Well don Tom, and a fair report of the possible shortfalls of the Sunday. Tornado was absolutely flying and had a good load of passengers as you said. I'm still waiting on seeing the final Scoresheet! Glad Ben Pavier did well too, as he is working on my own GWR Large Prairie, haha. I do hope your back problem gets sorted for you soon. Locos and machinery are not easy things to lug around as we know. Best wishes for the rest of the Summer.
@@TomsWorkshop42 Yes M8 of course. I would like to see a video of you preparing your medal for mounting on your lamp bracket. Could make a nice 'basic milling' tutorial?
Tornado look fantastic and you certainly had a big train behind it !! Well done to you and yes it's a shame when the technology breaks down but hopefully everyone had a good time. I did meeting up with mates but then if course I essmt running anything so no pressure Quite a few failures on the Sunday and poor Billy Stock had to wait and the heavens opened just as he steamer up and ran Credit to him and to the club members who stepped in with rainwear to be his passengers !
Hi Tom, was hoping you would do a video of IMLEC, never been to the Bristol site, we wanted to take the Britt but we couldn’t make it in the end, Tornado looks superb, shame about the rain.
UPDATE it seems that Bristol have now declared the competition as void due to the problems Saturday. This cannot have been easy for them but well done Bristol for doing the right thing. It is much appreciated.
At the presentation and summary by Bristol at the end of Sunday, the problems of Saturday were somewhat glossed over (to put it mildly). On Saturday the dynamometer failed to give correct readings more and more as the day progressed, with water affecting it till it packed up altogether halfway through Alan’s run Saturday afternoon. Despite Bristol’s valiant attempts to calculate the results manually, these were equally wrong as you cannot get accurate results when the drawbar pull figures are totally wrong. Whereas many felt that Saturday’s results should have been confirmed as void, Bristol felt for the sake of the competition they had to use the results they had, even though they could not be right. This really was unfair to the participants that day, more so as the day wore on and to those such as Tom who really had an excellent chance of winning - and might have, had the dynamometer been reading correctly. I’m sure he would have been in the top three at least and not seventh. And Alex too should have been placed in a higher position, George etc. Bristol members worked really had to make the weekend a success and in many ways it was, but sadly I can’t say that the Saturday results were a success. We accept things go wrong and that’s very disappointing for everyone concerned. I do hope that Bristol will seriously consider holding the event again in a few years time to prove it was just bad luck that hit one day this year.
Hi Tom, it would be great to get some commentary sometimes when youre driving, little tips, what you're thinking as you drive round, etc. Im still new to driving miniature locos and im sure you have experience to share
Nice loco and run Tom. It's a bit rough on competitors when the weather turns wet for some and if the dynamometer cars acts up. I have had a go at NGLEC for a bit of fun, but it strikes me there is serial pot hunting and business promotion going on, which doesn't interest me. I'm sure you'll get what I mean.
Well don Tom, and a fair report of the possible shortfalls of the Sunday. Tornado was absolutely flying and had a good load of passengers as you said. I'm still waiting on seeing the final Scoresheet! Glad Ben Pavier did well too, as he is working on my own GWR Large Prairie, haha. I do hope your back problem gets sorted for you soon. Locos and machinery are not easy things to lug around as we know. Best wishes for the rest of the Summer.
Congratulations Tom on a great run. I had the pleasure of being a passenger. I will look forward to next year!
I’ll be back with it next year to get a proper result, just hope I can have a similarly good run.
@@TomsWorkshop42 Yes M8 of course. I would like to see a video of you preparing your medal for mounting on your lamp bracket. Could make a nice 'basic milling' tutorial?
Funny you should say that, I was considering doing something, haven’t decided how yet though.
Hi Tom, Hope your back gets better soon. Thank you for the video 🚂
Most enjoyable viewing.
Thanks Tom.
Awesome video as always Tom! I’d recommend a Halfords rattle can jobby 😉sounds silly but most of their colours can be damn near the real thing
I have used them before on one loco, but found that it got soft when warm. I have often used them for the primer and black running boards.
@@TomsWorkshop42 I suppose the only remedy to that would be extreme caution when steaming the first few times until it properly bakes
Thought I recognised gravesend, wet round 2 year's ago nice track...
Hope to go , hope to go back this year..
Tornado look fantastic and you certainly had a big train behind it !!
Well done to you and yes it's a shame when the technology breaks down but hopefully everyone had a good time. I did meeting up with mates but then if course I essmt running anything so no pressure
Quite a few failures on the Sunday and poor Billy Stock had to wait and the heavens opened just as he steamer up and ran
Credit to him and to the club members who stepped in with rainwear to be his passengers !
Hi Tom, was hoping you would do a video of IMLEC, never been to the Bristol site, we wanted to take the Britt but we couldn’t make it in the end, Tornado looks superb, shame about the rain.
UPDATE it seems that Bristol have now declared the competition as void due to the problems Saturday.
This cannot have been easy for them but well done Bristol for doing the right thing. It is much appreciated.
Ntm it looks like more than one train was on the line
At the presentation and summary by Bristol at the end of Sunday, the problems of Saturday were somewhat glossed over (to put it mildly). On Saturday the dynamometer failed to give correct readings more and more as the day progressed, with water affecting it till it packed up altogether halfway through Alan’s run Saturday afternoon. Despite Bristol’s valiant attempts to calculate the results manually, these were equally wrong as you cannot get accurate results when the drawbar pull figures are totally wrong.
Whereas many felt that Saturday’s results should have been confirmed as void, Bristol felt for the sake of the competition they had to use the results they had, even though they could not be right. This really was unfair to the participants that day, more so as the day wore on and to those such as Tom who really had an excellent chance of winning - and might have, had the dynamometer been reading correctly. I’m sure he would have been in the top three at least and not seventh. And Alex too should have been placed in a higher position, George etc.
Bristol members worked really had to make the weekend a success and in many ways it was, but sadly I can’t say that the Saturday results were a success. We accept things go wrong and that’s very disappointing for everyone concerned.
I do hope that Bristol will seriously consider holding the event again in a few years time to prove it was just bad luck that hit one day this year.
Hi Tom, it would be great to get some commentary sometimes when youre driving, little tips, what you're thinking as you drive round, etc. Im still new to driving miniature locos and im sure you have experience to share
Hi Tim, I’ll see what I can do. 👍
Regardless of competition ambiguity, 6:44 brought “international “ to imlec
Hi Tom. Regards to paint. I use craftmaster enamel paints and get very good results spraying. Would recommend you give them a try.
Thanks. I had been tempted to try them. What thinners do you use?
Nice loco and run Tom. It's a bit rough on competitors when the weather turns wet for some and if the dynamometer cars acts up. I have had a go at NGLEC for a bit of fun, but it strikes me there is serial pot hunting and business promotion going on, which doesn't interest me. I'm sure you'll get what I mean.
@@TomsWorkshop42 craftmaster synthetic thinners
@@TomsWorkshop42 Craftmaster is great paint! I’ve only used it once for the coach work, but prefer it to Precision.
Any one else see chris Eden green?
Yes he was there…