Echo that!?
What’s the phrase, “Two steps forward, one step back”?
In my case its often “one step forward and two steps back”, though that ignores the very valuable lessons I learn all the while.
As a recent arm-chair-leaver-behind (and what an addiction that was!) I can only offer the advice to “watchers" on this and other lists who haven’t managed to “do”, just get out there and have a go - I’m spending a lot less time ‘planning’ stuff
and gaining a lot of insight through ‘doing’ it instead. ?In spite of the two steps backward, the one step forward has been great...
Gary
Hi Bruce,
I reckon I spend at least half of my work time procrastinating, hunting for materials that hide the moment I look for them, looking for lost items & tools, fixing things I break when trying to do the next bit, etc. Thus I know I couldn't do that much in 10
hours work time.
John
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Hi David, I can see them on the group, and I'm all the way over in Australia !! Cheers Ian J
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I'm itching to see it but?either don't get into the photos area of the Yahoo! group or my laptop?sits in blackness. Any chance of the photos getting posted to the website? David H ?
To: O14@... From: O14@... Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:31:47 -0700 Subject: [O14] Re: A3014 Micro display
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Looks great Bruce. I doubt if I could do that much in 10 hours.
John
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Hi Bruce, I reckon I spend at least half of my work time procrastinating, hunting for materials that hide the moment I look for them, looking for lost items & tools, fixing things I break when trying to do the next bit, etc. Thus I know I couldn't do that much in 10 hours work time. John ---In O14@..., <bruce.wood@...> wrote : Hi John, ? Thank-you for your nice compliment. ? Just clarifying the build-time, this is the time I was actually “working”
on the display, and not the lapsed time. The ten hours refers to the layout
only, (baseboard, structures, per way and scenery) and does not include locos or
rolling stock. Yesterday, I was working on the scenery, and the display was
outside all day, in the warmth of the sun. Every hour or so, I would sprinkle
some ground cover, and then spray some diluted PVA glue over the ground cover.
Every time I did this, my “work time” was 4 – 5 minutes. The display is very
simple in design, no points, so trackwork is straight-forward and simple. The
two structures (railway trestle bridge, and roadway bridge are very simple in
design, with basic materials ( 6 mm x 6 mm dressed timber from the hardware
store, and craft “ice cream” sticks or “coffee stirrers” from the variety
stores. The road bridge handrail is made from Evergreen. I use a NWSL Chopper
which helps to quickly cut styrene and craft wood to the required sizes.
Weathering is with cheap acrylic artists paints. ? Until you do a display on such a small footprint, you don’t realise how
small it is! I have 2? - 3 “trademark” accessory items which I like to
include in all my model railways, and whilst these items are small, I had
difficulty placing them, without making the scene look cluttered or unnatural.
When you put the (small) size of the display into perspective, you do understand
how quickly you can construct a display such as this, and I will stick with my
“10 hours of work time”. ? Best regards Bruce ? ?
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 5:31 AM Subject: [O14] Re: A3014 Micro display ? ?Looks great Bruce. I doubt if I could do that much in 10
hours.
John
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Hi John,
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Thank-you for your nice compliment.
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Just clarifying the build-time, this is the time I was actually “working”
on the display, and not the lapsed time. The ten hours refers to the layout
only, (baseboard, structures, per way and scenery) and does not include locos or
rolling stock. Yesterday, I was working on the scenery, and the display was
outside all day, in the warmth of the sun. Every hour or so, I would sprinkle
some ground cover, and then spray some diluted PVA glue over the ground cover.
Every time I did this, my “work time” was 4 – 5 minutes. The display is very
simple in design, no points, so trackwork is straight-forward and simple. The
two structures (railway trestle bridge, and roadway bridge are very simple in
design, with basic materials ( 6 mm x 6 mm dressed timber from the hardware
store, and craft “ice cream” sticks or “coffee stirrers” from the variety
stores. The road bridge handrail is made from Evergreen. I use a NWSL Chopper
which helps to quickly cut styrene and craft wood to the required sizes.
Weathering is with cheap acrylic artists paints.
?
Until you do a display on such a small footprint, you don’t realise how
small it is! I have 2? - 3 “trademark” accessory items which I like to
include in all my model railways, and whilst these items are small, I had
difficulty placing them, without making the scene look cluttered or unnatural.
When you put the (small) size of the display into perspective, you do understand
how quickly you can construct a display such as this, and I will stick with my
“10 hours of work time”.
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Best regards
Bruce
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Looks great Bruce. I doubt if I could do that much in 10
hours.
