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Green Planet


Chris Nevard

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nevard_110522_planet_DSC_2188_web, originally uploaded by nevardmedia.

 

The Roxey Mouldings Planet 0-4-0 Diesel has now been painted and is ready for weathering and glazing. There is plenty of scope really to go to town with rust spots and patched up paintwork. The nameplate from Narrow Planet is possibly a little large, but there again it's a very small loco. My excuse is that it is second hand!

 

Named 'Fleur', here it is parked on the canal edge at Brewhouse Quay.

 

Click here for a bigger view http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/

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  • RMweb Gold

Nice paint job. Do you mean the loco or the nameplate is secondhand. Perhaps its the name of the chairman's daughter and the name goes from loco to loco.

Don

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Thanks chaps,

 

Good idea Don - that will be my reply for the squeaky voiced brigade with dessicated dead mothers in bedroom cupboards who always point out silly things at shows! You know what it's like in bucolic industrial grotty Nevardland - nothing is really too specific, accurate, but more a rose tinted view of the past.

 

Fleur is in fact one of our British Short hair cats, the plate is one of three I ordered with no specific loco in mind, but I did expect it to go on something bigger. Probably an ugly short chubby girl's name might have been more suitable. 'Pat' maybe, but that's my mother in laws name so definitely not! 'Kermit' or 'Frog' would work quite well. Too late now, I'll make a mess of the Halfords paintwork if it changes.

 

Running: much as expected, it's a bit like an over active toddler on blue Smarties or a chav running out of the supermarket after a raid or a blue bottle that you want to swat. Couple some wagons to it and it is very much smoother. A little more weight (there's plenty of room) and a little feed back control will work wonders I'm sure.

 

I hope to have it in action on the wharf of Combwich at RAILEX this coming weekend.

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Nice job Chris.

 

As has been mentioned above names of industrial locos were often swapped from scrapped locos to their replacements.

Go easy on the weathering though, breweries usually kept their locos looking smart.

Did you re-wheel the Spud or just paint the wheels?

 

Here's mine BTW.

 

Paul.

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I hope to have it in action on the wharf of Combwich at RAILEX this coming weekend.

How about loco exchanges? - 'Fleur' could do a couple of coal trip workings to Engine Wood Exchange Siding and 'Buntie' could shunt the wharf on 'Combwich'.... ;)

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Halfwit, I must apologies, I've only just noticed your link. I like what you've done with the windows particularly. Oddly enough, when I was look for snaps on Google image search the other day that one pulled up!

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