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Thank you this is really helpful and simple to crack once you have the key. Richard

Great, I have asked for ( hinted ) that I would like the four wheelers for Christmas, so we shall see if FC was listening. Is there an easy way to work out what six wheeler it is from the coding? Forgive my ignorance. Richard

I would take the plunge and add the detailing kit, put in real coal and repaint the tender back, it makes such a difference/ improves the look. I did not say that my original choice for the d10 conversion was another NRM d11 but changed my mind as it comes apart into less conversion friendly bits.

Never eaten them, they are just in the local supermarket sold as breakfast!

The "d10" is now in over twenty bits and paintwork on cab and boiler ruined in order to "improve" the loco. Here's hoping it all goes back together. I have a d11 kit so I might use its chassis to get this going, why not just build that kit? Two words paint job, on the tender mostly. I won't waste the rest of the kit as the b9 will need castings and the cab can go towards the b3 bits I am slowly accumilating. Must work out how to do the slide bar support. Might have to draw it and etch it . That is down the track. Richard Ps no picture as those of a delicate nature might come over all faint at the sight of a butchered loco.

First up an LNER era mash up of the master cutler for my A1s to pull, the intended loco is behind it, waiting for paint of the correct colour. I promissed a return to the GCR proper, well here it is. Directors going through the works. First up the condition they come from the NRM/ Bachmann. Its good but needs work on it. Then the "improved version" with all the bits added, the tender back painted up and coaled/ crewed etc. I hope the change in colour of the running plate is visable as that was one of the clean but used loco looks i wanted to achieve. There was a packet with two little screws in it . Lord only knows what they were for. I have yet to tackle the GC lettering size as i do not want to damage the paint underneath. I should confess: Forgive me RMweb for i have sinned. I have butchered a Robinson locomotive. In my defense it is to turn it into an original director from a GBL D11. Not quite worked out how to motorise it yet, or whether to carve off the handrails and fit proper ones. The boiler repaint would not be difficult, just can i get a colour match to the original? The npeople surrounding the loco ar3e all the drivers etc. i need to man all the locos. Happy painting. Lastly my latrest find snapped up off ebay for 40quid. Really please. Now did any run in the condition on the box cover, but with Robinson oval plates? Hope the post placate the gods of pre groupiong Richard

Already have a plan for the class 13 and the bits for it. Well when I say bits I mean flat sheets of brass, a tube and a pair of large wheels. It is in the list of things to do. The six wheelers are a different proposition, I would want some but have not worked out if they need to be scratch built or if there are kits. Richard

It is very kind of you, it really is the simplest weathering I have tried. Totally back to basics. The side skirts are given a pin wash into the gaps. Then cleaned up with a cotton bud with a little white spirts on it. Then the boiler bands and boiler top have black pastel brushed on with most brushed off leaving only the merged in subtle change in tone (hopefully). Then that is that no airbrush or fancy stuff. Hope that helps, I am rather pleased how it came out for a loco kept clean but working. Richard

And you might notice Thom that your wagons have already entered the fleet.

I too was tempted by purely modeling in the gc era but it was the small glass wind deflectors on the side of B2 cabs which I thought ruined the lines, and I do not like the number on the tender earlier livery it leaves imo the ca sides looking empty. I thought there was a third chimney which could be chosen, that after the flower pot came a shorter and more sympathetic design. I also thought part of the chimney redesign was down to the fitting of Gresley snifting valves on the top of the smoke box. In my defense I have intended to run through the era on the layout with some favorite designs from later in the lines life. For those who are looking for pure gc they will not like the next piece, a representation of the master cutler in LNER days. Fear not though after that I will be improving NRM D11 and converting one into a D10. In other news I picked up a DJH D6 off e bay for a steel at forty quid. Sorry if I bid against someone here, in fairness the postage to the UK was fifty quid, but to me only seven. It probably gave me an advantage over the price I was prepared to pay. An update without photos, how weird! Normal service will resume with pictures of the D11 and D10 construction.

The latest one Mallard around the time of its record. It started out as falcon and is new tendered and brassmaster detailed as well as lamp irons and lamps, back head painted up....trust me on that one. perhaps a little dirty? i might tone it down. Richard

weathering done. Mallards might be a touch heavy for 3 months from new Colombos might be a touch light but it is visable as a soot deposit and i will do more on the bottom half when i line the tender axel boxes. Richard

photos do highlight i still need to line the tender axel boxes on Colombo.

Just like buses, here is my colombo i mentioned a couple of posts back, Done similar work on it as you, i hope it passes muster. in the background is the next one through the works, Treacy. It has a bit of a way to go though. Richard

Long time no posts so here is an update. the A3 and A4 have been worked on first. Detailed up and ready .... almost Mostly mix and match from railroad items, a couple of GBL locos and an NRM scotsman. The cab comes up nicely once painted up on my falcon....now mallard. Mallard was the simplist with a new tender top, cut down motor mount inside and renumbering and new plates. lamps and weathering to come. Colombo has a railroad p2 tender, relined and lettered from the transfer spares box and chimney and dome. Brassmasters detailing kit. Golden Eagle has been repainted, but it does not match its tender so i might have to brush paint on a better matching colour. The one that worked on the dome on Colombo was tourist stock green. Lastly Treacy which will all be one colour but can not decide if the green recommended in the states is too vibrant. I am open to suggestions, though a full repaint might be the only way forward. Richard

i was under the impression that the flat horizontal surfaces were black e.g. steps and the smokebox inside the casing looks darker on photos. I have examined a fair few (including the green painted one! - discounted as artistic licence) I suppose we will only know if a decent colour picture surfaces or time machines are invented. I did research when doing mine but it was a while ago now so i am drawing on the haze of my memory. Richard

You have beat me to it, my Colombo in LNER green is just awaiting crew and a tender coupling. I didn't move the wash out plugs though. Doncaster green paint is the very devil to get hold of in the states.Yours looks great. Richard

And at some places a wooden stick comes down with a magnet on the end and removes the load in one go from above. Richard

If only there was a human equivalent of the updating you do for humans, then I could be revamped to run better. It looks great......as always Richard

soft southerner. Man up. Gentlemen in Newcastle are still frequenting the town centre in t shirts at this time of year.

More than I had two weeks ago. I have been a bad boy, but once I finish altering them then they should look great

You asked for it.The latest project. Careful it is not a gleaming loco but a scratch built wagon it is a GCR Weltrol H to give it its LNER designation. I have not found a single photo of it so have had to rely on the accuracy of the drawing in Tatlow. Just needs couplings and a little weathering to complete. And because i like it to look used all the chocks and chains in the bottom Details of the trials and tribulations of getting it built on my thread . http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/93006-dettingen-gcr-might-have-been-layout/page-14&do=findComment&comment=2098194 Richard

Progress has been made and weltrol works.....even with its real wooden load. Plus bits and bobs in the bottom of it. just couplings and (light) weathering to do. As it is finished, it is about now that a photo of one turns up to show my mistakes. The pacifics move forward, Mainly the chimney on Golden Eagle And the parts for Treacy. One railroad Flying Scotsman, One GBL Malard tender tank, One Brassmasters detailing kit. Name plates to come from modelmaster, and transfers from Fox. More progress on these now. Richard

haven't wiggled since my wife told me to stop dancing on our first date because it was so rubbish. leason learnt, i devote myself to modelling now.

Razor saws down plastic....i some how feel an experiment coming on. thanks for the idea