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Chris Nevard

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nevard_110916_BQ_IMG_1283_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.

 

It's amazing what can be achieved if one turns off the computer for 24 hours. This wasn't really planned, but it's Model Rail Live this weekend and I had a rather long list of things to complete which didn't involve hanging around all day on toy chuff chuff forums like a bar fly to stale beer......

 

The first job of the day; a Leido Trackside die-cast Mechanical Horse received a load of sacks, removal of the British Railways badging and a blast of matt varnish. I then popped out to the model shop (Addlestone Models) and bought some fine brass chain for the 'rope' shunting. This evening my spur of the moment kit purchase in the form of a 4 wheeled GWR compo from Ratio took over the garden table in the fading light. This took about 4 hours from opening to box to weathering. Armchair modellers - pah!

 

These 4 wheel ex-GWR carriages according to the blurb on the Ratio instructions mentioned that one or two lasted until the early 1950's in the Welsh Valleys - which was good enough for me, though it's unlikely that any were painted BR carmine - still, it's rather fetching don't you think? And don't worry about the number, it's total fiction and based on the few numbers I had left on the sheet of Pressfix! The reason why it's here? The brewery needed a runabout for the brewery directors and it was a cheap purchase of course!

 

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Will Vale

Ah, but then you stopped to photograph the work and blog about it :) Great progress for such a short time, and that lorry looks very fine for a die-cast.

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Fat Controller

There were some, used on the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley until the demise of passenger services in September 1953, that were repainted by BR (sources suggest the repaint was either all-over brown or carmine); I doubt that your directors would have appreciated the sixty years of accumulated coal-dust, however..

Brian

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Chris Nevard

The brewery removed all the compartments and opened it up into a large saloon. Bright ale would then be served straight from the cask by all accounts. Well that's my excuse for not fitting an interior!

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