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LSWR corridor third - final work.

Barry Ten

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It may seem that I've jumped forward a bit here! Fear not, but I didn't want to dwell on my method of attacking the roofs as I don't feel I'm quite there yet in terms of a consistent approach. It's really just a question of trimming down a piece of vac-formed plastic until it fits, and the instructions do give some guidance, but I'd be lying if I said I don't find it a bit of a tricky step. It's all too easy to end up with asymmetric bits or too much taken off one side. All i can advocate is taking ones time and using sandpaper and files for the final fitting, followed by a degree of fettling once the roof is fixed in place, for which I used normal Evo-stik type adhesive. For one of the coaches, I overdid the trimming and had to butt-joint two strips of microstrip along the edge of the roof to give me something to work with again. Fortunately, though, any battle scars and uneven-ness can to some extent be concealed by the final additional of a cantrail strip, again with microstrip (and again not supplied in the kit!). I also added the additional curved rainstrips on each coach. I carefully set out these curves using measuring verniers and  a set of Napier's logarithmic tables ... er no, I just winged it.

 

Although I intend to build another brake, I felt that the project would be in danger of bogging down if I didn't get the immediate sugar hit of seeing the rake running on the layout in semi-finished condition! So I pushed on with painting and glazing. The coaches were primed and then airbrushed with Railmatch malachite, This was handy as while I had the airbrush loaded, I was also able to respray a Bachmann Lord Nelson that had been earmarked for backdating to Southern condition.

 

The kits came with thin glazing material which proved sufficient for each coach. It was a long and tedious job - it took me the whole of The Railway Children just to do the brake! All of the windows neeeded to be individually glazed. Once I got into the swing of it, though, the other two coaches were a little quicker.

 

Corridor connections were fashioned using a mix of the cast bits in the kits (where provided - two of them didn't have any) and MJT bellows, which I find to be a pragmatic and workable solution for relatively little investment of time. I used to try and add a representation of the scissors bits using cotton, but I don't bother now. Finally, coupling bars were fitted to enable to the coaches to run as a fixed rake. I added a screw coupling at the front.

 

Still a fair bit to be done but at least I can see the end in sight as they swish around behind the E1.

 

 

 

 

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Definitely getting close to finishing them Al! You’ve managed to build and paint 3 coaches in the time is taken me to get halfway through one!:rolleyes:

 

Looking forward to seeing both yours and mine finished:)

 

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Western Star
29 minutes ago, wenlock said:

... in the time is taken me to get halfway through one...

If that coach is half seats and half luggage....  which half have you finished? :)

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I suspect Dave would have got a bit more of a rush on with the Clerestory if there were any layout bookings in the immediate future! Now he's free to fritter away his valuable modelling time on such vanity projects as military vehicles.

 

I personally will have no truck with such distractions.

 

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As an addendum, there was a bit of discussion over on Wright Writes about what would be a good paint for malachite for those modellers outside the UK unable to access the specialist ranges. My hunch was that Humbrol 101 ought not to be terrible, so I tried a comparison:

 

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3 hours ago, Barry Ten said:

As an addendum, there was a bit of discussion over on Wright Writes about what would be a good paint for malachite for those modellers outside the UK unable to access the specialist ranges. My hunch was that Humbrol 101 ought not to be terrible, so I tried a comparison:

 

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Oooooh, now that's a handy tip. I always find the lids of Humbrol tins to be deceiving. I'll have to give this a go!

 

Coaches look excellent by the way!

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Wow, you do work fast Al. And on top of that you find time  to model all sorts of other things on land, at sea, in the sky and way out in the galaxy!

 

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I didn't want to dwell on my method of attacking the roofs as I don't feel I'm quite there yet in terms of a consistent approach

 

If consistency is a criterium for posting, I wouldn't have anything to post :D

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12 hours ago, Jack P said:

 

Oooooh, now that's a handy tip. I always find the lids of Humbrol tins to be deceiving. I'll have to give this a go!

 

Coaches look excellent by the way!

 

Thanks, Jack - yes, I agree, the lids are very dubious! I just happened to have used this shade a lot on scenic features

such as greenhouse frames and had a feeling it was not a million miles off malachite. Thanks for the kind words.

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5 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Wow, you do work fast Al. And on top of that you find time  to model all sorts of other things on land, at sea, in the sky and way out in the galaxy!

 

 

If consistency is a criterium for posting, I wouldn't have anything to post :D

 

The hobgoblin of small railway modellers as Dr Johnson may have said!

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Al, some time ago, Humbrol rationalised what was then a vast range of specialist colours.

They also produced an updated list of their colours, which included all the things that they matched.......

 

something like Green 101, SR Malachite etc ....ok that's a guess but it's worth having a Google and I'm sure you'll get the list of colours and what they match up to.

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Thanks, Neil - very helpful link.

 

i must admit I  go on the view that if it looks right, it is right. Especially when the RTR manufacturers can't get close to a consistent interpretation of  a shade, even with their own ranges,

 

Hornby's malachite looks about right as applied to their locos, but terrible on their rolling stock. It's either too blue, as on the Bulleid-liveried CCT, or indistinguishable from BR(S) green, as on their Bulleid coaches. It's not even close to the right shade. I've read that the varnishing treatment applied to the coaches may have resulted in a different hue to the locomotives, but that's not enough to account for Hornby's interpretations being so varied.

 

Bachman's shade as used on the Birdcage stock looks good in photos, but I've not seem them in the flesh.

 

Incidentally a more recent tinlet of Humbrol 101 has a matte lid rather than the gloss one I used earlier, but I'm not sure if the finish is any different

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