting its build with the ups and downs.

I love the moody sky, very interesting cloud formations and quite emotive. How far is Cork from Maam Cross? When I volunteered on the FR I drove from Banbury to North Wales. 162 miles each way, up on Friday and back on Sunday night! Friday was always a crazy trip to be there before the pub closed! And sleep in a skanky old caravan. So come on you lads!

Fantastic!

Stable, now thats a new one! just looking in my desk drawers I need to keep the marbles till at least a ton! Then be able to get under the baseboard to do the soldering stuff, so give it my best shot or get the finger out. Killarney beckons.

That is a very good idea David, I definitely see things that would be useful and forget where they are and spend frustrating time trying to find them again! I'm often told its an age thing!

looking at your closeup photo you did very well to get the finish you have. A zoom in and the printing looks like "measles" ! Much as I would like one I am glad I gave it a miss. I wonder if Simon Dawson can get his models resin printed? Hope your health and strength is getting back to normal Ken.

Got a few of those on your list young Westcork!

Not 3d printed but a cheap Hornby hack to get a J 10 ish! Started as a J69 and went from there not spot on but captures the feel of a J10, sorry about the background clutter.

I logged on to BRM this am and oh joy! no popups or ads of any kind.

Looks very good John, all that shunting will keep the old grey brain cells very active!!! One of my favourite layouts Is Liberty St; similar principle, was in Model Railroader 15yrs ago. Hope its warmer in NZ than it is here!

I get the impression that BRM is owned by Warners publishing, if I'm wrong please correct me but a post from one of the moderators gave me the feeling that "pay us money and we can stop the popups" feels a lot like mild blackmail. I'm with Mayner on the width of expertise and like IRM help is so freely given.

The pop ups are a real pain on my laptop but I wonder just how many sales/perceptions they generate? Because it works totally counter intuative with me and makes me far less inclined to buy from anyone that bombards me with pop ups. This a shame because a well known supplier of DCC parts etc is only 14 miles away.

Thats quite a blow to the hobby. Scratch and kitbuilding has just become more difficult. I often purchased from them.

Another thought, the worm on my 00 works 0-6-0t is very sharp, as in cutting, and I wonder if gentle dressing with a jewellers file to round off the top of the worm gear would help?

Horsetan, I have no idea so I can only tell you what I saw and hope my cure to remove as much lateral play as possible works. Time will tell! and so will I if it happens again.

My 00 Works Bandon Tank turned the pinion gear on the axle to lots of filings and the worm would not then engage. I have put more packing washers between the wheel and frame and between the gear and frame to reduce the side to side play which is now less than a piece of writing paper. Thinner washers in the middle axle has increased the side to side play so curves are no problem! I realise the gears are straight cut but my aim with the extra packing washers is to keep the worm as close to the centre of the pinion during rotation. We shall see what happens! Maybe a High Level gearbox? My SSM kit built B4 Bandon Tank runs amazingly well and I am truly proud of it.