Update on what is going on

Hi
If you have read the latest , brilliant LBSCR Modellers Digest 6 then you will have read that David Lowe and I have taken over running Exclusively Brighton Models from Mike Waldron. He stated a wish to retire from kit production as he retired himself, so that he could finish some and complete his layout. So, we both wanted to see the range continue and have therefore taken over the running of it.

Orders to me, David is rehashing the web pages and that will be updated soon.

I have been looking at making more available in 7mm scale and there will be further developments in the next few months.

I intend to keep this blog going to show what I am up to outside of EBM and hope to be posting some good news in the near future.

In the meantime, Mike still looks after the transfers from Italy, I have a limited stock of parts and we plan to order from the etchers approx. every three months and won't be actually keeping much in stock as such. The castings in 4mm will still be supplied by Chris Cox of 5&9 Models and there is a hope to start getting 7mm castings sorted out also.

Cheers
Ian

Return to the bench at last

Just to let you know I am at last able to sit at my computer and workbench properly again so expect some new photos shortly

Broken Knee Stops Play!!

Yes, well; in my attempts to exercise during my retirement I have been walking or cycling locally. Unfortunately I came off my bike last week and ended up in A&E and then admitted to the local excellent NHS facility for a week. I have broken my left knee and am in a splint for a few weeks. I have now returned home and have just about managed to get to my workbench and computer. A bit uncomfortable at the moment but hoping I can at least either get on with modelling or etch drawing whilst I can't walk.
Will update this in a week or so once I have got used to being at home again like this.
Oh joy!!
Ian

No 5, what a corker!

Well done Eric!
http://www.lbscr.org/Models/Journal/LBSCR-Modellers-Digest-5.pdf

Or Just The Sides for 4mm?

I've been asked if I should make only sides for the 4mm carriages and you can buy a Roxey carriage and just swap the sides for other kinds. What are your thoughts on this please?

Crowdfunding for 4mm versions??

Hi
I have been asked for 4mm versions of the Stroudley Diagram 18, 23 and 33. I have an order for one off the 18 and 23 and two off the 33. Would anyone else who wishes copies of these to be made available in 4mm please contact me and offer to spread the cost of the photo tooling. I personally do not want 4mm versions of these so will only redraw and make these available if there is enough interest and funding. The approx. costs of the tooling for one sheet with Dia 23 and 18 on and another sheet with two copies of Dia 33 are in the region of £100 for the two with about £25 per sheet for the brass. If 4 people came forward and shared the phototooling it would be about £75 each and you would get 4 carriage etches for that money. If 3 people - £83 each, if 5 people - £70 each.
Please let me know by the end of June 2017 (or after the next Digest/Modelling Notes and Circular, whichever is the later) and I will move this to fruition.
Many thanks, Ian

33 and 23 make? Well Stroudley 4 wheelers actually!

Both the Dia 33, left and Dia 23, right.

The Dia 23 is a 2nd class saloon

The Dia 33 is an early version with long windows between doors, there being only low seat backs between the compartments here represented by some plasticard.

I'll see if I can get some better photos as these are from my phone and rather poor!

Craven 6 wheeler Type 12F

This is one of the carriages I have always liked the look of and wanted to make a model of. I have completed the trial etch as an early example with upper stepboard and lower footboard but it will also be possible to make it with a continuous upper stepboard if representing a later period.
I haven't quite got the underframe correct on this test but I think it looks nice anyway and will make a couple of changes and then it will be ready.

The roof is only balanced on and I have made four plasticard compartment dividers and just placed them inside for the photo. I will get on with masters for the axleboxes and buffers now.
Whilst building this I discovered that the drawing I was looking at was incorrect as it showed a lower footboard support in the position where the middle axlebox would be - is this archeological re-enactment? The safety chains look better when another carriage is joined in a train, especially from a side view. See this view of a part completed Dia 33 that I am just building next.

Stroudley Carriages

Well I have been building test etches of a couple of Stroudley Carriages. The Dia 40 1st Brake with 4 wheels and an early saloon, the 6 wheeled Dia 18. These are the first Stroudley vehicles I have redrawn from 4 to 7mm and they are looking okay. I think I need to reposition the lower lamp irons onto the bufferbeams though. These are both Westinghouse braked but I included the wooden brake blocks that the early Brake 3rds carried and so the underframe will work for that as well.

