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Do I have too?

Well should I try to do a little lining? or find something else to do?

This little lot arrived today, which will need to be run through the paint shop, at the very least to get a coat of weathering. I also got my hands on a Stove R which I have not photographed, and I have a bargain Jubilee yet to come in a terrible BR Green livery, so she needed rescuing When the Domestic Overlord finds out I;m dead

Help I think I may have just added another Jubilee to the collection, which will need a repaint, that is if the Domestic Overlord does not kill me first

Mikkel Thanks I must admit I'm really thinking about a creating a pre-grouping collection, as if modelling the LMS is not hard enough

The Domestic Overlord has called some of my Loco's cute

One word "STUNNING"

Baz Can you post a picture it would be brilliant to see it

The crimson I used was the same as I applied to my Flatiron, so maybe it will tone down a little, I hope my shaky hand lining has improved, otherwise I will need lots and lots of weathering

How can you not line it out? was he mad?

Baz I think your right, I may put my Pre-grouping ideas on the back burner for a while, maybe even a long while. There is still a lot of lining to do on what I thought was a simple lined red livery........maybe I should look at a nice simple un-lined black, but where would be the fun in that.

I know I'm a little biased towards the LMS, well more than a little, but I still have a problem with the first Pacific type the railway had the Princess class. I'm not sure if its because it's a little too great western to my eyes, or if they seem a little stretched but there is something about them that does not "do it" for me. I have to admit I'm enjoying the building the example currently going through the Price locomotive works and maybe my opinion on them will change as I progress towards completion, but at the moment the jury is still out. I had a few days ago got my model to the stage where a little primer could be applied, and she sat on my workbench looking like this while I decided what to do with her, but also what LMS livery she should carry. Part of the problem was the chassis, its not been a total nightmare but its not turning out to be the quick fix I thought it would be, originally I thought I slap a standard rtr chassis under her and like many N gauge modellers do live with the inaccuracies (we N gaugers use to tolerate a lot). Anyway as I looked at various options I even considered scratch building. At the moment I have a couple of options, a heavily serviced and slightly amended RTR option and a semi scratch built option, though I'm leaning to the RTR option, if only to avoid valve gear construction (don't ask, but I have invented lots of new swear words). The major areas I need to work on at the moment if the front bogie mount and the trailing wheels and this thinking about it might be where the problem I have with the prototype originates from. To me the cylinders seem to be a bit too far back and then there is the trailing truck, is just seems a oddly proportioned when you look at how it sits under the cab. Still this might just be my amplified by my dodgy modelling abilities but it just niggles away at me, still I pressed on and got the loco ready to receive her top coat. I finally decided to paint the loco in lined crimson, so I went to my paint stores and got the relevant crimson, and I think this is where another problem came to light? For any locomotives I intend to line, I tend to apply the top coat in a gloss finish, I find it helps me with the old bow pen to apply the lining, then when finished I cover the locomotive in a satin or even sometimes matt varnish. The problem is the crimson shade just does not look right to me, perhaps I'm just being an awkward sod but again there is something about it? I know crimson is a terrible colour to get right and the real locomotives varied in shade quite considerably, as do some of my fleet but there is still something about this one. Maybe it will start to look better to my eyes once the black bits are painted, so fingers crossed, and I suppose a good old coat of grime will hide a multitude of sins (I have photo's of them during and after the war in a terrible state) so maybe all is not lost, now where did I leave that supply of modelling time I thought I had?

