My son & I are still in the planning stages of our layout - it's been years in the design ! What we do desire, is an elevated section, & to see how well yours has turned out thus far, is encouragement indeed. Love that old shunter. Great video !
Another great and well behaved model you have there. The elevated section is looking interesting, going into a station will bring a whole new meaning to mind the gap.
Hi Oscar. Hope you've now recovered. Glad to see you're using a Hammant & Morgan. I use their Duette and I wouldn't swap it for anything else. Nice shunter and I am wondering if it's possible to 'wire up' a hand controller like the one you have to my H&M Duette. Just a thought so do let me know if it's possible please. Also, take a meander over to the 'John Butterworth' channel as John, like you, has a penchant for old Triang locos & rolling stock and one or two Hornby Dublos (2 rail) as well. He runs them on Triang Series 4 track with Triang buildings etc. and no artificial scenery on the baseboard. I think his channel is right up your street Oscar so do take a peek. Take care, Paul. 👍❤
Hello Oscar, hope you're feeling better. Your health comes first before railways. Last week's video was great. Love your class 08 shunter. I've got photos of me when I was 15 years old. I had just left school, and got a job on British Rail and the photo shows me in the cab of a real class 08. Happy days indeed, the year was 1970. Stay safe Oscar. Sorry for replying so late, I just forgot. Stay safe. 👍🚂🚃
Good morning, thank you again Martin for taking the time to watch all better now, but it took me out for quite a few days that week. The photograph you mentioned, sounds like a great one to have in your collection and must have amazing memories associated with it. I think today many of us take too many pictures, myself included, it used to be a roll of film went into a family camera, pictures were taken usually quite selectively at various events and not un common for a roll film to stay in the camera for the best part of the year or more. It definitely makes for a very special pictures. All the best. Oscar
I had a green shunter, which I think only had four numbers, but was a lovely runner. The high level is taking shape nicely and looking forward to seeing the station take shape. Hope your feeling better and thanks for the upload.
Hi, thank you for watching, feeling a lot better now, whatever it was wiped me out for most of that week in early June, great to hear you had the green variation of the shunter. Take care. Oscar
Hope you have made a full recovery since filming this video - not nice when a bug knocks you off your feet! Interesting looking at the tanker wagons and the changes through the years. Makes me wonder how the tool maker was able to rework these tools to change such details? Must be an interesting and very skilled job! All the best. Gordon
Good morning Gordon, I'm all better now thanks. I think you're right, the tool makers job must've been very skilled one, no CAD software to fall back on. Thanks again. Oscar
When I was a lad I had a 10x10 layout in the parents attic, we tried to do some of the track plans from the Hornby book, we did get a HST class 43 power car and 4 coaches and the dummy power car to run around but due to power issues and track breaks we had some issues 😅... I was focusing on paper mache for scenery, mate was focusing on lighting for the building while dad's like how about we try to get the train running... 😂😂
Good morning Oscar. Sorry you’ve not been well, glad it wasn’t COVID. Nice little shunter there running around the elevated section quite well. Take things easy. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Oh excellent. The elevated section is looking great. Love the loco and wagons. Those early ones with the die-cast chassis always make such a lovely solid sound. I recently got a yellow acetate bogie Shell tanker wagon with only a tiny bit of warping but so shiny as only acetate models are. 😊
Good morning Pauline, thanks again for watching. Glad you like the look of how the upper part of the railway is developing it should be great fun when it's finished.. Those bogie tank wagons are loverly items especially in yellow. Take care. Oscar
23.45 Hi Oscar, Hope you are fully recovered since making the video. I picked up an acetate R152 a couple of years ago at a local auction. It was in a box with well used and broken OO stuff, a good clean and service did the trick, really nice model. The elevated point section with cannibalised Super 4 looks really impressive. Currently wrestling with alignment, height and electrics, using Super 4 on the lift up section, System 6 section might be another challenge 🤔 Keep up the good work, Gordon
Good morning Gordon, the acetate Shunter sounds like a good find, it's amazing how these old locomotives run so beautifully with just a little attention, and very rewarding. Sounds like you're working through a few problems with your with the left out section. I'm sure it will be worth the time and effort, there should be never any rush with these things, I find it very enjoyable working through the problems, although there can come a point occasionally where frustration sets in! At this point, I've found walking away from it all for a couple of days and coming back with fresh eyes helps enormously, all part of the fun.. All the best. Oscar
@@oscarpaisley Hi Oscar, We had a Day constructing our third layer. It's a high speed section using Austria track and r609 only. So should take larger Top Links etc that we can't run on the other layers. We use 5mm ply and join it using paper stensils first with the track shapes. Here is yesterday's video. Mostly the lower layout is sheeted for plaster dust. We use a multi-took to cut into old landscapes, and we hold the vacuum nozzle against it: th-cam.com/video/IlJJwzLi72I/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Hope you get well soon Oscar, another enjoyable video, my late father had a Tri-ang Diesel Shunter from the same period, but it had been professionally converted to 3 Rail and has riveted Peco style couplings. I think he got it as Meccano hadn't got around to producing their model at the time. Unfortunately one set of the cabside numbers have worn off with handling, something I'll have to address when I next get it out.
