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womble55

womble55

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Hi guys, sorry I've been away for a while, I've been very very busy. A friend of mine from my days of restoring GWR steam locomotives at Didcot, Oxfordshire wanted an allocation of locomotives based at Oxford shed in the late 1930s/ early 1940s for Microsoft Train Simulator. I thought it would be a straight forward colour and number change but I had to research the allocated locos for last shopping date to get the right colour scheme for that loco. I also had to look at any possible locos that would have gone through Oxford at the time as well. I ended up redoing over a hundred different locomotives for him. Yes I was a bit busy but I still looked in periodically to keep abreast of things.
Nice to be back
 
Welcome Back Womble55,

Did you have a chance to ride one of your GWR locomotives out to the Island of Sodor?
Duck was originally from the Great Western Railway....
Get to see Sir Topham Hatt? Steamies are good. Diesels are EVIL!

:encouragement:
- Ivan.
 
I did have a footplate trip from Stratford upon Avon to Leamington Spa on board GWR castle class 5051 'Drysllywyn Castle/Earl Bathurst' way back in the 80's. An experience that so overwhelmed me that the only words appropriate were 'WOW'.
5051_01m.jpg
 
good to see you back, womble.

have you thought about any new cfs projects?
how about a model of a WWII era engine?
 
smilo said:
good to see you back, womble.

have you thought about any new cfs projects?
how about a model of a WWII era engine?
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Yes I am having a look into a GWR 57XX class pannier tank loco (only because its fairly simple in shape, it was available for the vast majority of GWR lines and to please Ivan....its also known as Duck.) I'm up to just over 650 parts and it flies well, strange going into combat though. the tanks, cab, chimney, dome, safety valve casing were built using tried and rested methods. Structures are banned because they generate too many parts but are the easiest way to make a dummy for a component build. The running plate, both buffer beams and the front buffers are in place along with the driving wheels.
And just for Ivan........I look the part for the Fat Controller already :)
 
Hi Womble55,

No need to build a locomotive just for me. It IS interesting though how ground vehicles can be so easily done.
It is on my list of things to do to figure out how to make a vehicle reverse.

No Dice,

With so many parts, I am thinking this vehicle of his will be way too heavy to reasonably include as static scenery.

- Ivan.
 
The reason I am biased towards piston engined aircraft is because of the reverse thrust available with a turbojet. I always seem to stop on a sixpence and proceed back down the runway before I know it. The reverse gear for a road/rail vehicle could be sourced with a jet air file although only a small percentage of thrust will be available. This shouldn't matter as I don't know of anyone that can reverse their car as fast as driving it forwards.....well not alive at least.
I wouldn't have taken Ivan to be a Thomas the Tank fan, more of an Ivor the Engine type! (look it up on wikipedia, much more of a classic)
 
Thomas the Tank Engine

Hi Womble55,

Although I know that Reverse Thrust is available for Jets, I don't know if that is implemented in CFS as opposed to the regular non combat simulators. As an example, Pitot Heat and Carburetor Heat are records in a regular Piston Engine AIR file, but I don't believe either factor is used in CFS. I also don't know enough about Jet AIR files to tweak them which is why my Ohka has never been released even though I think it would be an amusing aircraft to fly (though not in real life of course).

Regard Thomas and Ivor, I didn't even know about Ivor before you mentioned it. I am not a great fan of the 2D animation stuff in any case. I watched one episode last night after I saw your message but I had to do it without sound because of how late it was.

Thomas the Tank Engine was something my son was interested in about 5-6 years ago. When he became interested, Anna Honey and I tried to encourage the interest and I tried to learn about the actual locomotives that were behind the original Rev. Awdry stories so that Michael and I could talk about them. Seems like that was a passing interest because Thomas is seen as something only suitable for young children at least by Michael and his friends.

I like the technology of the original Thomas engines which were all based on actual locomotives but not so much the newer "characters" that have been invented since Britt Allcroft took over. We took a ride on a wood fired Steamie when we were out at the Baltimore Train Museum a few years back. Trains are admittedly efficient for transportation but are also quite limited in where they can travel by the location of rails. The ride we took was a simple out and back which would not have been so interesting if we had done it a few more times.

- Ivan.
 
ugly 060

what about a southern railway Q1 060 maybe the ugliest small loco ever
it was also the most powerfull 060(I think )
or a wartime austerity 280
papingo
 
Hi Ivan, Chuffed to bits that you had a look at one of the Ivor the engine episodes, it was one of those kids programmes that I grew up with and 2D cartooning was the norm. As for your trip with your son, a great father-son experience...but sorry to say that steam is now in the blood. You will now remember at a moments notice the sound, the smell, its unavoidable. Just as chilling on the spine as the sound of a merlin or griffon.
 
papingo said:
what about a southern railway Q1 060 maybe the ugliest small loco ever
it was also the most powerfull 060(I think )
or a wartime austerity 280
papingo
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Er.....might want to look on wikipedia at this USRA 0-6-0
1920px-USRA_0-6-0.jpg
 
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womble55 said:
Hi Ivan, Chuffed to bits that you had a look at one of the Ivor the engine episodes, it was one of those kids programmes that I grew up with and 2D cartooning was the norm. As for your trip with your son, a great father-son experience...but sorry to say that steam is now in the blood. You will now remember at a moments notice the sound, the smell, its unavoidable. Just as chilling on the spine as the sound of a merlin or griffon.
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Hi Womble55,

Actually this was an entire family event. Mom and Sister went along with Dad and Son. This was actually a few years ago. There was an experience to be had, but perhaps not quite what you might be imagining: The Locomotive WAS a steamie but it was buring wood rather than coal. Not much of a unique smell from that. It was also a simple straight out and back on a single line which MIGHT have had some branches way way back. Now it just has a bunch of locomotive carcasses as scenery along the way. Kind of a sad sight in places and a bit interesting in others.

That little 0-6-0 in the photograph looks a bit odd. There is nothing under what must be a tiny firebox because if it were substantial, it would need some wheels to support the weight.

- Ivan.
 
papingo here
looks like a 'switcher' (shunter over here)
I just thought the Q1 would be easy to make
(coz it has only conrods on the wheels)
 
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