robmcg Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 A version of the A4 not much modelled by Hornby unless you count Mallard, I think only sound-equipped 4466 'Herring Gull' in LNER Garter blue, single chimney and a colour scheme much more common than the Silver Jubilee engines... so here is 2511 'Silver King' after repaint in Sept 1938. There are some Railroad version in garter blue but not many super-detail versions? I might be wrong, and am excluding post-war and BR style with cut away valances. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 At speed, 1938 LNER.... 'Mallard'. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 At speed, 1938 LNER.... 'Mallard'. 4468_A4_LNER_Mallard_at_speed_3a_r1200.jpg Now THAT looks just like a Wills cigarette card..... Triffic!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 28, 2015 Author Share Posted December 28, 2015 Thanks! Here is 'Kingfisher' ready for express work... these A4s can be addictive! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 They come in BR blue as well... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Here is BR Brunswick Green as per recent 70043 'Lord Kitchener', not long after overhaul in 1957-8. with suitable re-colouring, I admit a small degree of that... Beautiful engines, these. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Frosty morning in the Midlands, 70043 leaving a plume of exhaust in the air.... Nice model! Thank you Hornby. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2016 With an awful lot of loco's waiting in the wings, thought I better get back to work... J15 65389 Yes I know there shouldn't be pipework running along the running plate - it's part of the mould and I didn't realise till after I'd finished weathering and I didn't want to ruin the loco trying to grind the pipework off And an imposter from the Danish camp and it's a dirty diesel... Currently on the to do list are: Star 4036 Queen Elizabeth Britannia 70042 Lord Roberts 9F Crosti Number TBC King 6008 King James II O1 63650 K1 Number TBC A3 60086 Gainsborough B17 61634 Hinchingbrooke BoB 34060 Croydon - Air Smoothed (already done, in Rebuilt form) this was going to be Lord Beaverbrook Plus the imminent arrival of another 42xx and (wait for it) a West Country Called Okehampton for donor usage (slightly ironic as Okehampton was the last rebuilt I renamed ) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Well toboldlygo I was pleased that your recently acquired O1 had a straight running plate, I took a look at a factory-weathered version I bought a couple of years ago with a view to photographing it and discovered I has a very pronounced hump, presumably repairable if I spend some time on it. Or edit it out.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) Oft-forgotten the men who made steam locomotives work... here a driver poses alongside 34006 'Bude', late BR. Some Southern Region crews were artists of the highest order in getting great performances from Bulleid Pacifics, well described in several books including those by R H N Hardy, and others. The shift number 461 was worn by 34006 in a photo by David Shepherd in his book 'An Artist Among the Ashes', at Nine Elms and near the very end of steam. It bears only symbolic relevance here, rule one applying. I can guess that this type of picture was common, snapshots taken perhaps when retirement loomed, or maybe with a favourite engine, taken by the fireman or a shed hand, and many such photos have been lost in old family albums. This senior express driver is in his mid-late 50s around 1964 would have started on the Southern in the 1920s, passed fireman by the time of WW2, senior fireman with the age of Bulleids, then a senior driver, what experiences must lie behind that calm gaze! Edited January 5, 2016 by robmcg 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 An excellent Britannia, always a Midland engine. 70043 ready for work. Edited a little. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2016 Oh look another Star in the sky - correction on the side of the pond... Renaming/renumbering has ground to a halt, while I wait for all the nameplates I have on order to arrive.. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2016 Oh look another Star in the sky - correction on the side of the pond... 4036_rhfan.jpg Renaming/renumbering has ground to a halt, while I wait for all the nameplates I have on order to arrive.. I kind of jinxed myself there, all the nameplates (and shed code plates) turned up this morning, although the ones for Lord Roberts were red! A couple of coats of Vallejo Model Air Black with my airbrush and a light sand with wet and dry fixed that 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) what a pity Hornby don't make an original Royal Scot.... Edited January 12, 2016 by robmcg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2016 A couple of brief cameo's, it's too cold in the loft to get much weathering done. Both in works - another Crosti (body isn't attached for weathering purposes) and a renamed King... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Holy-schmolly......Please dont give that 'King' the grey treatment....They didn't last long enough to enter that period. Enter stage left pictures of dirty Kings now I suppose..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2016 Holy-schmolly......Please dont give that 'King' the grey treatment....They didn't last long enough to enter that period. Enter stage left pictures of dirty Kings now I suppose..... First there was knob-gate Then there was BR/GWR Green gate Now grey gate? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) Here is a nice weathering job. I bought it from Gostude on Ebay. £99. Lovely trader. Good price, runs well too. Who knows, Hornby may some day make an original Scot, they already have, or had, a chassis. Here below just to prove it is their rebuilt Scot... in BR Brunswick Green no less. or better still something of the Midland tradition, double-headed.... I look forward to seeing a King in late-BR grime.... in similar vein, the appearance of BR green really was a bit hit-and-miss as per this train passing in the night, the Royal Scot is definitely green. I must look for some interesting GW BR King pics. Edited January 19, 2016 by robmcg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2016 Entering from stage right... Britannia 70042 Lord Roberts, renamed, renumbered and re-crested from an Earl Haig donor. I chose Lord Roberts for the usual combination of Early Crest and Warning Flashes, had to remove the speedo cable too 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted February 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2016 Entering stage left ... Yup it's another Crusty Crosty. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Here you go, toboldlygo, I have bought a lightly-weathered Hornby engine, the under-rated Hornby post-war Royal Scot, re-numbered from 6133 no doubt, and lovely indeed! Also one from the competition in blue boxes, an old split chassis original-type Royal Scot, both pics extremely edited of course. Also very good looking to my eyes. Various Spamcans remain unopened here.... well, Manston at least. The 9F (or should that be 8F?) Crosti looks great. Cheers, edit, at least the crosshead vacuum pump on the Bachmann model is from Hornby. and the sanders, and the cylinder drains.... Edited February 2, 2016 by robmcg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted February 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2016 Making another brief cameo 6008 King James II, fresh from the spray booth - so much is still left to do. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I have to admit that 'King' looks grand at the end of it reign. It gets my vote for Hornby's Best Ever Model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted February 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2016 Fully agree with you Coachmann Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted February 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) All the masking removed, coupling rods 'oiled' and tender wheels (and front set of bogie wheels) removed/sprayed/refitted (and paint cleaned off the tyres and back faces for electrical contact with the track). Job done. And yes I did give the green a few coats of satin varnish before weathering Edited February 3, 2016 by toboldlygo 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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