tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19548004442794350042024-02-21T06:19:23.430+00:00Tim's ModelsWelcome to my blog documenting developments in my narrow gauge modeling using a variety of gauges. The scales range from 09/7mm representing 15inch gauge, 0-16.5/ 7mm representing 2ft gauge and a more resent return to 13/16mm G scale garden railways. All models are a mixture of scratch built and kit bashed items. Many made using pieces of plastic and odds and sods in the scrap box. Some are prototypical and others pure invention, made just for the hell of itTim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-9945046595306227002016-08-19T11:51:00.001+01:002016-08-19T11:53:04.073+01:00TME MODELS<div style="text-align: center;">
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TME Models is a small business specialising in kit & scratch built narrow gauge models. We have over 20 years of modelling experience, enabling us to produce high quality one off models that capture the essence of narrow gauge railways.</div>
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We offer a bespoke kit and scratch built service of any chosen prototype, as well as a professional painting, lining and weathering service. Models are assembled and detailed to the customer’s preference, with every stage of the model consulted and agreed on before commissioning.</div>
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Locomotives and Rolling Stock are constructed using a combination of materials such as brass, whitemetal, plastic and aluminum, using solder and epoxy glues. We use a combination of hand painting, pressure spraying and airbrushing techniques together with hand applied transfer application as appropriate for each model. Specialist weathered finishing can be commissioned and ranges from well worn to lightly used depending on your preference.</div>
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Contact us today for an informal discussion as to how we can meet your needs.</div>
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We look forward to hearing from and being of assistance to you.</div>
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Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-42975857425434678702012-08-21T11:21:00.000+01:002016-08-19T11:54:27.434+01:0009 Locomotive works<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="searchlite" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">works</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">itself uses a Britains farm shed that will be modified with opening doors and a porta cabin on stilts at the back. This is not attached yet and will require much work to disguise it. I have collected a variety of 7mm work shop machinery, tools, crane lifts etc that will fill the building. My plan is to build most of the interior pieces and then at Christmas finish the whole board off. Most of the interest will lie in the stock so this is another area I need to think about. Electric wise all the tracks except the traverse have been wired in. I need to add switches and wire up the traverse and then everything will be operational. While I tackle the interior details I plan to add details to the main layout engine shed and station and perhaps even add a second slither of board to bring the two together.</span></span></span><br />
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I'd made the rear and side walls a while ago and begun work on the </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">works</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">hop machinery. Due to the move down to London this had been packed away in the garage. With the arrival of Christmas I've been able to get some of these out and start fixing things together.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">We have a busy family Christmas this year, unfortunately I have very little in common with them. Not wanting to be bored by talk of football, golf or X factor, I intend to escape and get some of these things finished. Below is the current situation of the </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">works</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">. Colin before you mention it... those Britains side walls will be hidden in the future </span><img alt=":D" class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://ngrm-online.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">. </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6563809271_3a5a1bc83d.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6563809817_3a87b4bc05.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6563810453_b21cbc65f2.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6563811053_e6aa59b1eb.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6563837107_6948b53bfa.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">I am particularly happy with the parts shelf that incorporates bits and bobs from failed 09 stock builds.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6563812827_8f440d817b.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The end walls and details (more in another box) have been primed ready for paint. The idea is to paint everything first and glue in place after. The back scene has been cut and work will progress on an overall roof with large sky lights over the next day or so. In my rush to get out of London I forgot a bag of electrical switches and wire so it will remain un powered till sometime next year</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Thank you everyone for the kind words. While I've been applying transfers details for the </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> shed have been painted and lightly weathered. After a play about with things I've settled on the composition below. I got a little carried away with the pictures but I wanted to know what people thought of leaving the roof as it is now? Or should I add extra beams?</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6646987261_0ee8bb56af.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6646991377_dced0f39ea.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6646989481_68e2179495.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6646993485_b32c571266.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6646985277_f468e4dd4e.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6646981005_d025704427.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6646995761_0c2d4eddf3.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">There are quite a few gaps in the walls which will be rectified over the next week or so and I may add a floor over the end of the traverse near the shelves. I have a variety of other details to add such as notice boards and I need to sort out the back scene and yard area.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">I took a few photographs yesterday of where I am up to with things. Everything has been glued in place and lightly weathered so the composition is now complete, minus </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">s and perhaps a boiler or two outside. The back scene is a homemade effort and although low (needs to be for safe storage) I feel it complements the scene. I shall have to do something similar at the window end of the shed but this is very handy for letting light in so I may add frosted windows. The landscape image was taken off the internet, printed twice on glossy paper then attached to a thin sheet of ply. The telegraph pole and shed are there to cover up two mistakes but I feel it adds depth. The large bushy tree also hides the join in the back scene but will need some more work as it is a little sprawling. </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6667592083_b39b8fd91f.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6667581827_472b85c9bc.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6667599131_f285f9f3fc.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The siding closest to the front was always intended to be a </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> dump with the remains of a 'Cagney' built from a Bachmann 0-4-0 body and shredded wheat wheels. Someone has left the cover off which will hamper its restoration when the sea air gets to it </span><img alt="[-x" class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://ngrm-online.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/68.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6667610465_55a1f13eb2.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6667566045_0f83b3e633.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The last shot shows the machine shop and a tantalizing glimpse of perhaps a new </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> build on the pin board </span><img alt=":-?" class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://ngrm-online.