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BernardTPM

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  1. If the conversion is to be based on the current Mk.2 Farish by Bachmann coaches I would use the same offsets from the centre line or it will look odd in a rake. There was extensive research done at the time by Colin Allbright so they're pretty accurate. The pairs of in-line vents over the compartments do centre on the windows. The vents at the luggage end and over the guard's compartment will be the same on BFK and BSO as the same body shell was used. As for the toilet, the nearer of those two fittings (on the centre-line) is original, but I'm afraid I don't know when the other, larger one was fitted.
  2. Here's the roof vent arrangement: b = roof ends painted blue (Mk.2/2a) v - domed vent t = toilet vent You could also use the old Tri-ang Hornby/Hornby Mk.2 BFK as a visual guide.
  3. The basic shells were apparently 10% lighter than the same DEV design on mild steel. DEV history (in French)
  4. Of course, everyone knows post boxes are red, as this old postcard* proves: *or not 😈
  5. I think the problem here is not so much the exact shade and perception of colour, which is really another well discussed topic, but the possible use of random colour and guesses when converting a monochrome image. Personally I'd rather have the original non-colour picture.
  6. Same length as the HD model, but a new tool. The HD LMS brake van used GWR partitions as did their BR brake van. Hornby 1974 Hornby Dublo circa 1960
  7. The long buffers would be the then standard square shank type with large round heads.
  8. The glass carrying wagon (Coral A) actually has "A K's MODEL" cast into the underside in your photo. Is the other (top) wagon cast or etched brass? It's not clear from the pictures. Here's a list of GWR wagon kits.
  9. Going by the number of vertical seams I reckon it's a 'C' type container, so 27' long (8' x 8' cross section) the maximum length allowed on trailers at the time. These were withdrawn comparatively early, superseded by 30' and then 40' types.
  10. The three compartment coach looks rather like the 'Prusssian' coaches Bachmann did.
  11. Not really; they're right on the real thing when you compare them to the official specifications. Actual painted numbers. BR Gill Sans. The Marklin numbers would look better if they were spaced a little further apart. Indeed if the spacing had been right the typeface errors wouldn't have been very obvious. It's only when you look closely you can see the '0's are a bit too elliptical and the '3' is symmetrical top to bottom; Gill Sans '3' has a very slightly longer bottom stroke and the centre part angles down very slightly. The signwriter has done his job correctly.
  12. British Trix and Rivarossi both used 1:80 scale, though some Trix models: AL1 (because it started as Lilliput) and the late '60s A2, A3 and A4 LNER Pacifics were 4mm scale while the 16t mineral and pig iron wagons were 'accidentally' 4mm scale because their 1:80 scale 17' 6" chassis works out at 16' 6" in 4mm scale.
  13. Age yellowing. Probably if you rub with very fine abrasive they will look grey again.
  14. Just measured my original Matchbox (45A) at 57.75mm long. 167" is about 4242mm, so the scale is about 1:73.45. Perhaps someone in Vauxhall's management realised FA perhaps wasn't the best of codenames, so these were always referred to as F, series I and II (though the final 1960-'61 model had some significant revisions, including a completely new, higher rear window and roofline but wasn't called series III). I still need to build an FE to complete the line-up.
  15. I had one of the Midget versions of that which was just a little too long. Being whitemetal it wasn't too hard to cut and shut with a razor saw. 1957-9 Victor F dimensions (inches) w.b. 98, length 167, width 62¼, height unladen 58¼. Divide by 3 for 4mm scale millimetres.
  16. The transfers work well. For compartment stock I've created some artwork for fold-up seats/compartment walls. Would be rather more complicated for open stock though.
  17. The current geometry is the same as Super4 radii 1, 2 & 3. Series 3 was the same as the earlier 'Standard' track with different radii that do not directly equate.
  18. Digging out my 'Parkin' Mk.1 book it is obvious that the dia.30 Griddle cars (the ones in the 1961 Trains Illustrated) are all but identical in layout. The interiors of these have light, vertically grained wood panelling with squared linoleum flooring (light/medium marbled squares on the passageways, darker round the seats) except at the 'bar' end where there is longitudinally black/buff striped carpet (as in this Mk.1 Pullman). Though the pictures are monochrome, the pattern on the upholstery suggests that it is Black and Gold Stripes - First Class (stripes arranged vertically). Table tops look to be medium to dark (probably laminate, probably wood grain) with aluminium edging.
  19. No luck on finding that Trains Illustrated, but here's the drawing from Modern Railways April '62: On re-reading the article says the interiors were 'similar to' rather than identical to the ones in the 1961 issue, though still Eastleigh built.
  20. Revised in 1972, I believe. The lit in a tunnel rule only applied "where block apparatus had failed in a section where there is a tunnel" Rule 120
  21. I've not been able to find it yet, but I'm pretty sure the 1960s rebuild looked nothing like that! I'll have to move a few boxes tomorrow to carry on the search.
  22. I think you may be mixing up Pressfix with Kingsprint. Those were rub-down, sold through the Kings Cross model shop. Don't think they ever did wagon lettering though. Pressfix still have a backing sheet the transfer is released from after application. Rub down just have a waxy protection sheet that stopped them sticking to any surface accidentally.
  23. If you can find a copy, apparently the Griddle Car interiors were illustrated on p.212 of Trains Illustrated, April 1961 (according to Modern Railways* July 1962). Checking the cover online I might have that issue. I'll see if I can find it. * The new name for the same magazine, starting from January 1962.
  24. Note headstocks and buffer stocks and the footboards are blue. What we can't see is the actual solebar, but I'd guess that was blue too. By the manual that would be correct. Everything below that brown.
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