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Ropley - Holiday souvenirs

TomE

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A reminder of a Norfolk Holiday...........and some railway stuff.

 

Hi all!

 

Not much modelling in this entry, having just returned from a week boating on the Norfolk Broads. If you hark right back to the first entry on this blog you'll see that the original plan was to model the swing bridge at Somerleyton and if anything the latest trip has re-kindled interest in that project, a few more close up detail photos being added to the research folder for future reference!

 

Anyway, to matters more Southern. Whilst the layout its self is taking small steps forward, I've also been adding items of stock here and there so that when the layout is eventually ready to go out and about there will be something to run on it. The latest acquisitions were picked up from Parr's Modelshop in Lowestoft, which is something of a treasure trove! Well worth a visit if you are in the area.

 

The first two are a MK.1 BG and FO. These will form part of the Mid Hants 'Watercress Belle' set of coaches, and will eventually be joined by another FO, RU and MK.1 Pullman to recreate the short 5 coach rake use on the Railway's dining services. The coaches seen below will be repainted to match the pullman scheme carried by the real things, although I'm still searching for a supplier of very fine cream decal lines!

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Green & Maroon soon to be Umber & Cream

 

 

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There is some interesting patch painting on the BG which I intend to try and recreate and as per the photo above the underframe is certainly more weathered than most of the other stock on the line, so it will make a nice contrast to the other coaches in the rake.

 

The commonwealth bogies on the FO will be swapped with BR1s from some of the standard green SOs to give the coaches the correct bogies. The Real Ale Train Bar coach is sometimes also slotted into this formation and in true 'wait until I've painted it Maroon' style, this has recently just been repainted in 'blood and custard'. Typical!! I will continue with my Maroon version to allow 'historic' formations whilst converting a second BSK for the 'new' version.

 

I also picked up a BR 20 Ton Brake, 1 of 2 required, and a Dapol Dogfish for the engineering train sometimes used at Gala weekends. These seem to be rare as rocking horse sh.....poop these days, so quite pleased with that find! Just another 3 to locate now.

 

I'll sign this entry off with a photo from Salhouse Broad, which is a 15 minute walk from the brewery where the liquid souvenir in the first photo is produced. The

Fur and Feather Inn attached to the brewery is another place well worth a visit if you happen to be close by!

 

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Cheers all!

 

Tom.

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justin1985

Looks like you had a great holiday, and some good finds too!

 

The 'Dutch' dogfish did seem to have had only a very limited release, while there were endless variations of the black with regional lettering, and crudely weathered rust black, with endless variations in regional engineers lettering. Inevitably those got bargain-binned, and it seems like Dapol decided on the basis of that "Dogfish don't sell well, we won't make any more for a while". Typical slightly flawed decision making of the RTR manufacturers! That said, not many of the dogfish made it into Dutch, despite it being more popular amongst modellers. I repainted one Dapol dogfish into Dutch myself, but then got some Stephen Harris finescale etches for both catfish and dogfish - perhaps I should sell on my Dapol wagon!

 

The finish on the blue riband Mk1 coaches is so good it almost seems a shame to repaint them doesn't it? I got a second blue BSK from a certain Liverpool model shop for a bargain price of

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Dukedog

I can't put my finger on the answer to this but,

I don't model in N gauge (Sorry 2mmFS!) I don't model anything Southern, I have never been to the Mid Hants Railway

YET I just LOVE this layout!

The only thing I can put it down to is the atmosphere created by the builder.

 

There are loads of superb layouts featured on RMWeb and else where but, out of 50 ir so highly rated layouts only a hand full will have that thing that "grabs" you and that is atmosphere, you can be the best modeller in the country but, if you can't create "atmosphere" then the whole thing will leave me cold.

You just know when something is "right"

 

Cheers for posting and looking forward to some more!

Frank

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Will J

Some excellent shopping there Tom. One note of over cautious caution (hinted at already by Justin), if you want to collect Farish Mark Ones to repaint into Pullman style liveries, you would save yourself a good deal of swearing and false starts by beginning with a 'Chocolate and Cream' or 'Crimson and Cream' basic model. So there would be no need to re-do the window frames.

 

...though the BG should pose no problems. Looking forward to seeing the stock for the layout develop!

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Looks like you had a great holiday, and some good finds too!

 

The 'Dutch' dogfish did seem to have had only a very limited release, while there were endless variations of the black with regional lettering, and crudely weathered rust black, with endless variations in regional engineers lettering. Inevitably those got bargain-binned, and it seems like Dapol decided on the basis of that "Dogfish don't sell well, we won't make any more for a while". Typical slightly flawed decision making of the RTR manufacturers! That said, not many of the dogfish made it into Dutch, despite it being more popular amongst modellers. I repainted one Dapol dogfish into Dutch myself, but then got some Stephen Harris finescale etches for both catfish and dogfish - perhaps I should sell on my Dapol wagon!

 

The finish on the blue riband Mk1 coaches is so good it almost seems a shame to repaint them doesn't it? I got a second blue BSK from a certain Liverpool model shop for a bargain price of

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