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Lord Faringdon, part 2


James Harrison

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Suddenly the model looks a lot better for being given a new lick of paint:

 

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Aside from the paintwork, I've built new front frames to sit just above the bogie and behin the cylinders (this looks much better than the daylight there previously), added a snifting valve to the side of the chimney and reinstated the steampipe running down the driver's side of the boiler. Following a 1925 photograph of Lord Faringdon, I filed down the tops of the tender axleboxes and then replaced them with an attempt at 'Iracier' axlebox covers in plastic sheet.

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Looks a lot better - surprising what a coat of paint can do. By the way, don't believe all the bad press about these engines. They could work a heavy train from Manchester to Marylebone without running out of coal. GC drivers knew how to handle them.

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Thanks!  I think the plan this evening will be to start on the LNER apple green livery.  I'm kicking myself for not buying 'Valour' the week after I bought 'Lord Faringdon', as 6165 wore GCR green right up to 1926. 

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