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There was a fair bit of interest on Western Thunder amounting to two pages of messages but with no answer to the mystery until I let them know that John Paton had cracked it onj tghis forum. However one of the members, Martin Shaw, came up with this response today and I copy it with his permission. ...

I'll put a pointer to this thread on the Western Thunder forum. There are a few members of that forum who seem to be very good at identifying locations.

My own gut feel is that it isn't Scotland since most buildings in the period were stone built.

Jim.

My fellow S Scale Society member has shown me the drawing that he worked from. It is obtainable from the GER Society and shows the 6" and the 8" versions. I don't want to post it here in case it breaks copyright but PM me if you want t look at it.

Jim G.

Alan K wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:50 pm

it's Plate 2.3 on p 31!

That's the one.

I'll go chasing the Jim Mac one as well.

Jim G.

Alan, The Naysmith Wilson GA for the 439 Class which is Fig 11.13 in the new Campbell Cornwell book shows the Westinghouse pump labelled as '8 x 8 1/2" Type F'. Well spotted, that man. :) I had read the Pickersgill chapters but hadn't really looked closely at the LMS Class 439 drawing, being more in...

I'm looking ahead to having to fit a Westinghouse pump to S scale locomotives and I've been digging around for details of the pump. I've just found out that a fellow member of the S Scale Society is making a lost wax brass sprue of pump parts for GER models and he has modelled a 6" pump. But looking...

Lindsay, I was wondering if the drawing might be showing the position of alternate options for a gas tank. The other possibility is that there is a tank on each side of the underframe but, because of the Westinghouse gear attached to the inside of one of the soldebars, one tank has to be of smaller ...

I'm picking up on work I started nine years ago on models of the Drummond four wheelers. Back then I used the building of them to test out using a CNC milling machine to machine all the relief detail on styrene material. I now have to construct the underframes with as much detail as I can and gas ta...

Alan, I'm just catching up with your thread having been otherwise engaged with our NHS since the middle of March. But I'm now home and getting back to full strength so I'm starting to look around for the next project to do and 498 class might well be that - especially since I made a set of wheels an...

Alan K wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:03 pm

On a different topic, sorry to hear about your hip JimG. Hope your recovery goes well.

Alan,

Progressing well and home from rehab on Monday. Might start making some wagons then.

JimG

My question is how do you handle and place these on the body and then apply the solvent so neatly. This is something I now struggle with and any assistance you can offer would be much appreciated. Tpny, I find that the best pickup and place tool for wee bits like that is a brand new Swann Morton bl...

Another bit of Scott's output sent to me a while ago. It's actually sitting on the trackwork for my US switching layout, hence the FB rail and the self-guarding frog on the right. US-S-SwitchingLayout-077.jpg In my last five years as Parts Officer for the S scale Society, I have made regular use of ...

If there's a big run on them and you run out :) Watkins and Doncaster do a 0.65mm Entomological plated brass pin which could do the job https://www.watdon.co.uk/acatalog/insect-pins-accessories.html They have a much larger range of stainless steel and blakc enamelled steel pins shown on the same web...

There is a drawing of the cylinders and valve chests in the Campbell Cornwell collection. I have it as CRA6/1/3/2/42/1/3 although I can't seem to access the archive at the moment to double check. It is the fully detailed works drawing, so plenty of detail of the valve chests which would be immediate...

Here is a photo and brief biography of Norman MacDonald. It is from an article in the January 1948 issue of "Scotland's SMT Magazine" in which he wrote an article "Forerunners of the LMS". Just as a complete aside to this thread, the bottom picture is of my piano teacher - James Harvey Scott. :D Ji...

Theres one thing Im still curious about although of no consequence to the model. Each cottage has a single vented pot at one side and two octagonal ones at the other. The single stacks were the main room and kitchen fireplaces but why vented? To aid drafting maybe but why? Any ideas?? I can remembe...

Mike 1 wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:11 pm

Thank you Mike. I'm surprised that wasn't mention on the original thread noted above. Looks like I need to buy a copy.

Being one of the contributors on that thread, I think it pre-dated the publication of the coach book.

Jim G.

It couldn't have any connection with the Scots word "scud" which means bare or naked?

Jim G.

I've just had a look in Google Maps and the house with twin towers still appears to be there although I don't know the date of the Google image.
Jim.

Alan, Yes, that's the line - or more accurately - the pair of lines. It was only after working with that drawing for a while and assuming that the bottom of the cylinder castings was open, that I noted the double lines which were shown in a similar way to those denoting the metal covers for the cyli...

I'm in the process of drawing up the cylinder block for a 1:32 scale Class 782. I'm using the drawing of the Drummond block in Fig.24 in the Jumbo book. I was about to draw up all the jointing flannges and bolts on the underside when I noticed what looks like a thin sheet covering the underside of t...

Jim W. and Alan, Thanks for the confirmations. I managed to dig out True Line 33 and found the paragraph in the Jumbo article which fully describes the centre driving wheel weight. The Jumbo will be a Drummond one with his boiler fittings and a Stroudley style tender. If I manage to get to a second ...

I'm just about to start making the drivers for a Jumbo and I'm looking for some confirmation about the balance weights - specifically those on the centre axle. I can see from many pictures that the balance weights on the front and rear axles were relatively small and square ended across the spaces b...

Timber Tracks do 4mm NER interlaced sleeper bases in laser cut ply for 1:8 turnouts (http://www.timbertracks.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=8_9). I used them with C&L components and the results look good to my untutored eye. I think Brian Lewis has recently retired himself from the mai...

Is there a source of drawings for rolling stock parts like axleboxes, axlebox springs, buffer stocks, etc? At the moment I can trace off GA drawings but I'm looking to do 3D drawings to use in 3D printing and it would be good to work from dimensioned drawings if they were available.

Jim G.