EDM MODELS – B & DZ WAGON UPDATE

I have updated the page on our website with some new information on the soon to be available south African B & DZ wagons including images of the production versions of the bogies. I think the webpage has most of the information http://www.ngtrains….k/sa_stock.html

However here is some additional info which may head off some of the questions…..

• The kits are principally etched nickel silver and brass castings
• We have had Phil at Port Wynnstay reproduce the doors for the DZ in resin available as an extra. I think that most people will want to build one DZ using all the metal components and that will give them a superb model. At that point I suspect the prospect of doing a rake of wagons all with metal doors will seem a daunting one whilst an attempt to do so will have them phoning their trick cyclist. The resin doors aren’t as strong as they replicate the metal thickness [or lack of it] but they are a time saver.
• The bogies will be available as a separate item but not at first. The castings for these are the bottle neck in the production so all the castings we can get initially are being kept for use in full kits. They will be available later once the initial demand for kits has been met
• The wheels supplied are Bachmann 00 passenger coach wheels. These are a nominal 12mm diameter but are actually a smidge under which makes then the right size for new disc wheels. They run superbly, are just a press fit so can be re-gauged and are affordable. Research suggests you could use a wide variety of wheel types and diameters and probably find a prototype for it as they were mixed, matched and turned down many times.

Our aim is to have the kits ready for the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association Convention on the 9th June and all production has now been commissioned to this end. The parts are ordered in batches so it would be a real help to judge how many we need to produce if customers ordered them in advance. Your card won’t be charged until the kits are ready to ship/ If you are going to the convention says so in the comments box on the order form and we’ll try to have them there for you and save you the postage.

Orders will be filled in the order received with one little exception – I will keep at least one of each kit back to have on my stand at the convention even if all the first batch are ordered in advance. A launch with no kit to launch is going to look a bit hollow!

Paul Martin    EDM Models   www.ngtrains.com 

O14 had a good day out at Narrow Gauge South Sparsholt (near Winchester UK) yesterday. Arther Budd’s excellent Brickworks was the only O14 layout (and on a rare outing since being retured a few years ago) and next to it was our O14 demonstration stand (makes it sound all official!) manned by David Hughes and myself. In fact, due to some admin confusion we had been booked into two separate stands in different rooms but decided to man just one of them (with both stand numbers). Phil Traxson made good use of the other space for a resin casting demo.

It was great to meet so many O14 modellers old and new, including Bob Barlow the new proprietor/editor of the Review (and of course you do all you read it don’t you!). David Janes of KBscale came along with an exquisite Diema in grey primer, which looked very tiny next to my WD Baldwin, and showed us some excellent castings for his Hudson Hunslet. My couplers behaved themselves most of the time and I even managed to persuade some people to buy some.

All in all it was a very good day. There definitely seems to be an increasing interest in accurate modelling in 7mm for 2ft and other gauges too, especially for those contemplating 7mm NG for the first time. Let’s all keep spreading the good word.

David Hughes and I will be demoing again on 9th June at the 7mm show Burton on Trent (see events)

John

Roger Murray has provided the following details on his layout: PARC LEVEL COLLIERY CO. LTD. There is only ONE yard of track but a lot of atmosphere!

This diorama was inspired by the prototype section in the Industrial and Narrow Gauge Handbook by Roy C Link. Additional information was obtained from the NG at work DVD number 22, Welsh industrial Archive by J&S Productions.

Dimensions are 48 inches long by 31 inches and 27 inches deep. The base is a 60mm thick Styrofoam slab with a 1/4 inch ply surround for protection not support. In my opinion the surround has to be matt black! I have been using Styrofoam as a baseboard material for some years now and would not go back to 2×1 and top. I have tried to convince others but they all seem too set in their ways although the Americans have been using it for donkey’s years.

The contours are not exact but pretty close, made from wire mesh covered with plaster bandage, then a skin of plaster and painted matt brown. The main rock face is from Cripplebush Valley Models the home of rubber rocks in the USA and they are excellent, impossible for my skills to come anywhere near the quality. Other scenic embellishment comes from Silfor arid soil with scrub, available from International Models, an excellent item if expensive. Also some Scale Link etches and Woodland Scenics items.

