Wykeham - Somewhere in the south!

[Steve M]

Get the paints out ' Rule #1

[Steve M]

There are quite a few photos online that appear to have been taken in the 60's showing yellow axle boxes.

[Walkingthedog]

I added them to several of my locos.

[Too Tall]

Having had "Britannia haul us on our "posh day out" she certainly has the yellow axle boxes now:



I found this thread on a preservation forum with the first pic in black and white, with Britannia looking very new, and it look like maybe she has them, but subsequent pics with her being dirty its hard to say: https://www.national-preservation.com/t ... s.1024309/

certainly a case for rule 1 depending on your preference

[bulleidboy]

I did try painting the axel box covers - and the red line, but was not happy with the final result, so managed to wipe it all off. I used enamel paint, whereas I might have been better off with acrylic. I will have another go. The red line was easy to apply using a fine tipped red marker pen.

A quick update on the point wiring/control panel. The actual set-up is fairly straightforward ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x83OdB_ENE&t=8s ), but I have been using DCC Concepts triple wire (red,black and green), which in the demo video looks ideal, but it is not a "soft" wire, so tends to put a strain on all connections - I am thinking of re-doing some of it using conventional wire - using the triple wire is a lot tidier - slow progress .

[Chops]

Looks amazing, particularly the axel boxes.

[bulleidboy]

I fitted this Bachmann Class 5 MT with the Hornby HM7000 sound decoder, speaker and stay-alive. Surprisingly it all went together a lot easier than I had expected. The stay-alive and speaker went into the smokebox perfectly under the chimney - which I drilled out (it had a solid base inside the chimney). Whilst fitting these, the smokebox door became unclipped, which allowed me to pull the speaker and stay-alive through, fit the decoder inside the loco, replace the body, and then put the speaker and stay-alive inside the smokebox before reinstating the door. Also this loco runs with the tender "close coupled", which looks a bit more realistic than the usual gap between loco and tender.

IMG_1820 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

[Chops]

Superb bit of work, ingeniously accomplished. Quite daring to go drilling about a model. Page 124, admiring some of your other heavy steam, I note the use of filled-in arches upon a backdrop. I must try that technique, it expands everything, most clever.

[bulleidboy]

The retaining walls are only Metcalfe card kits, to which, sometime ago, I added small LED lights into the top of each arch. It caused a few amusing comments at the time.

IMG_0823 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

[jamespetts]

The retaining walls are only Metcalfe card kits, to which, sometime ago, I added small LED lights into the top of each arch. It caused a few amusing comments at the time.

IMG_0823 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

A model railway with mood lighting!