John
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Looks great Bruce. I doubt if I could do that much in 10 hours.
John
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Hi Folks,
?I posted a message a couple of weeks ago that I was building
a micro 014 project, named “A3014”. (O14 gauge on an A3 sized footprint.)
This has been a diversion project to give me some respite
from the 3,000 piece standard gauge garratt kit, which had been driving me
crazy.
A3014 is now virtually complete, so I have posted a couple
of pics. I will probably need to consider a back scene, and as for lighting, I haven’t
started to consider how to apply lighting to something so small?
Every piece of material came from my garage. The sleepers
were left-over standard gauge PCB which had to be shortened, hence the extravagant
use of ballast to hide the wide sleepers.
This entire project just took a few hours (probably 10 hours)
to complete.
(Pictures are not great, taken in natural lighting in the
backyard. The pics are In photo section, under A3014 Micro display)
Cheers
Bruce W
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Re: Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
On 18/06/2015 20:33, William Bryk
wmbryk@... [O14] wrote:
As an American admirer of 014 work, I am delighted to
read this and will subscribe as soon as possible.
It might be better to wait
a bit, as I'm sure they have a lot on their hands sorting
out the transfer back to Roy Link.
--
Brian Rumary
England
brian(at)rumary.co.uk
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Re: Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
Indeed!? We, the Review's devoted readership owe Roy a significant vote of thanks?for taking back into his home the offspring he?surely hoped had flown the nest to make a life with someone else!
Adrian
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Re: Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
Great news for us but sad for Roy Link who has been trying to step away from full service publishing.
Bill Uffelman Ocean View DE
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:34 PM, "William Bryk wmbryk@... [O14]" wrote:
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As an American admirer of 014 work, I am delighted to read this and will subscribe as soon as possible.
Regards, William Bryk
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, adrian@... [O14] <O14@...> wrote:
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Friends,
There is no 'good news' surrounding the death of Bob Barlow.
However, new posting on the Greystar web site provides us with the news many of us had been hoping for.
Adrian
-- William Bryk
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law
578 74th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11209-2614
Tel/Fax: (347) 497-5972
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Re: Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
As an American admirer of 014 work, I am delighted to read this and will subscribe as soon as possible.
Regards, William Bryk
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, adrian@... [O14] <O14@...> wrote:
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Friends,
There is no 'good news' surrounding the death of Bob Barlow.
However, new posting on the Greystar web site provides us with the news many of us had been hoping for.
Adrian
-- William Bryk
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law
578 74th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11209-2614
Tel/Fax: (347) 497-5972
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Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling REVIEW
Friends,
There is no 'good news' surrounding the death of Bob Barlow.
However, new posting on the Greystar web site provides us with the news many of us had been hoping for.
Adrian
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Mine came with flangeless centre drivers.
Adrian On 17 June 2015 08:27:19 BST, "David Woodcock dandewoodcock@... [O14]" wrote:
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Can some kind soul who has bought Mark Clark’s Joffre kit tell me whether it comes with flangeless centre drivers. The prototype had them, the drawings on the website seem to show them flanged and the photos of Mark’s test build show them flangeless, but with the comment that the wheels were modified Romfords as he was still then awaiting delivery of the proper Slaters’ wheels.
David Woodcock
Champlon, Belgique
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Hi
Those rear fixed bearings are the first odd thing in the kit.? They are way too hefty and I have left them in the packet.? A couple of spins in the holes in the chassis with a broach and I have fitted a pair of Gibson's regular bearings.? To fit the bearings?supplied I would still be enlarging those holes.....With these in situ and with?a pair of the thicker washers supplied, the 014 wheels have just the right amount of play.? Same for the High level horn block pair.?? I am sticking with three point compensation and not going down the sprung route.
Next an?error in the instructions (cylinders)?as re parts 7 8 9?- we are told to fold the tabs on 8 down till they touch part 9; don't - that will bend them the wrong way - it is forward till touches part 7.? I am going to build this unit next and then go back to the motor gearbox as per instructions.
As for smoke sound and stay alive capacitors - watch this space!? I do not think there will be any room for capacitors, but the tank will hold a zimo MX648 sited East/West.? The?posterior 20mm of ?boiler will house a 12mm loudspeaker.? The smokebox will house the Seuthe unit with the anterior 10mm of boiler housing a fuel tank.? There will be no space for?fan assisted smoke!? All this gubbins however will fill most of the space needed for lead weights - anyone got any depleted uranium going begging???
I might post some photos soon.
Paul
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I think that is Alastair's plan - he said continuous beam which would be CSB. ?Sounds an interesting project, & I'll be keeping my eye out for progress from you all...?