As the first line says there is not much track and no points. The track is 14mm gauge and is hand made from code 83 rail and copper clad sleepers, no need to fuss with these as they cannot be seen! At each end of the track a cut is made in one rail a train length from the end and bridged by a diode, this controls the track limits without the need of buffers.
It is not far off a static diorama as it is impossible to recreate the operation of the prototype. Even if you had a working crane you would need two little working men to hitch and unhitch the wagons for the crane to lift. Therefore Loco moves are all that is possible. I wanted to add some atmosphere so apart from the working mast light there are two fan assisted smoke units installed, one in the adit mouth and the other by the cabans. As it was impossible to fit a smoke unit in the loco this was the only way. The smoke units are operated from a switch on the hand held loco controller. Watching the DVD exhaust goes everywhere and it is hard to see where it is coming from a lot of the time but you have to be quick on the switch!

The crane is an RB22 from Tober Models, a white metal kit and the correct crane model for Parc Level, it took ages to source, the good old internet does have its uses. The Ruston and wagon are from KB scale.

New kits for three SAR 2ft Gauge wagons plus two types of bogies have been announced by EDM Models.

These have been in development for some time and are the work of Peter Balderstone who also designed our Linda/Blanche/Charles kit. They actually started life as a personal project worked on over many years. Recently they have been reworked with commercial sale in mind and many of the small detail parts that were originally assembled from etches have been replaced by brass castings.

Each kit caters for variants of the prototype and both styles of bogie, the diamond frame and the cast Bettendorf are being produced.

Originally we weren’t going to mention these kits until they were in boxes and ready for sale but as they are nearly ready and there has been a lot of discussion of the prototypes on various internet sites we have set to, planned a release date and decided to announce that they are on their way.

The intention is to release them from sale at the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association Convention in Burton on Trent on the 9th June and make them available for online sales immediately after that.

They are on the NG Trains website http://www.ngtrains….k/sa_stock.html and more detail [like prices and more pictures] will be added between now and the release.

The kits are designed to be built for either 16.5mm or 14mm gauge.

Expressions of interest are welcome as they would give us an idea of demand.

The website for rpi shows that they ceased trading as at 31/12/11. A real shame: although recent offerings were not to my taste, some of their earlier offerings, including RTR 014 chassis many years back, were really good.

David H

I have now completed the set, Mercian have produced cast brass sides for the slate wagon

Introducing the new layout of François Gilbert and me Matthieu Jacquemart. Naturally, it’s an O14 layout! It is loosely based on the sablières of Nemours.

The layout is divided into three modules of 100x40cm. Total size is 360x140cm with slide.

Its construction was described in the french review voie libre 63-64-65-66. It was presented for the first time in expometrique / RAMMA in Sedan.

The billard T75 is a model made by Bernard Junk.

Pershings are made spécially for us by David from Truckteur models

Rhyd is a 014 gauge model built by David John of a fictitious (and highly improbable) branch off the Ffestiniog Railway. Any similarity to the village of the same name is purely accidental.

Remember, one of my first post talk you about “A small track side workshop”.

The diorama during Expometrique, on 2009 at Richelieu!

After a while, it seemed interesting to make this diorama functional and include it in a larger layout.  The theme, not a real one, is a slate quarry in Belgium. The layout will consist of five modules corresponding to five different scenes.  Here is the drawing for the project:

My first steps is to build the two modules adjacent to the workshop, named ‘Carriere’ and ‘Bureaux’, in order to get a running layout.  And the two last module will be defined in a near future.

Here are the current status of the first three modules, as shown during ‘Expometrique’ at Sedan, this year.

La carriere: this module tries to model a small quarry with a tunnel leading to an underground working (for the return track).  I hope to model some working scene with a wooden crane:

The first work with part of the track bed.

A study for slate placement… Some real slates, yesss.  And than, the quarry in place:

An other view,

Les bureaux: The second new module with the other end of the return track. I wanted to model a building with the office and the quarry’s owner house, made with some local techniques.  So, slate wall with brick around the windows and door, like in this slate quarry’s house in the Ardennen , Belgium.

And my work to model it:

The first steps, some test for building placement.

The first wall in slates, Difficult to imagine what will be the result at this moment, but that’s the fun!

The complete building, not yet engraved!

And with a near completed engraving process, with windows and door.

At this stage, there is some works to do, but the module is running and viewable.

During the last weeks before Expometrique, with the old module “the small track side workshop” in the center:

The LKM Ns-2 is a Trukteur model

From the quarry:

The complete layout during Expometrique,at Sedan

Stefan

We have added a new page with links to O14 manufacturers and suppliers at: http://www.o14group.org/o14-manufacturers-and-suppliers/

Please suggest additions and amendments via the O14 Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O14/