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What I’ve been working on. WARNING! This is not finescale

 

from train set to ????

a few thoughts and ideas from the journey ess1uks-layout-ruby-road-and-other-waffle-blog/

 

 

 

 

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Coaches. Improving my Mk2 stock

making my mixed bag of Lima and Hornby coaches look a little better. painting corridor connection doors in the correct colours. left to right 2 Lima, 1 Bachman and 1 Hornby mk2 coaches I'm painting some B4 bogie springs red on clean coaches, and not bothered on the ones that have been weathered. cruel close up   Interiors may well get a lick of paint too. should wheel bearings covers be yellow?
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ISO Containers from the 1980s

with a full rake of 5 vintage Hornby FFA/FGA wagons i needed an assortment of 1980s ISO containers as a replacement for the aged Hornby boxes. The plan was to get some of the Wild Boar containers until i saw the ready to use C-Rail-Intermodal offerings. So whilst at the DEMU Showcase 2016 i purchased 4 of the C-Rail containers.     shown below are 2 balanced on the wagon before the lugs for the original containers are cut off.   just wondering what the be
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fixing a secondhand Hornby ZRA.

Source: my layout, Ruby Road.     Not sure what to use for couplings. Thinking that for now it can be used on the end of a train as it's only missing one coupling. In the future it could be made to be a translator between the old tension lock and any new method I start to use for couplings.   time marches on and I've now got a second ZRA from Neil Mason and it has been weathered and modified for 3 link couplings. My plan is to do the same for the one end of my origi
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