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John Barrett

John Barrett

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My other main hobby is model engineering: boats, stationary steam engines and miniature locomotives. Here's my 3 1/2" gauge Britannia that I finished last year. The build took ten years, but it was interrupted regularly by full size boating and our previous motorhome!
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I'm working on this one: a 5" Stirling Single. It is clad in 26G Titanium: I had some lying around and it looks so much better than wobbly thin brass! I'll restart it when I've finished updating our Hymer E510.
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DBK said:
Very impressive. Are you converting your Hymer to steam? :)
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Using kiln dried coal no doubt?

Beautiful models. It must be very satisfying.
I just don't have the patience to start anything that'll take more than a week.
 
Loads of work in those john very impressive(y) if you'd like to please put some build photos on here. Broken Link Removed
 
well impressed with those models.. (y)
im trying to get back into some workshop projects , but looking for something that won't take quite as long as your models.. :smiley:
ordered a wooden tool grinder from Hemingway in the hope that kick starts some work..:unsure:

Andy
 
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ordered a wooden tool grinder from Hemingway in the hope that kick starts some work..:unsure:

Andy
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I think moving from wood to antler, bone or even stone will give you sharper tools than wood. Flint was found useful in days long past I think. :)
If you want to risk the wrath of the Gods you could try bronze... but don't blame me if you suffer misfortunes. :)
 
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I think moving from wood to antler, bone or even stone will give you sharper tools than wood. Flint was found useful in days long past I think. :)
If you want to risk the wrath of the Gods you could try bronze... but don't blame me if you suffer misfortunes. :)
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ill not edit it now or folk will wonder what your on about:LOL:
Andy

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Looks a very nice set up, leaves my old lathe feeling very jealous. ::bigsmile:
Just Googled it.
 
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That's really sad olley cant believe you googled it :doh: Oh hang on a minute so did I & found the same vid :rofl:

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That Britannia is seriously impressive in 3 1\2" gauge. I used to be the boiler tester in our local model boat club but life and family gets in the way. Now I'm retired, I thought I'd have time to start some nice projects, but I end up fixing full size machinery for my son ! Got an old ML7 and a Tom Senior mill, could do with something a little bit bigger now, something like a Harrison M300 or a Colchester.
 
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Got an old ML7 and a Tom Senior mill, could do with something a little bit bigger now, something like a Harrison M300 or a Colchester.
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Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. I'd like a Harrison but as you can see, I wouldn't be able to squeeze one in! BTW the hole by the door is the A/C outlet...:cool:
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I was fortunate that when the kids finally all moved out my late wife allowed me the use if what had been a small bedroom..
All a bit tight but its a nice warm room and no condensation or rust issues??..
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Very nice. I built my 12 x 8 workshop from 4" lightweight fly ash blocks, clad inside and out, so there are no condensation issues, but it gets a bit cold out there at this time of year!
 
Looks fantastic.

Has anyone seen the locomotive models with the bodies built from cardboard? There was a stand at the Newark Model Show last year but I forget the name of the group. They were mostly G gauge I think and I was fascinated at the way they were constructed (not from kits btw) as was the Grandson.

Martin and Grandson #1 are in Glasgow today as there is a model railway show this weekend at the SECC. I am doing laundry to save his Dad having to do it when he gets home. I draw the line at ironing other than school uniform.

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This is mine looking a bit of a mess as I am currently moving to my new workshop so everything is up in the air.
Its an Acorn Tools machine probably around WW2 vintage, uncle was an architect in London and found it in a disused factory while inspecting it for development around 1978, he knew I wanted one and as he already had three brought it down to Ipswich for me. I stripped it and had the bed reground as it was pretty badly worn, accuracy is ok but not toolmaker standard but it all works.
He was building a loco similar to JB's but never finished it before he died, it was given to another member of the Ipswich loco club to finish I believe.
Any of you watch doubleboost on youtube? He just picked up a pristine ML7 looks like its just been built.
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I work in the smaller scale of 16mm to the foot on 32mm gauge track. This is a coal fired 0-4-0 loco that I built from a kit a couple of years ago, although most of my models are gas fired. I'm currently busy building models of Talyllyn Railway coaches.

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Nice Railways
I am not as adept machine wise but Railways in OO, yes running a 20 foot by 12 foot tailchaser in the loft. But I construct all the scenery there using materials I have aquired and I've used printed out textures, windows etc scenery is home made too there are only two commercial kits on there


Just one corner with require Steam traction of course

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I mentioned stationery steam engines, and a Funster has asked for more pictures. Here's a Stuart Sirius I restored last year. It was a WWII relic, and was used to power a generator for a radio set . They were parachuted in to France for the Resistance and/or spies.
It came to me looking a wreck!
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Here it is in restored glory!
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Here's a short video of it running on steam. Enjoy!
 
First one looks like a Blackgates single cylinder oscillator, available as a kit of parts to machine, I made a few of their Vee twin models for the members of our model boat club. The one on the right looks like a Stuart 10V, again available as a set of castings or ready made.
 
I admire your skills. Full steam ahead with your projects whoooo ?? Whoooo
 
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First one looks like a Blackgates single cylinder oscillator, available as a kit of parts to machine, I made a few of their Vee twin models for the members of our model boat club. The one on the right looks like a Stuart 10V, again available as a set of castings or ready made.
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Yes the bigger one is a Stuart 10, I bought the Double 10 in my last year at school and my mate bought the boiler to go with it, both as bare metal/castings neither of us finished them before leaving school, this was 1965 I gave mine to my uncle who finished it.
Thinking back we were taught gas welding at 14, H&S nowadays would have a fit if you allowed a 14 year old to play with oxyacetylene. When I started in 61 our first lesson in metalwork was heating a bar to red heat in the blacksmiths forge to make pokers. Happy days.

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