Not many of us there on Friday, but two locos were present for the camera, both in 7mm scale. The saddle tank is from the Gwendraeth Valley railway and was built by Wagonman from an Agenoria kit. The little shunter was a bargain at just under £100 from Accurascale / Heljan. It runs very smoothly and is destined to be a second works shunter on Pavilion End, after a repaint. Hopefully it will be battery powered, radio-controlled but there is not a lot of space for all the bits.
The show at Thornbury was a good weekend away for us. We managed to get get Frecclesham erected, tested, fully stocked and running in 1hr 15 mins. We had run two sequences prior to the doors opening. There was just one electrical niggle to sort out.
Naturally we celebrated in the usual way but by Sunday morning supplies were low. But Don saved the day.
The arrangement of stock in the following photo may be the result of the celebration, or it might be just clearing space for track cleaning.
Frecclesham at the Bristol Show, Thornbury Read More »
Frecclesham has been assembled to ready it for the Bristol Show at Thornbury. With the track cleaned Wagonman brought along the Lyme Regis set and other coaches for checking. He also brought this charming Terrier – one of his collection of four of these engines. All performed properly.
A new addition to the rolling stock on Frecclesham is the dark maroon pull-push set hauled by D1 0-4-2 tank 2296. The loco has been available for some time and acted as a standby, but finally it has its own stock. At the other end of the locomotive scale is Bullied pacific ‘Croydon’ which is just performing its run-round. All three shots emphasise how a back-scene is valuable in ‘suspending disbelief’.
Preparing Frecclesham Read More »
Newport MRS was well represented at this year’s NEWGOG with the club’s members providing Hogwash and Baloney, Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae and Glanfa Newydd y Camlas
And TAFKATYS’ new opus Glanfa Newydd y Camlas. It was displayed as a non-working diorama but nevertheless received several invitations to other exhibitions.
Maggie was built from a High Level kit by Mike E and is now part of the roster for Cwmcarno. Luke has managed to fit a chip inside it somewhere between the frames. It had lost a crankpin nut and bearing on a front driver, but Mr. C has put that right. The running is better but there is still a tight spot. Also as you can see the cab roof is a bit wonky, so some small magnets will help that.
‘Usk’ has featured before (21/11/25) and is getting close to completion. There have been many mis-steps along the way but when consider it was built in the 1860’s and the kit was designed for a 1890’s rebuild and there are precious few pictures that’s hardly surprising.
A tale of two locos Read More »
But it was not the tape kind, but the modelling kind that created a lot of activity Tuesday. The materials had arrived for Cwmcarno’s fiddle yard cassettes and was sorted and stacked ready for construction.By the end of the evening one had been glued together and weighted down to set.
Also for Cwm Carno Mike E arrived with the splendid near complete screens for the colliery.
Not to be left out Ty’n y Coedcae was receiving materials to upgrade its fiddle yard cassettes. The original ones were very close to the sides of the stock and damage was occurring, especially to the foot boards fitted to its early coaches.
From Monday we see work in progress on Rob F’s workbench for his 7mm Slaters kit of a diagram 04 four plank wagon.
Also on Monday we took advantage of it being both dry and light to check that Cwmcarno would still fit inside Peggy.
Luckily it does.
Do you remember cassettes? Read More »
Wagonman’s latest, finished today
A BR(SR) Class U, from a rebuilt River class, with a 3500 gallon tender. 31791 hauled the last public passenger service on the former MSWJ line, which is very close to Wagonman’s heart. The model is based on a David Andrews kit.
Straight from the oven Read More »
For the Scalefour Jubliee Challenge we have to show that all the track works, by the end of March. Here are two of the videos showing most of the running. All routes were videoed but these are just a selection as they are sizeable files.
First a couple of photos from the show showing PE in action.
Behind the scenes there were plenty of bodies as we were overstaffed for PE but happy to be away as a group. Unusually we didn’t have Jaffa Cakes as part of our provisions but Welsh cakes were a good substitute. Luke had spare time to work on some wagons for Cwm Carno.
By the end of Sunday six wagon bodies had replacement chassis. On PE no. 4248 ran the coal train for the whole show without any problems.
Pavilion End at Ally Pally Read More »
On Saturday 14th Luke took his Queens Wharf to the Filton Aerodrome show. This took place in the Concorde hanger and QW was placed under one of the plane’s wings.
Taken under Concorde’s wing Read More »