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some random railway stuff including oo gauge, 5 inch gauge and some real locomotives

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Gen 1 Bachmann 37 upgrade

I brought this Gen 1 Bachmann 37 as 37429 in Regional Railways specifically to do up as 37425 in her current state with DRS. Hents why numbers and names are missing. However I'm sure alot of you know the exhausts and fan grill sit too proud on the roof. So I took the body off and the exhaust and roof fan grill pops out via locating pins (unscrew the fan first). From here smoothen out any glue inside the cut outs in the body, then carefully rub down the exhaust panel to a certain point and same w
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Barrier coaches on the final stretch to completion

Having brought my self some Railmatch FGW blue and the barrier coaches awaiting their livery to be applied. I decided it had to be done! So while struggling to sleep one night intended up giving the first coat of blue to the coaches around about 2:35am one night. The other two coats of paint came during the next day. In terms of the BG I just have to make handrails and apply transfers that can be sourced from Railtec. However, the MK2 BSK still requires more work. From chassis details having to
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Operation barrier coaches makes a return!

After taking months off the HST barrier coach convertions it was time to get the project is full swing once more. This time the UK being on lockdown due to Covid, this gave me time to make some outstanding progress on the models. In the last blog I left off with 6338 in grey primer. This time I made progress with the MK2 BSK (soon to be 6330). For the window blanks to sit correctly on the body side I did have to rub down the rather thick window frames on the body side. With doing this I also had
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FGW barrier coaches continued

Once all the windows was blanked on the BG (soon to be 6338) I have it a coat of Halfords enamel grey primer. After this the project went on hold for a long time due to work and college. However, I did get the mojo back month later and the project continued...
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FGW barrier coaches in OO gauge

After seeing HST barrier coaches  6330 and 6338 with a pair of 20s on the GWML, I wanted to model them. So using an old Lima BG and Lima BSK progress had to start! I started off with the BG (6338) as it required less work to convert. I used the clear plastic your get from a kids toy packaging for window blanks. I also had to cut off some of the chassis details to get the prototypical look of the barrier coach. Taking the corridor connection off one end was time consuming but the outcome for a un
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5 inch gauge western at the R.S.M.E

nice to drive but very powerful and is 'the only one in this livery in the UK' i have been told and if you want a chance to see the western champion at the R.S.M.E she will be running on July 2nd at our public running day
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