Stour Valley Dream - Horseboxes and progress on station building
I finished off my P4 conversion of the Hornby horsebox. It is a lovely model and I am very pleased with how it looks. The original W-irons were filed down to wafer thin and then I stuck a set of Bill Bedford sprung W-irons behind them.
I purchased some of the new Lanarkshire models Jackson coupling droppers and fitted these. I've always hated trying to make droppers for Jackson's as I never seemed to be able to either bend iron wire to the right shape or solder iron wire to the sprung guitar string . These etches fold over the coupling wire just in line with the coupling hook, an iron link is added under the etch which is what is attracted to the uncoupling magnet.
The finished dropper is discrete and looks very good.
I also made some more progress on the station building. I 3D printed a load more guttering and stuck these onto the bargeboards. I looked at the few colour photographs I have of Clare and it appears that the ironwork and the windows surrounds were a light green colour, a slightly lighter version of the colour used on the beams of the signalbox. Next up will be the chimneys and the skylights. (yes I have got to retouch the bottom row of slates)
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