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26. A temporary lull.

 I’ve had to temporarily give up my workspace, aka the kitchen table, while we sort out some storage.

While I’ve no space, as opposed to next to no space, I have been tinkering with a few ideas and assembling a 009 “Peverill” diesel from Fourdees. It’s a lovely 3D print in resin and comes in a small square box. The body is one piece with just a few small details to add on, and the roof is separate to allow glazing and painting.

I also have a Kato 11-109 chassis to power it, providing a budget locomotive for around £60, albeit one for which I have no layout to on. Yet.

The process has been a little fraught. The chassis is powered by a coreless motor with a tiny flywheel. It appears to rely on downward pressure from the body to keep the worm engaged with the gears… Yes it’s worm problems again - see my various blogs and posts on this subject in recent months…

Dan at Fourdees has been very helpful, steering me along as I approach the issues. It’s no fault of theirs, the motor just needs to be carefully seated to work properly. Maybe a little more guidance could be included in the instructions, but it’s down to Kato really, and the way the split chassis is held in the original moulding. This moulding is discarded to allow the Fourdees body to be fitted.

More on this soon!


Having time on my hands, I’ve been reading a bit more and I rediscovered Alexandra Sidings, a wonderful O gauge layout, twin level and curved, set in Halifax. I really like it, both visually, and in the way it is self contained and offers plenty of operational interest. I could see myself trying something like this in EM if only I had space… back to where we began.

I find that I lack original ideas, but I can see this layout and think that the station could become a bit more like Templefields, another favourite, and make it my own. Never stop dreaming…






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