3MM Scale Hymek.

Time to change scale for a while. I have many unmade kits.  Locos both steam and diesel, Coaches both Southern and Western Region examples and lastly wagons which will all have Fencehouses etched Nickel Silver chassis.

First to escape from the box is a Bruce Smetham Hymek which will be powered by a Hollywood Foundry power bogie. These are no longer available unfortunately due to the owners retirement.

The chassis is scratch built with scrap brass. Already primed, the Sherwood Green stripe needs applying and the window surrounds painted white before the BR Green.

00 Gauge Class 04 DM and Hymek.

The Class 04 0-6-0 Diesel Mechanical were built by Drewry. Introduced from 1958,this number- D2282, was a 3'7'' loco- largest wheel size.
 
No 04 apparently worked in Cornwall, the nearest was a handfull allocated on Southern metals at Plymouth Friary.

However, several Class 03 locos were shedded at St Blazey so that is another I must aquire!

 Lastly today is the Hymek. Apparently no Hymek worked beyond the Tamar so theoretically can't be used on St Mewan. However, it's my railway and this one will deputise for a failed Class 22!

00 Gauge BR Hawsworth Auto-trailer and 64XX Pannier Tank.

The last type of  purpose built Push pull trailers introduced on the Western Region was the Hawksworth Diagram A38 

Built in 1951 these used GWR practises but after nationalisation.

Below is  6417 0-6-0 Pannier Tank as the motive power for this service. The prototype 6417 was shedded for many years at Laira, the final shed being Aberdare before being scrapped in June 1959. A better identity would be 6420 that was allocated to St Blazey at one point.

00 Gauge stock for St Mewan. AC Cars railbus.

This Heljan AC Cars railcar was an impulse buy a couple of years ago.

A type that was used in Cornwall around the Bodmin area. Latterly the whole class of 4 was exiled to Scotland to replace Park Royal railcars

00 Gauge Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway stock.

 It sometimes occurs that you come across something that you had forgotten you owned.

So it was that I discovered this S&DJR 8F a Bachmann wooden boxed example of this lovely loco.

Also found were the three Hornby Clerestory coaches which I repainted into S&DJR blue. The paint was a Halfords rattle can, the actual colour I forget.

Will show other stock for St Mewan in the next few posts.

00 Gauge Class 22 ready for service.

The class 22 has had its side skirts added- not particularly even though.

However, whilst waiting for paint, glue and filler to cure I took the time to run in the Class 22 on my Bachrus rolling road. This , as I have mentioned ,is adjustable to run any of the gauges, 009, 3mm 12mm, OO 16.5 and O gauge that I model in rather than having to buy one for each gauge.

The headcode discs have been fitted using canopy glue- inconspicuous when dry.

I have been looking at the Hornby Class 25 and need to find out whether the later ones made in China had finer wheels than the originals.

600th Post- Clay Dries Completed.

Yes- this is the 600th  post of this blog- can't remember how many were on Dorset 3mm.

After an eternity waiting for paint, glue and filler to dry the Dries are just about complete. They just need permanently fixing to the baseboard once I am sure the glue securing the figures has cured.

Quite pleased with the result although if it had been better times I would have carried out more research.