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Lowering the bar... 'Chard's summer workbench round-up

'CHARD

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Reminder to self: make a list of what's outstanding on the workbench this month.

 

  • 4 Dapol SPV to retro-work into white fish vans for pre-May'68 workings, these reached the masked for primer stage last weekend, they have since received a spray coat of Plasti-kote 'Ice Cream' which looks about spot-on for these future Blue Spots. Also coupling replacement required.
  • 4 Dapol ex-SR CCT to distress into various stages of 'sludge brown' weathered livery, masked and sprayed with Railmatch 'rail dirt' now waiting the relief of their uniform brown. Coupling replacement.
  • 4 freelance Mainline Engineer's 5P opens and 5 Dapol 13T steel opens to relinquish chassis for re-bodying as (Parkside) Medfits - dependent on visit to Parkside when in Kirkcaldy over next fortnight. Dapols won't be converted until the Bachmann 13T steel open is released to replace the clunky ones in the fleet just now.
  • Carflat conversions from - now - Tri-ang chassis, Bachmann chassis to be re-bodied as Sleepers. All congregated in a crate waiting feasibility study wink.gif
  • Bachmann Regional Railways BG for repainting maroon.
  • Hornby crimson & cream Gresley buffet for repainting - what? - Blue&Grey, assuming these didn't wear maroon.
  • Coupler replacement for missing item on standard brake van, Bachmann.
  • Check 47s to see which one has shed a set of brake gear, and repair. angry.gif
  • Finish headcode changes on 17
  • Order 60's LYTHAM ST ANNES plates, for heaven's sake unsure.gif
  • Finish D5116 roof details
  • Source last pair of Cararama Beetle headlights for D5131 and move this on
  • Paint roof D1958
  • Decide if a green D5233 is going to become the early blue D5233 or do I source a blue 25083 (why did I ever sell the blasted thing?)
  • Decide whether to move on one of the GFYE 47s and retro another into SYP, to do neither, either, or both?

That's quite enough free thinking for one session boy, now make dinner mellow.gif

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Jamie

Thanks Chard, I feel much better about my list now ;)

 

But where's the units? No Met Camms, 12A Lightweights both early or late... or... whisper it... Gloucesters!

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'CHARD

The units are boxed up ATM mate. Platform 4 at Teviotbank was relaid last night amid massive changes WRT the branch to Lessismore - of which more on the layout blog when the camera's feeling up to it.

 

The reason for this nugget being that P4 at TK is now deliberately designed to take a Met Camm triple off branch railtours (I love the new layout BTW, it's cured all my nagging hang-ups, apart from the one about my grey hairs). It will also host Carlisle - Teviot turnbacks as was possible before, these will be 12A L/Ws, clearly.

 

The bay was measured out using a trio of GUVs - there's a risk of knocking off the edge of the world inherent in the position of the track, and no way was I risking a shiny DMU. Once the layout moves on a stage, and I get the wagon sundries off the 'bench the DMUs will re-enter the fray.

 

That should give me time to blog Leith Central's DMU allocation profile in the meantime and decide the i.d of my Mets, and whether I should indulge the lone example of Cravens that 64H had.

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Jamie

Love the way there's so much more to the layout than just what's on-scene and modelled. The history and sense of location is so much fuller developed, even while the layout's in it's genesis (small 'g' of course).

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