Thanks for the welcome guys. I did OO as a kid, 009 as a teenager, big pause while I did some 5" live steam, 0 in the last couple of years and now a trainee cleaner on the East Lancs! I would really like to do some early era 0 gauge ( or bigger) if there any kits around?
Hi Graham, Welcome to our group of like-minded people. Looking forward to seeing your models. My best regards, Gloria,
Graham and a warm to the forum from Yorkshire. I build O Gauge steam loco kits as do a few other chaps on here, so my best advice is to avoid budget kits and second hand resales unless they come from a bona fide trader. What early era O Gauge steam are you interested in ? cheers York Paul
Oh Graham, you've opened the flood gates Firstly welcome to the forum, and yes there are plenty of kits, a good place to start are the Connoisseur Model range, these kits have great instructions, well designed good quality that go together easily and at a reasonable price. I even put my money where my mouth is and a have a que of 5 kits to build. Paul
Hi Graham from sunny warm Costa del Sol, you're a man of ambition .. good luck there's plenty of help here (me I've just moved to n gauge … its like railway modelling in braille) Ian vt
Hello and welcome to the forum Graham, great to have you on board! Nice to have another O guager in our ranks, you will find lots of help and advice here. As York Paul and Dundee Paul say, be careful with what you fancy, you definitely get what you pay for though to be fair up to date designed kits tend to be good to build, with one or two exceptions naturally. Some of the new ready to run models from Dapol in O scale and the Hattons pacific's look very nice and not over priced either. Cheer's, Pete.
Hi Paul I am very much into building locos/rolling stock, building scenery etc does very little for me, though I totally go with every man to his own, and how boring would it be if we all liked the same thing! I like just seeing them run, so happy with modeling the track and immediate lineside. But I am attracted to early steam - Liverpool Manchester, London Birmingham era. I am comfortable building etched brass kits, simple scratch building - I have most of my workshop still - lathe, etc but the milling machine had to go when we moved house . So looking for high quality 0 gauge models of 1830s 40's prototypes I can build. I am lucky to have a largish garden, so toying with a simple 0 gauge garden layout, though with another possible house move on the horizon a bit unwilling to commit too deeply on a layout until I know what's happening long term. A few images attached, an 0 gauge sentinel with chain drive, compensation ( swinging axle ) and finished with DCC sound, and a 5" Sweet Pea I built a few years ago which I have held onto. The sentinel is not finished in any of these photos! Thanks Graham
Very interesting photos indeed Graham and thank you for sharing with us, as Pete says its nice to have another larger scale modeler on board. My interests are based on the later steam periods of LMS and post LMS era although I've just bought in an 850 class Pannier kit to build and then sell on. Anyway I'll look forward to following your projects and loco builds as they occur. cheers York Paul
You'd find a Resin 3D printer really useful, almost a scratch builders dream machine - well it will be once I beat it into submission Now that is early steam, somewhere I have a copy of Mike Sharmans LSWR Locomotive Drawings in 7mm vintage 1850 - 1890 ish - just wish I remembered where I've put it for safe keeping Paul
3D printing sounds interesting Paul, is there a buyers guide online you could recommend just to do some research? I know very little about it other than there are companies you can send designs to that will print your items ( shapeways ? )
Loving the photos Graham! I have a Sentinal in the build list, mines a Janick if I remember rightly. I've been told that its design uses a shaft at each end of the motor, most likely a Mashima, luckily I have a few on stock, driving both axles via gears. Cheer's, Pete.
G'day Graham, Welcome aboard from Sydney. I'll be looking forward to your posts and what ever may happen on the work bench in good time. Cheers, Gary.
