THROWBACK MODELLER January/February 2020 Issue 13 Continuing the Tradition
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THROWBACK MODELLER January/February 2020 Issue 13 Continuing the tradition TBM 12 was Unicorns - 13 is Leprechauns? The great white Butterley Elephant Eigiau version 4.1 - I messed up the plates 16MM HERITAGE LOCOMOTIVE OWNERS AND OPERATORS Throwback Modeller ASSOCIATION ISSUE 13 JANUARY/FEB R U A R Y 2 0 2 0 I S S U E 1 3 Welcome to Issue Thirteen As team Throwback rolls into I’ve been fascinated recently 2020 I’m quite excited. looking at photos of older There’s a new show on the models. I have an Archangel calendar this year and there’s Eigiau and Snowdon Ranger a distinct aroma of “Heritage” (although mine is Moel about it with two specific Tryfan). The fascination for layouts attending. Double the me comes from the variation fun. One thing that has in these models. In my and Roundhouse models always struck me is that reworking Eigiau article I’ve Derek pointed out that these there’s a good hub-bub of mentioned some of the were 15-20 years old and no conversation around the differences I’ve observed. longer in production. He’s themed layouts. I’ve Similarly with Snowdon right of course, time flies by witnessed this with Chris Ranger. There are photos in and the pool of models that Moody and Ttarrag Shed, the Sales section for a are no longer available grows with Indian Hills and also beautifully finished Snowdon and grows – therefore pleasingly with Heritage. The Ranger, fully lined etc. I Heritage is growing and evidence for me was stark notice there are differences growing. On that bombshell from clearing up after shows. in the build. The model that I’ll shut-up and leave you to It was always easy to see is for sale has some nice long enjoy the content we’ve which chairs people had sat air receivers below the pulled together for TBM #13. Cover shot; David P’s in and where they’d been footplate. These will conceal I’ll be on the Modular Layout Cackler on the Brunel moved to - one of the “joys” the rather bare pivot for the at Peterborough show – Models Chelfham of clearing up after a rear pony truck. It appears to please swing past and say viaduct that dominated show……?!?. These themed have “proper” handrail knobs hello, Nigel. the Exeter show layouts appear to attract an where I have split pins. More even greater level of noticeable would be the gas conversation and interaction tank in the rear bunker. with show “punters” as Mine lurks under the cab there’s a shared passion, a roof. Where am I going common interest. Anyway with this? looking forward – we’ll see For me the fun about this what Llangollen holds later in is “what is Heritage”? It’s the year….. Copyright on all clear looking at the two materials in this While Derek is marshalling locomotives I own that the running rota I may even there is no “standard”. newsletter remains get a run—I’m still to see his These Heritage models are vested in the authors Archangel L&B running, all legitimate and can vary Mike Beeson L&B and editor. maybe my own Mike Beeson wildly. As we collected the boiler progress is Reproduction of the L&B rebuild could make an material for this edition I stalled queuing be- whole or any part is appearance too….. Now replied to Derek on the Sales hind module building forbidden without that’s a gauntlet throwing items. I questioned if we for Peterborough relevant permissions. kind of challenge…. should include the Accucraft P A G E 3 IT'S ALL THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE Something a little different this Denver USA. At that time it So the question is; what can time. A small competition, and was edited by Marc Horovitz, you see that does not appear the answer will appear later in and shows the Shay running right about this picture? the magazine. bunker first on Marc's own line, the Ogden Botanical The photo is of a Larry Lindsay Railway, pulling a string of Shay, and was scanned from a freight cars out onto the postcard of 1990, produced by DEREK trestle behind the lilac. Garden Railways Magazine of HELP PLEASE. experiences, then please get in touch with me, Derek. I have a good friend who has a TME VoR Loco which he Nigel adds; I stumbled across bought new. There are some this write up for firing a TME widely varying views about VoR on a forum; this model and its http://westernthunder.co.uk/ performance. He gets such mixed results when steaming index.php?threads/coal-firing- that the loco rarely comes out live-steam-models.4917/#post