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/39.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6667621533_30fd40b661.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">I took many more photographs with the </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">s in a variety of positions but these need heavy editing as the light began to fade. I might try using daylight bulbs in the lamps I have about the house and then I'd have something consistent for future photographs</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The shutters unfortunately don't go up and down but track 2 is wired up. I intended this to be used to stable a </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> when I add a future board or when the loco </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">works</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> slots into a future larger system.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">I was able to edit and touch up some of the photographs featuring the </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">s. They are not all finished yet, some need satin varnishing and touching up in places. The strange orange thing is a visiting </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> with a very unsightly 'Butlins Express' logo painted on it's tender, how can anyone do this to a </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><img alt="X(" class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://ngrm-online.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/14.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; 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text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6673905679_46af899373.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6673906661_b168191cd5.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The Groudle Glen </span><span class="searchlite" style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">s have been sent over for an overhaul, odd how the tracks have widened to accommodate them </span><img alt=";)" class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://ngrm-online.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6673908317_fa9bb1d528.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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I am also considering another small board with a running shed but that will definitely be a later project</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The Cutlery Box/ Clutter Box Layout</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">An 09scale 15inch gauge layout employing techniques for a future layout</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Well it?s been a while since I have been able to post anything. I had planned to build an almost scale layout of the Groudle Glen, unfortunately this is on hold. This is due to not really knowing much about the scale and format of the build. I have decided to try a small compact layout first; this will employ all the skills I need to build the Groudle Glen layout at a later date. These skills include making my own track, fabricating buildings and scenery and wiring up the layout to an exhibition standard.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">My previous 7mm layout Hockenhull Platts certainly proved usefully but I really want to hone my skills and also have the pleasure of using the layout rather than it collecting dust! It only sees the light of day when I have a little bit of room to get it out. So with this in mind I toyed with the idea of a suitcase layout but there were problems. The tightness of the curves prevented me running my Groudle Glen </span><span class="searchlite" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">locomotive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">s, there really wasn?t much scope for operation and above all it would not be strong or durable enough. Then a chance discovery at a junk shop gave me an idea. I would build a folding layout inside a cutlery box. I could have a good operating layout in a minimum space and try all sorts of modelling techniques. Now some people may suggest a plank layout but I was keen to build something that resembled a 15inch pleasure layout similar to Colin peeke?s shifting sands but also have a continuous run. After much experimentation as you can see below, I decided to modify the box to accommodate a layout with some operating interest. (The jouef curves were too tight for my stock)</span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/5015477456_61e1964a8f.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span rel="lightbox" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><img alt="Posted Image" class="bbc_img" src="https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5015477468_f51236f73b.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The box was modified by inserting an extra middle section, this not only strengthened the box but also allowed me to bolt better hinges on and ensured that when opened the layout was straight, flat and true. The base boards are sunk just over a 1cm down which will allow scenery to be added and prevent it getting crushed when the box is closed. Trees buildings and other features will be removable. I made sure the outside of the box remained presentable so it could be displayed in the house rather than at the bottom of the cupboard! 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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;">So that’s it for around 2 weeks I think, plenty of time to do some tress, bushes, finish the buildings and have a go at building a kiosk. The stock builds also need to continue so perhaps its good thing water has stopped play. Incidentally I have a burst pipe in the house so I think in future I will stay well away from water….</span></div>
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The scenery on the rest of layout took a turn in the right direction tonight. . The pond is still tacky but the streams are dry so I was able to get most of this finished. I was able to add bushes using a variety of foam clumping colours and weather the bridges using black acrylic. I’ve added a number of rocks in various areas of the landscape which came from my 7mm welsh slate wagons! The engine shed pit has been painted and treated to a heavy amount of coal and ash. This was also repeated in areas where <span class="searchlite">locomotive</span>s will be stationary for short periods</div>
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Next job to consider was the hinged section by the station. I had thought of continuing the fence and then adding gates similar to the Eaton hall railway as it enters the park land but this was too much I thought. Next idea came in the form of a slaters grounded body I had bought for Hockenhull Platts but decided not to use. After a bit of a play I was able to construct a small base and add some detail around the side to hide what’s underneath. The van body will be part of the railway stores, I had thought ticket office but I have another idea for that. The roof has had masking tape and corrugated plastic stuck on to resemble an in need of repair look that will get a heavy weathering. There will also be the remains of an old narrow gauge turntable next to it and some old joeuf curved sections of track plied for the railways long abandoned extension. It should look abit like an allotment with junk everywhere, No offense to allotment owners intended. I have included a few shots of the layout and the construction of the new stores block</div>
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Those of you with a keen eye will notice I have a tree. It’s the first one that worked! the others are in the bin. After struggling with wire and clay I found a Britains tree one of 3 on ebay that became the armature for flocking. It needs some more work but has saved me hours of frustration. Oh the plastic base will go when I inset a peg into the board.</div>
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The last photo shows a newly lined but slightly weather Sealion and Polar Bear. I still need to detail them up more but I am slowly getting there. Tonight I hope to name the layout (build a sign) paint the covered van body and associated bit for that area. I also have a Christmas cracker steam <span class="searchlite">locomotive</span> whistle that’s going to become something rather strange on the station…. Will post progress tomorrow</div>
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With all this new found enthusiasm I feel its about time I began rethinking the stock for this little layout. Below I have listed the new wants list that I will begin building off and on over the next few months or when I find a suitable chassis!</div>
