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Modelling Diesels in P4: Stock for Wheal Imogen (China Clay in the late 80s and 90s) along with builds preparing for my next modern layout (set in either South Devon or Cornwall in 1998)


 

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1998 Fleet: Other locos - A Summary

Finally its on to the "other" classes for which the fleet doesn't contain enough locos to make up a whole page.  As per the Class 37s and 47s in each case locos are fitted with P4 wheels (Maygib or Ultrascale) and a Lenz Gold decoder, plus etched names where needed.  Photos have all been taken from previous blog posts and are not necessarily in current condition, the intention is that everything will be re-photographed on my photo plank to get a decent image of each loco.  Putting the loco numbe

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1998 Class 47s: A summary

An update to the Class 47 summary, as before this is intended to serve as a record of the fleet (as well as something of an index, with previous blog posts having covered the work in more detail). For Wheal Imogen the fleet is not the most useful, given that the Railfreight 47s tended to only be used on the long distance routes out of the county, however they will all become more useful at some point in the future when the big project can finally commence…   47338 in Railfreight D

20303 in DRS pt 2

The next big job was to prepare the lower half of the body, adding new transfers (pre made sets from Fox for the numbers) and repainting the black ‘footplate’ into DRS blue.  Thankfully Rainbow Railways DRS blue is a near perfect match with Bachmann’s once you’ve added a coat of varnish to tone down the gloss, it also covered very nicely over a black undercoat.  While the blue was out I also touched in the area where a handrail knob ad been removed from each side when shortening the handrails. 

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The Fatadder in 20/3

20303 in DRS (1998)

Last year I finally finished off my conversion of an original centre box Bachmann 20 into 20302 in the original DRS livery.  Along with my pair of DRS 37s the plan was always for a pair of DRS 20s, Bachmann’s livery cock up on their DRS 20/3 release and offer of replacement bodies offered a solution.  Thanks to @WILLIAMfor offering me the original incorrect body from his 20/3 I was set to go.   The model has the DRS logos in the wrong place for 306 onwards, and the wrong roof colour /e

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The Fatadder in 20/3

Structure Gauging Train Pt5 (primer and a start on the optical car)

The final task on the coach sides was to add the additional grills to the side of DC975280 following the usual approach chain drilling holes around the edge and splicing in a new grill cut from a pikestuff door.   With that done the two coaches were primed, with 975280 this was pretty straightforward with a good result.  With 975081 it was a little more difficult, while the coach side looked in a good position as soon as primer was added it showed up pretty much every joint needed rework.  In pa

Structure gauging train pt4

A little more work this evening, the sides have been tidied up and glued to the roof along with fitting the cab end.  The raised panel on one side was added with 10thou plasticard and a grill cut from a pikestuff door.   I have also removed all of the roof detail, I think I’m right in saying that it had rovac vents fitted instead of the old style ones.  A new NRM roof pod has been glued in place along with the new cab side windows.  It’s now ready for a coat of primer which will show up how go

Structure gauging train pt3 975081

Next up was the other mk1 975081 using a Bachmann BSK and an extra mk1 side for the extra windows.  This time a fair bit of cutting was required to rearrange the side and get the windows in the right place.  I started by following a drawing completely missing that it had 3 windows in the wrong place.  Thankfully this was caught before it dried and redone.  Both sides are now waiting for the solvent to fully cure before starting work filling two redundant windows.  The cab side windows were cut u

Structure gauging train pt2

Today I have managed a little more work on DC975280, with a coat of filler applied to the door joints and window blanks that were filled yesterday.   While that dries I have moved onto DC975081.  This is a much more involved conversion requiring chopping up the side to move windows around (plus a window from another side). I am sure I have spare regional railways mk1 sides somewhere (left over from TPO conversions) but I haven’t a clue as to where!   I know I gave some away but was sur

Structure gauging train in 1998 pt1

For a long time I have wanted to add a Serco test train to my 1998 fleet.  There are two candidates that I have been considering, the rebuilt 101 tractor unit (for which I already have Lima / Bill Bedford parts) and the Structure Gauging Train.   in the end i have decided to start with the latter, mostly following Mick Bryan’s posts as a guide using a Bachmann mk1 BSK and BCK, mk2a and a VBA as a basis.   last night I started work on DB975289, redundant windows were squared o

56049 complete

The final update on 56049 for now (at least until I make a start on weathering it)   After receiving a coat of Testers Dullcote, the model was fitted with the missing handrails (the longer side of the cab door handrails all snapped when the model was stripped down).  With that done the remaining orange cantrail stripe around the cab was painted on.    It has been converted to P4 however the gears are a little loose on the new axles and it doesnt run too well, I need to source

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The Fatadder in 56049

56049 a start on transfers

A start on the transfers highlighted an error in my painting, with the yellow extending slightly too far on the cantrail.  The orange cantrail still needs to be extended around the cab roof (but this will be painted rather than transfers, and the transfers for the number haven’t worked too well and will need removing and reapplying with new transfers as there is far too much backing film showing. However it’s nice to see the Transrail logos on.  Onto the other side…     edit:

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The Fatadder in 56049

56049 pt2 ready for painting

At lunch today I was able to get on with the next stage of work on 56049, with a coat of primer applied before work this morning highlighting a number of areas which needed rework (with some gaps around the new cab, damage to the side around the new "Loadhaul" cantrail grill.  I then spotted some random holes in one cab end roof (and the holes for the Hornby lamp irons) so these all needed to be filled as well.  The lamp irons will be replaced with etched ones once the respray is complete. 