Good morning David, sounds like a great conversion you have, should be quite straightforward to replace a set of cab side numbers, I've used HMRS Pressfix transfers, quite successfully in the past. Thanks again take care. Oscar
It's not generally known but this is not based on a class 08. The horizontal front grills and different tool boxes give it away. It's based on an earlier jack shaft shunter
Good morning Oscar, nice little tanker train and it goes very nicely with the desiel shunter. Showing my grandkids from Surrey who are staying with us at the moment I said to them that i was there age between 4 and 10 when these models were made I think it blew their minds. Funny you talking about clockwork engine, there father gave me a old 0-4-0 black continental clockwork engine that was his dad's, I've got the mechanism working and I've begun to try to tidy the bodywork, it's in a bit of poor shape. I've got to try to make a chimney for it, but now I've got it working it belts around the layout, much to their amusement. The little one wants to know if they had electricity when he was little😂. Hope your feeling better now, its hard to concentrate when you're below par. A bit more progress on the elevated section, you look after yourself, see you on the next one, Eddy xx
Good morning Eddy, thanks again for watching, the clockwork locomotive you have sounds like great fun, I think the speed at which these items run is all part of the fun. I'm all better now, but that week in June I was struck down I had thought I had Covid! tests indicated otherwise, still not a lot of fun, looking back, I've got quite a bit done in a few days. Glad you enjoyed the video, all the best. Oscar
Hi Oscar , Get well soon.... Did you notice that the N/E. Brake Van was also a very early model with the chassis in two halves so that the axles and sleeve wheels could be fitted into closed axle boxes.. I'm not sure, but I think that the coupling hook rivet, is what held the two halves of the chassis together .. It would have also have been held by the plastic body located on the 4 small die cast pins at the top of the chassis in the corners? Wonderful engineering back in the early 50's... Really made to last, but such a great pity that the acetate usually warped?.. Seventy years and still going.. I wonder if the ladies on the assembly line at Rovex plastics ever expected their work to still be admired all these years later? Although the Brake van was probably built before that factory was opened? I can't remember where the earlier factory was? Perhaps someone else knows, and can comment that?
Good morning Robin, these early items are lovely bits of engineering in themselves, The early railway items such as the first train set and basic wagons may have been produced in a factory in Richmond and production was gradually moved to a newly built factory in Westwood in mid to late 1954 as the range and demand developed. Thanks again take care. Oscar
Hi, great to hear you're enjoying the videos you're spot-on with a cork tiles. I've got mine via Amazon and they were branded "Boulder Developments" Cork floor and wall tiles, I've put them down by starting from the inside and working out and I've been very happy with the result. Thanks for watching take care. Oscar
Hi Tony, on this layout, I'm using the built-in CDU's on my Morley Vanguard units, one unit for the Series 3 and another for the 3-rail. All the best. Oscar
Hi David the XO type motor is the same as that used in a number of other Tri-ang steam and diesel locomotives over the years, so could easily be exchanged. The chassis was used as the basis for a number of other models and there variations, originally designed for that R.52 Jinty, also used for R.153 Saddle Tank, R.251 3F Tender Locomotive, the chassis was upgraded over the years and was also used for the R358 Davy Crockett Locomotive. I definitely got quite a bit of mileage out of these basic components. All the best. Oscar
Hey Oscar - With your 'Above Ground Station' - is it going to be a 'Through' Station where the Track is going to come down on the other side, or is it going to be a 'End Station' where the Locos will have to reverse out??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂
Objectively, models like this are dreadful, even to the extent of having inside frames; but as a kid when this was new, they were fantastic fun with enormous play value. Even more importantly, they were robust and would withstand children playing with them. The simplicity also helped to keep the price down, but they were actually well engineered and lasted rather well. Now, I've nothing against Hornby's modern equivalent (price aside), and it is a really good model, but would anyone in their right mind, unless they had unlimited financial resources, leave a four year old to play with it alone?
