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Modified Hall pt7: Finished (Almost)

The Fatadder

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So with an envelope from Fox waiting for me as I got home from work yesterday, it was time to crack on and finish off the Modified Hall.

 

The first job was to prepare the plates, as ever its a very tedious job removing the fairing from the bottom of the plate. This is made a little more difficult by the fact that Fox's plates seem to be a little thinner than Modelmasters and hence more prone to deformation while cutting / filing. As ever I wish I could just buy the nameplate on its own for renumbering jobs and a separate fairing for when it is needed!

 

Once the etch was finally cleaned up, it was then superglued into position and then followed by the cabside plates.

 

Next up once again it was out with the red paint to give the buffer beam a final coat, before touching in the vacuum pipe in dirty black. After a little drying it was now ready to receive the buffer beam numbers. But can I remember where I have put them? No.....
So it looks like the final completion will have to wait until I can place an order for some HRMS transfers. I need some more G W R logos at any rate so its not a total waste. No doubt as per usual I will find the missing transfers just after the new ones arrive.....

 

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Showing the fire iron tunnel does exist!

 

Other than that, all thats left now is to fit some lamps and a driver (ModelU although probably not a job which will be completed until some more locos are ready to be done,) and test its load hauling capabilities (a job for today)

 

Edit: Adding a screw coupling to the front might also be sensible.....

 

Edit 2: The model has now been tested, completely at home hauling 8 Bachmann and Hornby coaches even without its missing weight. Should be more than capable of everything it needs to haul. That does now start making me consider another Bachmann (Collett) Hall to do in plain green...

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gwrrob
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The Bachmann post war liveried 4920 has reached the artwork stage in design so I'm told.

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The Fatadder
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will it have lining I wonder...

 

I still have 4925 (currently in lined post war livery) which needs a respray into something more appropriate (my assumption from the works dates is that it would still be in black in 47).  But I do plan to add a third Hall at some point in plain green livery.

 

Incidentally have just got home from work and given 6971 a good test through Brent, even with the missing rake it will still handle 8 coaches at a reasonable speed.  Certainly nowhere near as weedy as I had expected.   Now back to wiring...

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I have a gut feeling it [4920] will be lined Rich but not below the footplate.

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Ravenser

All I can suggest is copy and paste to a new blog entry on here, then backdate the entry publication date before publishing. That should work . And when it has, you can delete the misplaced entry

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