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 timetable these each contained one J12, (which were all combined into one working back to London.) The first of these that I am modelling is a newspaper train with a sleeper include.
Formations: (the section I am modelling is in green, I have tried to model one section of the train in order to cut the length down. these were long services!
the kit is a Phoenix model, with pressed aluminium sides and roof along with details. 6 wheel bogies still need to be sourced. The first job on a set of Phoenix sides is to scribe on the doors and drill holes for handrails etc.
i decided to to go with evostick construction, and started off the build phase by fitting the sides to the ends. Along with drilling and fitting the vast quantity of roof vents.
Once dry, the roof was glued into place
the inner window frames were glued in position for the left hand pair of windows.
next the chassis and detailing
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