Cheers, Pete?
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Subject: Re: [O14] Mark Clark Wren
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You may want to consider using guitar string for springs, it offers a
suspension that won’t tend to make your model get the wobbles as with coil
springs, and a whole lot easier to set-up.
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Brian
Qld.
Aust.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [O14] Mark Clark Wren
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I too picked up a Wren from Mark at the weekend (must have been a good day
for him!), after being impressed by the model on his stand. In fact all the
stuff on his stand looked great. The deal clincher was the fact that the cab
roof support rail is supplied pre-formed, getting the bends in that looked like
"fun". Thankfully they are jig assembled by Mark.?
I started looking at the chassis last night but lack of tools stopped play.
There are some heavyweight brass bearings supplied for the rear axle and my
largest broach was not manly enough. Whilst I order a larger one thoughts have
moved on to whether you could spring the loco with a continuous beam - although
getting enough weight to actually get the springing to work could be a
challenge. Maybe a case of making more work for yourself.
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The kit looks great though..looking forward to continuing work on it.
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Alastair
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You may want to consider using guitar string for springs, it offers a
suspension that won’t tend to make your model get the wobbles as with coil
springs, and a whole lot easier to set-up.
?
Brian
Qld.
Aust.
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I too picked up a Wren from Mark at the weekend (must have been a good day
for him!), after being impressed by the model on his stand. In fact all the
stuff on his stand looked great. The deal clincher was the fact that the cab
roof support rail is supplied pre-formed, getting the bends in that looked like
"fun". Thankfully they are jig assembled by Mark.?
I started looking at the chassis last night but lack of tools stopped play.
There are some heavyweight brass bearings supplied for the rear axle and my
largest broach was not manly enough. Whilst I order a larger one thoughts have
moved on to whether you could spring the loco with a continuous beam - although
getting enough weight to actually get the springing to work could be a
challenge. Maybe a case of making more work for yourself.
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The kit looks great though..looking forward to continuing work on it.
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Alastair
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I too picked up a Wren from Mark at the weekend (must have been a good day for him!), after being impressed by the model on his stand. In fact all the stuff on his stand looked great. The deal clincher was the fact that the cab roof support rail is supplied pre-formed, getting the bends in that looked like "fun". Thankfully they are jig assembled by Mark. ?
I started looking at the chassis last night but lack of tools stopped play. There are some heavyweight brass bearings supplied for the rear axle and my largest broach was not manly enough. Whilst I order a larger one thoughts have moved on to whether you could spring the loco with a continuous beam - although getting enough weight to actually get the springing to work could be a challenge. Maybe a case of making more work for yourself.?
The kit looks great though..looking forward to continuing work on it.
Alastair
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Paul Martin groups2@... [O14] <O14@...> wrote:
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Paul Do let us know how you shoe horned the decoder, keep alive capacitor and smoke unit into it. I’ve got all three of Marks kits and haven’t started one of them yet Paul M ? ? ? I too bought a Wren from Mark on Saturday on a whim!! What a little beauty - well done Mark. I felt my modelling was stagnating and I have been spending the late evenings asleep in front of the tele; but not since Saturday!
So far we have a basic chassis block and some lovely marine type rods. Should get the hornblocks and cylinders done tonight.
The etchings are crisp and fit. The lost wax castings are clean and beautifully moulded and the instructions clear with great diagrams.
A thumbs up to Locosnstuff.
Paul
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Can some kind soul who has bought Mark Clark’s Joffre kit tell me whether it comes with flangeless centre drivers. The prototype had them, the drawings on the website seem to show them flanged and the photos of Mark’s test build show them flangeless, but with the comment that the wheels were modified Romfords as he was still then awaiting delivery of the proper Slaters’ wheels.
David Woodcock
Champlon, Belgique
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Paul Do let us know how you shoe horned the decoder, keep alive capacitor and smoke unit into it. I’ve got all three of Marks kits and haven’t started one of them yet Paul M ?
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To: O14@...
Subject: [O14] Mark Clark Wren? ? I too bought a Wren from Mark on Saturday on a whim!! What a little beauty - well done Mark. I felt my modelling was stagnating and I have been spending the late evenings asleep in front of the tele; but not since Saturday!
So far we have a basic chassis block and some lovely marine type rods. Should get the hornblocks and cylinders done tonight.
The etchings are crisp and fit. The lost wax castings are clean and beautifully moulded and the instructions clear with great diagrams.
A thumbs up to Locosnstuff.
Paul
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