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What am I doing modelling the Brighton!?

Spodgrim

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My brother despite, or perhaps because of, my predilection for the LSWR will insist on giving me LBSCR kits/stock/books. To be fair we did grow up in a flat above a LBSCR station so I think he's returning me to my roots or something.  It's got to the stage where I have almost as much Brighton stuff as South Western.  So it's time to bite the bullet and get something Brighton running.

 

Within the many "relief parcels" I found a set of 4 Etched Pixels 4-wheel coaches and Peco chassis' (he thinks of everything, damn him!) so this is where I started.

 

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Early days before gaps have been filled, partitions added and the soldering cleaned up.  These are great kits - although the Guard's duckets did require my strongest language to get them to fit properly (and even then I could probably do a better job if I was willing to burn all my fingers).

 

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Partitions added, body painted and just sitting on the chassis'.  The paint finish looks better in real life, so I'm wondering if the camera was on too high an ISO or if the flash has shown up flaws I can't see. Or of course I was spraying from too far away.

 

I'm currently plucking up the courage to fit Dapol magnetic couplings to the outside ends of the two Brake Thirds and will run them as a fixed rake.

 

All in all, this Brighton stuff is OK... after a fashion :-)

 

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Ian Simpson
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That is brilliant! Which paint did you use for the mahogany finish?

 

(Don'r forget Etched Models do etches of early LSWR coaches as well.)

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Spodgrim

Thank Ian

 

It's Precision Mahogany (P988).

 

having done these I will certainly look at the LSWR ones

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Mikkel
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Nice looking coaches. I know the feeling, I usually stay on course but the Brighton is annoyingly impossible to resist. 

 

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