Triang actually based the shunter on a much earlier locomotive than the 08. One that did have inside frames and horizontal bars on the front radiator intake. They did not try to replicate the Jackshaft drive though. Lots of pre 08 shunters to choose from.
Hi Oscar. I know that these videos are a month or so behind. So I hope you are well and truly over the dreaded lurgy that you had. Could you not move the tabs on the 3d printer to the position you want and print them off. Rather than bodging a fixing point.
My son & I are still in the planning stages of our layout - it's been years in the design ! What we do desire, is an elevated section, & to see how well yours has turned out thus far, is encouragement indeed. Love that old shunter. Great video !
Wishing you a swift recovery Oscar. All the very best.
Another great and well behaved model you have there. The elevated section is looking interesting, going into a station will bring a whole new meaning to mind the gap.
Hi Oscar.
Hope you've now recovered. Glad to see you're using a Hammant & Morgan. I use their Duette and I wouldn't swap it for anything else.
Nice shunter and I am wondering if it's possible to 'wire up' a hand controller like the one you have to my H&M Duette. Just a thought so do let me know if it's possible please.
Also, take a meander over to the 'John Butterworth' channel as John, like you, has a penchant for old Triang locos & rolling stock and one or two Hornby Dublos (2 rail) as well. He runs them on Triang Series 4 track with Triang buildings etc. and no artificial scenery on the baseboard. I think his channel is right up your street Oscar so do take a peek.
Take care,
Paul. 👍❤
Hello Oscar, hope you're feeling better. Your health comes first before railways. Last week's video was great. Love your class 08 shunter. I've got photos of me when I was 15 years old. I had just left school, and got a job on British Rail and the photo shows me in the cab of a real class 08. Happy days indeed, the year was 1970. Stay safe Oscar. Sorry for replying so late, I just forgot. Stay safe. 👍🚂🚃
Good morning, thank you again Martin for taking the time to watch all better now, but it took me out for quite a few days that week. The photograph you mentioned, sounds like a great one to have in your collection and must have amazing memories associated with it. I think today many of us take too many pictures, myself included, it used to be a roll of film went into a family camera, pictures were taken usually quite selectively at various events and not un common for a roll film to stay in the camera for the best part of the year or more. It definitely makes for a very special pictures.
All the best.
Oscar
I had a green shunter, which I think only had four numbers, but was a lovely runner. The high level is taking shape nicely and looking forward to seeing the station take shape. Hope your feeling better and thanks for the upload.
Hi, thank you for watching, feeling a lot better now, whatever it was wiped me out for most of that week in early June, great to hear you had the green variation of the shunter.
Take care.
Oscar
Hope you have made a full recovery since filming this video - not nice when a bug knocks you off your feet!
Interesting looking at the tanker wagons and the changes through the years. Makes me wonder how the tool maker was able to rework these tools to change such details? Must be an interesting and very skilled job!
All the best. Gordon
Good morning Gordon, I'm all better now thanks. I think you're right, the tool makers job must've been very skilled one, no CAD software to fall back on.
Thanks again.
Oscar
Always love watching your videos. Oscar. If i had the space I'd love to have a layout like you have.
Hi, thanks for watching great to hear you enjoyed seeing the railway.
Oscar
When I was a lad I had a 10x10 layout in the parents attic, we tried to do some of the track plans from the Hornby book, we did get a HST class 43 power car and 4 coaches and the dummy power car to run around but due to power issues and track breaks we had some issues 😅... I was focusing on paper mache for scenery, mate was focusing on lighting for the building while dad's like how about we try to get the train running... 😂😂
Always enjoy seeing these videos!
Thanks for watching. Glad you're enjoying the videos..
Oscar
Fab Oscar, I love your videos!
Hello Oscar!
Great video again! I love the little shunter with the tankers and the way your beautiful layout is coming along.
Take care! Cheers!
Thanks Grace glad you enjoyed it. Take care.
