I took a brief holiday from trains to finish this 1/72nd scale Revell Spitfire MkV. The model was started by a friend of mine who is not really a plastic kit builder (although he is an aeromodeller) as a way to keep an 8 year old quiet one rainy day in the school holidays. The model was part constructed and then abandoned when the 8 year old lost interest - at which point I got given the bits and asked if I fancied finishing it.
I completed the assembly of the model, removed and re
Finally, the Centenary restaurant car is done - or nearly so. Still some work on the interior (boring!) as well as handrails, doorknobs and some general tidying up, but the hard work is over. I fixed the incorrect door, as mentioned in my earlier post, by gluing a thin blanking piece of plastikard over the offending area, then locally repainting and re-lining. In the process some more lining came adrift elsewhere, and then the whole thing nearly turned into a disaster when I (stupidly) sprayed a
Way back, when the likelihood of a new, super-detail 28xx from Hornby seemed slim, I set about detailing the existing, Chinese-era model. My version dated from 2000 and was (and is) a nice, smooth running model, so I didn't see any need to change the chassis - not that I'd have been all that confident about doing so, anyway, as to date I've never built anything with more than three axles.
I showed some pics of the detailed 28 on the old forum, but the arrival of the new model in the shops pr
Couple of long-term projects here: the Centenary coach is one of two that I'm doing with Comet sides on the Airfix/Hornby body - the other will be a restaurant third. The underframe and roof detail is a mix of Comet parts and plastikard/microstrip.
I used Railmatch spray cans and Tamiya masking for the paint, followed by Fox lining. I don't think Coachman will be losing sleep but it's about as good as I can achieve and will look OK in a train, I think. Still be done is final letter
A few pics showing some of the development at the station end of the layout. The road curves steeply uphill - the idea here is that there would be a gentler approach "off scene". Steep roads aren't uncommon around here, though.
There is an area to the right of the bridge which will eventually contain another building, but for now it will be developed into a patch of fenced-off wasteland.
Overall view with the fiddleyard board in place, as yet trackless. This is slightly longer
I've done quite a bit more this week (thanks, all, for the kind comments - a real spur to get on with it!) so here a few more snaps. Most of the work has been at the station end of the module, but it's not easy to get my camera onto it in my train room, so I'll wait until the sun comes out. In the meantime these were taken at the other end of the layout, under room lighting this time.
I've put a temporary sheet of white card behind the scenery to serve as a photographic backgr
Just a quick update from me - here are some summery snaps of a "quickie" layout I've been knocking together since Christmas. The idea was to have something other than Cogirep to exhibit this year, and to plunder the scrap box and general leftovers from my old layouts to the fullest extent. For a long while I've also wanted to create a compact, valleys-themed terminus on which 56xxs and panniers can potter about happily, and which gets away from the chocolate box look of so many GWR branch line t
Here's the finished 2721:
HMRS transfers, Fox numberplates, Springside vacuum pipes and lamps and some light weathering with Tamiya powders. I also added lamp irons and some footplate details such as a bucket and fire irons.
Here's one of several projects that I'm trying to get finished and off my workbench. I haven't posted anything in ages so I thought an interim report would be better than waiting for one of these albatrosses to reach completion.
The 2721 is an old-stager in the Hornby range and by no means up to the standard of recent RTR but it's a characterful model that offers a bit of Edwardian charm with its delightful open cab. The main problem, aside from the usual issue of ride height and (I think)
In light of recent developments, I thought it was about time I got my act together and actually did something with my own City of Truro. I finished painting it earlier this year, but (as is typical of me) it's sat on the workbench waiting for the last few bits to be done while I got sidetracked with other projects. I had never attached a coupling to the tender, and the model still lacks crew, lamp irons and brake handles on the tender, as well as a touch of weathering. I wasn't in any great hurr
Although most of my recent heavy duty modelling has been directed at building my S&D layout, I've still got far too many other projects on the boil, much of which revolve around my long-term interest in the GWR/WR. Here's the latest thing off the workbench, which (like my 9F) appeared on the old forum in an unfinished state. Just in time to be made completely redundant by the new Hornby model, here's a detailed and re-powered old-style Castle, numbered for 7011 Banbury Castle. It has a Comet
