Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 18

Dutch Scale Seven Group report May 2015.

In the last weekend of February, Ton Trip and I were at the 2 day’s model railway show in Herwen, where Ton set up his “Tripton at Sea” railway. On Saturday, we operated the layout with his engines A Pannier tank and a Metro Class and on Sunday, I took some wagons and my GWR 0-6-0 Saddletank and GWR 0-6-0 Dean Good to let them run at the layout. My Dean Goods made its maiden trip on this fine detailed layout too. The engine ran really well as it comes complete with ESU DCC Sound decoder, inside motion, and ABC gears. The chosen 1900 colour scheme looks very realistic. The Saddle tank also gave a great performance. At the show, we promoted the ScaleSeven standards and way of modelling, which resulted in interesting discussions around the model railway and the ScaleSeven models.

Sunday at the Herwen Show in the Netherlands Cor's locos at work on Ton Trip's layout Tripton.

GWR Dean Goods cab details.

Last month I finished a GWR “Tadpole”, which is a very fine wagon with 3 axles and a outside break compensation system. A WEP models kit was used and I added more details. In order to do that, I mounted CPL buffers and couplings and put the vacuum and steam pipes under the frame. The spring hangers are modified and parts of CPL springs are used to get the correct detail. By the doors I mounted small chains for a more realistic look. These are so small, you need a magnifier to mount them.

Cor's 'Tadpole' fish truck built from a WEP kit with extra embellishments.

The GWR “Scorpion” is also finished.  This model is built with a D&S kit as the base but a lot of details are added. There is a good picture of the real wagon which we used as a guide.

I made some extra parts of brass and added extra details to the break system. Steam and vacuum pipes are completed under the frame so the frame is packed to show great resemblance to the life size model.

The complete building proces at Building a 'Scorpion'

A close-up of Cor's 'Scorpion' open carriage truck built from a D&S kit.

Cor's  'Scorpion' doing what is was build to do ...

GWR 'Scorpion'  ready to take a load.

Next job will be the GWR 2-4-0 “Stella”  class. This engine will be build as it looks in 1900 - 1910. I am waiting for the extended driving axles because the Slater’s are too short for ScaleSeven.

We hope to get an other opportunity to promote ScaleSeven in the Netherlands. Perhaps at the end of the year in October Ton will setup his ScaleSeven layout in Sedan (France). When everything goes well I will go there to operate the “Tripton at Sea” layout and promote ScaleSeven again.

Activities for the coming months will include building points and tracks for the “Minehead 1900 -1910 “ railway. A face book page of the Dutch Scale Seven Group is online and reactions continue to come from modellers in different countries and I encourage you to take a look too.

For Facebook look at  DSSG Facebook page.

All pictures C de Jong.

Till next time, Cor

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 17

In the weekend of 18 and 19 October, the Dutch Scale Seven Group was in Belgium promoting S7. Ton Trip was invited to show his S7 railway  “Tripton by the Sea” at the Modelspoor Expo in the city of Leuven. I visited this interesting show with my wife and saw Ton operating his beautiful layout. Next year in February 2015 the “Tripton by the Sea” layout will be showed at a local model railway show in Herwen a small village in the East of the Netherlands. I will assist Ton to operate the layout and promote the S7 way of modelling.

Ton Trip operating his S7 "Tripton by the Sea "layout. Photo CdJ 

For the  S7 Kingswear layout I bought two kits of horse drawn carriages. Two types of carriages are being modelled, a “Single horse Brougham” and a “Single horse Wagonette”. These kits were produced by the firm Parliamentary Trains. I’ve started building the Brougham carriage first. The small kit consists of laser cut parts which fit very well. It’s a joy to build this little coach. For the axles brass parts are included to produce a nice and realistic axle construction. To make the spooked wheels look right, the kit includes parts for a jig to press the spokes in the correct angle against the wheel rim. A very effective solution.

 Finished Brougham carriage. Photo CdJ

 A GWR 3501 Class engine will be build for the broad gauge Kingswear railway. The kit is etched nickle silver and looks great. I started to build the frame first and will make split axles for this engine. The insulated Slater’s hornblocks will be mounted with M0,8 bolts. This will make the construction more appealing. Mounting the hornblocks with the small M0,8 bolts will also make it easy to adjust the hornblocks when placed in the frames.

BG 3501 Class frame under construction. Photo CdJ

Currently there is a nice kit of  a  GWR  “Tadpole” wagon produced by WEP models on the work bench. This brass kit is an interesting example of a wagon with 3 axles and an outside braking system. Ton and I like the WEP kits because they are of a high standard and have that much desired realistic look. 

G.W.R "Tadpole" Fishwagon under construction. Photo CdJ.

For the complete building proces of this wagon look at GWR "Tadpole" building page.

Till next ....
CdJ 

DSSG Exhibition News 28 August 2014

The beautifull 1:43,5 Scale Seven layout "Tripton at Sea" build by the Dutch Scale Seven Group member Ton Trip will be exposed at a modelrailway exhibition in Belgium.