Oscar
Good morning Oscar. Sorry you’ve not been well, glad it wasn’t COVID. Nice little shunter there running around the elevated section quite well. Take things easy. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Good morning, Roy, all cleared up now, I was better by the following week,
All the best.
Oscar
Oh excellent. The elevated section is looking great. Love the loco and wagons. Those early ones with the die-cast chassis always make such a lovely solid sound. I recently got a yellow acetate bogie Shell tanker wagon with only a tiny bit of warping but so shiny as only acetate models are. 😊
Good morning Pauline, thanks again for watching. Glad you like the look of how the upper part of the railway is developing it should be great fun when it's finished.. Those bogie tank wagons are loverly items especially in yellow.
Take care.
Oscar
23.45 Hi Oscar,
Hope you are fully recovered since making the video. I picked up an acetate R152 a couple of years ago at a local auction. It was in a box with well used and broken OO stuff, a good clean and service did the trick, really nice model.
The elevated point section with cannibalised Super 4 looks really impressive. Currently wrestling with alignment, height and electrics, using Super 4 on the lift up section, System 6 section might be another challenge 🤔
Keep up the good work,
Gordon
Good morning Gordon, the acetate Shunter sounds like a good find, it's amazing how these old locomotives run so beautifully with just a little attention, and very rewarding. Sounds like you're working through a few problems with your with the left out section. I'm sure it will be worth the time and effort, there should be never any rush with these things, I find it very enjoyable working through the problems, although there can come a point occasionally where frustration sets in! At this point, I've found walking away from it all for a couple of days and coming back with fresh eyes helps enormously, all part of the fun..
All the best.
Oscar
Hi Oscar, these black 08s are a must have, I also have the clock work version. 😉👍
Great video this morning Oscar, really nice diesel shunter you have there and the tanker wagons looked really good running with the shunter.
Thanks David glad you enjoyed that.
Oscar
Fantastic. Hooe you are feeling better,.
Thanks Gavin, much better now.
Take care.
Oscar
@@oscarpaisley Hi Oscar, We had a Day constructing our third layer. It's a high speed section using Austria track and r609 only. So should take larger Top Links etc that we can't run on the other layers. We use 5mm ply and join it using paper stensils first with the track shapes. Here is yesterday's video. Mostly the lower layout is sheeted for plaster dust. We use a multi-took to cut into old landscapes, and we hold the vacuum nozzle against it: th-cam.com/video/IlJJwzLi72I/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Hope you get well soon Oscar, another enjoyable video, my late father had a Tri-ang Diesel Shunter from the same period, but it had been professionally converted to 3 Rail and has riveted Peco style couplings. I think he got it as Meccano hadn't got around to producing their model at the time. Unfortunately one set of the cabside numbers have worn off with handling, something I'll have to address when I next get it out.
Good morning David, sounds like a great conversion you have, should be quite straightforward to replace a set of cab side numbers, I've used HMRS Pressfix transfers, quite successfully in the past.
Thanks again take care.
Oscar
It's not generally known but this is not based on a class 08. The horizontal front grills and different tool boxes give it away. It's based on an earlier jack shaft shunter
Hi, thanks for watching and info, it's much appreciated. Take care.
Oscar
Good morning Oscar, nice little tanker train and it goes very nicely with the desiel shunter. Showing my grandkids from Surrey who are staying with us at the moment I said to them that i was there age between 4 and 10 when these models were made I think it blew their minds. Funny you talking about clockwork engine, there father gave me a old 0-4-0 black continental clockwork engine that was his dad's, I've got the mechanism working and I've begun to try to tidy the bodywork, it's in a bit of poor shape. I've got to try to make a chimney for it, but now I've got it working it belts around the layout, much to their
amusement. The little one wants to know if they had electricity when he was little😂. Hope your feeling better now, its hard to concentrate when you're below par. A bit more progress on the elevated section, you look after yourself, see you on the next one, Eddy xx
Good morning Eddy, thanks again for watching, the clockwork locomotive you have sounds like great fun, I think the speed at which these items run is all part of the fun. I'm all better now, but that week in June I was struck down I had thought I had Covid! tests indicated otherwise, still not a lot of fun, looking back, I've got quite a bit done in a few days.
Glad you enjoyed the video, all the best.
