My shoebox of stuff to be painted seemed to be half full of painted but not lettered containers. A quick search of the internet showed that Cambridge Custom Transfers and Fox did suitable transfer sheets, which has let me finish them off.
The scratchbuilt LMS FM container was finished off using a mix of Modelmaster and CCT transfers, all intended for other diagrams of FM container.
The Cambrian type A containers, finished using CCT transfers (early livery) and Fox (late livery). There's a
Slow progress over Christmas, due to other distractions (food, beer etc) but I've managed to get some LER wagons completed. I bought some old 3H LNER 6 plank wagon kits off Ebay as these seem to be well regarded. In the end they turned out to be pigs to build - the quality of the detail is first rate, but assembling them was a nightmare as the corner joins didn't mate properly and endless filing and filling was needed!
The one on the right was built as per the kit as a Darlington built examp
This evening I fitted couplings to the Dapol ex-Wrenn, ex-Hornby-Dublo banana van. Looks good for a 50 year old toy!
Also finished tonight is another of the Parkside BD containers, in Crimson with lettering from an ancient Modelmasters sheet.
This is the latest state of play with the Shock open. It's now on it's wheels, using the solebars supplied with the kit. These were glued to the underside of the plasticard floor and carefully lined up (since there are no moulded lugs to position them
I'm quite pleased with how this turned out. It's a conversion of a Coopercraft kit to the fitted version, except that the one modelld seems to have lost it's vacuum fittings but kept the Bauxite livery. Based on a photo in "Pre-nationalisation freight stock on BR
The wagon sheet cover's up a bit more of the new ironwork than I'd have liked. Never mind.
Finished a few more vans tonight - the two Parkside LNER plywood vans from the new version of their kit, the hybrid Ratio body/Parkside roof SR van and my second go at the LMS type Plywood van using Parkside sides and Ratio ends. I'm especially happy with the SR van as the replacement roof makes it look like the real thing, something the original kit doesn't really do. The new LNER van kit looks pretty good as well - full marks to Parkside.
The shock open progresses slowly. I cut down the ends, leaving some of the buffer beam behind to represent the floor.
The body was then assembled around a floor made of planked plastic sheet, as the drawing in BR wagons (and photos of the full length non-shock version of the prototype) show a wooden floor.
Finally, 40 plasticard was added underneath to represent the (quite thick) outside of the floor on these wagons. This was done in 3 sections to avoid having to cut out bits to clear the m
Not much has happened on the wagon front recently as I've busy battling an Ian Kirk 2-Bil kit. I have managed to finish this Parkside LNER lowfit. The only major change I made was to use AS buffers. The replacement axlebox cover is due to these being seperate moulding and likely to fall off if you don't use enough glue
This BR pipe wagon is another parkside kit. It took ages to pluck up the enthusiasm to do the 8 door springs. Bending up little bits of metal strip is not my idea of fun. Othe
??? posted on Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:26 am
A few more wagons finished tonight. I've also been playing with my camea to try and get better results. These were all taken on long exposures, with the lights turned off and a handheld torch as the main light source.
The LMS lows are all done - Chivers kits for the long lows and scratchbuilt 10' wheelbase ones.
The one in LMS bauxite is intended as a runner for a rake of wagons carrying timber. I've made a start on loading t
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??? posted on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:05 pm
I was made redundant from my job last month (as my employers thought it was a good idea to replace me with 3 unskilled Indian graduates on ??5 a day, but that's a different story). The good news is that this gives me a lot more modelling time (in between job hunting of course), and so I'm trying to clear the backlog
Slow progress over Christmas, due to other distractions (food, beer etc) but I've managed to get some LER wagons completed. I bought some old 3H LNER 6 plank wagon kits off Ebay as these seem to be well regarded. In the end they turned out to be pigs to build - the quality of the detail is first rate, but assembling them was a nightmare as the corner joins didn't mate properly and endless filing and filling was needed!
The one on the right was built as per the kit as a Darlington built examp
Slow progress over Christmas, due to other distractions (food, beer etc) but I've managed to get some LER wagons completed. I bought some old 3H LNER 6 plank wagon kits off Ebay as these seem to be well regarded. In the end they turned out to be pigs to build - the quality of the detail is first rate, but assembling them was a nightmare as the corner joins didn't mate properly and endless filing and filling was needed!
The one on the right was built as per the kit as a Darlington built examp
Slow progress over Christmas, due to other distractions (food, beer etc) but I've managed to get some LER wagons completed. I bought some old 3H LNER 6 plank wagon kits off Ebay as these seem to be well regarded. In the end they turned out to be pigs to build - the quality of the detail is first rate, but assembling them was a nightmare as the corner joins didn't mate properly and endless filing and filling was needed!
The one on the right was built as per the kit as a Darlington built examp
