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  1. Andy Cundick
    To be honest you don't need a lathe to do the axles the average length for driving wheel axle is 1 inch varies a bit depending on the boss.I just stick a wheel each side of the back to back measure off with a vernier ,then rod in vice and a quick hacksaw then clean up the ends with a file Hey presto one axle simples.As for pin point axles 1.5mm steel rod cut to 28mm,stick it in a drill,fire it up and with a fine carborundum block form a point the angle isn't that critical.Its worked for the last 15 locos and 60 bits of stock.Andy
  2. Andy Cundick
    For what its worth all my GS locos get a coat of Humbrol 27,before the grime goes on.Andy.
  3. Andy Cundick
    Not Valencia i'm afraid but i should be bringing Castlederg over to Cultra next year.Andy
  4. Andy Cundick
    Bit more than should,Valencia has been exhibited for the last 5 or so years and featured in Model Rail August 2014.Courtmacsherry is due at the Warley show next year.I had Valencia at Warminster the other week and gave both Argadeen and St Mologa a bit of a running session on it.800 you won't be seeing as i've done 802(everyone seems to do 800)trouble is that her and 7 Bredins do tend to clog up the station.Andy.
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    AS Valencia is 1935 and Courtmacsherry is 1930ish CIE is modern image ,quite agree about cattle trucks having just built GSW one.Chatting with Simon de Souza(Foxrock Models) he seems interested in doing a MGW one from a drawing i let him have from the Railway Engineer so fingers crossed.Andy.
  6. Andy Cundick
    Certainly up for some MGW coaches.Alans coming to my show in August so i'll wave some coach drawings at him,not sure about the cattle truck bit too modern image Andy
  7. Andy Cundick
    J5 is 27'7" and J18/19 is 26'7".|Hope that answers your question Andy.
  8. Andy Cundick
    Mashima motors still seem readily avaliable Branchlines had them at the Chatham show,Comet/Wizard and Scalelink are all still stocking them good time to stock up Andy.
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    Personally i'd go with a High Level gearbox and Mashima motor,better in as much with the High Level boxes the motor can be removed with the worm.Andy.
  10. Andy Cundick
    Tony,Another thing you can do is to track down a large scale OS map which features the station.i did this with Castlederg as Alan Godfrey maps does one which includes the station.I had the dimensions for the main building as that survives.The map and my measurements agreed(amazingly)and so i scaled the rest of the buildings from the map.Andy
  11. Andy Cundick
    I think the clue is in the title "Scratch aids",and very us-full they are too Andy.
  12. Andy Cundick
    Depends what you are soldering i use Carrs Green Label for soldering the steel droppers on my DG couplers,other than that i don't bother i just use 188 flux cored solder and make sure the brass or nickel is clean,this where the fibreglass brushes come into there own.Does it work well 50 odd locos built that way the oldest of which is over 30 years old and still running,i guess so Andy.
  13. Andy Cundick
    Check their website the chassis is a universal one with a choice of 2 types of w irons throughly recommended,Andy.
  14. Andy Cundick
    Brassmasters do a couple of very good 6 wheel coach chassis.I've got one sat under a Great Western family saloon.Andy
  15. Andy Cundick
    Point of order Mr Chairman 00n3 is exactly right for 3foot gauge.Andy.
  16. Andy Cundick
    Its called suffering for your art.I find part of the fun and challenge is modelling something different from what i remember, otherwise it would be the Berks and Hants,Swindon Works and lots of Westerns.The nearest to that is a Broad Gauge project of Marlborough c1860.Andy.
  17. Andy Cundick
    NCC Jinty No18 has been spotted a Valencia Harbour,usually in the last hour of a show,Andy.
  18. Andy Cundick
    Not used Alan Gibsons strapping,however Evergreen strip of the right width/thickness can be used and rivet transfers of the correct spacing can be applied afterwards.I usually get the wagons to primered state then apply them.Both Archers and Microscale do the transfers,try DCC supplies.Andy.
  19. Andy Cundick
    Ambis or Wizard should have something suitable,Andy
  20. Andy Cundick
    Not sure i can justify a modern image one,so early GS one to start with,Andy.
  21. Andy Cundick
    The simple answer is no the 6t snail is as stated chalked on,Andy
  22. Andy Cundick
    Not convinced about the proposal .as my layouts are between 30 and 40 years before i was born. all set in a country i've no connection with.The only one at least in the right area ,my broad gauge Marlborough one is 100 years before iwas born so bang goes someones theory for me at least Andy.
  23. Andy Cundick
    Steel wheels every time though with all wheels it pays to check the back to back,Andy.
  24. Andy Cundick
    Tony.Best places for wagon underpinnings is MJT and or Wizard Models.Andy.
  25. Andy Cundick
    Tony Demonstration piece posted this morning Andy.
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