Pugsley's Workbench

You know what Martin - it looks grand! The windscreen looks great and the bodyside conversion looks faultless - very very good job.

 

 

If you've gone to that much trouble can I suggest a few other bits and pieces? How about really slimming down the MU blue star plug (front right outside edge of buffer) - with a knife and file you can get them to look much finer. Then replacing the plastic perfect U shape 'wire' with a piece of fine wire or elastic looks more realistic. Have you fitted a blue star receptor on the buffer beam? I used to use Heljan Class 47 one for the later MU fitted Freightliner 47s that came on the sprue). Then you could also add the sanding pipes to the front and rear of the bogie side frames using fine elastic - that's quite easy too and makes a big difference. I think I got mine from 43179, but I think Jon020 got his hands on some as well.

 

However whatever you do I know the weathering is going to be spot on! I look forward to that

Thanks James. I might replace the plastic Blue Star cable with some wire - that's something I confess that I hadn't thought of, but that will probably be as detailed as this one gets.

 

Following the 59, I made a decision that my 4mm modelling will be more about realistic modelling from a distance, rather than being ultra detailed. Models that look right, based in the context of a layout, I suppose.

 

The first stage of weathering will be up shortly, the pressure's on now

Looking rather tasty there Martin. I'd certainly encourage the replacement of the Blue Star cable with wire as it's been a mod I've been using for the last few years. If you've got any spare decoder black wire, use some of that.

 

I shall be watching progress on the weathering with interest . Might make me take a closer look at some of mine now....!