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The Fatadder in 56049

56049 part 1

As mentioned on my layout thread I have been distracted by another loco project with a Hornby class 56 that Will had modified to fit a new cab so that it has two different ends.   It will eventually be finished in Transrail branded Dutch (with white numbers at one end and black at the other).    My work so far: Minor chassis repairs Fitting of Extreme Etchings horn grills (with a different version at each end) Extreme Etchings jacking point covers Replica hig

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The Fatadder in 56049

37065 - Complete (for now...)

A couple of dry evenings has resulted in a lot of progress on 37065, which has now been fully resprayed into Mainline livery (using Rainbow Railways acrylic Mainline Blue, Model Air Grey Black for the roof and a mix of Model Air chrome yellow and Model Colour golden yellow for the ends. After a coat of gloss varnish, Fox transfers were used for the body strip and silver numbers, it is an odd sheet as it includes numbers for all classes, two sets of stripes, but they sell different packs for

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20302 finishing touches

With the arrival of Bachmann's 20/3 plastered over the forums, its about time I finished off my model of 20302 converted from the original Bachmann 20.  As a refresh it has been converted with the use of Extreme Etchings parts for the new windows and roof grill, scratch built long range fuel tanks and an additional grill added to the side.   Last nights work was focused around adding the orange cantrail stripe, scratch building the NRN roof pod and finally replacing the handrails (the

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The Fatadder in 1998 Locos

37065 part 1

I will freely admit that I have something of an addiction when it comes to Class 37s.  However as per a previous blog, I now have more than enough of the class to model all of the workings which are required for both my current and planned layouts.   However..... I have long had a spare mk1 37/0 body with the cowlings removed and one end replaced with a modified mk1 Bachmann 37/4 end.  The chassis was modified to power a Silver Fox D600 so has no fuel tanks or side frames.  I star

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37607 - updated ends

Back last summer when working on my model of 37607 it was left in a part finished state with the ends missing the horn grills.  Last night I started work on another Class 37 project, modelling 37065 in Mainline.  This is an interesting loco which had a flush front on one end and a split headcoded at the other end.  In order to do this I was cutting the headcode boxes off a split box body, and would of course need a pair of horn grills and marker light lenses (at least I did manage to find a pack

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The Fatadder in 1998 Locos

Yeoman SW1001 project

The start of what is likely to be a very slow build.... While tidying up under the layout last night I came across a very old project respraying what I think was an Athern SW1000 in HO into Foster Yeoman livery as 44 Western Yeoman II that I had completed way back in 2000/2001, a year or so later it was fitted with a DCC decoder which most annoyingly has been lost at some point.   The loco was "finished" with the exception of adding the wasp stripes to the ends, and the buffers (which were

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The Fatadder in 1998 Locos

Railtrack JNA build

A minor distraction between working on my class 37s, while looking for something else in a parts box at the weekend I stumbled across an S Kits set of sides / ends for a Network Rail JNA ballast box (along with a bunch of plasticard sides/ends/floors cut to match).  A little research later to confirm it was of use for 1998 and I have cracked on with the build.   From memory my original plan was to scratch build a set of 6 in plastic (and not worry about the resin one).   First of all f

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1998 Class 37s: A Summary

The past couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of work on Class 37s so here is an update to the fleet: 37230: Transrail Dutch - Resprayed from a BR Blue Bachmann 37/0 with the ends modernised with high intensity headlights, fitted with Extreme Etchings roof and frost grills.  Currently OO    37057 Viking EW&S - A basket case body obtained from ebay which was stripped down and resprayed into EW&S livery (Phoenix EWS red and Vallejo Golden Yellow), a centre box body was

37667 rebuilding the grills

A long term resident of the work in progress shelf my EWS 37667 has made it onto the bench for attention.   the main issue with this loco was that I had previously modelled in 2000s condition with Sandite port on the side.  This needed filling and repainting in EWS gold, which has been a difficult process to get an adequate paint match.  I removed a number to assist in blending the golds , which will need replacing.   The main area of work has been focused around the nose gri

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37403 Weathering

Last nights work finishing off 37403, which for now finishes off my class 37 fleet.     At some point there will be a temptation to respray my remaining 1980s Tre Pol & Pen into Mainline and Red Stripe Cooksworthy into something more suitable, but for the moment they are destined to join 37207 in a display case.  The fact that two of them are my own work will likely be their saving grace.     I have done some work planning out the fiddleyard for my long term mainline pr

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37403- finished

37493 is has now had the missing depot plaque scares added, along with a coat of Dullcote to blend in the gloss around the transfers.  It has also been reunited with its cab bulkheads and glazing, and hence is now ready for weathering (for which I need to decide how far to go.  The roof certainly needs it to blend in the slight colour change or the repainted panel around the roof grill.  

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The Fatadder in 1998 Locos

67003 - transfers

Another long term workbench resident received transfers in my latest Railtec delivery.  So 67003 now has transfers applied, with Railtec used for the body side and end numbers / EWS logos.  Along with using the spare post 98 ohle flashes included in the Railtec 37403 pack.  The GM logos and the cab side EWS crests were from a spare Fox sheet.   one difference with the Railtec transfers was that it very clearly said not to use Microsol products to get it to sit over the body side ribs.

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37403 -transfers

I am finally nearing completion on 37403 resprayed from a Bachmann large logo model, with Extreme Etchings roof grills and Railtec transfers.  The BR crests were repainted with an off white mix (leaving a touch of red on the tail on one side). It still needs a coat of varnish before replacing the windows and a fair amount of weathering.

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