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agreed - bring on the turbos! would love to see what you have in store for them!

They get about everywhere! Always an excuse haha!

They are wonderful coaches. The maroon is a difficult one - in the natural sunlight they look pretty good to me, however under artificial light not so much, they look too red. It has been discussed at length on the accura mk2b thread, they are no doubt closer than the Bachmann west coast maroon however (more of a brown colour than maroon) so not sure what to do with my bachy ones now! Oh and I do like a grubby 33 with some ploughs!

So finally, a finished project to show you all. Well… a revisited project, now fully finished. JGA 19232, the lone JGA of this type to make it into DB red, was a repaint I did some time ago - but I did always want to revisit it for weathering. I also made a couple of improvements including adding the hand rails beneath each buffer (not sure on the technical term for these), which was a massive miss on the standard tooling from Bachmann (including a few other minor points!). I used a spare detail pack from one of the original Hornby KFA releases where these hand rails did not come attached to the wagon but within the details bag (they do on the more recent releases of that model!). The slight ridge on these made them a perfect fit with a dab of glue. A very simple cheat code but one well worth it I think! I will be trying to find some further spares of these for the remaining 3 JGA’s within this rake. The next mod was to add a prototypical looking aggregates load, as I wanted to model this rake loaded. I used the main type within a pack of the Woodland scenics Gravel (Buff fine) that was going cheap in the Hattons clearance sale. Enough to do 5-6 wagons if you fill them out a bit! I added in some spare polystyrene and then some plasticard to top it off and then the load with what I think is a fairly realistic look, with 3 ‘mounds’ over each hopper within the wagon. I am really happy with the appearance based off prototype images of this particular wagon and the rakes it has been in that I am aiming to replicate. The type used, not only replicates the prototype well but is finer than the ballast, giving a different shade, separating it nicely to the ballast at track level. Lastly, as I wanted to model this not long after it had been repainted, only a light weathering was required. I used a mixture of weathering powders to ‘dust’ the solebar, create patches along the most upper panels (copying a prototype image of where the build ups were), and also getting stuck in on the ends where a lot of debris builds up very quickly. Again all copied loosely from images of this wagon soon after it was deployed back into work after its fresh lick of paint. The hopper doors, chassis and the bogies needs a dusting to take the shine off the glossy looking black too. So a quick spray of my trusty Railmatch Weathered black aerosol did the trick. I then painted the axle boxes in to EWS red (using a brush and Railmatch EWS), again matching the prototype. I also created some faint streak lines where these are welded and seem to show up very quickly! All of this was sealed in with some Railmatch Matt Varnish spray. So here it is in some natural light, I am very pleased with outcome and look forward to completing some tweaks to my orange RMC JGA’s to go with this. The aim is these will be mixed in with HOA’s (hopefully arriving soon from Revolution) and eventually one or two IIA’s for good measure. All based off the rake that used to work out of Hayes Tarmac. As always, love to hear your thoughts!

Maybe when Hornby make one in TT scale we can pinch the working lamps from that!

Sorry I should have been more clear - I meant they are pretty identical externally. The interior is, as mentioned above non fixed and 100% different.

From what I have found in my research, they look pretty identical. Maybe some minor differences that I am not aware of however. I am sure someone can confirm either way…

Fantastic news!

Some great photos Tim! great progress and work as always! I look forward to seeing the 707 progress!

I assume this is for all accurascale products and not just the 66? If so.. great news!

Seriously good stuff this! love it!

Interesting to note - but all examples you have included are MK2a's and not Mk2b's...

That looks ace mate! I too have also bagged a Rapido OAA, lovely model! Your rendition looks fantastic. Debating whether to do mine with mesh doors or not! Certainly less hassle without the conversion for sure! Do you know if there were any other examples that made it as far as the mid 2010’s with their original wooden sides still in tact?

Looking good Jim! where did you buy the MOD side opening containers from? The look great!

Another extension? 😁