West End Workbench

[Atlantic 3279]

Cue an even longer fish and / or meat train, with increased H & B representation?

[jwealleans]

Unless Red Leader's extending the loops on the scenic side without telling us, I can't see much scope for lengthening the train. However, keen viewers may detect increased rotation of stock within the current 25 + BV limit.


Of course, a keen North End operator could add further wagons in time for the train's second, non-stop, appearance and then remove them before we tick back around to Move 1......

[jwealleans]

Nice to bring something almost to the stage of completion. If I'd got my finger out it could have been done a month ago, but what is there to rush for at the moment? Final interior completed at the weekend and fitted yesterday, so with glue now dry it was all on to assembly. Still some minor height and alignment tweaks to make but it's essentially there. Posed with a part-weathered Great Northern for effect.









Just to catch you up on some other recent projects; the J6 is awaiting the chance to be test run, so is unlikely to see any more work until that's done.



H & B vans are about done, just need more varnish and them weathering.



I started another J6, this one from LRM, at the weekend. This is a very different kettle of fish from the NuCast one - hopefully much better in the crispness of the result, but up to now what I'd call faltering progress. The rods don't quite match the frames and I had to replace the supplied bearings as there would have been barely any material left in the hornblock cutouts if I'd reamed them out that far. I also had to put leading and trailing bearings in inside the frames to allow any sideplay and thin down the centre ones a fair way to get the wheels to turn. Tony Wright kindly brought out the pictures of the one he built some years ago and posted them on his thread on RMWeb, which promises to be very useful We'll see how it goes.

[SAD Burdett]

Jonathan, those coaches look a bit special,,, nice work and something really different.

SAD

[nzpaul]

Good to see that the J6 looks much straighter now that it's yellow.....is that an example of irony, I'm not sure.
The vans look great, I'm sure I've got a box load of those somewhere, never occurred to me to make something good out of them, must follow your example.

Paul

[Atlantic 3279]

Very nice quads, and no fertility drug involved.

[jwealleans]

Well, you say that.....

[Woodcock29]

Hi Jonathan

Like the two H&B vans. I've got an old Triang Hornby Refrigerator van stashed away that I fitted with a Peco timber underframe over 40 years ago.

Its about time it got a real make-over. Do you know what axle boxes you used on your two?

Andrew

[jwealleans]

Morning Andrew. 51L do an Iracier wagon axlebox (misspelt 'Irassier' in his catalogue, I think) so i used that and some springs from either him or MJT. the axleboxes are from a CR wagon kit so I had to carve off thei ncorrect lettering.

[Woodcock29]

Thanks Jonathan

Andrew

[Dave]

Jonathan.
Where did you get the Black and white HB letters from, I struggled to get right size black letters
and ended up doing it with a indelible pen.

[jwealleans]

I started by raking through my transfers box and found some on a PECO-side transfer sheet, in the descriptive text.

Then I messed one of those up and had to look again, which was when I found a load of 'RUSTON HORNSBY' transfers I did for decorating crates for the factory yard on Grantham. It was easy after that.

[Dave]

Thanks Jonathan.

Looks like I will have to stick with the pen.

[Atlantic 3279]

I have a vague idea that I may have used an E, a 1 or I, and a 3, trimmed and carefully aligned, when I did my HB vent fridge van.

[Dave]

Thanks Graeme.
Such a simple solution never thought of that dodge, cheers mate.