Grote Modelspoor Expo Leuven
Startdate: 18 October 2014
Enddate : 19 October 2014
Opening times: za 10:00-18:00; zo 09:00-17:00 uur
Location : Leuven (Belgium)
For more information look at :www.modelspoorexpo.com

Cor de Jong.

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 16

Over the last few months the DSSG members were busy preparing the Rail 2014 stand.  We want to display some new build models. The themes chosen to display were standard gauge G.W.R. at the left side and broad gauge G.W.R. at the right side of the stand. At the right side of our ScaleSeven information stand there was a Dutch broad gauge railway showing a part of the Haarlem HIJSM station situated in 1860. So we arranged an optical connection between the English and Dutch broad gauge railways. For the visitors it was a point of interest to see this historical connection. The Dutch broad gauge railway is build by Joop Bluijs who used parts delivered by the Broad Gauge Society to build his scale7 tracks and rolling stock. At the left side of our stand was the Courcelle Part railway of Richard Chown. The French scale7 layout of Henri Cibert made the Scale Seven presentation complete. So at Rail 2014 there was a strong international Scale Seven presence.

A model by Joop Bluijs of the Dutch broad gauge in 1860, built to S7 standards.

A scale7 model of a PLM heavy tank built by Henri Cibert .

Some new models are build and some under construction. From a WEP  kit a G.W.R. Fruit Van is build in the 1900 - 1910 style. Cor also did the piping in the frame and added the safety loops for the clasp brake yokes. An D&S Models’ G.W.R. Scorpion is also almost finished. A picture of the prototype is used for more details and make the small but beautiful model more complete.

 A GWR Fruit Van to diagram Y2 built form a WEP kit with added detail by Cor de Jong. 

For the broad gauge Kingswear railway a series of four G.W.R. Tilt Wagons are under construction. At the Rail 2014 show, one of them was completed and displayed. A wooden floor is fitted into the wagon -unusually the planking runs longitudinally- and real chains are mounted at the door sides. The shape and colour of the wagon make a model interesting and special on the railway.

Inside the G.W.R broad gauge tilt wagon.

G.W.R broad gauge tilt wagon. 

A new broad gauge engine kit of the BG 3501 Class is delivered and will be built this year. The complete kit is delivered by the BGS. For this engine the S7 wheels are made by Slater’s and they look very realistic. An ABC Gears mini gooch gearbox and motor will used for driving the engine.

Ton Trip bought some WEP brass kits to build for his Tripton at Sea railway. This railway will displayed later on this year 18 and 19 October in Leuven, Belgium.

Till next....

Cor de Jong

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 15

At the Rail 2013 Exhibiton we did set up our DSSG stand. During the 3 day's we had a lot of visitors and attention for the models and the S7 railway build by Ton Trip.

For an impression of our setup some pictures.

First scale seven layout in the Netherlands photo  CdJ

Station building and coal stage photo CdJ

Lot's of interest for the Cowan Sheldon Railway Crane photo CdJ

Ton's 517 Class shunting photo CdJ

Local train to fiddle yard photo CdJ

Coal wagons in the coal yard foto CdJ

Goods yard photo CdJ

For modelling in the scale seven standards there is interest but change over is for the most modellers not easy. But we as Dutch Scale Seven Group we keep promoting S7 and hope that  more Dutch modellers will cross the line.

Our conclusion the Rail 2013 exhibition was a succes for this way of modelling. 

Till next CdJ

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 14

For the last Scale Seven Newsletter we had not submitted our latest update you so here is a new report  from the DSSG. There are some projects we are working on that are making progress and still go on with the scale seven promotion in the Netherlands.

At the Dutch 0 gauge weekend held last October in Zutphen we had a little stand with some  scale seven model engines. Cor gave a demonstration with his GWR 0-6-0 Saddle tank which he had converted from fine scale into scale seven. In this major rebuild the loco also got a DCC decoder and working CPL head lights. We demonstrated a rebuild loco with an inside motion and a very smooth running at the test track. Ton came with his beautiful 517 Class and his Pannier. Both engines were finished and ready to run on his “Tripton at Sea” railway.

For the promotion of scale seven in the Netherlands the DSSG is invited to set up the promotion stand at Rail 2013 in Houten, a small town near Utrecht. This exhibition will take place at 22, 23, and 24 February in the Eurector-Expo-Center in Houten. At this exhibition the complete scale seven layout “Tripton at Sea” will be shown for the first time fully in operation for the public. Ton Trip, the proud owner of this layout, has finished his engines and wagons so he can demonstrate a layout build using the scale seven standards. Cor will also demonstrate his scale seven models at this layout such as the GWR 0-6-0 Saddle tank with complete working inside motion. Ton’s GWR 0-6-0 Pannier tank also has a working inside motion. The Dutch modellers at the show are always interested in our way of building models.

In our promotion stand we will show some models we are working on. GWR 0-6-0 Dean Goods, GWR 2-4-0 3500 Stella class under construction, Broad Gauge G.W.R 0-6-0 Armstrong Goods, a convertible engine and the beautiful BG Rover Class. Some wagons, BG coaches and the Cowan Sheldon railway crane. At the displays we will also put some Dutch wagons build by Cor in the scale seven standards. This is unusual in the Netherlands because all the Dutch 0 gauge modellers use fine scale standards. But we will show that it’s also easy to build a finescale designed Dutch wagon kit in the scale seven standards.