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Photograph by James Waite 1969 - <a href="http://www.narrow-gauge.co.uk/gallery/show.php?image_id=947&cat_id=54">Narrow Gauge Heaven</a></div>
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I remember having a super holiday, riding on The I.O.M Steam Railway, The Manx Electric Railway, Snafel Mountain Railway and the Groudle Glen. It really felt like going back in time. There were many events such as steam on the Manx Electric Railway and passenger trips on the ex Donegal Rail Bus. One of my fondest memories was walking around the engine sheds at Douglas with my Dad. We ventrured into the now demolished Coach sheds and at the back found to No 5 Mona and No 9 Douglas. Both locomotives have since been moved and cacooned inplastic because of asbestos.</div>
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Isle of Man photographs <a href="http://timellisarchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/iom-rly-july-2010.html">July 2010</a> and <a href="http://timellisarchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/iom-rly-august-2010.html">August 2010</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">The Groudle Glen Railway dates back to the 1890's when the true narrow gauge railway was built to cater for a holiday population whose ideals were short walks and the taking of bracing sea airs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">In the late 1890's local entrepreneur Richard Maltby Broadbent obtained a lease on the land surrounding the Groudle river from the Howstrake Estate. The area was developed as an attraction for visitors. In 1893 the Groudle Hotel was completed and the Manx Electric Railway officially opened as far as Groudle in September of the same year. The Glen was developed with rustic bridges over tumbling streams. A rocky inlet in the cliffs was dammed and closed off with sea lions and polar bears being introduced. The construction of a two foot gauge railway from the upper part of the Glen at Lhen Coan to the new zoo atttractions began. The line was built using entirely local labour during the winter of 1895-1896. A steam locomotive 'Sea Lion' and three passenger coaches arrived for the opening of the new railway on the 23rd of May 1896. The new railway was an immediate success, so much so that extra coaches and a second steam locomotive 'Polar Bear' were acquired in 1905.</span></div>
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</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I have transferred this over from ngrm-online to show thoughts and the decision making process.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I have decided to kick start my interest in model railways again and commit to a</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">project for 2010. The layout needs to be small 56iches x 12 inches (space an issue)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">simple (haven???t built a layout for 15 years) interesting (no generic boring terminus)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> detailed (finescaleish) and Cheap (I have pennies rather than pounds!). So with this in</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">mind I have racked my brains to try and come up with something. After a few failed</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">track plans in 7mm it became very obvious there was no space, not even for my</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">diminutive 0-4-0 tanks to chug on, so I moved to 4mm. This seemed like a logical</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">step but I have got a little used to the larger scale and was keen to stay there. So back</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">to the drawing board. Then after seeing an article on the Sand Hutton Railway I</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">thought, 7mm narrow gauge on</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">HO track this is the answer! </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I have toyed with welsh narrow gauge in the past but with the space limit I felt I</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">couldn???t recreate a typical welsh scene so I put it on the back burner. Seeing the</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Sand Hutton Railway reminded me of pictures of Estate railways such as the Eaton</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hall line, they were all a bit of a hotch potch and would allow me to have some artistic</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">licence with the stock and track plan. I had also seen some pictures of Rev Teddy</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Boston???s railway with the locomotives surrounded by trees and bushes. I realised I</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">could squash a layout in a confined space, make it believable but also create</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">something quite unique. So this is where I am up to.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Fictitious Hockenhull railway runs along the river Gowy, Cheshire from</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hockenhall to connect with the main line at Saighton. The line serves local Estates</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a number of flour mills and a Salt works. It was originally intended that the railway</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">would continue east but financial restraints quashed any progress. The motive power</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">consists of worn-out Hunslet and Peckett tank engines from the welsh quarries.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">These like the stock have seen better days and will no doubt see there final days on</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the Line.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I have included a map of the line</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="Image" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3365/4636655642_da68d48c8f.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Posted 05 January 2010 - 19:35 </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Over the last few days I have built the base boards for the railway. Originally the</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">layout was only one board but this has since doubled in size. Because of space</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">limitations I have had to build two base boards 52 inches by 12inches, these fit</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">together to produce an overall length of 104inches. Although it is quite narrow</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I believe I will be able to produce a reasonably spacious layout.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The baseboards are built firstly by constructing a 52 x 12 inch grid frame using</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">3 x 1 inch pine. This is glued and screwed together with middle brace bars to stop</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">warping. On top of this 10mm plywood has been again screwed and glued into</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">place. I was not sure about all the scenic elements so I sunk a lower board in to</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">form part of the river and cut a hole for a turntable. After a cuppa I found I had</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a lot of wood left over so I built another 52 inch by 12inch grid frame and then</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">called it a day. After some quickly drawn plans I decided the second board would</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">be a scenic run to a salt works and in the future perhaps lead to a third board</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but that is a distant future dream besides I have no wood left! I cut out another</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">river/stream and cut two large lakes either side of the proposed track bed to form</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a wharf. At one end there will be a quay? This will look something like the Lion</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">salt works.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #323d4f;"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Post subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Re: Hockenhall Platts Railway 7mm 0-16.5</span></div></div><div style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ngrm-online.