I attended Preston show on Saturday and as per usual this really spured me on to finish some of my projects. Top of the list are these four engineers wagons in Gulf Red, they have been sitting 95% finished, in the dreaded 'WiP tray' for months now during a real lull in my modelling. All that was required was adding smiths couplings, wheels and the end chains to the mermaids. The last part proved to be the epitome of fiddly tedium, but the end result was worth it.
I also had the chance to me
Just a quick Blog entry with the painted and lettered wagons from the last entry. Smiths instanters have also been fitted. These wagons will be going into storage and receive weathering at a later date.
Catfish ballast hopper :
GWR Herring, although I am modelling LMR, quite a few of these were transferred north around 1960, hence my justification for its inclusion!
The two Grampus wagons, I seem to have done a rubbish job of painting the inside of these, fortunately this only reve
Since my last blog entry I've been busy building more kits for departmental wagons, first up is a Cambrian catfish, I found this one to be slightly easier to build than the dogfish, probably due to the more simplistic nature of the prototype:
I did however manage to break the solebar whilst preparing for the whitemetal buffers, something that is surprisingly easy to do. As you can see its also received whitemetal axleboxes, this is mostly so that I can model the variations in axleboxes
The projects from the previous blog have now been completed, painted varnished couplings added etc:
The transfers for the Trout are assembled from various bits of a Model Master sheet, hence the wobblyness, although the number is accurate. The Cambrian Dogfish and Chivers Tunny have been painted using one of the the lifecolor black weathering paints, I believe it was 'Dirty Black', I wasn't sure about it at first, but in these pictures it looks quite effective.
I'm also almost d
I've been modifying a couple of RTR ballast hoppers for a future steam era LMR engineers themed layout.
First up is a Hornby Trout, the model represents an example built for British Railways by Metro Cammel, the plan is to back-date it to a Leeds Forge example built for the LMS. All livery has been removed with T-cut, although the build plate also needs to be taken off and swapped for a Mainly Trains etched example.
The buffers have been replaced with the correct LMS examples from Lanar
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