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  1. Brassey
    As per my posts last year, I intend to extend the layout in the Southern direction. As a stickler for prototype fidelity, I now face a dilemma. Looking at the OS map and Google Earth there is a fairly substantial pond in the area I intend to model. Although less than an acre, it is bigger than the station complex and would take up a length of 575mm to model. I also don't know what it looked like in 1912 when it was bordered by an orchard. Do I include it or not?
  2. Brassey
    Peter K kits are notorious for having no instructions.
  3. Brassey
    I think you put the video on YouTube and paste a link on here. It will automatically embed it. Peter
  4. Brassey

    Modbury

    Brassey replied to Ian Smith's topic in 2mm Finescale

    Heatwaves being topical, I noted that there was one in the Summer of 1906 when for four days the temperature was over 32 degrees. Not too comfortable for the steam engine crew! For my own time frame (1912) August 1912 was and still does hold the record for the wettest, coldest and darkest with rain I think on 27 days. Pity those poor holiday makers who travelled to the Devon and Cornwall resorts by train.
  5. Brassey
    And how does the signalman allow 2 trains in the section at the same time? Or maybe you employ shunting horses.
  6. Brassey
    Not a suggestion but an observation. How does a train on the outer line get its wagons into the goods shed without trapping the loco against the buffers?
  7. Brassey
    Yes I alluded to that in my somewhat cryptic previous post. And is there actually a station as we know it?
  8. Brassey
    They have a group on Facebook. Go on there with the same query and see if they respond.
  9. Brassey
    Conspicuous by it’s absence is said Station Building…
  10. Brassey
    Whereas running Stevenson’s Rocket pulling a set of Mark 1 carriages alongside an intercity 125 with the Flying Scotsman banking doesn’t scream at you? Don’t forget Rule1 applies here and he can do whatever he feels like. So a thatched cottage between the pub and blacksmiths with the church behind with a wedding out front and funeral at back. Hopefully there’s room for the windmill and waterfall not forgetting the Morris dancers on the village green.
  11. Brassey
    Skills start with a mindset and you are not displaying the mindset of a typical scratch builder. You posted this in the kit and scratch building section. a scratch builder will have a specific prototype in mind that is not achievable through any other means.
  12. Brassey
    Then buy a ready to plonk model or a kit...
  13. Brassey
    Interesting. On mine the door vents were separate whitemetal castings...
  14. Brassey
    Yes and no. It had only one side of the body etches. I used a Perseverance chassis so left the Falcon one. I think most of the chassis was there including a tender chassis. But there was no tender body at all! I have used Branchlines outside frames for the Bird class and their splashers too. I scrapped the firebox as it was woefully short and had to lengthen the coned section of the boiler too as that was too short.
  15. Brassey
    Bulldog Bird class of 1909 work in progress. The basis of this is a Falcon Brass etch that I acquired last year. Had to wait a while for the gearbox (High Level) and wheels (Ultrascale):
  16. Brassey
    4mm to the foot. Good to see a layout. Any particular station? Peter
  17. Brassey
    Recently one of these etches has reappeared on eBay. Coincidently I have started doing battle with the Falcon Bulldog etches I also acquired off eBay. I have found that the firebox is way too short so had to scratch-build that. That's on top of there only being one hand for a lot of items and no tender body. Luckily I had set of outside frames in a Dapol City detailing kit so overcame that problem. The coned boiler is also slightly short.
  18. Brassey
    Brassmasters do an etch of the padlocks in the Finney range if you want to recreate that detail. Part E14: https://www.brassmasters.co.uk/gwr_etched_components.htm
  19. Brassey
    I seem to recall reading that the King preferred the LNWR Royal Train and this was kept in LNWR livery even into the LMS days, so maybe there was a royal fondness/connection to two-tone liveries.
  20. Brassey
    Railmotor at Bewdley. Acknowledging the adjacent LNWR tail-traffic through carriage from Woofferton to Birmingham, the contemporary GWR stock is in chocolate and cream.
  21. Brassey
    My version; no.1425 in brown complete with dodgy lining and wrongly place garter crest on the PBV:
  22. Brassey
    Not so rare. You can tell it's the brown scheme from the lining and the cream cab insides: RCTS lists all the brown 517's. Most if not all had full cabs and outside bearings to the trailing wheels. Most were probably also autofitted at some time. PS: just the clarify, the lining on green locos was 2 orange lines whereas this has only one. You can see that around the cab the lining is edged in black
  23. Brassey
    in both instances the gold/ochre lining is on the quadrant. The shape of the quadrant on a plastic kit is different to that on an etched kit. Some have commented that the Slaters kits are more of a challenge to line.
  24. Brassey
    The previous picture to this in Edwardian Enterprise states "the first GWR auto-train at Southall" so the colour scheme possibly dates back to then. I do not know how long the colours lasted but I have a 517, no. 1425, on my layout set in 1912 still in brown. It's my only homage to the brown livery but if anyone has evidence to the contrary please let me know.
  25. Brassey
    The author states he had access to the minutes of the Paint Committee. The first Chairman in 1912 was Stanier's father. I cannot see if he says where the minutes reside though as it is a Great Western Study Group publication they may well know or indeed have them.
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