Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.

The corridor side looks disturbingly Triangesque!

To clarify that remark: I've long thought the panelling of the Triang Caledonian carriages was rather oddly-proportioned, with the waist too high and the windows too shallow, to eyes accustomed to Midland / LMS panelling. But I now see that Triang were reasonably accurately reproducing the panelling on the Grampian stock. (Although I believe the carriages they were nominally representing were the two preserved 57 ft carriages that ran with No. 123 in the 50s/60s, stretched to fit the full-length Mk 1 underframe moulding.)

Very elegant, Dave. I'll have to look into that technique, it clearly works very well. 

 

Those frosted glass designs are a triumph.

Heh, well, Compound the triang/Hornby versions have been battered into shape by dedicated modellers over the years. However I see they go on ebay for more than I'm building these for. I thought about it in the past and decided that getting it right from the start was actually the simpler option. 

 

Cheers Mikkel. There is a photo in the carriage book that shows them, but it is from an oblique angle and has a bit of reflection on it. So I scanned it in and messed about in Affinity for a while but couldn't get it to look right. So I hit the net, lion rampant with laurel leaves sinister. 

 

Oddly  the best that came up was actually a crochet pattern. Really. 

 

 

 

 

So I threw that into Affinity and messed about. After a lot of changes it ended up as the image you see there, printed out on matte photo paper and stuck behind the glazed window. So if anyone is making some GCS I'd happily send them the print file. all 18.4 MB of it ...... 

 

 

Edited April 4, 2022 by Dave John

Crochet meets model railways. Great stuff. 

 

Affinity looks reasonably priced, and with good reviews. I have been stuck with Paintshop/Corel for ages due mainly to path dependency, but it increasingly annoys me.