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26278&sid=c55282ee62d7fa83e12aa60161d07dd5#p26278" style="color: #006597; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="Post" height="9" src="http://www.ngrm-online.com/forum/styles/subsilver2/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Post" width="12" /></span></a><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Posted:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Mon May 24, 2010 7:36 pm</span></div></div></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Since my last post I have built, painted and weathered some of the locomotives</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and stock see link LOCOMOTIVES. I have made attachments to fix the boards</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">together and have now begun to tackle track work and Buildings.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I decided to use peco track, I have seen some wonderful handmade 7mm</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">track on this site but due to limited amounts of time it seemed more sensible</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">to use off the shelf items to ease the construction of the layout. The track has</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">been laid to my original plan but slightly modified so there is enough room</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for stock to pass one another and give an impression of unplanned narrow</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gauge line. The layout has been partially wired up with isolated sections in the</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">sidings and allow for two operaters to run trains. Due to my descision to have</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a number of bridges and not really planning to scale my intentions the railway</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">has shrunk somewhat. I think I hadn't accounted for the size of the points</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">which has resulted in a rather cramped yard, but despite this I feel it gives a</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">prototypical impression of estate narrow gauge lines. The track plan has also</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">been modified between the two bridges to include another siding this is still</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">being developed but will be laid in the next week or so. Once this is completed</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the track will be filled so only the rails can be seen, giving the impression of a</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">rather rundown railway.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="middle"><td class="gensmall" style="margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: right;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Posted 20 April 2010 - 10:50 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Thank you for the comments<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I have been quite busy, I have nearly completed a number of the buildings on </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the layout :<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />1. The maintainance Shed just needs some corrugated plastic card for the roof </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and brick work sides. It is built out of layered 1mm plasticard with the details </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">scorn onto the top to simulate wooden planking. The size was determinded by </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the largest lcomotive I have and the space in the siding<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />2. The little covered section is made out of strips of plastic and only requires </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">corrugated plastic card for the roof. This is quite small and provides shelter </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for one of my hunslet style locomotives.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />3. The engine shed/lifting shop just needs a tiled roof or corugated not sure </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">which? It again was built out of 1mm plastic card which was scorn to simulate </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">wood. I am really happy with this one, I added some very simple beams inside </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and swinging doors at either end to let the light in. The roof has small windows </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">cut in that allow just enough light to illuminate the space. I decided to paint it </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">dark grey inside to add contrast between the light and the dark. I love seeing </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">pictures of little engines hidden in old crampt sheds. The space to the side will </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">be filled with machine equipment etc I can just squeeze 2 small hunslet type </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">locomotives inside, I think one will have to be in a part built condition, perhaps </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">poking out the back?<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />4. 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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Its been quite a hectic one this last month or so and unfortunately not on the</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">model front but I have managed to catch up with things. Progress has resumed</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">on the track plan which now may I say has again been halted. I am not sure a</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">bout the second base board and may even include a third, (very small, basically</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a strip of track to a small station). I am thinking about this after the turntable.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">It would allow more scope for stock and also allow a station which has gradually</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">disapeared from the original.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">While I ponder on these 2 boards I thought it best to begin working on the one</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I am most happy with. The track has all been wired up with at least 2 isolated</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">sections in each siding, this is to allow locos to be exchanged to run on different</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">trains. I could not afford point motors so I attached strong wire to the point</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">motion and covered it in brass tube, on the operater side a small knob has been</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">added so points can be changed without the big hand in the sky! The knobs are</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">concelled behind lumps of scenary and prove very affective if alittle time</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">consuming to install, ( picture shows knob end with scenary over top). Next job</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">was to bury the track this was done with self drying clay, carefully pushing it in</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">to the sleepers, very boring and difficult when tackling points, but again</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">effective. Next job was to bring the landscape upto track level. I opted for a</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">rather haphasard solution. I built up layers of card soaked in pv and water, this</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">dries hard but also warps and bends allowing small hills and slopes to appear.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">This is not ideal if you know what your after but it certainly creates some</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">intersting sections that can develop naturally. I then added a liberal speading of</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">poly filler, this is sometimes poured, which again creates some interesting</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">sections especially by the river. Unfortunatley I didn't take any photos of this</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but I think it all comes out in the set of photos below.