Friday 28 March 2014

Layouts Layouts everywhere!

The joys of having many different layouts means that having them all on display in my room at home can be inspirational at times. Although admitically, this is the first time I've had stock on all 5 of them at the same time. Not shown in the accompanying pictures is the O gauge layout which although it has stock on it, it's slightly buried under loads of stock boxes!

On Top - Blaencwm
On Bottom - Harrow Road

On Harrow Road - Pannier L94 shunts a wagon next to the Ballast pile

On Harrow Road - Pannier L97 passes the shed with a short train of wagons

Blaencwm - Shown after the latest round of scenery work including the addition of 2 colour light signals, newly ballasted Coach sidings and roofs on the two sheds

Blaencwm - Shown after the latest round of scenery work including the addition of 2 colour light signals, newly ballasted Coach sidings and roofs on the two sheds

On Billington Road - The C class sits in Platform 2 waiting to depart with the 1950s set while the NG railway stock sits awaiting recovery to the main depot after recent track relaying. Also shown is the new backscene installed around the edge of the layout along with fencing to separate the NG from the Standard Gauge.

On Billington Road - A lone NG4 sits on shed missing coupling rods and cylinders pioir to being towed away for scrap.

Got to admit it is nice having such a variety of layouts to showcase a wide range of interests.

Cheers,

Jon

Thursday 27 March 2014

Painting Locos

After some work this evening, I've managed to paint/repaint 3 locos. 2 009 and 1 OO.



Cheers,

Jon

3D printed projects!

After more and more work involving 3D printing, I'm in a position to reveal a number of them from a complete 3D printed train of FR stock to some of the newer European/South African stock.







Plus its also nice to see the complete output from the last few months using 3D printing. And yes, most rows are double stacked.



Cheers,

Jon

Friday 14 March 2014

3 becomes 2

After a long hard think, and deciding if 3 were really needed, I've disposed of one of the 3 NG15s. Namely NG 134. The main reasons behind getting rid of it are the fact that the Chassis is going to cost a good £100 that could be spent on other things and the print ended up with so many flaws that it isn't worth using/keeping. This just leaves No.124 and 17 (both now equipped with DCC chips) as the running pair which is something I can live with. Appropiate Nameplates/builders plates are on order via Narrow Planet along with 2 sets of Cab window frames and side grills.



On the upside, both the survivors are working perfectly at pretty much any speed which is unheard of compared to most of the engines I've built.....

Cheers,

Jon

Wednesday 12 March 2014

Chipping and Kaliharis

On the workbench at the moment are the two operational 009 NG15s. No.17 has had a new DCC chip fitted in time for running on Isle Ornsay at Sparshot and No.124 has been in for painting into the base colours of a new SR style olive green scheme. Quite how I'm going to line it out I have no idea but I suspect I'll be sending it off for a professional to do.

Also being worked on were the 2 Zillertalbahn engines both receiving DCC chips which both work fantastically. Hopefully DCC'ing 009 should actually work this time.....





Got to admit I didn't think the glue spill from 17's tender was THAT bad so it looks like a repaint is now in order for that engine as well!

Cheers,

Jon

Sunday 9 March 2014

009 Society Play day

After a long gap, a few pictures from the last 009 Society play day on our test track. Featuring predominately a pair of NG15s and loads of coaches....