I got my tin of Humbrol Matt varnish out today to dull down the smokebox and cab roof on 1308. On opening the said tin I found it had separated, the same as my Humbrol Satin varnish had done previously, rendering it as 'dodgy' to use in the airbrush.
I applied it with a brush instead and when it dried it looked somewhat streaky, so not good. Afterwards I applied 3 coats of Johnson's Kleer or Klir as it's called here in France.
Today I thought I'd try experimenting with Klir Matt a la Sleeper.
Hi everyone,
I've done some more detailing on this model, coal in the bunker,front and rear steps added, vacuum pipes, 3 link couplings, oh and leaf springs made and fitted.
The coal in the bunker is plastic stuff made by Peco. The front steps are metal ones cut from the RTR bogies I used for the Double Fairlie, the rear ones are for a Jinty they come from an etched set I got from Mainly trains. Vac pipes from Markits, Slater's 3 link couplings.
I made the leaf springs by cutting a strip o
I've had considerable problems with posting photos but when I posted them to the test area they came up ok [ called Murphy's law] or something like that.
Right in part 5 you'll see 12345 listed where the photo's should be here they are in that order:-
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Shhh it seems to have worked.
Conclusions drawn? I talk to 'kin much!!
TTFN
I've applied the paint to this model now.
I started with Railmatch GWR loco green but on inspection the finish was p!$$ poor so I rubbed it all down again with wet and dry [used wet] and then re-sprayed it with Humbrol No 3 Brunswick Green, not my favourite colour an not 'olivy] enough for my liking but who's to know what colour this loco's first livery was? I haven't been able to find any info online about this one. I guess as it was a one off and scrapped early on [1948], it's slipped under t
I made and fitted the buffer beams, generally filled and cleaned up the body, finally giving it a coat of primer to highlight any faults. These were rectified and the primer coat proper was applied
Well that pretty well brings this blog up to date, The loco is now in the paint shop. It was coated with 2 coats of Railmatch GWR Loco Green but that didn't look too clever so I rubbed it all down with wet and dry and resprayed it again with Humbrol #3 Brunswick Green and it no
Next I attached the boiler, smokebox, built up the tanks etc despite ordering a white metal chimney I made one from 5.5mm plastic tube with a drawing pin head [ pin removed] filed to size, upturned and glued on top with superglue, topped with a sliver of 5.5mm tube. The bell shape made with Squadron Green filler as per DF. I made the dome from plastic wrapped tube and filler. The safety valve cover was a plastic one from a Hornby detail pack mounted on a base fashioned from plasticard filed to c
I then made the cab front, again using my hole punch to great effect for the front spectacle windows. I made the smokebox subframe in the shape of a tee and cut out the front and rear again from a card template fixing these together with poly cement and leaving overnight to set properly. I then wrapped this with 0.050 plasticard
At this stage I might add that I later found out my mistakes made here when I tried to fit the chimney. I drilled down through the center of the smokebo
I first saw this loco on Google images, its character appealed to me together with its somewhat unusual wheel configuration, only found in locomotives built in the late 19th early 20th centuries, indeed this one being designed and built in 1902 by Andrew Barclay sons &Co.
On doing further research I found out it was built for use on the Liskeard and Looe Railway which was taken over by the GWR in 1905 where upon 1308 was transferred to Oswestry and latterly worked from Machynlleth shed from
I bought a rather dilapidated castle arts/ Gaiety GWR 57xx pannier tank model for about £4. It was in quite a sad state, the drive gear on the axle had come loose so although I got the motor to turn it couldn't transmit any power to the wheels.
The body for this model was sold at one time on its own so that it could be matched up with a RTR [Triang/Hornby chassis. After a lot of faffing around I eventually acquired a suitable chassis for it and I modified it to accept the same method for fixing
As I said before I had shelved this project with no great desire to carry it on, however after a couple of months I was able to look at it in a different light.
The bogies I'd tried to use were completely wrong, the scale was all wrong too. In height it was ok but in length it was way too long, something like 8 scale feet too long. This was largely due to my trying to use the RTR bogies, something had to be done. With nothing to lose I proceeded to hack the thing to bits.
I had to lose somethi
As I was browsing the internet one day I came across an article written by someone on the subject of locomotive wheel configurations which featured a photo of a Double Fairlie and I was quite taken by it as I'd never seen or heard of one before. I decided I'd like to try to make a model that represented the prototype in the article.
Here is one of the many pictures I subsequently found on researching the project, it's very atmospheric I think. It shows a Double Fairlie back in the days when the
I bought 3 damaged body shells on Ebay one was a dock authority shunter, one a Hornby detailed Castle [Neath Abbey] which I repaired and fitted with minimal alteration on to a 4-6-0 Hornby chassis. The third one was a cheapo Lima 0-4-0 'international' loco, they come in a train set. So this is how it started out :-
This is what I was aiming to represent :-
These USA class engines were ordered through the US Army Transport Corps during the 2nd World War from the Vulcan Ironworks
Hi everyone,
I've been registered on RMWeb for quite a while but haven't done anything about adding any content, other than the odd comment here and there.
I've only been modeling railway stuff for just over a year and my knowledge of railways doesn't add up to much but I'm learning all the time and find the subject very interesting.
Of course I went through the usual phase of 'train spotting' when I was a kid and lived right near Hither Green sidings outh East London where you could hear the