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f;"><div class="postbody" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I have taken some pictures of the first board with most of the scenary complete.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I need to add fense posts, a number of trees, some large bushes on the back</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">section, paint 2 of the buildings, add ponit levers, add general mess and</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">locomotive parts barrels etc around the work shop and insert some people in</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and about the buildings and static lcomotives. The buildings, water tower, buffer</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">stops etc need to be fixed in place, they were only placed to give some idea of</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">where things are going. I have added a coaling stage and added a scrap junk pile</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">by the workshops.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The scenary is all mini nature, using spring and winter grass mixed together and</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">then adding various scales of foilage on top. The little river is very overgrown</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and has had sand to form the base. I will probably add some varnish in and</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">about the place to look like water and oil. The ballast is very fine sand and grit</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from the garden which I think looks pretty good. I have also bought some mini</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">nature tufts of grass but the spring version looks a bit bright so I have ordered</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">some winter tufts instead. A thankyou must go to Dave and his 2010 entry Waton,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">without that I would never have seen the mini nature products used so effectively,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">cheers.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Progress on the locomotives has been alittle slow, but they are taking shape. 2</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">of them are static but they can be shunted around the yard. I plan to have at least</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">4 part built locomotives for shunting around the different sidings. These will all</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">be in different states of repair etc</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">I could </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">continue modeling. I have also found that although 7mm is a lovely </span><br />
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</tbody></table></span>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-1255558756234783342011-08-22T11:08:00.041+01:002011-08-22T11:53:47.296+01:000-16.5 Locomotives and Stock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With a renewed interest in modeling in 2008 I decided to build a 7mm scale narrow gauge locomotive. I'd always been interested in Welsh Narrow Gauge and hankered after a model of a Quarry Hunslet. Unfortunately there weren't any kits available so I took it upon myself to scratch build the locomotive to approximate dimensions. To be honest I wasn't sure where to start and whether it would sustain my interest so I thought I'd have ago at building a scratch built body on RTR 00 Chassis. I did toy with the idea of 009 but it seemed a little too expensive at the time and far too small to begin with. So I purchased a Hornby 0-4-0 Pug off ebay and began the build.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Hornby Pug body suited the Quarry Hunslet shape just about, so I thought I would just need to modify the cab, chimney and buffers. In the end I built a new body from plasticard and altered the rods to look more convincing. Although not to scale I was happy with progress and began a small collection of scratch built locomotives on the Hornby 0-4-0 chassis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The beginning no2 Quarry Hunslet, Scratch built body on a Hornby Pug Chassis</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Industrial 0-4-0 now finished and painted Royal Blue</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tram locomotive and Industrial 0-4-0 scratch built on Traing chassis</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Five more Hunslets for the now abandoned Dinorwic Quarry Line</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">'Percy' and 'Bill' modified to form two industrial tanks (later 'Percy' painted apple green and </div><div style="text-align: center;">'Bill' painted brunswick green) pictures to follow. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scratch built Laxey Mines Locomotive 'Bee'<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The real thing Laxey Mines Railway 'Ant'</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The second modified Hornby 0-4-0</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">The project to build one Quarry Hunslet spiraled into a collection of locomotives and stock. Although many of these have been sold the project proved useful in honing my skills scratch building, painting and weathering. This is just a small amount of the 0-16.5 stock I built over 2 years and will probably be the last. Part of it's appeal was the scale but with minimum space and with a growing dissatisfaction of free lance design I decide to drop 7mm scale on 00 track altogether. I have kept a few items of stock but when compared with the 09 models I am making now they look very crude in comparison.<br />
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What has been interesting while revisiting these old models is the developments in skills I've made which have only come about through mistakes and perseverance. I think there is no better locomotive than the Hornby 0-4-0 to begin the journey into Narrow Gauge modeling.</div></div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-12605772181955103662011-08-20T21:23:00.103+01:002011-08-21T16:43:12.074+01:00Come Midnight Monday<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I think this was aired in 1985 or 86 in England and shown as a series every week. Originally made in Australia in 1982 and filmed at the Puffing Billy Railway, The children's TV program tells the story of four youngsters who fight plans to close a country railway, scrap the veteren steam engine and build a new highway. The program really captured my imagination as a child and may explain why I have an odd taste in Knit ware.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDN7aTFpV30?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">and won a Penguin Award for Best Children's Drama in 1982-83.</span></div></div></div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-30297083967374805042011-07-31T15:47:00.003+01:002011-08-22T00:41:25.589+01:00The Titfield Thunderbolt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px;"><img height="296" src="http://homepages.which.net/~gordon.dudman/Personal%20Web%20Page_files/image005.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026" width="384" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was the second film as a child that really caught my imagination for steam. The original VHS is very worn from being overplayed but I have since found it available on DVD. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About 2 years ago I began building a model of the train before its tragic accident in the film. The locomotive is a modified Airfix 0-4-2, followed by a Cooper Craft cattle wagon, scratch built tram car (unfinished) and a modified brake van. At some point I must finish the coach which still needs the bar and interior fitting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The later train used in the film is perhaps a little difficult to model, although 'Lion' is available from Southern Finecast. I have seen them go on ebay for £80 but that's a little out of my price range. 'Lion' was damaged in the film after the coupling incident and never repaired. It has recently been put on display at the new Liverpool Museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Steam engine" src="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/blog/graphics/lion-liverpool-museums.