Never type Ammonia Sulphate into a search engine

...especially after googling the IRA. MI6 probably now have me by the knackers.

Yeay!

I've spend about 8 months of my life shackled to 16mm scale which was fun but I've had a few set back with that, namely my dehumidifier decide it had better things to do than actually work! So I have very little water to successful play real trains at the moment.

The real pain in the arse is I sat bolt upright one night and realised that we have less than a year before Hartburn Junction, our new and upcoming, 4mm finescale layout is due to show at Middlesbrough Model Railway Exhibition. It was one of those moments where when you say "I shit myself" and don't understand if you mean't it figuratively or literally. Luckily, it was figuratively.

So I have decided along time ago to make about twenty thousand trains to run on it and I have managed to complete four. So it would be rude not to...

So I had decided to set myself the task of making a Sulphate Ammonia train which ran out of Haverton Hill near where I reside and went somewhere. As to where I can't remember. Now this is the funny bit, because, I know fuck all about these trains and, it appears, so does everyone else. So I'm relying on some pretty good judgment on my part. My friends will tell you that I have no good judgement, I have been the cause of many a tragic accident due to my infamous lack of judgement.

Anyway, I'm digressing... so Sulphate Wagons. I did a very strange thing and followed the instructions. And it worked! For a while. The bodies were pretty straight forward. Just a bit of filing and weight added.

The weight was a combination of 10 g balance weights and liquid gravity held in place with some "l" shaped plastruct and sealed in with cynoglue whilst I watched Arnold Schwarzenegger kill people in the name of futuristic entertainment. The wagons will be given a tarpaulin sheet so the interior won't be viewed. 

The bogies were a slightly different story. Some of the kits came with some odd brass bearings and wheels which I used noticed the fitting was a little skewed once they had died. It took some rearranging of the part and filling with some plastic offshoots to give the wheels a proper fit but I got there in the end. 

The wagons will be a block rake so I decided to only fit tension locks to the outer two bogies whilst the rest got there european style hoop couples which I bought fir a different project which didn't go ahead. 

So yeah.... I'm going to sod off and watch the kick arse battle in Star Trek: The Unidscovered Country. Adios!

Kind regards

SG

New day, new blog

Hello young men and women of the model railway world (or just plainly, of the world).

As you may or may not know, I am Sylvian, poet, actor and modeller. I'm also a few other things such as a Goth and generally awkward bastard. But mainly for the purposes of this blog, I'll be a railway modeller. Although some of the other things (especially that bastard one, may creep into the blog from time to time).

So I'm generally a modeller of 4mm scale, 009 gauge and 16mm scale models and you'll hopefully get to see them as time goes on.

Here a just a few samples of what I've done to give you an impression of what's to come.

 This was the first loco I had ever updated and represents am local engines which I'm led to believe was based in Stockton for a short spell.

Another Stocktonian this time, the former 120 quid KWVR special edition which I was a bit of a mad twat to update. But I did :D

here is a small selection of wagons I've completed including the pain in the hoop tankers which took about two years  to completely finish!

 Oh a 009 tram which I've managed to find some coaches for!

Ah some commissions of mine which I am pretty proud of :D

Finally, or last but not least

is the little live steamer. 16mm scale using a round house Lady Anne and some kit built (and modified IP engineer kits). But hey, hello! Keep an eye out for future potential projects!


Kind regards

SG

Edit: I've just relapsed I typed this up as I was falling asleep... it really shows in the last sentence.