Entry posted by S.A.C Martin
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I've been quite ill over the October and November period, and for the most part, confined to bed. However my darling girlfriend bought me an E-Z Command Controller (to act as a spare for my ever suffering Dynamis system at home), and some track so I could play with the birthday present she'd got me in September. 
Happy man, despite the swine flu and infected lung! 
At any rate, my little test track on my desk at university has been reborn, with the sole intention of testing models and generally playing with trains while bored...
Now, here's the lovely present she bought me - a Bachmann K3:
You'll note the fact that it has an entirely unprototypical clean and "doled up" appearance quite becoming it. There's a good reason for this - I started mucking up the bufferbeam and said missus got a little upset ("it'll look like the rest of your mucky engines if you do that - make it look fabulous"...)
Ho-hum. So I duly cleaned most of it up (retaining a little grime around the buffers to make it look used), and started doing my usual sprucing up I reserve for the pacifics. Silver smokebox straps, dart and buffers (GamesWorkShop's Bolt Gunmetal used), copper piping (GamesWorkShop's Elven Elixir) real coal added to tender (PVA plus coal) and a crew stuck in with a little vaseline.
Hence I present 61823 - "Charlotte", who is awaiting completely unprototypical nameplates to arrive, in a similar manner to "The Great Marquess" and a few other locomotives now wearing nameplates in preservation.
I might have lost a few man points for not dirtying it up, but what the hell...it does look grand:
Last thing for today - big shout out to the Loughborough Model Centre, where I bought this wonderful Blood & Custard Gresley Brake Composite for just ??20 today:
Love these coaches - I am starting to build a rake of them at home, and one more to the collection can't hurt, surely?
That's pretty much been my modelling for the last six or seven weeks. I plan on finishing GNR. no.1 over Christmas (at least getting the physical aspects done, handrails, splasher etc and then perhaps paint in the spring), and also looking forward to receiving a few ordered goods in the next few weeks - one City of Truro, one Tornado and one 3MT. That'll do me until Christmas 2010, I hope!!! 
Well the wallet will want a break at any rate, after Kestrel 
Until next time!
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