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.1em; border-right-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.1em; border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.1em; display: block; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The residents of the rural village of Titfield rely on the railway </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_line" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Branch line">branch line</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> to commute to work and transport their produce to market. So they are shocked when the government announces that the line is to be closed. Particularly hard hit is railway enthusiast Vicar Sam Weech (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Relph" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="George Relph">George Relph</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">); he comes up with the idea to run it locally. He and Squire Gordon Chesterford (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gregson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="John Gregson">John Gregson</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">) persuade wealthy Walter Valentine (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Stanley Holloway">Stanley Holloway</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">) to provide the financial backing by telling him they can legally operate a bar while the train is running – he will not have to wait all morning for the local pub to open.</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The branch line supporters are bitterly opposed by bus operators Alec Pearce (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_Roberts" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Ewan Roberts">Ewan Roberts</a>) and Vernon Crump (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_MacGowran" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack MacGowran">Jack MacGowran</a>), but, with the help of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_clerk" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Town clerk">town clerk</a> George Blakeworth (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naunton_Wayne" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Naunton Wayne">Naunton Wayne</a>), the supporters persuade the Ministry of Transport to grant them a month's trial period, with an inspection at the end of the trial. Retired railwayman Dan Taylor (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Griffith" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hugh Griffith">Hugh Griffith</a>) joins the venture.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">On the maiden run, Crump and Pearce try to block a crossing, first with their lorry and then with a passing <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_roller" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Steam roller">steam roller</a> operated by Harry Hawkins (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_James" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sid James">Sid James</a>), but the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Steam locomotive">steam locomotive</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Great Western Railway">GWR</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_1400_Class" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="GWR 1400 Class">1401</a>) is too powerful and pushes them off the track. The next day, Crump and Pearce persuade an irate Hawkins to shoot holes in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_tower" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Water tower">water tower</a>, but the passengers form a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_brigade" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Bucket brigade">bucket brigade</a> and refill the engine from a nearby stream using buckets from the nearby farm. Crump appears to admit defeat and proposes a merger, but is turned down.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The night before the inspection, Hawkins, Crump and Pearce use the steamroller to tow the unguarded engine and coach down the gradient. The runaway engine runs off the track where the three men have removed a rail. However, with the assistance of Blakeworth, Weech raids the local museum for the antique, but still-working "Thunderbolt" locomotive. They also commandeer Dan Taylor's home (an old railway carriage body), which is hastily strapped to a flat wagon, and they are back in business.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">When Valentine and Taylor are arrested after drunkenly trying to "borrow" another engine (driving it off the line and along the road through Mallingford), Weech is left without a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireman_(steam_engine)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Fireman (steam engine)">fireman</a>. Fortunately, the vicar's friend and fellow railway devotee, Ollie Matthews (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Tearle" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Godfrey Tearle">Godfrey Tearle</a>), the Bishop of Welchester, is visiting and is hurriedly drafted in to assist. They also have to improvise a means of connecting the engine to the rest of the train.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">When the weak coupling fails during a braking test, Thunderbolt carries on by itself. However, several villagers manage to push the carriage to meet up again with the Thunderbolt, with the Ministry inspector (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudling" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="John Rudling">John Rudling</a>) none the wiser. Joan Hampton (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Brune" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Gabrielle Brune">Gabrielle Brune</a>) has to promise to marry Hawkins to get him to lend them the chain from his roller's steering mechanism to replace the broken coupling.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The train carries on to Mallingford past crowds of cheering people, and finally reaches its destination nearly ten minutes late. The villagers worry that this will prove their downfall, but it turns out that if they had been just a bit faster, they would have exceeded the speed limit for light railways. Instead, the line passes inspection, clearing the way for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Railways_Act_1896" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Light Railways Act 1896">Light Railway Order</a> to be granted.</div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-50633844132821730982011-07-29T13:40:00.004+01:002011-08-22T00:42:28.438+01:00Oh Mr Porter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-cDG1Bn1Y9o5Sa3v4kUGh7Jimh5j1Rqx0KEV1cmLgQqxgFfluNllomexP8NsDX8T34AAJnxbKDpdYceGJTfO_ZI60_Ca5k0TTY004IXcUADpt8gx9kuHPFFIaXGDnesnjH-0B-AUPdE/s1600/250px-Oh_Mr_Porter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-cDG1Bn1Y9o5Sa3v4kUGh7Jimh5j1Rqx0KEV1cmLgQqxgFfluNllomexP8NsDX8T34AAJnxbKDpdYceGJTfO_ZI60_Ca5k0TTY004IXcUADpt8gx9kuHPFFIaXGDnesnjH-0B-AUPdE/s1600/250px-Oh_Mr_Porter.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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More information can be found about this locomotive and the Colonel Stephens empire at this wonderful website</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/locomotives/new-locomotives.html">http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/locomotives/new-locomotives.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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It is situated out in the countryside, two miles cross-country from the nearest bus stop. To make matters worse, local legend has it that the ghost of One-Eyed Joe the Miller haunts the line and, as a result, no-one will go near the station after dark.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Porter's co-workers at the station are the elderly deputy stationmaster, Harbottle (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Marriott" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Moore Marriott">Moore Marriott</a>), and an overweight, insolent young porter, Albert (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Moffatt" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Graham Moffatt">Graham Moffatt</a>), who make a living by stealing goods in transit and swapping railway tickets for food. They welcome Porter to his new job by regaling him with tales of the deaths and disappearances of previous stationmasters - each apparently the victim of the curse of One-Eyed Joe.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">From the beginning it is obvious that the station is run very unprofessionally. Porter is woken up by a cow sticking its head through the room he is sleeping in, for instance (the cow has been lost in transit and is being milked by Harbottle), and the team's breakfast consists of bacon made from a litter of piglets which the railway are supposed to be looking after for a local farmer.