I think I've said before I have problems finishing anything. I have half built locos in O Gauge (x2), O-16.5, OO, 3mmFS, and 2mmFS.
The 2mm one, a "scratchbuilders aid" for a LSWR Class 700 from Worsley Works has been sitting around for at least 15 years, still all on it's fret with 2mm Society wheels, a worm and three gears (if only I could remember which one was supposed to go where), bits of PCB and, somewhere I hope, a motor. I've also got a plan of the loco. I know this becaus
The Great Lock-down wagon project is proceeding at my usual glacial pace (if glacial, in today's climate, means retreating, cracking up and liable to cause a global disaster!).
I've added a, nearly finished, LBSCR open wagon, but I still can't get straight lines on the the painting which frustrates me.
I'm still part way through a Midland van, but I can't decide whether to build the chassis solid or fit suspension which will involve carving half the under-fra
I've had to take a few days annual leave from work and I've utilised it to finish off a couple of vans.
Working on the basis you can't see both sides of the van at the same time I've played with timeframes and put different liveries on each side.
The white patch on the LSWR van is the light reflecting, it looks fine in real life. I can also see the camera cruelly brings out the worst in my painting (and transfer setting) some of which I need to t
Working on van no 3 and I thought I would fit Bill Bedford sprung W Irons. They're a great bit of kit, if a little bit fiddly (but it was the first time I'm made them up so I should get better) and seem to spring really well. But it looks like I'm going to have to shave half the depth of each solebar off to get them to fit (and a fair part of the floor struts).
Do you know? I'm really not sure if I can be bothered :-)
I think I need to sleep on it.
...in between going to church, having lunch, going for a run and hovering the house.
It's a Cambrian Models LSWR 10 Ton Van (the roof is only resting on it atm as I need to add weight to it yet).
It's a great little kit with loads of detail and went together well (I accept the half hour I spent fettling it so the corners joined, may well be due to my cack-handedness). I bought some Bill Bedford compensated W-irons, but the one piece floor, solebars and W-iron
This model railway lark is harder then it looks. Maybe that's why after 50 something years of messing about with modelling I still haven't got a layout!
So I've scraped off the errant "5" and replaced it with another one (which I was happy with until I looked at the photo, Oh well!), sprayed it with matt varnish which has made a lot of difference (although it looks shiny on the photo as I had to use flash) and I've got a working train... of one van.
Not sure what an Isle
Having had the last 7mm wagon I'd nearly finished roll off the table and fall into it's component parts I started looking round for something to get my modelling enthusiasm back.
Answer - yet another LBSCR kit my brother had sent me (I'm starting to see a pattern here), this time in 4mm. A Smallbrook Studio 8 Ton Van, which went together well, took paint well... and then I got to the transfers. Oh well! Next time they will be spaced better and horizontal... I hope :-)
My brother despite, or perhaps because of, my predilection for the LSWR will insist on giving me LBSCR kits/stock/books. To be fair we did grow up in a flat above a LBSCR station so I think he's returning me to my roots or something. It's got to the stage where I have almost as much Brighton stuff as South Western. So it's time to bite the bullet and get something Brighton running.
Within the many "relief parcels" I found a set of 4 Etched Pixels 4-wheel coaches and Peco chassis' (
I decided a while ago that the two main sticking points if I want a working 2mm FS layout I build would be building track and building locos. If I can't get them working then I'm going to have to resort to pushing the wagons along the kitchen floor muttering "Chuff, chuff, chuff", and the family already think I've lost it!.
So a couple of years ago I bought a kit for a replacement chassis for a Farish Jinty, but I've been too scared to get started.
But today, with my wife and daughter o
