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  1. In the February issue of BRM, I showed a few photos taken last year when I went over to Australia to talk to the British Railway Modellers of Australia convention. After the main event, we enjoyed a couple of days visiting members layouts around Adelaide. One of the highlights was Tony Phillips model of Nottingham Victoria. This lives in a 40ft by 32ft railway room and is simply awe inspiring when you see it. Reader Keith Dyson from Nottingham e-mailed me to ask if I had any more photos. Well, it's taken me a while to find them, but here are more shots of this amazing project. Looking inside the train shed, still unfinished but looking good. The builder usually finds himself in charge of the MPD during operating sessions. Coal traffic is important and on a layout this large, you need a big loco to handle it. Finally, the man who built all this, Tony Phillips. Thanks again to the British Railway Modellers of Australia. If you are planning a trip "down under", get in touch with them as they are a friendly bunch with some great model railways.
    4 points
  2. Before I could begin painting the signal box a number of detail components needed to be constructed. The gutter down pipes included in the kit were of course designed to fit a ground level type box so were no longer long enough to reach ground level. The pipes were extended by inserting sections of suitable diameter plastic rod between the moulded down pipe fittings included in the kit and then attached to the building using liquid poly. A name plate was made using 2mm Slaters Plastikard lettering glued to a strip of black 20 thou Plasticard sheeting. I replaced the roof finials with some 4mm scale signal finials which I think look a bit more Great Western. I'm still not convinced they are quite the right shape so I may have another go at making something more representative. A number of pictures of prototype signal boxes show a horseshoe fitted above the signal box door and I fancied including one on my model. In order to fabricate a 7mm scale version I wrapped a section of Micro strip around a paint brush handle then flooded it with liquid poly and allowed it to set overnight. once everything was dry the horse shoe was slid off the paint brush handle, the ends trimmed and then glued in position above the door. The model was painted using enamel paints from both Railmatch and Humbrol, before glazing with the clear sheeting included in the kit. At the moment the roof is still removable to allow me to fit any internal detail. I'm surprised that despite the number of windows very little of the inside of the box is easily visible when positioned on the layout. Even so I'll probably at least include a representation of some levers and assorted gubbins just in case! The next few pictures show the building in it's position on the layout. I still need to construct a walkway to cover the area where the point rodding enters the box and finalise the signal wire runs. I'm not sure what I'm going to tackle next, there are a number of projects on the go! The goods shed still needs finishing and painting, as does the station platform face and surface. I've got the components needed to make the signals work and a load off track ballast to apply. I've also got an interesting etched brass piece of stock that I'm itching to build, so there's plenty still to do! Until next time! Dave
    3 points
  3. The class 450 conversion from a Bachmann Silverlink class 350/1 is now all but complete. There are a few very minor tweaks and finishing touches to do but the unit is now running as a complete four-car set in one livery. It's not perfect. I have a few small air bubbles, a couple of small lumps in the paint underneath, and I cut and partly hand-painted the front end stripes to correct the Electra printing. It still saved an awful lot of work in adding the various livery elements and looks absolutely great at normal viewing distances. I am going to suggest a few minor changes to the vinyls to Adam Warr of Electra but, even if he doesn't consider the alterations, I would still whole-heartedly recommend the product. I have taken a couple of videos of the unit too and will edit them into one vid and post that in the next few days.In the meantime, here is the unit, 450 107, looking complete and actually in service. Edit: video added.
    1 point
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