So, I need to make the roofs fit a bit better and then I am working on some casting masters so I should be able to sell complete kits in a few months time.

I have a Craven Type 9A to test build next and then I must get the Craven Type 12F 6 wheeler finished and send off for a test of that also.

Having competed the builds of the two Stroudley vehicles, I am happy with the underframes especially, so will be able to draw any other diagram I need so I will get on with some of those also.

Cheers, Ian

Bufferbeam holes for buffers

Hi
I have been building some of my stock for the last couple of weeks and drawing up the Craven 6wheel 1st type 12F, more a bit later on when I have a test etch. I sat down this afternoon, after a bit of time in the garden as it is also calls, to fit the buffers to the7mm scale 20D Craven Passenger Brake Van. I etched the holes at 2.5mm and I am trying to fit some NMRS C007 Midland Std round head buffers to it as they look correct from photos. The shanks on these are 4mm diameter. So please check the diameters of buffers before starting to solder up anything, in any set of etches, and open them up whilst flat on the bench as it is considerably easier than if the whole thing is already made up! I used a rat tale file turned counterclockwise in the holes followed by a tapered reamer to get close, then finished off by filing properly with the rat tail file again. It would have been so much easier to drill them out whilst still a flat etch!
I have sent for a test etch, in 7mm, of the Craven type 9A, Stroudley Dia 18 6wheel saloon and Dia 40 4wheel one compartment 1st brake. I will post some photos when I have these and any other bits of things as I make progress, or not! etc.
Cheers, didn't March go quick!!!!
Ian in a sunny Blackpool

7mm Craven Type 9C 2nd Brake Luggage

7mm Type 9C Bk 2^nd, etches only with instructions, as above,

(SERKits again for the castings) £55. £4 P&P extra.

Type 8B or 8D Carriage etches for 7mm

£55 for the 7mm etch plus £4 P&P as at March 2017.

4mm Type 15 Instructions

I have changed the layout of the etches when reducing them for 4mm and there are a few differences between these instructions and the ones before for 7mm. The pdf of the photos of the build of the 7mm carriages will help when building in 4mm as they are almost identical. Clicking on the following images opens up larger versions.

£130 for the set of etches to make 5 carriages plus £5 P&P as at March 2017

Photos of the 4mm etches

The top photo shows two Type 15B 2nd Class that can also be Type 15C 1st class by providing extra lamp tops, and a Type 15F 3rd class above these (which I had just started to build when realised I needed this photo so I have already cut out 5 droplights from the top right of the etch). The second photo shows two Type 15J 4 compartment 3rd Brakes and then below this are the three different sides that can be used instead of the 15J sides to make other variants. From the left is the Type 15G sides for a Brake, coupe 3rd, full 3rd coupe 3rd, luggage carriage; then in the middle is Type 15H for a Brake, full 3rd, full 3rd, full 3rd, luggage carriage and then on the right is the type 15I with lantern brake and 3and a half passenger compartments. As in the previous post from today, this is what I am selling for the 4mm Type 15 carriages, these 5 carriages and the three sets of alternate sides for the brakes. All Carriages include clasp type brakes for when Westinghouse fitted or these can be left off and the early style would be just the wooden brake blocks on the brake carriages. The chassis are designed to be sprung, or can be soldered or glued without springing, and will accommodate P4, EM and OO wheelsets. Castings of buffers, axleboxes and lamp tops are needed to be sourced. There are etched screw type couplings provided on every carriage.

Kits/Etches for purchase

I am happy with most of the etching I have been building and am at the stage where I can let people purchase them if they wish.


Carriages so far.

