Saltney, Its all in the details
Entry posted by Jon Fitness
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A recent visiting loco in the form of J94 68006 brought an ER flavour to the layout. This was until someone pointed out that 68006 had done time at Birkenhead shed in the early 60’s! A bit more local loco than we thought..
My Arriva liveried bubble car escaped from Cardiff Bay and managed more mileage round the layout in an hour than the real thing does in a day (probably)
Another visitor in the form of a GW liveried auto trailer looked rather nice (even if it was with a BR liveried loco). The 2 resident 64xx’s took turns to propel it round the layout.
Steve said if it “visits†for much longer, he has tins of paint containing blood and custard colours which may be opened….
I purchased a Skytrex L&Y timber signalbox kit at Halifax GOG and have just got round to starting it. This will replace the card LNW box at the LM station as I am trying to get a “Lanky†flavour to the area.
Its not a bad kit, but..I think the windows are a tad large. The rest of the kit seems in proportion so I’ll carry on and see how it turns out.
While I was at the Skytrex stand I also purchased a few odds and sods for the goods shed; it looked a bit bare in there and a goods shed is for handling goods I suppose.
I painted up the castings with various enamels, mostly a wash with my usual mixture of 1 part matt black and 4 parts No. 26 (whatever colour that is). The oil drums looked a bit plain just painted so I downloaded some vintage Castrol and Shell logos and made some waterslide transfers to go round the middles using some “Crafty†computer paper white waterslide sheet.
I also managed to squeeze a desk and shelves into the office (along with a fireplace and cupboard but these defied photography!)
Steve’s added some superb wooden coal pens to the LM yard (complete with some real steam coal) and a nice stone clad coal office. This will have a nameboard on the top with the name of a local (to Chester) coal merchant. There’s also a Bedford TK in the workshop currently gaining a flatbed and coal sacks to go with it.
Finally, one of our regular visitors quite rightly pointed out that there is no foot access from the station area to the goods yard at the LM station. A set of steps or ladder wasn’t an option as the track is too close to the retaining wall, so a footbridge was dug out of the bits box and hacked about by Steve until it fitted across the yard. Looks OK to me but Steves still umming and arring!
Very finally (for this time anyway), The re-painted LMS compound shown last time is now sporting BR lined black but shamefully I haven’t photographed it yet.
Next time……..
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