Strict (Low) Machine (Wagon)-An Airfix Lowmac gets a make over.
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With apologies to Alison Goldfrapp for the title of this entry 
Been sorting quite a lot of bits on the workbench of late and making space for other bits and pieces. I've been off for just over a week and have fired up the airbrush for the first time in ages. Next week I need to get on with completing the fiddle yard for Juniper Hill.
Here's a few photographs and descriptions of some of the stock that will be seen running on Juniper Hill.
First up is the ready to run Airfix/GMR Low Machine Wagon (Lowmac). I probably stand to be corrected on this but the Airfix model is based on a Diagram 2/247 (According to the number on the model) 25 Ton design intended for Continental working. Only 13 wagons were built. In my Rowland there is a photograph of a Diagram 2/243 25 Ton unfitted design of which 136 were built.
Now I know this isn't strictly correct and the design differs in a few areas but I fancied something a bit different so went with the unfitted wagon. Here's a photograph of the wagon on my small diarama:
This wagon was finished with Tamiya and Vallejo acrylics. It just needs a coat of matt to blend it all together. The photograph in Rowland shows quite a bit of additional timber on the load bed so I cut up a coffee stirrer to make chocks and battons.
I've replaced the buffers with Markits turned ones and added a pair of 10.5mm Gibson wheels as well as fitting a Parkside NEM coupling block for a Bachmann coupling.
The Roco side tipping wagons have also been finished as above. The plan on the Juniper Hill is to have a piece of OO9 track in the foreground with a few rusting narrow gauge wagons. There's a bit of inspiration in this photo linked below but not the raised line:
http://www.flickr.co...N06/6966019662/
Thomas E Gray's quarry was where the preserved Sentinel 'Isebrook' worked. Here's a photo in sadder times:
http://www.flickr.co...N05/3118325693/
Also temptation (Carol Kenyon/Heaven 17 singing Temptation springs to mind 
) comes in many forms:
http://www.madge00n3...k/Shop/Shop.htm
May lead another quick project! 
Anyway-I digress!
In my bits and pieces box of wagon bits was an old Ian Kirk GWR wagon and one of those beautifully finished Hornby private owner wagons (Princess Royal). Also there were 2 Ratio 9ft chassis and some spare Gibson spoked wheels. I used some excellent turned wagon buffers from H and A Models too for these.
Again finished as above with Tamiya/Vallejo acrylics to represent the wagons at Burton Latimer in the above Flickr link. Numbers are from a HMRS LMS wagon sheet.
The Sentinel in the background is the Model Rail 'Great Southern Railway' of Ireland release. I have two of these which will be weathered and as I write this I've just received confirmation from Narrow Planet that the custom nameplates for them (Cranford/Islip) are almost ready! So these will become a blog entry in the future.
Few more bits to finish then as I say next few weeks fiddleyard and track laying and wiring on Juniper Hill
Cheers,
Mark
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