Oscar
You can add (glue) a tiny piece of silver foil to the frog of the point (leaving a gap) that should ease the stutter problem Oscar. Great video Oscar.
Thanks for the info Graham and taking the time to watch, great to hear you enjoyed the video..
All the best.
Oscar
Hi Oscar , Get well soon....
Did you notice that the N/E. Brake Van was also a very early model with the chassis in two halves so that the axles and sleeve wheels could be fitted into closed axle boxes.. I'm not sure, but I think that the coupling hook rivet, is what held the two halves of the chassis together .. It would have also have been held by the plastic body located on the 4 small die cast pins at the top of the chassis in the corners?
Wonderful engineering back in the early 50's... Really made to last, but such a great pity that the acetate usually warped?.. Seventy years and still going.. I wonder if the ladies on the assembly line at Rovex plastics ever expected their work to still be admired all these years later? Although the Brake van was probably built before that factory was opened? I can't remember where the earlier factory was? Perhaps someone else knows, and can comment that?
Good morning Robin, these early items are lovely bits of engineering in themselves, The early railway items such as the first train set and basic wagons may have been produced in a factory in Richmond and production was gradually moved to a newly built factory in Westwood in mid to late 1954 as the range and demand developed.
Thanks again take care.
Oscar
Very much admire your videos. The cork tiles are they self adhesive type 300x300x4mm looking on tiling my layout. Thanks
Hi, great to hear you're enjoying the videos you're spot-on with a cork tiles. I've got mine via Amazon and they were branded "Boulder Developments" Cork floor and wall tiles, I've put them down by starting from the inside and working out and I've been very happy with the result.
Thanks for watching take care.
Oscar
good vid thanks lee
Hey Oscar, always things of interest in your posts. Was wondering what you use as a CDU? Your points seem to snap nicely each time you change them.
Hi Tony, on this layout, I'm using the built-in CDU's on my Morley Vanguard units, one unit for the Series 3 and another for the 3-rail.
All the best.
Oscar
Just a thought, would the top of diesel shunters fit with steam o6o locos if you needed a new motor Oscar? ie swapping motors for either?
Hi David the XO type motor is the same as that used in a number of other Tri-ang steam and diesel locomotives over the years, so could easily be exchanged. The chassis was used as the basis for a number of other models and there variations, originally designed for that R.52 Jinty, also used for R.153 Saddle Tank, R.251 3F Tender Locomotive, the chassis was upgraded over the years and was also used for the R358 Davy Crockett Locomotive. I definitely got quite a bit of mileage out of these basic components.
All the best.
Oscar
Sounds like your recovering from the "The dreaded lurgy", get well soon Oz, there's nothing on TV worth watching😁👍👍
Hey Oscar - With your 'Above Ground Station' - is it going to be a 'Through' Station where the Track is going to come down on the other side, or is it going to be a 'End Station' where the Locos will have to reverse out??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂
Good morning Jimyjames a more comprehensive update on the station development in the coming video this weekend.
All the best.
Oscar
@@oscarpaisley Oh ok Oscar - I'll look forward to that!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
Hello Oscar, would you explain where you are going to end the elevated section? Thanks in advance.
Hi, thanks for watching, the elevated section is going to run up to a station and down both sides of the platform for now.
Oscar
Good Morning to you Oscar from Glasgow Scotland 🏴 I have a Bachmann Class 0.8 Model Thanks for the video 📹
Good morning Cameron, from North Tyneside, thanks again for watching great to hear you have the Bachmann Class 0.8 Model.
Take care.
Oscar
Objectively, models like this are dreadful, even to the extent of having inside frames; but as a kid when this was new, they were fantastic fun with enormous play value. Even more importantly, they were robust and would withstand children playing with them. The simplicity also helped to keep the price down, but they were actually well engineered and lasted rather well. Now, I've nothing against Hornby's modern equivalent (price aside), and it is a really good model, but would anyone in their right mind, unless they had unlimited financial resources, leave a four year old to play with it alone?
Triang actually based the shunter on a much earlier locomotive than the 08.
One that did have inside frames and horizontal bars on the front radiator intake. They did not try to replicate the Jackshaft drive though.
Lots of pre 08 shunters to choose from.
Hi Oscar. I know that these videos are a month or so behind. So I hope you are well and truly over the dreaded lurgy that you had. Could you not move the tabs on the 3d printer to the position you want and print them off. Rather than bodging a fixing point.