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  1. …….how did you know? …er yeah alright…. it’s a fair cop! It was actually Buckfast Abbey….. via the small window in the cellar….the tonic wine cellar. I didn’t stay vry long…but I had a litttle slug or fifty of ‘Buckie’…whlits I wzz thre. Ye canaye beet a buckie. I’ve done a bottle a tow a thatbfor. Wahey the buckie boys. ……zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I may have entered the Abbey via a window but I was assisted out of the Abbey through the front door. I am a Grizz Bear with a sore head.
  2. Just looked up 47473 on this site. It was a crash damage repair by the looks if it. As you say it is only Crewe Cut at one end. Might have been quite a rare occurrence within the fleet. http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_zoom_v3.php?img=0582020112000
  3. I’ve posted this before but I’ve only just now added the snow ploughs. Probs needs a little weathering on the bogies and fuel tanks. Would like to make it duel braked.
  4. I am looking for help to find photos of examples of BR Class 47s, with the Crewe Cut Cabs, that ran in Blue Large Logo Blue. But not 47847. I realise that if there were any they were probably very few and far between and they probably did run in Large Logo for long? Ultimately this is research to enable me to model just such a loco. Cheers in advance….. Grizz
  5. I’ve just been back on Replica Railways web site to have another look. For anyone who hasn’t seen it they make some superb bits and bobs for those of us who love hacking and cutting and shutting etc. http://www.replicarailways.co.uk/mainsep1/menuaccess Over the years I’ve bought loads of bits and bobs from them. The staff have been so friendly and helpful every time I’ve called them. One day I plan to take a trundle up to Swindon to visit them in person, but for now it’ll have to be over the phone. Their B4 and B5 bogies are a really good representation of the real thing, especially for the money. I’m down to my last pair of B4s, so I’ve got to put in an order. In the meantime I’ve been chopping up more FO seating units and turning them into TSO seating units for the Bachmann TSO bodies. The original Airfix FO unit is in the foreground. With a complete one mounted on an Airfix under frame with modified Replica B4s. I’ve managed to prep another three TSO seating units, with one glued onto the 1.5mm styrene support strip. This means that the original metal strip weight has to be removed, although as these are all second hand most had already been removed by the previous owner. I still need to build the toilet cubicles on opposite side suitable for a MK2E. To get the Bachmann MK2F bodies to fit the Airfix underframe I’ve had to carefully remove the original securing lugs from the glazing. There are four on each side and it is slow and steady work with a razor saw, as it is very easy to catch to bottom of the body with the back end of the saw. Once removed the underframe sides need to be filed down flat to remove the slightly odd shape of the original, but it only takes a few minutes.
  6. These days with the availability of modern pre-made buildings from most of the big manufacturers, modellers can achieve a realistic depot scene quiet easily. Shame that the photographer didn’t pick a better angle for the photo, all that Peco OLE kinda spoils a clear view of that re-liveried Heljan Class 86. Although the colouring of the OLE is spot on, almost life like. The 08 and the building still look a bit plasticky, could probs do with a bit of general weathering around the place. But I do like the way that the modeller has accurately reproduced the Buddleia bushes in the foreground, it definitely gives the scene depth. Perhaps that was what the photographer was aiming for?
  7. Next project, a further batch of 8 x Intercity Red Stripe MK2Es TSOs, made up from Bachmann MK2F bodies and the under frames from Airfix MK2D FOs. It will take some time to do as I’ll have to cut the FO seating layouts apart, add a set of seats to each to match the TSO layout and cut the toilet area around to suit. As previously it’ll be Replica bogies, with Bachmann 34-034 turned brass wheels etc. The FO bodies won’t go to waste as I plan to either build a ‘What Might Have Been’ set of MK2D sleeping coaches or change them into a reclassified standard class rake. The IC DBSO could possibly end up as a MK2 DEMU….but that is for another day.
  8. Just found a wagon I started a few years ago. Leaf buster type, loco hauled etc and only run as a single vehicle. Still needs spraying gear attached and spray paint finish. Probs as a European private operator. Also one of the RILS covered bogie wagons I built ages ago, I’ve decide to give it a ‘Cadbury’ purple paint job. Might do it with their Secret Santa campaign logos. Just a bit of fun.
