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Centenary restaurant first and third cars

Barry Ten

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I've sort of finished the restaurant third, so here's a shot of it running in a train next to the restaurant first. They were orientated this way, with the pantry end of the third adjoining the kitchen end of the first. The other cars are bog-standard Hornby and Airfix centenaries, still with "Beclawat" windows. (Beclawat are still in business, by the way).

 

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There are (as is always the case with me) a few little jobs to do but for now the coaches look finished enough to sit in a rake, and dare I say it, I'm pretty pleased with them. I was a bit worried that the differences in tone and lining between my painted examples and the RTR versions would be jarring, but in reality, and with a train running around, it's not too bad. I may re-spray the brown on the RTR ones at some point, but there is some obvious variation in the models between batches and doubtless the real things were not perfectly uniform in any case. One obvious still-to-be-done task is the refitting of the roof boards.

 

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I have one more donor centenary (a BR maroon example, so with entirely the wrong windows) so I may do another of these Comet overlays at some point. But for now, it's on with the Blue Pullman.

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kiwinewt

The coaches look very good, and I agree that they would sure as hell not be uniform in reality - fading, upgrades, you name it.

 

I love your bridge there as well - do you know if there is an N gauge version? :)

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Barry Ten
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Kiwinewt: the bridge is the Wills kit; I'm not sure if they do any N scale kits?

 

Devondynosaur118: ta!

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45568

Love the winter effect in pic #2 Barry, snow, grey sky, grey river, just look out the door for inspiration didya?? :rolleyes:

Cheers from W.A. (35C today), Peter C.

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Peter: pretty much! Although there's a watercolour picture in a book of paintings I have that has been very inspirational - it's a book of railway pictures commissioned for the GWR 150th anniversary, with a lovely depiction of a snowbound Reading - snow on the ground, signals stark against a pink-tinged sky.... superbly evocative.

 

Unfortunately the card sheets I used for the sky are not long enough to do the whole scene without a couple of joins, which I'd hoped would be less obvious once the lighting rig was in place. Perhaps I will investigate finding a longer sheet so I can do the whole thing in one piece.

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scanman

Verrrry nice... and thought-provoking for the future. I've got a rake of those centenaries awaiting the airbrush - bought them as 'manufacturers seconds' at a show - 6 coaches, £10 the lot! One day I might even have a layout to run them on...

 

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Ian

 

 

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Excellent BT.A man after my own heart.I've nearly finished my rake of centenaries too but I need something nice and correct to pull them.Is that the Hornby King ? Does it cope with pulling the Comet kit built versions ?

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Hi Rob - yes it is the Hornby one, and it has no problem with this relatively short rake (just 6 coaches). I'm sure it could easily handle a few more. My Comet conversions are running on the old Hornby/Airfix bogies and while they've ended up being heavier than the RTR versions, due to the white metal bits on the underframe, they're still not particularly heavy.

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