4mm Type 20D Craven Passenger brake with birdcage and duckets full kit is ready at £54 incl P&P; I have 3 of these left. I can order more on an approx 4 week turnaround

I was asked to reduce the type 15 etches to 4mm and have done so. I am just test building the type 15F all 3^rd etches, and will be building up the type 15B all 2^nd or 1^st in a few days. The type 15 GHI and J combinations of Brake 3^rd, Brake 3^rd luggage and brake 3^rd with coupe 3rds and luggage etc. All will be ready. I haven’t got castings for these but Chris Cox has so I will sell these as etches only, with instructions, at £130 for two brakes (any choice of types), and one of each other class, 5 carriages in all plus the extra sides for all types of brake carriage. They have sprung suspension or can be fixed. They need buffers, axleboxes and lamp tops. P&P will be £5 per set. I have 2 sets left but can order more on an approx 4 week turnaround.

7mm Type 20D as above, etches only, £70. £4 for P&P.

7mm Type 15F all 3^rd, Type 15B 2^nd or 1^st, Type 15J Bk 3^rd,   etches only with instructions, (recommend SERkits for the axleboxes, buffers and lamp tops,) £55 each etch. Extra sides to make a 15G, type 15H or type 15I (using the type 15J carriage parts with these different sides) will be £15 a set for each type. P&P £4 extra, a carriage, up to a max of £9 if more than one bought.

7mm Type 9C Bk 2^nd, etches only with instructions, (SERKits again for the castings) £55. £4 P&P extra.

7mm Type 8B or D 2^nd (alternate sides supplied on one etch), (SERKits again for the castings) £55. £4 P&P extra.

7mm Type 13A 1^st, I have one of these etches left at £45. £4 extra for P&P.

Postage of the carriages will be combined to a maximum of £9.
All postage costs quoted are for Spring 2017. If the cost of postage go up then so do mine. Cheers!

Contact via email: ianmaccormac@hotmail.com or phone 01253595580 before 9pm.

I am aiming to bring examples to the Blatchington Windmill meeting on 18^th March. If people want to collect there I will try and bring them with me. I am travelling about 300 miles by train so may not be able to physically bring everything.

Up and Down photos

Well I have made up a Type 20D Birdcage Ducket passenger brake and here are some photos of it with a Dapol Terrier and the 4mm version. I have yet to sort out any castings for the 7mm version.
£70 for the 7mm etches, £54 for a full 4mm kit (includes the axlebox and buffer castings). £4 P&P either. Prices as at March 2017

Also, there is this photo showing a type 15I in 7mm against the G3 etches I have been asked to produce of a type 15G. I am astonished at the size this will be.

And another of the above. at 7mm scale.

Assembling the Type 15 carriages

Here is a link to a PDF showing how I have built three of the 7mm Type 15 carriages. I shall be adding to this to show how to build other types as I build them myself. Updated 1st March 2017

Click this for a link to the pdf

Use the following words to help make more sense of the pdf above. This is for 7mm.

Up and Down!

Well, as soon as I put the Type 15 etch photos up and showed the 2nd class test at the Brighton Circle AGM last October, I was asked to do them in 4mm.
As soon as I put the photos of the built 4mm Craven Birdcage & Ducket brake van up on here, I was asked to consider scaling this up to 7mm!!!
I have just completed the drawings for both of these as well as a Gauge 3 type 15G 3rd coupe luggage brake, so will be sending these off to the etchers on Monday. Watch this space!
Cheers,
Ian

Updating to Stroudley era

Just been looking at photos of Lewes second station, the Reeves ones, and noticed that this photo shows only an upper, full length footboard and a lamp on the top of the birdcage. I am going to alter this build to look like that and so don't have to file holes in the Craven era lower footboard, just cut it off and solder it in place at the bottom of the solebar instead.

Will post another photo when I have completed this.

Just about finished now as you can see; the roof isn't fixed on at all yet and I haven't cleaned any excess solder/muck off at the moment either. Just glued on the castings and made a longer upper footboard from scrap etch and soldered it over the old top footstep, added the couplings also.

Cleaning up, painting and fixing of roof still to do; probably when the weather improves for painting!

Craven Brake build photos

These are now available for £54 to include UK P&P. I will bring some with me to the Windmill meeting in March.

Photo of build without axlebox or buffer castings fitted.

Clicking this will get you to a pdf of the build photos.https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlDt3ODPVz-70jXc-s60dwFJNNH3

Instructions for LC&DR Carriages

Instructions for the Craven Brake Type 20D