  9. Sometime back I bought a bunch of Heljan Cargowaggon underframes as spares. Just started finishing the first one. Probs going to be as either brake force runners or will have special loads. I’ve filled in the centre of the wagon with styrene and then used patterned styrene to create a steel deck look. Had to scratch build the buffer heads as currently no Heljan spares are available. Looking to build 8 in total, but it might take some time. Using spare Bachmann Y25 bogies, same as those found under their RMC JGAs.
  10. Next two candidates. The one at the back is an Airfix TSO and will probs be a Scotrail MK2D but it has a Hornby MK2E chassis and interior. It also needs to have modified Replica B4s fitted as per the others. The one at the front is a cut and shut from the two passenger ends of two Airfix BSOs, making a MK2E. The only thing is, looking at the roof drawings kindly supplied earlier in the thread, I think I need to file off one of the roof tanks? If so…any idea which one, when compared with the under frame? Sorry if that seems an obvious question. The remains of the parcel / guards brake ends of the two BSOs didn’t go to waste, they have been cut and shut together to form a fictional MK2D/E/F full brake. It needs a bit more filler and then a spray up into either blue and grey or IC. It’ll modified B5s.
  11. Little more progress with the MK2E interior conversions. Actually I’ve quite enjoyed it, once I got the process straight. The buffer headstocks are probs a bit thick but I needed it told hold the buffers securely and once they are painted it won’t notice. I’ve decided that including the glass partitions half way down the coach is a bit too much agg. I’ve just ordered another 8 Bachmann IC liveried TSO bodies. Only problem now is that I only have one spare Airfix MK2D under frame left and no more BSO or TSO seating units. I have got 4 Hornby MK2E under frames but they are more of a pain to fit to the Bachmann bodies. So I’ll probably have to see what eBay chucks up over the next couple of months.
  12. Many thanks for all your help chaps. It has been quite a while since I’ve travelled on a MK2 of any sort. It is funny how your mind plays tricks on you as you get older. I do remember red seats on what I thought were MK2Fs, out of Euston up to Glasgow in the very early 1990s. In the meantime I’ve found this excellent site that defo has an interior photo of a MK2E TSO. https://coaches-library.weebly.com/mk2e---tso.html Brilliant photos…I can see the roof detail of a suitable IC liveried coach, so don’t think I’ve much work to do on that score. But my next question would be that the interior photo is of a post privatisation MK2E, and although the seats are indeed blue and table tops black….were the glass partitions mid way down the coach original? Also I seem to remember that the internal ends doors were mostly glass? …or is that just this old mind playing tricks on me again…..perhaps that was the MK2Fs?
  13. Many thanks MJI….👍 Soon as I’ve finished the interior conversions I’ll smash them into the paint shop for black table tops and blue seats. First one done.
  14. It is fair to say that Rule 1 is firmly in place on my railway and always will be. However having grown up with corporate BR Blue and started work just before we embraced sectorisation, I have a soft spot for loco hauled trains particularly with MK2 coaches. I spose living in the Deep South of East Sussex the daily Intercity loco hauled trains from Brighton to such exotic locations as Glasgow, Derby, Manchester Piccadilly and Wolverhampton were an escape from the hum drum short haul to Victoria and back. Then of course there was the Gatwick express with it’s MK2 stock….with the usual Southern Region practice of make do push pull. I’ve yet to get around to modelling a full set, but I would like to, maybe converting some gubbins from a Bachmann DBSO to make it DCC with all the bells and whistles. But in the mean time back to the latest project, this is the seating area of the next four conversions / mods. As can be seen I still need to make the loo smaller, centralise the door and add the extra seat. But my big question is….these are spose to be MK2Es TSOs before ‘Intercity Swallow’….so what colour should the seats / tables be please?????? Also externally do the roofs of MK2Es and MK2Fs have the same or similar roof detail? These are the modifications to the Replica Railways B4s. The one at the back being the original and left to right are the stages of conversion. The ones with the white plastic inserts are a batch for RTR Bachmann MK1 coaches but I’m using them for a pattern for now.
  15. Messing around with a pile of spare Bachmann MK2F TSO bodies on a bunch of spare Airfix MK2D under frames, with doctored kit built Replica B4s, 36-034 Bachmann turned wheels and eventually retracted white metal buffers fitted. The seating inside is made from a bunch of spare Airfix MK2D BSO interiors, cut and shut end on. Just needs a slight mod to reduce the size of the loo, centralise the door, and add an extra seat. Plan was to get some reasonable MK2Es in Intercity livery, from some of the leftovers and a few new bits and bobs. Not sure how much mods I’ll need to do to the under frames?
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