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About this blog

A companion blog to my Brent layout topic and steam modelling blog where most of my work in progress modelling is posted.  The aim being to display the completed stock for the layout, along with a record as to the work done.  The eventual plan is that each loco will have a single post, along with posts detailing each complete train.

Most of the modelling has previously been covered either in my steam workbench blog, or on the Brent thread.  Any questions, potential improvements or other comments please fire away!

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Mixed Traffic

7804 Baydon Manor

Background: This loco was a very long term resident of my workbench, it is a Mitchell kit build for the body (using one of the last sets of etches / castings Malcolm had left over) along with a heavily modified Comet chassis which has been fitted with the Mitchel detail overlays, a PDK chimney and a set of Markits insulated wheels.  It has been coupled up with a Hornby Churchward 3500gl tender which was resprayed to match the loco.   From memory the tender has been fitted with a Dingham cou
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The Fatadder in Mixed Traffic

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Tank Engines

1470 - GWR Black

Background This is another "it looks nice" purchase, starting with a 2nd hand DJM 58xx in BR black I added the auto working bits (along with the ATC equipment).  The BR logo was removed (Microsol as per usual) and replaced with HMRS G W R transfers.  The BR smokebox door number was very well moulded on this model as a separate component, this really simplified removing the unwanted parts.  Research into the prototype loco highlighted that it had been renumbered from 4870 to 1470 before my t
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The Fatadder in Tank Engines

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Express Passenger

4025: A nameless star

Background The arrival of the Hornby Star was something of a disappointment, what with the combination of a full fat price but with detail to 1990s standards.  Thankfully the second hand market was priced accordingly and a BR Green example was sourced a year or two after release.  The original intention was to do a loco in unlined green, the typical livery for a Star in the late 40s.  However after coming across a photo of 4025 ex works at Swindon dated 1948 in plain green with British Rail
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The Fatadder in Express Passenger

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Mixed Traffic

6808 Beenham Grange

Background This loco started off as a Hornby Grange in "shirt button" livery, the 3500 Churchward tender was rebranded to G W R with my usual Microsol / HMRS transfer approach (which is nice and easy on a shirt button loco.)  It gained a new identity with a set of Modelmasters' name plates / cab side plates, along with the HMRS numbers for the bufferbeam.  6808 was intended as a guinea pig for improving the colour of the Hornby GWR green, as a result it was sprayed with Simons clear lacquer
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The Fatadder in Mixed Traffic

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Heavy Freight

7250 GWR Green

Background 7250 started off as a Great Western liveried example from the last batch of Hornby 72xx (after they changed the chassis design to use brass bearings & added a separate smokebox door dart.) The printed Great Western logos were carefully removed using the Microsol method, although they did put up something of a fight.  New replacement transfers were added from HMRS along with a set of Narrow Planet etched cabside plates.   The Brassmasters bunker fender etch was added to the re
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The Fatadder in Heavy Freight

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Heavy Freight

4292 - GWR Black

Background 4292 started off as an eBay rescue job, originally described as a pre-production Hornby sample (believed to be for testing the chassis).  It arrived unpainted, missing detail castings (including the chimney) and generally in a very sorry state.   Since then the loco has been fitted with a PDK models chimney, Brassmasters etched cab back, vacuum pipes from the scrap box and Mainly Trains tank vents.  A Gibson smokebox dart replaced the moulded Hornby effort, while the handrai
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The Fatadder in Heavy Freight

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