We're back!!!!
Just thought I'd post an update on a few things.
Industrial 3F
This is now finished, bar the weathering, and had a good running in session on Saturday at the EMGS members day. At home, my embryonic industrial layout has no more than a 4ft run at the moment - this will get a bit longer once there are fiddle yards attached but for now that's it, so you can imagine how difficult it is to run things in. The solution would be a rolling road, but I'm trying to avoid spendin
Just a quick update on the various steelworks internal user wagons on my workbench. The Workington scrap bogie opens have made it as far as the paintshop - all three have had a good blast of grey primer. I have also splayed out the sides on the wagons as per the prototype photos. The next stage will be painting (in "rust" livery) followed by some fairly severe weathering with a mixture of dry brushing and powders.
Two of the wagons will be finished in a fairly poor condition, but I'v
Recently I've been working on building a rake of wagons based on internal users found at Workington steelworks. They were re-bodies from ex-Caledonian ore wagons bought by the works. One of the prototypes can be seen here:
Workington No 977 @ Paul Bartlett's fotopic site
Realising that I wanted to build a few, I designed a batch of etchings for this wagon back in the early 2000's, using a drawing and batch of photos kindly supplied by Phil Baggley of Workington (although I believe the
Just a quick update - have spent the past few modelling sessions converting a rake of Bachmann 16T mineral wagons to EM. The work required was surprisingly minor. Firstly, the wagon was disassembled to its constituent parts:
This included removing the brake gear, which was to be repositioned to line up with the wider EM wheelsets. The first job was to remove the stiffening ribs moulded on the inside faces of the W irons. This can be easily done by carving them away with a sharp scal
I've pretty much finished the main work on the 3F now. In the photos taken of it in industrial use, you can still see the BR smokebox number and the overhead line warning flashes, so these have been added using Fox transfers. This was my first time using the Fox transfers, and I must say how impressed I am - you can barely make out any carrier film and the detail is excellent. The only downside was having to buy a whole sheet of 100 or so smokebox numbers of which I wanted just one! I have a
My interest in creating this model was first sparked by an entry in the "From Mainline to Industry" book (Published by Lightmoor Press) which mentioned that one BR 3F (Jinty) had been sold into industrial service in the coal industry. I thought nothing futher of it, until the release of the Bachmann model made modelling a 3F a significantly easier option! Although my industrial models usually centre around the steel industry, I really wanted to model this loco, so I set about finding prototype
