{"id":3040,"date":"2017-10-17T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:24:53","slug":"gladiator-b16-1-first-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator B16-1 First Test Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-redactor=\"1\">After my mistake with the wheels on Saturday, I sorted them out and with the weather being not too bad we cleaned up part of the circuit on the garden line and gave it a try.<\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p data-redactor=\"1\">Sadly, the rigid chassis doesn&#8217;t take well to my less than generous curves but it is alive and now just needs final detailing.<\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p data-redactor=\"1\">Here&#8217;s a video of it running up and down the straight section.<\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p data-redactor=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GS0lEnoHSXs\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/GS0lEnoHSXs<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p data-redactor=\"1\">Chris also took a few photos of it in the sunshine. Just a few more details to add before it goes of to Warren for painting.<\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3041\" style=\"width: 4618px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3041\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0054.jpg 4608w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0054-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0054-768x576.jpg 768w, 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id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 First test run<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my mistake with the wheels on Saturday, I sorted them out and with the weather being not too bad we cleaned up part of the circuit on the garden line and gave it a try. Sadly, the rigid chassis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladiator-b161","category-gladiator-kits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}