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Detailing and weathering workbench for Oswestry Works and Modelu product dioramas

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DETAILING

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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Oswestry Works Motive Power Introduction

I've started this blog for the motive power side of things, keeping the Oswestry Works Diorama thread more works build/research focused. Motive Power for the Works project is based on the original works registers which survive at the National Archives in Kew. Thumbing through these historical documents inspired me to recreate scenes from different periods based on what would have actually taken place to add a new dimension of realism and interest. So far I've seen the 1954 works register which h
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