Morgan's Workbench Blog

Very tasty Morgan; is that with a bow pen?

 

I am struggling to see blemishes in it; except of course how clean it is but I suspect you will be doing something about that........!

 

Wouldn't a K1 be a bit lost for your tastes?

Hi Mark,

 

Thanks for the compliment. The straights are done with a bow pen with corners brushed in with a fine sable brush (an 00 size Windsor and Newton series 7). My primary bow pen is from a Kern set that I picked up off Ebay for about £15. The pen needed a lot of honing and polishing but it now seems to be working well. This loco will actually be staying very clean as it is a OO gauge model that I'm building for someone else. However, the K1 is not really that alien for me as I'm an Eastern fan at heart. I do have my own Bradwell K1 in the cupboard along with numerous other products of Messers Gresley, Thompson and Peppercorn. I'm also a big Midland/LMS fan and being on the Barrow Road team makes building locos of those companies the main priority over the next few years. Having said that Thompson B1s were frequent visitors to Barrow Road in the 50s and 60s so I'll be tackling one of those in the medium term as well.

 

Cheers.....Morgan

<P>That looks spot on Morgan! Looking forward to seeing your result's on Horwich's finest!<BR><BR>With regards to Barrow Road don't forget the occaisional visit's of K1's and K3's.................................even Scottish Black 5's made it down Mark! I'm still looking for the photographic proof of the HR 4.4.0's visit, during it's stop at BR before going on to be trialled on the Well's branch of the S&D! <IMG class=bbc_emoticon alt= src="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif"> </P>

Blimey Paul, sounds like you've been listening to the Captain Kernow school or train running..

 

Nice work Morgan.

Cheers Craig. Paul are you having html trouble? Best get in to see the doctor

Is Paul having html problems? I thought he was spending too much time with the "commentator" (see Captain K's blog....................).

 

The Jones Goods came south, in period too...................

 

I am not sure that I will offer my black 5s; I hear anything that turns up on Barrow Rd in LMS livery goes in a can of paint stripper!!

<----- trying to look innocent. I couldn't possibly comment.

Yes it does appear that i'm technologically challenged once again! Unfortunately i'm at the mercy of work IT at the moment until (fingers crossed) midnight tonight when my new broadband goes live!<BR><BR>Yes there maybe a slight hint of CK's modelling rational but only as far as the HR 4.4.0, all the other's are perfectly justifyable with photograpic proof to hand! I didn't think about the Jones good's Mark but if you're offering to provide said loco i'm sure Robin would be more than happy to let it grace the front of a train of Mk1's on a rail charter.<BR><BR>Yes with the BR paintshop coming nicely on stream, it is certainly proving to be very profficient! It's a bit like a 1950's version of the modern backstreet car mechanic. Quite happy to take on projects, repaint, renumber, hide all sign's of previous origin and then deny even having said loco in the first place! <IMG class=bbc_emoticon alt= src="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif"> I'm sure Inverness, Perth, St Rollox's etc wont miss the passing of a few Black 5's, all for a good cause of course! <IMG class=bbc_emoticon alt= src="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif"> <BR><BR>Now am I likely to suffer form repeating HTML flu????

Oh dear, look's like i'm still slightly sick or viral! I'll see what I can do about that later...............................