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A GWR Modified Hall Pt3: Tender conundrums


The Fatadder

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This morning I was woken up at a ridiculously early hour by both children, having settled them down and got myself ready for work I glanced at the clock and realised there was still an hour until I needed to leave the house. Only one thing for it, crack on with the Modified Hall!

 

 

 


The first job was to finish off the lining of the cab side, with this done the cab windows were all masked off and then the boiler was given a quick coat of Halfords satin varnish.

 

The final job on the boiler was to fit a new smokebox dart to the front, and remove the remaining traces of the smokebox number plate. the later also resulted in a need for a new upper smokebox door bracket to be added from Evergreen strip.

 

With this done, it was time to take advantage of the early morning sun for a quick photo

 


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With Hornby tender pre varnishing

 

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With Bachmann weathered

 

This leads me to the next decision, which tender to use on the finished model.
The Hornby tender is a much finer tooling, however it is finished in their awful green and the loco to tender connection is totally different.

 

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​A comparison of Hawksworth tenders

 

The Bachmann tender should be the easier job, (and the paint matches the loco) however it is weathered (for some reason the model has a lot more weathering on the tender than the boiler / cab and this will need to be fully removed. If anyone has a good chemical for removing Bachmann weathering but preserving the undercoat please let me know.

 

In both cases I think the lining will need to be replaced as the colour is a bit too different to the shade of the HMRS transfers on the loco body. If the prototype had been in service a little longer, I think a quick spray of a dirty brown paint would be sufficient to tone down the orange lining on the loco to more effectively match up with the tender. But I think given the prototype was built 4 months after my original planned layout operating period (and during the month of my revised operating period). My gut feel is that it should be very clean (even with the post war lack of cleaning)

 

I did think about mounting the Hornby body on the Bachmann chassis, but unfortunately it looks like the body and chassis join at different points on the two models...

 


I rather wish that I had done my research before buying the model, I hadnt realised that Modified Halls did not receive Hawksworth tenders until October 47. If I had known this I would have more likely just purchased a Collett tendered Modified Hall and then modelled it as a wartime build, thus saving all tender issues and no lining to worry about!)

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