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GWR J12 Sleeper pt1

as I have mentioned before, eventually I want to be able to run every train which ran through Brent in a 24 hour period. The most interesting of which ran in the early hours of the morning. There is the TPO which I will eventually get round to building, and the sleeper services on to Penzance. In 1947 there were 3 down services with a sleeper portion in the winter timetable, (I think there were more in the summer including an LMS sleeper.). In the winter 46 / spring 47 tim

February 19, 2019

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GWR J12 sleeper - ready for paint

After a little more tiding up of filler and another coat of primer on 7804, last night I got back to work on the J12 sleeper. The first thing to do was fix the chassis, unfortunately it had fallen on the floor and been ran over by my chair….. Fortunately being aluminium it was very easy to bend back into shape, and you cant clearly see the damage! With this fixed I have got on with a few other small jobs. First up the two gas tanks were assembled, rath

February 27, 2019

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GWR H33 detailing part 4

A very short post this evening, as all I have done is remove plastic to clear the new windows, And then glue on the new brass side Tomorrow will be time to get stuck into adding bits to the chassis, along with getting some paint on the interior

January 5, 2015

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Gwr h33 detailing part 3

After a quick trip over to Stroud, I now have some evostick. So tonight's job was to add the first of the replacement comet sides. First up comparing the comet drawings with the model identified 2 extra roof vents, which were glued into position. I started by opening out the holes for the door handles and hand rails, before gluing on the drop lights (as the soldering iron is currently out in the garage.) Next the windows were carefully enlarged to clear the new positions, this was c

January 4, 2015

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GWR H33 detailing

A little progress first up a close up on the remodelled vent cowling, showing the improvement Thanks to Wizard Models for the very quick turn around I now have the sides and castings, so it didn't take long to get the roof detailed up. The next job was fitting the modified ends along with new corridor connections (again from Comet), the castings need a little dollar to tidy up the tops still but are a big improvement over the plastic thing. The sides were sanded down ready

January 3, 2015

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GWR D95 part 4

Somehow managed to find a fair bit of modelling time over the weekend, meaning I managed a lot more progress on the coach projects. First up was the RH D95, The last remaining side was prepared and fitted following the same method as described in Part 3. The only difference being that less material needed to be removed in order to clear the new windows (as a result of not having separate droplights.) I'm guessing these must be amongst Comet’s older kits, as the level of detail is a lot les

January 19, 2015

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GWR D95 LH part 3

Having completed the shortening of the sides for the first coach yesterday, the first job after getting home from work (and putting the baby down for the night) was to repeat the process on the other 3 ends. This time I thought to try and save a little time I would use a fine saw blade and cut the majority of the excess off the coach end, before filing back to the side. To assist with this the end of the plastic side was coloured black with a marker pen so that you could easily see if the file

January 14, 2015

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GWR D95 comet/Hornby part 2

Last night has seen more progress on the D95s, First up was the fitting of drop lights to the LH coach. I have gone for a lot of part open windows, given that I know the summer of 1947 had at least one very hot spell (based on the historical reports), I figured that passengers would have kept the windows open to try and keep cool. As per the work on the H33 these were super glued in position, cutting the etch in half where necessary to provide clearance for the door handle holes. For thi

January 13, 2015

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GWR D95 (LH and TH) Comet/ Hornby)

Now that the H33 project is ready for painting, its time to move onto the next project – a pair of D95. At the moment my plans are focused around putting together a 5 coach cross country rake consisting of A D95 BTK, ? FK, H33 RC, ? TK, D95 BTK. While the FK and TK are not yet decided, I was wondering if some conversions of Bachmann sunshine stock might be suitable (given that I have plenty of donor coaches already). I want to try and get a mixture of diagrams / coach types. The D95 i

January 12, 2015

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GWR Coach Painting: Complete

After another long painting session last night I have now finished the painting on my Centenary rake, the H33 and H26 resturants, and the A20 First (although on the latter I was not paying attention to what I was doing and forgot to paint one end!) The majority still need underframe weathering and they all need lining and numbers etc, but the project is certainly on the home stretch now. One aim to achieve over the winter is to get these coaches complete (with couplings fitted) to ena

December 13, 2018

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GWR Coach Painting

Some good weather this morning has resulted in a little more coach painting, First up is another Railroad / Comet D95, rather a redundant coach to be honest (given that I now have 2 pairs of the new Hornby D95, and will likely add another pair when (if) Hornby do them in post war livery.) As such rather than finishing in post war chocolate and cream (as per my original plan), I have decided that the LH coach will join the RH painted in wartime brown livery. To that end I have dug out a can o

May 21, 2017

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GWR Beetle + Centenaries

Yesterday while visiting the East Somerset Railway, I picked up a Parkside kit for a W7 diagram prize cattle van. Its been a fun build, all be it not Parkside's finest work. The floor is rather below what you would expect (with no location marks for the gas tank or breaks) and lots of parts for the break gear are missing. I have worked from a prototype photo from 1947 in which the groom's compartment has been replaced (so instead of the 1907 panneling it has flat doors), so I have modified t

October 21, 2018

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GWR A30 Autocoach detailing

So with the D95 coaches rather stuck awaiting an order of some new 0.5mm drill bits, it was time to get started on the next project. Detailing an Airfix autocoach as a diagram A30, with the Dart Castings detailing kit. The first step was to completely dismantle the donor coach, followed by preparation of the shell and chassis removing moulded detail This consisted of the removal of hand rails, door handles, lamp irons, end steps, underframe trusses and battery boxes. Unfortunately I was a

