My Last Jubilees - PART TWO

Entry posted by paulprice March 22, 2019

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Before I started my rehab I use to fine lining N gauge locomotives a challenge, but armed with my trusty old bow pen I sort of just got on with it. I have now realised I was wrong, lining locomotives in N gauge is easy, that is if you compare it to the challenge of using your non dominant hand to do it.

It has taken a massive amount of effort to use my finest paint brushes with my left hand to aid in the lining process, but trying to use my bow pen has nearly sent me completely over the edge. The Domestic Overlord apparently is use to me muttering away to myself in the past as he has checked on my modelling progress but over the last few weeks apparently I have even been having arguments with myself and using some new "industrial" language to boot.

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Its taken a huge amount of time compared to my usual pre Hospital speed, but I have managed to get some of the lining completed on my LAST two Jubilees but there is a huge amount still waiting to be applied. I have attempted to apply lining on the splasher's a couple of times but it beyond me at the moment as its a near impossible task (for the moment I think the challenge may be fun) its amazing how much lining these LMS locomotives had, I may have to consider how much I can hide with a spot of weathering.

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Progress on the tenders seemed to progress more easily, and I have even managed to apply the LMS branding again and fan of the only true railway company will realise that there is a huge amount of lining that I really should apply to the tender frames, and the camera certainly shows the areas where my shaky hands have messed up the yellow lines. These locomotives will definitely not be finished in pristine ex-works condition, but will have some degree of weathering and should when completed be good background locomotives for the fleet.

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The third Jubilee in the picture is one that has sat on the workbench since before I went into hospital but was requiring LMS branding, which se has finally received, its getting near to the stage when I will have to think about which identities to apply to these locomotives, and find where I safely stored the nameplates for some of the other Jubilees in the collection (I definitely put them somewhere safe so they would not get lost, I've just forgotten where that is for the moment).

So that that's the current state of play with the locomotives at the moment, I think one of them may become 5581 but its not decided yet, please someone out there help.

I think that is about it for the latest blog entry, so I think this is a good point to end it, I mean if you think about it I cant really have been doing any serious modelling as in the past few weeks I have not glued my fingers together, of spray painted my hand, or had some form of electrical incident so I must try harder and see if I can rectify the situation. As ever until the next time Happy Modelling