In the last months we were busy with building some models.

The Minehead 1900 – 1910 railway is progressing slowly because of lack of time and the son of Cor who is building every Wednesday night at the Minehead railway was abroad for study during 10 weeks. But for this railway Cor build two Iron Minks and finished the Iron Cattle wagon. He also started to build two GWR Two Planks. For the Iron Minks and the Two Planks he used WEP kits and build all these wagons in the old version with grease bearings and a break on one side. The wagons are finished now and lettering is the last step to do in the  coming weeks.

Cor also started to build the GWR 2-4-0 Stella class. For this model he bought the M. Finney kit complete with a 2500 Gallon tender. An ABC gearbox with a Maxon motor will be used as the power source to get a smooth and realistic running engine. The wheels came from Slater’s and will be turned into scale seven standards by Cor.  He chose to build the roundtop version with the S4 boiler and a complete working inside motion.

For the Broad Gauge railway Kingswear Cor ordered from the Broad Gauge Society the G.W.R  2-4-0 William Dean 3501 Class. The BGS produced a kit for members of this Broad Gauge engine. This engine will be build in scale seven like all the other BG stock on this railway.  A nice kit to build was the Old Mink. This kit is also a product of the BGS. The body is CNC milled from Plasticard. The construction of the frame and compensation must be designed by the builder. Cor made an inside compensation and placed rivets in the body. These small rivets came from the German company GHW. Cor drilled the holes and glued the rivets into the small 0,6 mm holes. In the whole body Cor used 330 rivets. 

The broad gauge Kingswear  railway is setup in the workshop of Cor to look at it and when there is more time make progress and finish some parts. 

Some pictures of the Kingswear Broad Gauge Railway.

View at the yard. 

Unloading the wagens in the goods yard. 

Till next, Cor 

Dutch Scale Seven Group report nr. 13

After some months of silence here a new report  from the DSSG. There are some projects we are working on and that are making progress.

A small project was the rebuilt of a finescale GWR 0-6-0 saddle tank to the S7 standards. The kit was not designed for S7 standards so we had to change the measurement of the splashers on the footplate. We turned wheels into the S7 standard and replaced the first and third axle with a S7  axle and modified the power pickups. The middle axle with the inside motion was reused and we used Slaters’ filler rings to get the correct S7 back to back measurement. After this rebuild the engine was converted to DCC with a Lenz  DCC decoder. A challenge was to make the CPL GWR loco lights working. With a small SMD led fitted into the small brass CPL casting we got a working loco light. For this fine work you need to work with a magnifier to solder the small thin wires on to the 1mm x 1,2mm x 2mm SMD led. The CPL loco lights are relatively simple to convert into a working light.

CPL loco light housing, lens and very small SMD Led.



GWR 0-6-0 Saddeltank 2028 with working light.

In the GWR 0-6-0 Dean Goods Cor installed an ESU sound decoder with ESU power pack and speakers. After an experiment to find out what the best place will be for the location of the speakers we came to the conclusion that the best place is one speaker in the smoke box and one speaker between the frame plates. Important is a open chimney so you can hear the exhaust sound through the chimney. There is no speaker in the tender. In the tender we mounted the sound decoder and the power pack. The connection to the engine is made with an small 22 pins connector so the tender and engine can be separated very easily. For the synchronisation of the movement from the inside motion with the exhaust sound we will place 4 very small magnets in the big tooth wheel which is mounted on the axle in the ABC gearbox. An electronic Hall censor will pick up the change of the magnetic field and give synchronisation signals to the ESU sound decoder. For the sound we chose the SWD Pannier sound. There is no sound for a GWR 0-6-0 Dean Goods available. At the GOG 2012 Summer show in Halifax  Arnold and Cor spoke to an expert in DCC sounds and he told us the Pannier sound is the most nearby and so suitable as a Dean Goods sound.



ESU sounddecoder build in Dean Goods tender.

 The construction of the home Scale Seven layout  “Minehead” of Cor and son Joost is going forward with small steps. We produced a lot of wooden sleepers for the tracks and a lot of wooden sleepers with different measurements for the points. For the shape of the points we used the printed point drawings produced with the Templot track design program. A small part of the track is ready and connected to the Lenz DCC control system. The rebuild GWR 0-6-0 2028 Pannier tank was the first engine to run a few meters on the new Scale Seven layout “Minehead”.

GWR 0-6-0 Dean Goods at S7 point.



Joost building S7 track at the  "Minehead"railway.

 Arnold is busy building a piece of G.W.R Baulk road to display his future engines. After the conversion from broad gauge to standard gauge there was a lot of converted track in use at the stations and sidings. For this piece of display track Arnold will also place the square head bolts to make this track the most prototypical. It’s not an easy task but Arnold will pick up the challenge. When he has finished we will take a picture of his work and send it with the next DSSG report.

G.W.R Baulkroad.

Till next, 

Cor