Four-wheel Coach No.11
GRUMS NARROW GAUGE LINES
Narrow Gauge model railway layouts in O9, 009 and Gn15 scales.
Sunday, 17 November 2024
FOUR_WHEEL COACH No.11
Sunday, 27 October 2024
October 2024
A bureau?... and another baseboard.
The household authorities had ordered a tidy -up of the "model railway room" months ago, so I thought I'd better get on with it. "I know", I said, "I want an old fashioned bureau, I can work on the lift-down flap then store my scruffy tools, turps, rags behind it. All my materials can go in the drawers." So a few visits to second-hand shops didn't throw up anything, nor did an antique centre, the bureau's in there were far too grand and expensive. Then I thought, you twit! (being me), I already have one in storage! it is being kept for me after my fathers passing from the family house, a small reproduction one and of a suitable size for the room where I make my models.
One of the only jobs I would do around the house when I was young (being a spoilt brat) was to polish the bureau, I liked doing that. So the bureau was collected and brought home. I repaired the cubby-hole fitment and strengthened one of the legs, polished it up, and filled it with my modelling stuff.
Friday, 6 September 2024
New Rolling Stock August 2024
New stock added in July and August 2024:-
In my "wakefield second-hand haul" was this un-made Avalon Line ALR1-9 freelance railbus. Here it is seen at Pye Rigg Works with painting nearly complete.
4-wheeled diesel "Satyr" is hauling two new resin kit builds from my "wakefield haul", which are Avalon Line AL51 Open passenger coaches. Passengers are by Woodland Scenics. Also in the photo is the railbus, now named "Siren". The van is also an Avalon item, a restored AL46. The open is also a restored vehicle, a Unit Models open wagon on a long chassis, I quite liked it as it was (placed on a wrong 15ft chassis) so I just added buffer beams and couplings and also re-painted it.
Saturday, 13 July 2024
2024 New Locos
2024 new locos.
We had three exhibitions with the PHLR in the first half of 2024, two with Raven Hill and one with Pye Rigg Works, and three exhibitions also with our 009 layout Shortwaite Hill which is still getting nice comments from visitors. Modelling time has been very intermittent, but three new locos have appeared, Ladon, Kur and Scylla.
Friday, 29 December 2023
2023 stuff.
2023 stuff.....
Well, 2023 was a busy year for exhibitions...for us, anyway. Our layouts were shown 14 times - 8 with "Raven Hill", 3 with "Pye Rigg Works", and 3 with our 009 layout "Shortwaite Hill". I am surprised that, although quite a lot of stock was built up to December 2022, only six models were built this year, 3 locos, a 4-wheel coach, a tank wagon and a large van.
New layout ideas keep buzzing around in my mind, but if any were actually built there would be no room to store them.
And just recently, after four years, my first 7mm scale diorama, built in a drawer, was actually named. "Drawley", a pun on "drawer" and "Lee" (the chaps name who gave it to me).
Photos from our travels:-
"Hyena", and coach No. 10 from Minicraft 1872 Vulcan kit.
A station name for the drawer module at last.
Saturday, 16 December 2023
"Hyena", "Ladon" and Coach No. 10
After seeing an advert in "Railway Modeller" for a collection of (mostly un-made, resin) O9 kits plus some scenic items, I bought them and made a trip "up North" to collect them. There were about 32 wagons, a couple of coach bodies and few loco's. Two Avalon Line freelance diesel kits (ALD1-9 and ALD2-9) were part-made, so I set about repairing and restoring them. These are no longer made, so I was pleased to have them. Some of the parts were not fixed correctly, but it was quite tricky cutting some parts off them as they were old, and glued with super glue. The locos became "Hyena" and "Ladon".
I had been looking for some lattice post signals suitable for O9 and found "noble_designs" on Ebay printing and selling some good 4mm examples. So I asked if they could be printed approx. 36% larger to bring them up to 12ft high and I bought 8 of them. Above is a photo of one plonked temporarily on Pye Rigg Works.
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
"Kelpie"
Over the last couple of months I have built a new loco named "Kelpie". It's a brass kit which I soldered together, the first time I have tried this. It's not my best build, nor the paint job, but it's still holding together so some of the soldered joints must have worked!
Monday, 31 July 2023
Exhibitions July 2023
Exhibitions July 2023
Not a lot of modelling getting done at the moment, but during July we did two exhibitions, one at the Bressingham Narrow Gauge show (09.07.2023) and the next at the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Brockford Station (23.07.2023), which was first public display for "Pye Rigg Works".
Here are some photos:-
Sunday, 25 June 2023
New Plan
A New Plan
Just one picture to post:-
Monday, 12 June 2023
Display at NSNGM Group Exhibition. 3rd June
Raven Hill was exhibition on 3rd June at the Norfolk & Suffolk Narrow Gauge Modellers Exhibition inBeccles.
Here are a few photos from the day:
9 layouts were displayed, plus another seven "Challenge" layouts. To compete for the challenge trophy a narrow gauge layout had to be built in 4 square feet (576 sq. inches) , fiddle yards could be added to facilitate operation. We had exhibits in 16mm, O-16.5, 009, O9, 1:16, and 5.5mm scale.