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Determined to shake things up (particularly after he is forced to deal with the irate farmer when he comes to collect his pigs), Stationmaster Porter tries to renovate the station in several ways, most sensibly by painting the entire station, but also by less conventional means - including stopping the passing express and organising an excursion to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connemara" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Connemara">Connemara</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Porter attempts to drum up business amongst the local people in the pub by offering tickets to this excursion, but due to arguments about where the excursion should go a fight breaks out. Porter crawls to safety in the landlord's rooms next door, where he meets a one-eyed man who introduces himself as Joe and offers to buy all of the tickets for an away game that the village football team, the Buggleskelly Wednesday, are playing the following day.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Unbeknown to Porter, however, he has really agreed to transport a group of criminals who are involved in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunrunning" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Gunrunning">running guns</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish Free State</a>. The 'football' train leaves at six a.m. the following morning, rather than the scheduled ten a.m., at the insistence of Joe and although Porter questions some of the odd packages being loaded onto the train, he accepts Joe's claim that these are in fact <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalposts" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Goalposts">goalposts</a>for the game.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The train disappears as the smugglers divert it down a disused <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_line" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Branch line">branch line</a> near the border, and with everybody claiming that Porter has lost his mind (there is no such team as Buggleskelly Wednesday, and Harbottle points out that the local team wouldn't leave without him as he is their centre forward). Apparently this misunderstanding causes Porter to lose his job, as no one has seen the train. Then after his co-workers talk about a tunnel on a nearby disused branch line, Porter decides to head off to track down the errant engine (in hopes of getting his job back).</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The trio find the missing train inside a derelict railway tunnel, underneath a supposedly haunted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terling_Windmill" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Terling Windmill">windmill</a>. They investigate and are briefly captured by the gun runners, but escape and climb progressively higher up the windmill until eventually they are trapped at the top.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Using the windmill sails, they contrive to get down where they hatch a plan to capture the gun runners. Coupling the carriages containing the criminals and their guns to their own engine, <i>Gladstone</i>, they carry them away from the border at full speed, burning everything from Harbottle's underwear to the remnants of a fence they smash through in order to keep up steam. To keep the criminals quiet, Albert climbs on top of the carriage and hits anyone who sticks their head out with a large shovel.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Porter writes a note explaining the situation and places it in Harbottle's empty 'medicine' bottle. When they pass a large station, he throws the bottle through the window of the stationmaster's office, alerting the authorities to their plight. The entire railway goes into action, with lines being closed and other trains re-routed so that Gladstone can finally crash into a siding where the waiting police force arrest the gun runners.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">After a short-lived celebration, in which Harbottle points out that <i>Gladstone</i> is ninety years old and Porter claims it is good for another ninety, the engine explodes after its hectic journey, and Porter, Harbottle and Albert lower their hats in respect.</div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-83666551079024015382011-07-27T14:19:00.002+01:002011-08-21T15:04:20.943+01:00GWR Tender Locomotives Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A selection of the ongoing project to build every class of GWR locomotive. Some where along the line I ended up with 4 Lima Kings in a job lot, 2 of which were rebuilt as standard and the 3rd became the odd looking 1930's streamlined locomotive. The 47xx in the last photograph uses one of the King boilers, two Mainline 43xx chassis and body, plus a Hornby tender. It's quite a Frankenstein but prototypical of the latest new build announced last month by Didcot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'King Edward VI' Lima modified</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'King George V' Hornby modified</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'King Henry VII' Lima/ scratch built</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'King William IV' Lima modified</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3YsizHPAjihUjclU3GsjzAawhLEpiorAy2ANXneDKDu_JT5l40iqWg7pQWVXQ28ftPZyiT8c1Kjgpq5sse1W0dpboZhBBVC_yAI3E5CXWLoEP5tZVXRodwXW2a_FHRY0EJRI-__mcv0/s1600/King+William+III.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3YsizHPAjihUjclU3GsjzAawhLEpiorAy2ANXneDKDu_JT5l40iqWg7pQWVXQ28ftPZyiT8c1Kjgpq5sse1W0dpboZhBBVC_yAI3E5CXWLoEP5tZVXRodwXW2a_FHRY0EJRI-__mcv0/s320/King+William+III.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">47xx 2-8-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Saint 4-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lady 4-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Star 4-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">De Glehn 4-4-2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Atlantic Saint 4-4-2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Star 4-4-2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aberdare 2-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">King 4-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">County 4-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Deans Goods 0-6-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bulldog 4-4-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">City 4-4-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-45804740223756539792011-07-26T19:59:00.006+01:002011-08-21T14:47:32.215+01:00GWR Tank Engine Collection Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A selection of the on going collection of GWR tank engines. The aim at the beginning was to scratch build an ex Taff Vale GWR Tank on the remains of an LNER J72 I found in a junk shop. With the success of this build I began a few more, slowly working through the list of GWR tank engines. My long term aim is to have every class of locomotive, an ambitious task but useful when one day I build Laira and Plymouth in 00.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some of the models below have since had hand rails, couplings, decals and a light weathering.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Taff Vale Tank scratch built Mainline</div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">My very first proper layout was an 8<sup>th</sup> or 9<sup>th</sup> birthday present form my mother and Father. I had always had a hankering for something narrow gauge after visiting the Talylln and Ffestiniog railways and had probably pestered my parents for months over the issue. I remember visiting the Ffestiniog with my father on a very wet weekend. Inside Boston lodge works lay a number of narrow gauge layouts. All were to different scales and each modelled a different prototype but this I think certainly set the seed that would blossom over the next 20 or so years.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The First Layout</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My father constructed a beautifully made baseboard that could be lifted onto the kitchen table. The railway was built to 009 standard, featuring a dock or port area with a number of sidings and an oval loop running around the outside. Stock was a variety of Lilliput and second hand items bought from Hatton’s model shop in Liverpool. The only locomotive on the line was an 0-6-2 called Zilletal from the Zilitahn railway but this proved more than capable of keeping me interested. I Anglo sized it a little by balancing a GWR safety valve cover over the back section of the boiler; I saw it as an attempt to make it look almost Welshpool and Llanfair in style. The layout had no buildings or scenery but this changed later that year as I created a welsh landscape with small quarry, tunnel and slate/dock transfer sidings. I built a small halt and used buildings from the Wills Grotty huts range to give the feeling of an old falling apart welsh narrow gauge railway. </div><br />
