chriswild

Definitely interested in these, and I was wondering how long it would be after the jua/jta, announcement, you guys don't mess around! Getting closer to an accurate covered steel coil train now, IHA next?!

Good choice, for privatisation era enterprise workings and block trains alike. I'll definitely be ordering this wagon in the cargowaggon livery.

Going a bit off topic but around 04-05? there was a tunstead - Walsall loaded cement that for a time ran wcml then Rugeley TV onto the chase line to Walsall, made up of a cl. 60 and the bli jga bogie cement hoppers, ran early morning and used to wake me up as it worked the gradient through Rugeley town, and yes coal ran into Rugeley ps from both directions for many years. Chris

Have you tried trains4u http://www.trains4u.com/b/251/RevolutioN-Trains

Can you clarify which email address please? Although I have made contact a while ago about a query with my order, every message via your website has had no response, hard to know if they are being received, I do appreciate you are busy people. Thanks Chris

Definitely interested in both of these, as already stated the BBA will be a seller, and there are numerous variants which could be explored. The TEA is a variant which crops up with other tea's in good numbers, I've mainly seen it on Lindsey - Kingsbury trains where it is commonly mixed with the ews liveried tankers, and I'd say to model these trains accurately over the last few years this wagon would be very useful. Chris

Hi Not sure if you know about these, I have a recentish price list from s kits listing the schlieren bodies, are there more than 1 variant? I would be interested for the ones that are under some TEA,s, but don't know if they are the same, I did ask for an image of the bogie when I ordered a JSA kit from s kits but nothing so far, it would be useful to know to save possible duplication, as far a I can see they're a relatively new addition . Chris

Looking good there,really like the coils, and the way you've made them, they look very effective. Chris

Interesting update as ever Jim, I don't live too far from the chase line and would be interested to know what diversions may be heading that way, make a change from LM units and the odd freightliner coal into rugeley p.s. Good pics keep 'em up! Chris Edit. Must've posted at the same time, didn't mean to do a virtually identical post!

Emailed kernow about these, doesn't sound like they'll be a revised model, "they will be using the same tooling as previous ews liveried SSA models" pretty sure Bachmann have never done a ews version. As far as I'm aware these wagons were completely re bodied in about 1998. Bit of a missed opportunity I'd say, can't say I'm too keen on £20 a pop just to chop it up and start again. Chris

Looking good there, doing a step by step is one of those things i never really did but does show the process well, must admit i did two wagons worth of the end panels and gave up due to tedium, thinking one day i'll resin cast a batch, if i ever get round to doing any more of these. Looking forward to seeing progress,you've got the bogies sorted and they do look good. Chris

Some Quality pics there Ewsjo, really like the first one at hinksey, could be a DBS publicity shot or something. is 60011 the one thats had a repaint but not a refurb, as it looks a bit claggy in your second pic. good stuff. Chris

the mainline tooling became the Dapol model up until mid to late nineties, who then sold the tooling to Hornby and they produced it until they re-tooled the whole thing around 4 years ago, and i think they now only market their newer model, which is essentially new from the ground up. There are plenty of the old tooling about s/h. Thats my understanding anyway, some of the details are proably better known by others on here. chris

Hi, yeah i used the fox transfers which i think were v accurate apart from the hopper door control labels, on the whole though, they were all there and i think 1 or 2 of the real smaller details i omitted. The paints were from precision, they do all the correct NP colours, though they do need a fair bit of white adding to get the faded look. it has reminded me actually, the silver/grey paint seemed to come off the HHA's in a right old globby mess, enjoy! chris

looking really good, look forward to seeing the printed article to see how much better they are than my effort! Chris