That bloke above has a very good point !

I agree with Peter and I have learnt so much from build threads on other sites, not just with locos but also with restoring my pillar drill and mill. I am in the early stages of building a 5" Sweet Pea but sadly don't feel inclined to share my progress on here. Equally I only chat to a few friends about progress at my club, preferring not to get involved in the open forum discussions about what I am doing which can be counter productive and discouraging.

Regards. Nick.

i posted a few pics of my current build with no comment so have given up posting on a thread and progress is via my albums instead without comment.

for miniature loco builders the modeleng.proboards.com site is great and full of knowledgeable people with excellent work and lots of build threads some of which are really pushing the boundaries such as Roger Froud's Speedy thread. most of them started off here, but got such a poor response they have 'gone over'. that is a bit of shame and reflects poorly on ME and MEW.

in addition to Roger's revolutionary Speedy in 5"g, there are a couple of excellent Don Young 5"g Doncaster threads, an excellent 3.5"g Doris thread from down under plus an excellent 5"g Brit down under, plus much else besides including my own current 5"g terrier build. detailed extremely informative threads on driving, superheaters, injectors, DRO, tooling etc. even long threads on types of coal!

**LINK**

cheers,

julian

Edited By julian atkins on 11/11/2015 23:15:57

Peter,

It looks like the next 'build thread' has just started.

**LINK**

MichaelG.

I'd love to see more too but have found it to be a loosing battle, with my fellow Mods wanting to add topics about Astronomy and motorbikes the core subject of whats going on in peoples workshops will only get diluted further.

Its a sad fact that to help a beginner who joins this forum for advice it is often better to direct them to other forums such as the one Julian mentions for Locos, Traction Talk for TEs and the likes of MEM, HMEM for IC and stationary steam subjects.

Its all very well chatting away in far more depth and going off topic but a beginner really wants pictures to look at as they can convey whats happening far better than a page full of posts.

I too have put several builds on here but as others have said there is very little interaction and the posted will feel like they are talking to themselves. Current build is not being posted as it should be going into ME but I have been showing the odd completed part in the workshop thread. It would be nice to see more in there even as I would hope there is more being made out there.

J

Personally I think one of the problems is both ME and MEW share this forum, I have an interest in ME but my primary passion is Motorcycles, my workshop is build around building them, having said that I have made clocks, and I have build my own aero engines for model aircraft, I am also building a 9F Loco, I make my own circuit boards, I often write software, I have a passive interest in astronomy.

I use forums for some of these interests, however sometimes I don't, for instance I am not on any electronics forums or aero modelling forums, I don't expect any forum to only include the stuff I'm interested in.

I do read a lot of stuff one here but mostly the bits that interest me the other stuff I simply skip, but sometimes I spot a gem……

I have a friend who's a bit OCD, he has his own forum, it has one member, only he can post, he keeps it off line though because he hates criticism.

Shaun

..sterile…

Ok maybe not a perfect choice of word…

But from memory I have seen posts where the originator …seems to err..object to others comments… at all.

Fine.
Simularly if a thread is closed ( in the sense of open or closed questions. ..) one might not expect much discussion.

I am just saying that the occasional quiet ( with regard to “builds”) period will happen and in a fora where there might be ten-twenty live threads..the quiet threads will get shuffled down…

Lets ask why an individual would visit and or post.
To look for answer to maybe a specific build question.. “are the drawings wrong? “
To ask ” why does my silver solder refuse to flow?”
To ask “how do I solder the fripple nut on the lsbc xyz loco version xxii”..the latter posed as “xyz loco fripple nut”…
Now the latter I would skip from the title… but any hints/tips on soldering I would read…

I'm at a bit of a loss as to the OP's perceived problem.

There is, as far as I can see, no problem with publishing build threads on the forum – see Garry's current efforts. On a personal note i would prefer JS's contributions (irreverent or otherwise!) or Jason's succinct one-off explanations of techniques which he employs. Motor cycles, astronomy, etc. excellent 'brain food' and all the more attractive for it. If PN wishes to publish his day-to-day efforts, fine, but I really don't see self-publicising as necessarily the prime objective of a general model engineering forum. If I wanted build sequences, I would go to any of the dedicated fora but on this one, I like the diversification – my two-penn'orth (or throw away washers in new currency!!)

rgds

Bill

i think the main problem is that this forum, like the ME magazine, is not specialised enough.

'model engineering' is too broad a church. most model engineers have just a few specific interests.

hence the more specialised forums that Jason and i have referred to contain lots of extremely interesting build threads.

i will chip in when something catches my eye on this forum and if i think i can contribute hopefully usefully, but rarely will this be outside my own areas of interest model engineering-wise.

i see no point in doing a build thread on here for one of my miniature steam locos. it is not a case of wanting praise, or accepting criticism. it is simply the fact that no one seems to be interested! on the other hand the specialised forums create the most amazing feedback/flow of ideas/suggestions and i have received a huge amount of help and made many new friends all over the world.

cheers,

julian

” Would you by”…
I for one find the forum worth every penny I spend on it