The brake third is now finished, I've added the missing "W"s to the coach number, lining has all been done and the coach given a coat of varnish to protect the transfers from coming off on my fingers.
The flushglazing has been added. Rather than paint round the window frames, I tried painting round the glazing before fitting, seems to work ok. Grab handles are from Comet and seem a little on the thick side, though I can imagine any finer and they would be prone to damage. Corridor connection
Since I'm out of "W"s I decided to finish off the Cornish Riviera kitchen car that I'd been renovating. This was originally bought off ebay some years ago, together with a brass toplight composite and a Centenary brake third. I stripped it and the toplight down using Nitromors which proved highly effective, so much so that anything that had been superglued on fell off (the kitchen car disintegrated into its constituent parts).
I had to take the soldering iron to the toplight to remove exces
These are the coaches after the first visit to the paint shop, lining and numbering to be done. Have you noticed they don't give you enough "W"s on the transfer sheets. I'm gonna be left with tons of left over lettering and numbering from these transfer sheets. I wonder if I can sell partly used sheets on ebay .
Rovex
Apropos of nothing in particular I was wondering why Hornby decided to model the 57ft GWR collett composite coach and get the compartment dimensions wrong. For those not in the know it is supposed to have four first class compartments and three third class. Now, whilst the division in the corridor side is in the correct place in the coach one of the first class compartments is actually the wrong size. Its got third class dimensions.
It has occured to me that this coach shares the same chassi
Not the best quality photo, I think the enlarging hasn't done me any favours but then its difficult to know what to expect when you're trying to get fout foot of model carriages into one photo - but anyway I'm posting it for what its worth.
Please excuse all the mess on the mantelshelf.
Rovex
Not been upto much lately, but have given the latest two coaches an undercoat of grey primer, which is brilliant for showing where you need to do more sanding and filling . Added all the end details handles steps etc. I've got the underframes built (just need some more vacuum cylinders) and the interiors bashed together from Hornby remnants.
The brake third just needed a luggage compartment building, the all third was made by cutting and splicing the four third class compartments from the
I have been a busy bee today and have got the carcases for both the 70 ft brake third and the corridor all third roughly cut out and glued together.
The brake is made up from three of the Hornby 57 ft brake thirds - it could probably be more economically done, the only real difference is that the luggage compartment is bigger - having three sets of double doors and a greater space between them. However nothing has been wasted as the bits left obver from the compartments from two of the brak
Just thought I'd post a few more photos of the restaurant and corridor composite now they've had a coat of undercoat and the underframes have been put together.This is the underframe for the composite, the trussing is made from 60 thou square plastic strip. This shows the extension of the interior by adding an extra first class and third class compartment.
both sides of the composite.
the restaurant car
underframes for both vehicles, showing the six wheel bogies on the restaurant
As promised this is the link to my topic on the ols rmweb site
http://www.rmweb.co....php?f=8&t=49301
Hope to post some pics soon of the underframes for the restauarnt car and composite.
Have decided to build the restaurant car with six wheel bogies, using the bogies from the LMS 12 wheeler - got these as spares from East Kent Models - not accurate I know but more likely to run smoothly then me trying to build a kit of some and probably cheaper in the long run.
Hopefully shou
This is a continuation of my topic about GWR coaches and increasing passenger choice - (very topical - lol)
I will try to put a link to the old topic when the sites back up and running - though at the moment I'm still trying to work my way round the new site - as a bear of very little brain I'm easily confused but as Basil Fawlty says "now we're in I'm determined to make it work".
Anyway with the articulated suburban stock taking a back burner for a while, I'm trying my hand at the South
