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...I struggled for hours to separate the top from the footplate. In the end I inserted a dental probe behind the cylinders blindly to access the tabs and under the boiler inside the cab. You made that look so much easier than my farse :)
Keith, I’m just starting out on my first layout (also a 6x4). Could I ask what height yours is please and whether there are any issues reaching things. Thanks, Neil
Good job Keith, the end effect works well. Can I recommend Pritt Stick for this job, I have glue many inkjet printed sections with success and no bleeding. I am missing your running sessions!
Thanks for the comments re Pritt Stick. I too am missing running sessions but at the moment my time is taken up by working on the hidden sidings section of the layout! Regards Keith
I think this looks amazing Keith! As others have said, pritt stick doesn't cause bleed. I actually used cheap double sided tape for mine. Just a suggestion, but I use the cheapest cartridges on ebay for my printing, and as I run a small business I get through a lot and it needs to look perfect. Which it does every time.
Thanks, I also use cheap cartridges which are fine for all normal uses. Question....can Pritt stick be smoothed out or does it leave small "bumps"? Regards Keith
@@KV12543 When I've used Pritt (quite often), I'd say that the honest answer is, yes it can leave small bumps. You can work away at it to try to smooth them out, which may work. But frankly it is quite lumpy stuff.
Really looking good. As more fixing, I would suggest 3M Spray Mount (other brands are also available). Used this myself on home made prints are you get no bleed or bubbling. Hope this helps.
Thanks Paddy....I might try the .Spray Mount next time....do you spray the back of the paper or the Backscene and does it allow slight repositioning? Regards Keith
@@KV12543 Hi Keith, It depends on which spray you get. To my knowledge, all of them are applied to the back of the paper but they vary in strength. The lightest will effectively turn your paper in to a giant Post It note and can be removed/repositioned easily. Personally, I went for the higher grade which gives you a short period of time where you can reposition but then dries to a permanent bond.
@@KV12543 Mine does look quite small and has the original loop, continental couplings. I recently picked up a Lima brake van with D couplings but side by side it's smaller than a Hornby one.
Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Just watched your excellent video about your 040 pug locomotive. You have made an amazing excellent job of weathering the pug. Well done sir, and I also watched your video about fitting seats, passengers and lightning to the Hornby four wheel coaches. You have done another amazing transformation. The coaches have now come to life. Thank you so much for showing us how you did this. Keep safe and best wishes. 👍🚂
Thanks Martin, its always good to receive comments like yours. Since this modification I have also added extra pickups by adding a small coal truck which the prototypes also had...this improves the slow running no end and now there are no hesitations over my dead frog points, Regards Keith
Apart from the D-couplers it looks incredibly realistic! I usually use car tyres weight, but these lead slabs seem much more flexible and probably heavier too.
fantastic weathering - the part immediately below the front windows and along the top of the buffer beam is particulalrly ecctive. Great work. I have a single criticism... the tail-lights need something.
Thanks for your comments - I am glad you enjoyed the video. A long term plan is to add directional lighting to the front and rears of my diesels...I have started with my old Lima Class 33 but I have quite a few diesels and there are other projects which are currently clamouring for my attention. One day perhaps, Regards Keith
What a very informative and interesting video.. Thank you so much for sharing your story, I think you have done a great job with your little locomotive. She now looks, as you say, just like the shunters would have looked in the early 1950s. Well done sir, I was born in 1955 and I can just remember seeing dirty, sooty black locomotives moving wagons across a road not far from where I used to live. I used to stand with my dad near the crossing gates watching the locomotive and wagons go past. Happy days instead. Well thank you once again for a great channel and a great video. 👍🚂
Thanks for your kind comments Martin ...I am just a bit older than you but my memories of the last days of steam are just the same...happy days indeed, Regards Keith
Great work Keith. That is a Neat look considering its a Cardboard Kit..! Will look great once complete. Thanx for your Efforts. Cheers All, Kim from Downunder Land. 🦘🦘
Once Again, wonderful work. 🤗 You should be Well Pleased with your Efforts, turning a Bland Little Toy into a Good Looking little Shunter. I have not seen the Coal piled up in front of the Cab like that before. Great little touch. I can only just remember Steam in my Youth. (back in the Old Country.) And was too young to take in Such Details. But can Imagine the Crew getting as much Coal on Board as Possible, to save some time through the Day..! Time Saved for an Extra Tea Break at some point..! Thanx for your Efforts to Share your Upgrades. Some Great Tips..! Cheers All from Oz. 🦘
They also ran with small coal wagons behind them so they could travel further. I have built one since this video by converting a Hornby shunters truck. Needless to say there is a video.....Regards Keith
Warp Speed, Nice..! 😂 I know that Hornby started production with Kids in Mind. But, Why did/do they keep producing these 'Pocket Rockets', decades later when all those Kids, like me.🤪 Are Now looking for a More Realistic Speed.! HoHum Hornby..! Great Video & Great Work. Thanks for your Efforts in Sharing some Upgrade idea's. I have Subscribed, somewhat Late but better than Never. 🤗 Cheers All from Downunder. 😎
The newer starter locos , Pugs etc seem to have been regeared to run sensibly. I have several and use a Gaugemaster feed back controller which allows very slow running...something I really enjoy, Regards Keith
I have a Lima 09 which I bought new in 1980. The chassis plastic has become brittle with age and I've had to repair it with industrial thermal curing super glue semi-gel. Back in 1980, I replaced all the buffers with scale working sprung items and fitted Jackson screw link couplings. It was also converted to run under the old Hornby Zero One 1st generation DCC system and it has been running as #9 on my layouts for 44 years now.
Brilliant...you have done more than I did and it's great that yours is still running after all this time. Mine is a bit younger at about 30 ish years but runs beautifully, Regards Keith. BTW I tried Zero 1 many years ago but couldn't get on with it so reverted to straight 12volt DC.
It looks really good, such a great use of space and adds a whole new environment. I love what you have done with the arches and houses. It's obviously too late now, or maybe not, but what about swinging the tunnel mouths out to make them perpendicular to the track. Having them at an angle to the street above would allow for a proper town square. Just something that occurred to me. 😊
Thanks for your kind comments and you may well be right on both counts....it might look better if the tunnel mouths were at right angles and yep...I guess it is a little late to alter things now....Regards Keith
Reminds of the old film where they robbed a van then laid low in a terraced house above the railway line this is where they met their end in the passing coal trains one by one.
I too hate Metcalfe chimney pots! I also dislike their curtains and often replace them with appropriate patterned examples from magazines etc. The one thing I think you've missed is drainpipes but otherwise well done!
Keith can you show where you wired the pickups for impoved running, negating the depedancy of the brass pin on the loco? I have a few old tender drive loco's that are still poor runners and I believe it is the poor contact with the pin, which I try to keep clean.
