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Modelling Diesels in P4: Stock for Wheal Imogen (China Clay in the late 80s and 90s) along with builds preparing for my next modern layout (set in either South Devon or Cornwall in 1998)


 

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1998 Locos

37065 - Complete (for now...)

A couple of dry evenings has resulted in a lot of progress on 37065, which has now been fully resprayed into Mainline livery (using Rainbow Railways acrylic Mainline Blue, Model Air Grey Black for the roof and a mix of Model Air chrome yellow and Model Colour golden yellow for the ends. After a coat of gloss varnish, Fox transfers were used for the body strip and silver numbers, it is an odd sheet as it includes numbers for all classes, two sets of stripes, but they sell different packs for
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1998 Locos

20302 finishing touches

With the arrival of Bachmann's 20/3 plastered over the forums, its about time I finished off my model of 20302 converted from the original Bachmann 20.  As a refresh it has been converted with the use of Extreme Etchings parts for the new windows and roof grill, scratch built long range fuel tanks and an additional grill added to the side.   Last nights work was focused around adding the orange cantrail stripe, scratch building the NRN roof pod and finally replacing the handrails (the
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37065 part 1

I will freely admit that I have something of an addiction when it comes to Class 37s.  However as per a previous blog, I now have more than enough of the class to model all of the workings which are required for both my current and planned layouts.   However..... I have long had a spare mk1 37/0 body with the cowlings removed and one end replaced with a modified mk1 Bachmann 37/4 end.  The chassis was modified to power a Silver Fox D600 so has no fuel tanks or side frames.  I star
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37607 - updated ends

Back last summer when working on my model of 37607 it was left in a part finished state with the ends missing the horn grills.  Last night I started work on another Class 37 project, modelling 37065 in Mainline.  This is an interesting loco which had a flush front on one end and a split headcoded at the other end.  In order to do this I was cutting the headcode boxes off a split box body, and would of course need a pair of horn grills and marker light lenses (at least I did manage to find a pack
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Yeoman SW1001 project

The start of what is likely to be a very slow build.... While tidying up under the layout last night I came across a very old project respraying what I think was an Athern SW1000 in HO into Foster Yeoman livery as 44 Western Yeoman II that I had completed way back in 2000/2001, a year or so later it was fitted with a DCC decoder which most annoyingly has been lost at some point.   The loco was "finished" with the exception of adding the wasp stripes to the ends, and the buffers (which were
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1998 Locos

37667 rebuilding the grills

A long term resident of the work in progress shelf my EWS 37667 has made it onto the bench for attention.   the main issue with this loco was that I had previously modelled in 2000s condition with Sandite port on the side.  This needed filling and repainting in EWS gold, which has been a difficult process to get an adequate paint match.  I removed a number to assist in blending the golds , which will need replacing.   The main area of work has been focused around the nose gri
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37403 Weathering

Last nights work finishing off 37403, which for now finishes off my class 37 fleet.     At some point there will be a temptation to respray my remaining 1980s Tre Pol & Pen into Mainline and Red Stripe Cooksworthy into something more suitable, but for the moment they are destined to join 37207 in a display case.  The fact that two of them are my own work will likely be their saving grace.     I have done some work planning out the fiddleyard for my long term mainline pr
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37403- finished

37493 is has now had the missing depot plaque scares added, along with a coat of Dullcote to blend in the gloss around the transfers.  It has also been reunited with its cab bulkheads and glazing, and hence is now ready for weathering (for which I need to decide how far to go.  The roof certainly needs it to blend in the slight colour change or the repainted panel around the roof grill.  
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1998 Locos

67003 - transfers

Another long term workbench resident received transfers in my latest Railtec delivery.  So 67003 now has transfers applied, with Railtec used for the body side and end numbers / EWS logos.  Along with using the spare post 98 ohle flashes included in the Railtec 37403 pack.  The GM logos and the cab side EWS crests were from a spare Fox sheet.   one difference with the Railtec transfers was that it very clearly said not to use Microsol products to get it to sit over the body side ribs.
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1998 Locos

37403 -transfers

I am finally nearing completion on 37403 resprayed from a Bachmann large logo model, with Extreme Etchings roof grills and Railtec transfers.  The BR crests were repainted with an off white mix (leaving a touch of red on the tail on one side). It still needs a coat of varnish before replacing the windows and a fair amount of weathering.
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1998 Locos

47051 Railfreight Distribution

After hearing mention of a spare Bachmann 47 body shell in RFD livery I snapped it up to build as a 2nd loco to run with my other RFD 47 on the Silver Bullets.    The plan is a little complicated in that I have got the loco running in its current guise, but it will eventually undergo a major rebuild.   My longer term aim is that I want to take the body and plastic frame comprising the head stocks from this model and use some Heljan bogies to make an unpowered partner for the other 47.  Wi
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1998 Locos

47016 Respray

As is often the case over the summer my motivation to get on with any modelling has rather taken a battering, the loss of the exhibition circuit hasn’t helped given a decent show would normally reinvigorate the modelling mojo.  There are still a number of in progress projects which have been sat on my workbench since June, mostly awaiting me finding a way to fix my CAD computer so that I can run some needed parts through the cutter…   But the past few nights have seen a return to model
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