of its box. If you have one, and -126623 feel that you have largely mastered its moods, and Does that help? would be prepared to share P A G E 4 ARCHANGEL ADDENDUMS Alaistair Campbell very kindly North Wales from High additional pipe work, which sent this photo. It is of his Wycombe and named after the conceals a Goodall valve in left Archangel Newmill from1986. village he had moved to. hand bunker, were added by Allegedly the first loco Stewart Beautifully made headlamp Mr Sam Sparkes. Brown built after he moved to with a copper bezel and Recently I was emailed by some- one who had bought a very early HARVEY'S HELPFUL gas fired loco, only to find that it had a different gas valve to the Ronson he was expecting. I asked Harvey, who supplied the following: HINTS On left hand side of picture, Ron- son pattern injection filler with screw-bush. Screw bush to be sol- dered into gas tank. On right hand side of picture, Colibri pattern injection filler, again with screw bush. Bush to be sol- dered into gas tank. So, if you ever meet this scenario in future, you know who made the valve. DEREK P A G E 5 The Irish Leprechauns? Archangel I have always thought that the 4-4-0 tank Cavan and engines that Robert Leitrim Stephenson built for the Cavan and Ladies by Leitrim Railway were some of the David most attractive Pinniger engines ever built for the Irish 3ft. I made a correct 15mm scale on 45mm “Kathleen” painted black and 7mm scale model of track [but that is another lined in red. “Kathleen” way back in 1966, story] and thought a Cavan Out of the blue in 2000 came a but hankered after a real live loco would make a fitting letter from Stewart saying that companion. In he had finished my loco and 1996 Stewart included a colour print. Not [Archangel] only was the loco called “Lady Browne had just Edith” and not “Kathleen”, but made a batch of it was finished in bright green very nice Taliesin lined with yellow. It also had a single Fairlies and I shiny brass dome and chimney suggested to him cap which although attractive, that if he made a was totally wrong for the small batch of Cavan and Leitrim locos. The Cavan 4-4-os for a biggest surprise was the price similar price, I which had more than doubled would buy one and in the intervening 2 ½ years! I that I knew two was not well pleased and sent other people who a very pointed letter to would also like Stewart saying that although it steam loco. I have a very nice one. Stewart agreed, but asked looked to be a very nice Tralee and Dingle Hunslet 2-6- where he could get a drawing. engine, there was no way that 0T built by Mike Gaskin for There was a good 7mm scale I could afford the price. I then Dave Rowlands which is drawing modified by Paul received an e-mail from Windle in the Matthew Labine, a fellow Irish Narrow Lines Extra enthusiast who live in the USA Number 6 published saying that he had received a by the 7mm Narrow similar letter. He had paid Gauge Association. I Archangel a deposit for a West also found a superb Clare 4-6-0T some years earlier side view and as he was waiting for this photograph of No 3 loco, he was not really “Lady Edith” as built interested in “Lady Edith”. and so set about producing a drawing Stewart then decided to try to 15mm scale and sell the Cavan locos which I duly sent to through Garden Railway Stewart in 1997 Specialists in Princes together for an Risborough. It is interesting to order for No 2 look back and see that 20 P A G E 6 years ago there seemed to be very little interest in live steam for the Irish 3ft gauge and after a year the locos were still not sold. I then had a phone call from Stewart saying that he was picking up the loco from the shop and as I lived near, could he call in for a chat? As soon as I saw the lady “in the flesh” I fell in love with her and after some negotiation we agreed a price and the loco stayed in Cookham. Stewart sent me some matching green paint to cover up the shiny dome and I painted the chimney cap and renamed her other Lady now? “Kathleen”. I also found that Illustrations [David the brass numbers supplied by Pinniger unless credited David Bailey for his Isle of Man otherwise] locos were almost identical to those used on the cab side. 1/ “Kathleen” in 7mm scale I had many happy years of running “Kathleen” with two 2/ Brand new Archangel beautiful C & L clerestory “Lady Edith” on Les coaches built for me by Neil Derbyshire’s line Ramsay and she visited a 3/ Side drawing of Nos 1 number of other lines as, of to 4 course, my own AVR is 32mm only.