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Detailing and weathering workbench for Oswestry Works and Modelu product dioramas

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DETAILING

5726 - Primed, Numbered, Allocated... almost there!

I thought I was 99% there with No.5726, but boy does the macro lens show up a lot .... happy though, this has been a fantastic starter project in detailing, its been quite a journey since March 2014...! Credit to George Dent, Paul Marshall-Potter and Iain Rice for the inspiration to first take a scalpel to 7739.   Jobs still to do - varnish the decals, real coal, screw link coupling for the rear, steam heating cock and pipe for the rear buffer beam, left tank filler lid handle missing,
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7410 - Test run at scratch built injectors

I'm back in Wales for a few days and to keep up the momentum of progress I figured I'd set myself a small project, something that doesn't take up too much space or need too many tools - making some injectors to replace the whitemetal ones with the NuCast 74xx. By the time I'd packed the reference books, tweezers, pliers, components, lamps, soldering iron etc I might as well have brought the whole tool box, but that's another matter.   Whitemetal kits and etched kits are completely new
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5726 - Detailing progress

Before I get into the detailing progress, here's a little background on 5726. I chose this particular pannier as it was an Oswestry resident for 6 years, from 1953 until withdrawal and It was also quite rare for a 57xx to be on the books at Oswestry, being one of only 2 (the other being 5700). Covering this time span it will be suitable for a few scenario's when recreating scenes in the works diorama.   The majority of 89A allocated tanks were the smaller 16xx's employed tirelessly in
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5726 - First attempts...

So here goes, first foray into detailing! There are so many good articles written on detailing Panniers that it seemed like the best place to start. In particular, the blogs Albion Yard, Chronicles of Penhydd, the many posts on RMWeb and George Dent's excellent book Detailing and Modifying Locomotives have given me a head start in theory, now to put it all into practice...   5726 is first up on the workbench to undergo the basics: new smoke box dart, lamp irons, real coal, windows, ren
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