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</div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-30275310103864424662011-05-25T11:25:00.001+01:002011-05-25T11:30:08.550+01:00Archive Footage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While clearing through a mass of videos I stumbled across some archive footage of 'The Looms'. William Ellis is present with his Princess plus Jimmy James, my Grand Father and Great Uncle plus my Father as a young boy. The footage isn't great and will be put onto dvd when I get the chance but it gives an idea of the development of the plot of land. The film was made by my great uncle Ron and dates from around 1949/50, he had a keen interest in film, sadly all his home movies are missing. I am not sure who the American locomotive belonged to but I assume is was part of Jimmy James' collection. As can be seen in the later shots the LNER Pacific and coaches were built to a very high standard. I can remember wondering around the back of the property when it lay empty and seeing the coaches rotten and collapsed behind the hedge. My father and I didn't realise the locomotive was still locked away in its shed, my last view seeing it driven away on the back of a trailer on my way home from school. Also included on the reel is some early footage of GWR King George V at Chester and Clan Line? I would think in the early eighties</div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/C4zslK8HYd8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-55654120379693094892011-01-25T10:01:00.000+00:002011-01-25T10:01:40.534+00:00Real Steam<div class="MsoNormal">As described earlier the interest in steam and model railways can be traced back as far as my great grand father, Mr William H Ellis. The family no longer has any of his models but we do have a number of paintings, photographs and a selection of tools. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">By all accounts my great grand father was a very strong minded man who’s language was always choice. My father notes in a small bio on the family, ‘he was a brilliant engineer in a variety of fields including aviation, automotive and railways as well as a painter and sculptor’. I remember my father relaying a story where by on returning to his workshop his grandfather had destroyed a car body he had been working on, saying ‘you would never had finished it and they were like oil slicks when new’ Not the most encouraging man it seems but he did past on his knowledge and instilled an interest that has been passed on to me so he can’t have been that bad!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have a number of photographs in my possession that show the last model he made a live steam LMS Princess. Built around the late 30s early 40s to a gauge of either 31/2 inch or 5 inch the locomotive looks an impressive piece of engineering. There is some confusion about the gauge, as I know he built a number of locomotives of LMS design in a variety of scales. I would dearly love to track it down and perhaps even get the locomotive to run again, alas sadly not at the railway it spent many hours running on.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">My Grandfather Cyril Ellis was a very competent modeller and engineer specialising in scratch built EM and 00 models in the 1950s and 60s. He had built a variety of LMS and GWR locomotives and was planning a layout of St Ives when he sadly died in his early 50s. As a family we don’t have much to remember him by something my father used to point out on numerous occasions. When Cyril passed away my father lent his tools and equipment to Cyril’s brother Ron Ellis. Ron was also a keen model maker and engineer who used the equipment until he passed away in 2007. Unaware to my father, and me the equipment was disposed of rapidly, much of what would have been my grandfathers and his before him disappeared never to return. All the equipment had been stamped with W.H. Ellis and C.R. Ellis; I still have a rummage of old tools just in case I see some initials. Thankfully my father was able to get some light tools and machining equipment but sadly that was it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Tim Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11753196272882693885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954800444279435004.post-69298910727119774172011-01-10T00:22:00.000+00:002011-01-10T00:22:38.211+00:00Where did it begin?<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDSy8X1rvylm_FiSpnHChsUFXNCOSoAtrTx1byD5UfiHmrMjAvViAfsIv6NzkEo7BWHgLf0qebhsFPVoPju6e9U_nONwciYrUiPa4zEgJAkJ20ENoi8X9hXsLI45e9OK9CIXCTa44idQ/s1600/layout+496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDSy8X1rvylm_FiSpnHChsUFXNCOSoAtrTx1byD5UfiHmrMjAvViAfsIv6NzkEo7BWHgLf0qebhsFPVoPju6e9U_nONwciYrUiPa4zEgJAkJ20ENoi8X9hXsLI45e9OK9CIXCTa44idQ/s320/layout+496.jpg" width="320" /></a>Hello and welcome to what I call the beginning of a new dawn in my modeling career. From the age of 4 I can remember making and playing with trains. My father an excellent model maker and GWR fanatic ensured the interest was ingrained in me from an early age. My earliest memory being stood next to a hot simmering 7 ¼ inch A3 at ‘The Looms’ a family friends garden railway just outside <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Chester</place></city> (pictured) This set the seed. My first layout started with an oval of track and an Airfix Prairie with motor taken out and a rake of badly knocked about coaches progressing to a lovely hand built 009 model railway built by my father (sadly no pictures). As my interest developed a large collection of GWR 00 Gauge was amassed culminating in a double tracked layout that ran around the garage, 9 coach expresses were something of a norm! Sadly through my late teens and early twenties I had other interests and gave up the hobby. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OX1WT63wAA1hm9NgHlY4GLuTSP4WvyNk1rAlvdF-DZ7iCTcT2nkpzKwM3DpBBeeXWCnXd900o3rK1fVHsNVMl66OR1ndHodNNXThZlMfKAgemkA9_DNuLlTN3iXl6HrQiyExTqZ_UW8/s1600/layout+064.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OX1WT63wAA1hm9NgHlY4GLuTSP4WvyNk1rAlvdF-DZ7iCTcT2nkpzKwM3DpBBeeXWCnXd900o3rK1fVHsNVMl66OR1ndHodNNXThZlMfKAgemkA9_DNuLlTN3iXl6HrQiyExTqZ_UW8/s320/layout+064.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">My father continued modeling off and on experimenting with EM for a number of years. It became obvious that the scale was too small for him to work with so he started building up a collection of fine scale GWR 0 gauge models instead. It was at this point my interest was reignited. The scale for me was very appealing, it allowed for greater detail and smoother running but it was expensive. I had very little money then so turned to scratch building and kit bashing. My first project was an 0 gauge Hymek built from a much modified Triang Big train (pictured). This set the tone and I soon had a <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Lima</city></place> 4F on the chopping board. Great plans were hatched and a certain amount of competition arouse between us. Sadly my father passed away very suddenly before we had time to begin the great 0 Gauge garden railway project. I finished a number of models and for a time ran them at Gauge O Guild running sessions but it was not the same.</div><br />
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</div>So that was where I was up to about 3 years ago. I was keen to continue modeling but unsure of what scale and prototype to go for. I had always regretted parting with my 009 and thought maybe narrow gauge? I had a brief dabble with some 16mm, cutting some steal frames for a Vale of Rheidol locomotive but in the end settled for something in 7mm 0-16.5. I had toyed with the idea of 009 but this was a bit costly for my budget back then so a simple challenge was hatched, build a Quarry Hunslet as cheaply as possible for fun (pictured). That was the beginning of what some people might call an illness! This passion or obsession has grown somewhat and shows no signs of diminishing, so I invite you to jump on board and share in some of my creations…… <br />
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