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Stourpayne Marshall - motive power #3

Barry Ten

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Some examples of 4MT and 5MT motive power on the layout, including an exciting blooper!

 

First off, a Bachmann 4MT 4-6-0 which has been renumbered (using HMRS and Modelmaster transfers) to an S&D example:

 

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Light weathering is applied by brushing on liquid acrylics, then almost immediately swiping it off or buffing it around using cotton buds. I must admit I rarely use the airbrush for weathering these days, preferring to use brushes and cotton buds. If nothing else, it can be done at my workbench with music on whereas airbrushing needs to be done in the conservatory and is always a faff to get set up.

 

In similar vein, below, is another 4MT, this time a 2-6-0, also from Bachmann. These were not S&D-allocated locos but they were common on the line and (at least by the photos I've seen) generally in deplorable condition! If anything, I've erred on the side of restraint with the weathering here. The cabside is as yet unweathered as I mean to change it to 76019, one of the examples known to have run on the line. These are fantastic looking locos, in my book. Powerful yet compact, in the best mogul tradition.

 

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This Bath-allocated Black 5 is a Hornby model from about 18 years ago, and a very nice performer. It had stiffened up after being up in the attic for a few years but soon got its mojo back. Again,

all brush and cotton-bud weathering here.

 

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Finally, the exciting blooper!

 

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I had a Bachmann 5MT in green that I wanted to try and renumber as an S&D example. This one was airbrush weathered, incidentally, about twelve years ago. The trouble is, most of the 5MTS ran in lined black right through to closure. 73049 did get green, so I choose this one - but being a bear of very little brain, I completely missed that it's got the wrong tender. D'oh! Some rethinking will now be called for. If I'd done my homework, too, I'd have realised that Bachmann did in fact release a model of 73049 with the right tender, so I wouldn't have even had to renumber it. There's a moral there somewhere, about missing the wood for the trees.

 

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That' deplorable modelling, Al. 

 

I am of course referring to the condition of  76020/19 :jester:

 

That second shot of 75027 is wonderfully realistic. Apart from the great modelling and very low angle, I think it's the way the weathering matches the lighting that makes it work so well.

 

If I squint I can even ignore the lamps :lol: 

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Thanks. Mikkel!

 

Yes, the lamps need some attention - they are Springside BR ones, which seem a little cruder than the SR ones fitted elsewhere, even though those

are undoubtedly out of scale as well. I've seen elsewhere the people are using more accurate lamps from the likes of ModelU, but I'm a fan of the

twinkling lens effect of the Springside ones.

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I suppose there is also the issue of things becoming too small. Changing and handling scale lamps like the Model U ones turned out to be more tricky than I thought. So right now I am undecided and not using any lamps :rolleyes:

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Excellent stuff, some nice locos and the weathering works very well imho, I really like 75027.

 

Many years ago, in early 1980s actually, being an S&D fan, I renumbered a mainline class 4 to 75027,  lined it, added coal, sprung buffers etc. I went to great lengths to research what colour the loco had been when on the s&d, and in all the colour pics I found it appeared to be black. I saw the preserved loco on the Bluebell and it was green.   All the photos I had seen showed the loco in service so dirty that it looked black. So my model (that I've still got) represents the loco with early emblem as it originally was on the western region in black...

 

ps the old tractor hiding away behind the parapet is a good touch.

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21 hours ago, railroadbill said:

Excellent stuff, some nice locos and the weathering works very well imho, I really like 75027.

 

Many years ago, in early 1980s actually, being an S&D fan, I renumbered a mainline class 4 to 75027,  lined it, added coal, sprung buffers etc. I went to great lengths to research what colour the loco had been when on the s&d, and in all the colour pics I found it appeared to be black. I saw the preserved loco on the Bluebell and it was green.   All the photos I had seen showed the loco in service so dirty that it looked black. So my model (that I've still got) represents the loco with early emblem as it originally was on the western region in black...

 

ps the old tractor hiding away behind the parapet is a good touch.

 

Thanks! I found a couple of pics of 75027 in green in one of the later colour volumes - something like "Sunset of the S&D" or somesuch. It's still mostly black, even so!

 

The tractor is an old white metal kit, one of the first I made - Langley I think.

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I had (still have) the Ivo Peters books on the S&D in the 50s and 60s, which are in black and white of course.  Should be able to tell livery from the lining, but that's usually disappeared under a layer of dirt on the locos in them...  "Somerset and Dorset line" by R C Riley has a pic of 75027 double heading 34041 near Chilcompton, but both locos look completely matt black...

I'd be alright now as I have the RCTS BR standard classes book on the 4-6-0s which says that 75027 was painted green at Swindon in May 1959. It was allocated to Templecombe February 1960.

The Bachmann one is quite an improvement on the original Mainline one.  My old one does get an occasional run though.

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