Look I have made a little progress, please don't tell the Domestic Overlord

I don't know how I managed to do it, but from out of the blue I found some modelling time today, so I decided to see if I could make a little more progress on the locomotives clogging up the WORKBENCH of DOOM. Previously I had got the Princess to the stage, were I thought a coat of primer was needed to give her a little dignity at least. Today I got a little further, in the process of getting her ready to enter the fleet. I managed to spray a nice coat of crimson onto her today and she is now at the stage where I can consider painting all her black bits, and she has a lot of them and that's before I even look t her tender. One I have done this I will mix up some of my favourite dirty black and apply it to her smokebox and cab roof, then I will be at the stage where I will consider starting to line her. I also spent a little time on her chassis, I am happy with the front bogie, all I have to do is finish its mounting, and the mounting for the chassis to the body, and then the trailing truck, and then the tender, this list is endless. Flushed with my success of applying a coat of crimson and not getting any on me, my next two victims where lined up to get a coat of black, the first was the Duchess I have been working on. I was considering finishing her off in works grey, attached to a streamlined tender, but being more practical I thought I would paint her in wartime unlined black, this has nothing to do with avoiding lining her honest The problem is I'm now thinking that maybe I really need another crimson locomotive so she may be re-sprayed but maybe I will change my mind again. The other loco to get a black coat was the 7F water heater variant I have been working on (I know she has a wonky handrail I will fix that). When I finally get time to finish her, that will make three Fowler 7F's in the collection, which I think is more than enough, plus there are other LMS 7F's to build so at least it will take my attention away from top link locomotives (if you consider a Princess to be one?). So there you have it, three locomotives at the painting stage, there is still a lot of work to complete on them, but they are getting there, if it is a very slow process. Not quite at the stage of applying a top coat, a little more time was spent on my Prince of Wales tank, I have done a little work on the chassis, and lowered the body to a suitable level, and sort of finalised a method I'm happy with for her leading wheels, the trailing wheels are still to be worked on. This is where the problems start, this loco will be finished in red lined black livery, but the more I work on her the more I like the locomotive, which has got me thinking, what if I build another, but finish her in LNWR condition, what if I start a little pre-grouping collection, I know I said in the past I did not want to line another loco, but LNWR and MR locomotives I mean there cant be much lining on them can there? So there you have the current state of play, if I ever get any more modelling time I may even make some more progress but for the moment this is how the WORKBENCH of DOOM looks. What could possibly go wrong, as ever until the next time Happy Modelling

Something must be going wrong, as I have managed to apply some paint top coats to the 7F, Princess and the Duchess that have been sitting on the WORKBENCH of DOOM

Well I may have missed the Wigan Show this weekend, and all the bargains but I have managed to find some modelling time. The Domestic Overlord has been a little poorly, so because I am such a good Boy I have been looking after him, and providing many, many hot toddies. The problem with this is it made the DO very sleepy and he could barley keep his little eyes open (insert Evil Laugh here > > ) and this is where my plan fell into place. While the DO snored away in the land of nod, and the neighbours hid from what they must have thought was a massive thunder storm I worked away. The first of my little projects that got some attention was my attempt to produce a Princess, the body has had quite a lot of filler, and a few added details, but she has now got a coat of grey paint. I also did a little work on her chassis, and front bogie. I will have to remove a "wedge" from the back of each cylinder so her bogie will have more sway to get round tighter curves, and then work on the trailing wheels but I think she is looking promising? What I have noticed thought, just after I have built and primed the tender, is that the old Gem kits are a bit wide, maybe I should dissemble the tender and then try to thin the sides, oh decisions, decisions Oh and yes I know the wheels don't quite line up with the splashers, but this is because I just plonked the body on the chassis, to does fit moved forwards a little. Away from Passenger locomotives, work on the "water heater" 7F has seen as much of the gubbins I could research attached and a coat of primer applied. When I have given her a nice coat of black I will darken the worm gear to try and hide it. I still have to add her handrails and steps and do a little more work on her chassis, but soon, I hope she will be ready to get a goat coat of grime, and then she can join her two sisters in the fleet. After a bit of filler, I managed to get a coat of primer on my Prince of Whales tank, and she has been plopped on her intended chassis just so I can get a feel for how she will look when finished, she is still a little high, so that will take priority. Then I need to attach her front bogie (which means I have to work on the pivot a little) and then her trailing wheels and quite a few other bits and bobs but she is getting there. While I had the primer out, I thought I would give something else a coat of grey, yes my left hand got a coat but so did the black Duchess (the one with the original terrible lining), this has led to a bit of a decision. Should I finish her off in works grey livery OR should I turn her into a member of the class that ended up attached to a streamliner tender? Now the fact that you cant see her tender, maybe a hint but it could also be because I put the tender somewhere safe, so safe in fact I forgot where it is. So that's the end of the progress for who knows how long, the problem is with progress it tends to show you how much still needs t be done, and I have a hell of a lot still to do. So there you are the Price Paint shop is beginning to fill up, which means some of the locomotives will need lining, and that maybe a problem as after the last locomotives left the paint shop I swore I would never line a locomotive again :( So until the next time when ever that may be, as ever Happy Modelling

Ha I have made some progress on the WORKBENCH of DOOM, which is good as I will be away most of the week with work, so progress stops here. The problem though with progress is it always creates more questions or options, like Should the Duchess be finished in works grey? Or should I produce an example of a Duchess pulling at ex-streamlined tender? I mean I need to add a little variety to the my Duchess fleet?

Even I can't mess it up, well I can, but fingers crossed............. the streamlined tender option is also very interesting

You lost me as soon as you mentioned BR, for me the world ended when BR was formed in 48, sad times

I remember Wrenn use to do quite a few loco's in works grey, now that is going back a few years