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Caley Jim

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    Biggar, South Lanarkshire (London's big, but Biggar's Biggar)
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    Caledonian Railway 1885-1915 modelling in 2fs

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  1. Powder paint is mostly used in schools and nurseries these days and seems to be mostly supplied in fairly large quantities and rather lurid colours. https://www.amazon.co.uk/powder-paint/s?k=powder+paint I have several small tins of Rowney make, which I think I inherited from my father (a primary school headmaster) but they don't seem to do it any more, although it seems there is still some around. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225756034930 I believe you can create it by scraping chalk or pastels to form a powder. I've found that dusting it lightly over painted stonework helps to give it a more 'stony' finish, for want of a better description! I would guess that weathering powders are pretty much the same stuff. I use black to 'weather' coal wagons, though you have to be very sparing with it! Jim
  2. How are you preventing the rods from jumping up out of the tappets on the locking bars? Jim
  3. Phoenix Paints CR wagon red oxide with some white in it. The doorway surrounds and lintel are painted with that mix then dusted over (dry) with white powder colour. Jim
  4. If you want ready made track you will have to stick with N-gauge standards. Sorry, can't help with the 'finest' RTR track. Having said that 2FS Easitrac plain track and turnouts are straight forward to assemble. For turnouts all the parts are provided, ready prepared. Jim
  5. Took me a year of lunch hours plus several weekends to clear the loft in my parents house when my father died. And there was a loft in the garage! Filled two skips in all! (and that's not counting the stuff I held onto 'because it might come in useful') Most of the latter has undergone two house moves since then! Jim
  6. I've used (and am still using) Precision thinners with both old and new Humbrol paints without any problems. All brush painting. Jim
  7. I had a similar issue with the locking on Kirkallanmuir. I got round it by increasing the spacing between the locking bars. Jim
  8. That interior looks pretty good to my eyes! 👍 Jim
  9. Can't talk about other companies, but CR fish wagons, some of which were basically 8T dropsides on passenger rated underframes, were painted in NPCS livery of dark purple brown with yellow lettering. Jim
  10. No swaged gold plate? She looks at least upper middle class! Jim
  11. These will keep you out of mischief for a wee while (or perhaps not!). That is after you've washed the windows of course!😉 Jim
  12. As long as you don't start coughing and sneezing! (Coughs and sneezals spread diseasals) 😁 Jim
  13. Part 2 of Model Rail 2024. A second shot of Donaghadee. Note the clever trick with the gas holders - only modelled in half relief with a mirror behind them! Another clever idea. Two layouts of the same location (Swiss) modelled 100 years apart. Nueburg 1913 Nueburg 2013 (Apologies for the poor focus in the latter) For industrial enthusiasts (@t-b-g) High House Colliery For the NG fraternity Ddualt And last, but by no means least, the late Ian Rice's Trerice, now under the safe custody of Mick Simpson. As it says at the end of the best cartoons 'That's all Folks!' Jim
  14. Some photos from Model Rail 2024 at the weekend. Not all pre-group, so I hope I don't get excommunicated! 🤞 Part 1 Firstly for @Compound2632, Kettlewell Rolvenden K&ESR For those of an Irish bent , Donaghadee. Max attachments reached so part 2 to follow. Jim
  15. Take the photos from further back and then crop them. Gives you a greater depth of field. Jim
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