January 29, 2015

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Gwr 'Mermaid'

First of all I know the mermaid code is a BR creation, but given the GW didn't even allocate a diagram to these wagons it's a bit tough to know what else to call it As per the thread in help I have been converting the Cambrian mermaid kit into the gwr version, Work has involved New buffers Single side Morton breaks Removal of vac mount New break leavers (once I find something suitable) I am unclear as to whether there are any body details which are different between the origina

January 21, 2014

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Goods Shed

Progress at last, Having been suitably inspired visiting Clutton last night, I have spent an hour this morning at the airport awaiting a flight up to Broughton on CAD working on a set of drawings of Cheddar's goods shed. So far this is only based on photos from one book, (given that was the only one I had scanned photos of) As such there are a couple of areas that require further attention. the village side has two arches based on the end arches as the only photo I have of this side is in

September 14, 2011

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Fruit C part 2

Another hours work this evening has the van almost finished. First up the w irons were soldered onto the padding pieces, a combination of low melt and normal solder depending on the size of the packing piece (some were the thickness of the w iron, others twice the thickness. With this in place I noticed an error on the floor (the wonderful thing with white metal being how easy it is to unsolder and fix a mistake.). With this done it was time to add the brakes, gas tank, and vac cylinder.

April 19, 2017

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Freight for Cheddar: GWR Opens

A little more freight progress: First up the Cooper-craft GWR O5 5 plank that I started on last month. It has now been completed as a running model, with a pair of Bill Bedford units fitted. Unfortunately I have somehow managed to fit Dean Churchward breaks with a RCH lever (found out when I came across the correct breaks when building the O2 7 plank). Trying to decide now if it bothers me enough to correct (the answer is probably yes). The model runs very sweetly (and for once the sprin

April 11, 2012

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Freight for Cheddar: GWR Open Wagons (Cooper-Craft kit build)

Next up on the todo list, a batch of Coopercraft wagon kits. This covers a pair of diagram O4 5 planks, a diagram O5 4 plank, and an O2 7 plank along with another Ratio O29 5 plank The body of the coopercraft wagons goes together very nicely, and are very well moulded crisp components with no flash. However I am confused by the design of the floor which appears to sit far too high. The sole bars caused big issues, in that once thinned down to take sprung replacement w irons there was s

March 21, 2012

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Freight for Cheddar: GWR 5 plank

A start on the first common user wagon for the layout, a Ratio kit for a 1930s GWR 5 plank. I am building this with Bill Bedford sprung wirons, as such some modification was needed on the chassis. This followed the process used on my Parkside Fruit D, cutting off the w irons then thinning down the chassis solebars next to where the etch will sit. The floor supports were then cut off to provide clearance for the w iron (learning from the Fruit D in that this time the 3mm length next to the

February 1, 2012

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Freight for Cheddar: Cattle Wagons

The next project for tonight was a start on the first wagon for my cattle rake, following Martin Goodall's articles from MRJ as a guide and using a combination of Coopercraft and Airfix kits. The plan is for a 6 wagon rake comprised of: 1 W3 with rebuilt doors (shortened Airfix) 1 W8 Airfix 1 12 Airfix 2 W5 (one with rebuilt doors one with standard) Coopercraft 1 W1 (coopercraft) To start with I am going with the W12, followed by the W3 The ends will need to be modified to get t

April 11, 2012

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Freight for Cheddar - nearly ready for paint

I have tried a different approach for my final Coopercraft diagram O4. Working from an article by Roy Miller dating from the kits introduction, I have successfully built my first kit with the floor in the correct place. This is working from the kit with the sheet rail (which unlike the 7 plank O2 is a moulded part and not remotely as effective) First I reduced the hight of the solebars, carefully cutting along the length so that the solebar stops at the bottom of the sides. On one sol

July 15, 2012

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Finney Dean Goods

Having picked up the kit today thoughts have now turned to what to model. The prototype I want to model is going to be a Westbury based machine, for which there is a photo in one of the cheddar books dated 1949. This is an early build loco and would use the narrow footplate parts, fluted rods, however the photo is too grainy to work out which of the two fireboxes needs to be used. As ever if anyone knows of a good source of photos of this loco please let me know. I am going to be b

January 20, 2013

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Finney 2251 pt5

The body for 2213 is now complete! The fine detailing took a long time, in some cases the Finney kit takes it a little too far in my opinion, however most parts were used on the final loco (there were just a few tiny brackets which were just to much for my ability with a soldering iron). I think the end result looks an improvement over the Bachmann model, but it will be interesting to see once it is complete. The buffer housings, steam heat and vacuum pipes, screw revers

December 18, 2019

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Finney 2251 pt2

A little more work on the 2251 the smokebox was rolled and fitted to the boiler, before soldering to the firebox and footplate. Next up was the cab, adding the beading to the cutouts, followed by the handrails before soldering the sides into position on the footplate. I much prefer Malcolm Mitchell’s design than Finneys in this area, the sub etch for the cab. finally the roof was added along with its formers. With that the core of the loco body is c

December 14, 2019

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Finney 2251 part 4

Another evening’s work and 2213 takes another step closer to the paintshop. White metal castings have been added for the superheater oil cover and two plates at the bottom of the firebox, the top feed pipework was formed and soldered into place and the mud door covers have been soldered into position. Finally the smokebox door dart was glued into place, and a start was made on boring out the chimney. I also formed the etching for the whistle shield, although I have not quite worke

December 17, 2019

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