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Issue 1 - OMWB


pharrc20

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Hello, welcome to my blog in which I will hopefully be able to share some of the things that I am modelling when time allows.

 

I tend to have several projects on the boil at once and this often means I swap around doing different models as time and resources allow. My workbench at present has several different modelling projects on the go and the active ones are as follows:

#Hornby Sentinel shunter - to be repainted into ICI Mond Orange, grey and white livery as per real shunters that wore this livery when working at ICI Tunstead quarry.

#Bachmann Covhops - using the vacuum disk-braked bauxite version of the model I am converting these to through vac piped bauxite liveried wagons as per the recent article in Rail Express Modeller

#Lima PCAs - some long-overdue repaints and renumbers for some friends. These have been stripped and repainted and need numbers, data panels etc. applying to them and new small size couplings replacing the original Lima big D couplings.

 

Other projects in boxes include some Hornby HAA conversions to CBA lime hoppers; Hornby KFAs weathered up ready to become Greater Manchester binliner train with WildBoarModels excellent binliner containers; a pair of Bachmann HEA hoppers being repainted into a one off Railfreight General sector livery; kit wagons from Parkside and Chivers to be used as static abandoned wagons on my layout Speedlow; plus some resin and brass kits of ICI hoppers; plus a few more!

 

My other modelling is related to my own layout that I have slowly been building for the past couple of years and is based on Railfreight operations in the Buxton area around 1989 to 1991 and will therefore feature lots of lovely private owner air-braked wagons plus lots of lovely Buxton allocated 37/5s plus visiting locos from 20s, 31s and 47s as appropriate. The layout is now at the stage where all the track has been laid and wired for DCC and tested for the first time to make sure it all worked correctly. The next stage will be to start ballasting the track then onto the scenic.

 

So a wide variety of stuff on the go for me!

Cheers Paul

Edited: 1st April 2023 missing images restored.

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restoring lost photos

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Following on from my initial posting I have taken a pair of photos to illustrate my layout and workbench. I try and spend a bit of time when I can doing some modelling either on the layout or on some of the wagon projects that I am doing. The Hornby Sentinel has had the Esso branding and livery taken off and will soon be undercoated ready for application of the faded ICI orange, white and grey livery.

 
Any questions comments just ask 🙂
Cheers Paul

Photo of Speedlow layout board with my workbench in background

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My workbench with spot the wagon projects!

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Edited: 1st April 2023 missing images restored.
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