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A blog of the various locomotive and rolling stock projects that will be seen running on my South Brent layout, covering the Great Western in 1947

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Finney 2220 build part2

A little more work this morning while waiting for the inlaws to drop Evie home. After rereading the instructions with a clear head, I now have a better idea of the firebox construction (picking up on a paragraph I missed last night in my sleep deprived state. So first up was the profiling of the corners of the firebox, using detail photos of the preserved loco as a guide. I think it needs a bit more material removed, but want the boiler before I file any more. Once I had finished

February 1, 2015

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2220 building the Finney kit

A while back I started a detailing project on an old mainline 2251 with the intention of adding new buffer beams and a new cab amounts other detailing. Recently I found a Finney 2251 kit on eBay for a good price with no chassis with a motor and high level gear box. Given the need for the moror and gearbox (along with the castings for the chimney etc), it was too good to miss. The plan is that building this loco will be good practice before I build my Finney Dean Goods and Mitchell Man

February 1, 2015

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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 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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H33 ready for paint

Tonight saw a little progress on the underframe. The plan is to start with a fairly basic representation with the intention of further improvements later. (As such I'm aware it's on the wrong bogies, and the vac cylinders are on the wrong ends) New v hangers and separate linkages were added from wire and plastic strip, along with the tanks which were made from lengths of plastic tube Still need to replace the BR1 bogies with the tempory Hornby 7ft gw ones.... At some point the chas

January 10, 2015

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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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Hornby H33 Improvement

2014 was a busy year, a new job, and the birth of my first child left little time for modelling. And while the new year may not see the progress on the layout that I would like, I want to get on with some more stock projects. (We have started looking for a plot to build a new house, which if all goes to plan will allow for a substancially larger layout plan.) It all depends on how long it takes to find a suitable village plot, in the Berkeley Vale / South West Cotsworlds, which I suspect may

January 2, 2015

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Dean D14 part 4

More progress, the second bogie has been finished off. Along with fitting some scratch built bogie steps. I have also made a start on the underframe, fitting the brackets to one side along with the vac cylinder I ended up gluing the nut a nut to the chassis floor, into which the bogies were bolted. Finally an area I am unsure on First what are these Secondly, how do the break assemblies fit to the bogie? I can't work out the fixing point Edit: one other thing I oug

February 9, 2014

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Dean D14 - bogies

Managed a quick hours modelling while wife and baby were out for a mums coffee morning. Finally made a start on the bogies. First up the design, I don't like the inside bearings design, I particularly don't like the fact that you have to send away for the p4 sub frame (without which the bearings will fall out of the guides.) nor the fact that the main bogie etch fouls the wheels. However I do like the carful design of the break bits, and the quality of etch and castings. The latter was

February 5, 2014

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dean D14 part 3

Next up was the roof, prior to taking drastic action I decided to have a go at the roof. I started by using a couple of Lima ballast weights to pin the roof flat to the workbench. I then glued the end pieces into position, then glued the clesterory side into position. In the centre the roof had bowed by 6mm below the datum point. Once the ends of the side were in position I the forced this up and glued into place I did find the bowing along the length of the side compounded the pro

January 31, 2014

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Dean d14 part 2

Construction has now started, First up I removed all the main parts from the spur and removed the excessive amount of flash present on some parts. Once cleaned up the holes were drilled for all the fittings I departed from the instructions and started with one side and end before adding the floor. This was then followed by the other end and finally the other side. Once complete I added the lookout on one side and a repair panel with no beading on the other (one side of the other loo

January 30, 2014

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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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Gwr open c

Currently on my work bench is a wagon I have been after for some time, a Ratio kit for a GW Open C. I think I am right in saying this is a 30 year old kit, but the crispness in some of the mouldings is still rather good, all be it slightly let down in some of the finer components. The solebars come moulded as part of the sides, I think this has the net result of making them significantly over width (while the body looks like it matches the drawings in Ackins et al). I have chosen to m

January 8, 2014

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Berkeley castle - bringing forward to 1947

Finally Berkeley castle has been completed, The below footplate lining was scraped off with a flat knife blade, along with microsol as a softener. Moving onto the tender, I had hoped to keep the original gw arms crest, however after removing the great western lettering I realised it was not in the right place for the new logo so that had to go as well. Again the method was gentle scraping with multiple applications of microsol. Once complete HMRS transfers were used to rebrand the te

December 1, 2013

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County Detailing part 2

With everything prepared yesterday, todays job was to start gluing the loco back together. First up the new lower boiler was fitted into place, unfortunately during fettling a small section broke off (requiring a small repair from filler). (please excuse the slightly out of focus photo, the DSLR is flat so stuck using my phone...) Next the boiler was fitted, along with a couple of 1mm square strips of evergreen plastic strip to fill the gap between firebox and footplate Next up the

November 22, 2013

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County - loco detailing

While I have been thinking about how to do the next steps on the tender (thanks again to Mike G for the advice) I have been cracking on with the body First up the Dapol firebox was removed, it had already been cut at the cab end to clear the new cab front, so. Careful cut along the boiler end, along with using a scalpel to score two lines along the splashes. Then using the trusty xurons the top was broken. And carefully snapped along the cut line. Next up a Hornby 8f was dismantled and

November 21, 2013

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County - Hawksworth Tender build

Now that the nights are drawing in, and the temperature is falling. Its time to get the soldering iron out again. Before I make a start on building my Finney Dean Goods, I thought the Falcon Tender for the County would be a good call. (the plan being to follow this with the chassis for the Dapol body.) So far this project has seen a bit of progress focused on the loco body, the cab has been rebuilt with the Jackson parts and an 8f body has been purchased to supply a new firebox. So o

November 15, 2013

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4573

I know it's yet another project, But this is more of a start post for a project intended for the new year. 4573 is the only 4500 class I have seen on the cheddar branch, and will make a nice contrast to the usual 4575s. The original plan was using a churchward models kit, however when we moved house the in progress kit got crushed... So the plan is to use a Bachmann model, on the kits chassis. Having sourced a suitable body, the following work is needed - plate over the cab front

November 14, 2013

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5813 - New windows and 42xx

Following up from the work on this loco the other day, here is a photo of the finished windows: (unfortunately I didn't take a 'before' photo, but there are plenty of the Airfix/Hornby 14xx online.) Unfortunately an inability to spray at the moment, means that I cannot finish off the loco. Possibly once the new layout room is converted the temperature inside the garage will be ok for spraying. The longer the loco goes without being painted, the more modifications I seem to be maki

November 9, 2013

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5813 - window detailing

A while back I was inspired by a photo of a 57xx pannier on Paul Marshall-Potter's Albion Yard blog, I decided that I would replace the rear windows on my pannier and 58xx with the Mainly Trains etch. This is a nicely done Ian rice designed part which comes with enough to do a good few locos. It's still a bit too flat compared to the prototype, but having the glass behind the etch should look a lot better than having window bars which are a scale 3 inches thick! After a lot of procrastina

November 7, 2013

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