I've learn now, you can't add too much content into these entries, the poor old RMW server won't take it, so in future I need to split it up more. I'm sorry if it's spoiled your reading of this blog.

Hopefully future entries will be 'as they happen' making for shorter entries the last few have been posted in retrospect making for large files of text plus numerous photos.

That's a great looking loco now that it has a coat or two of paint on. It certainly is an inspiration for me now to scratchbuild sometime in the future instead of kit bashing.

I look forward to seeing the completed model, oh and those close ups look good too.

Jim

Looks good. I dislike painting plastic, it is ok if it is not filled with static and attracting every bit of dust from the house.

I think the early GW green was more like brunswick than the later more olive looking one.

Thanks guys for the kind words of encouragement.

Aberdare.

Jim I'm glad you've got your scratch builders hat on now, go for it. The shots through the Loup were purely random, I erased more than I kept because they were too out of focus. you can see on one shot the side of the cab is blurred but the inside is in focus, just need to get the distance right.

N15 class

I hadn't thought about static being the reason for the dust in the paint, good point. maybe the paint swirl over the plastic builds up the static, some kind of grounding strap required?

46444

Hi Mark, thanks for the comments, I spent some time reading through your blog, you're certainly a dab hand with the weathering. Regarding the handrails do you think they'd look better painted green to match the body or brass coloured?

Mikkel

The problem I had wasn't apparent when uploading the photos and attaching them but afterwards.

When previewing and submitting the post there were no photos just Icons, which, when clicked upon didn't do anything.

I tried posting them one by one in a separate entry - no problem. It was due to me trying to post too much content at once, a lesson learned for the future. Thanks for the offer of help.

I'm no expert either, but the general principle was polished steel pre 1906, and as per Mark's description after 1906.

 

See http://www.gwr.org.uk/liveriesloco1900.html

and http://www.gwr.org.uk/liveriesloco1906.html :-

Thanks guys for the info and links.

I've looked on Wikipedia and found this history

"The Liskeard and Caradon Railway was exceedingly successful while mineral extraction boomed, but it was entirely dependent on that traffic and when the mines and quarries declined, the Railway followed. From 1909 [the year that Lady Margareth was built] the railway was worked by the Great Western Railway, but its days were already numbered, and it closed in 1917, its track materials being removed in aid of the war effort."

So it looks like the handrails need to be green as Mark states, a bit of a pity really because other than  the brass handrails it's quite bland, maybe when I get the named and number plates they'll brighten it up a bit.