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    Mikkel

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    3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

    Having looked at photos of early GWR motor car drivers today all have moustaches, none have greying beards. Perhaps a generational thing. 

     

    Indeed - a new skill, being learnt by younger men. No-one has grown old in the business yet.

     

    I agree that your fashion plate timeline shows the haut ton. (Let that be your new English phrase of the day!)

     

    You're more likely to see middle as well as working class styles in some of the early films - tramcar rides etc., which also have the advantage of mostly being in provincial towns.

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    Mikkel

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    Your two Railway Magazine chaps never did write up their piece, more's the pity! They're both too young to be Charles Rous-Marten; I did think the fellow in the yellow suit looked raffishly colonial. The chap in the brown suit could well be C.J. Allen, though, on day release from the Great Eastern.

     

    As I'm sure you're aware, your colourisation of Henley is a screen-grab from this film:

    https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-arrival-of-train-load-of-visitors-at-henley-station-1899-online

    which does depict the opening day of the Henley Regatta, so the passengers are not typical in that they are (a) overwhelmingly first-class and (b) done up for a day out.

     

    The Slough crowd is, I feel, much more typical for a town station in the south of England. (Though I doubt they are commuters - they'll have bought singles or returns, rather than being season-ticket holders.) As you've no doubt noticed, they're all in muted shades of grey...

     

     

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    C126

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    There are a number of Parkside kits that rank as the very best plastic wagon kits I have had the enjoyment of building - notably their RCH 1923 specification mineral wagons. I've no experience of their kits for what I think of as "modern" wagons; there are some of the older kits - I recall an LNER van in particular - that were less satisfactory to build but by no means beyond my skill at the time. So I find @ardbealach's sweeping condemnation unreasonable.

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    Dave John

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    It'll be interesting to see where this goes. I did toy with 1:36 scale, in which 16.5 mm gauge track represents 1' 11½" gauge with an error of less than 0.5%. I have a steel rule marked in 1/12" divisions! That, like S, would be an all-imperial scale unlike your sensible all-metric scale but I was contemplating prototypes designed in feet and inches. A problem with any esoteric scale is the lack of commercially-available figures. 

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    Dave John

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    I don't believe I've seen a primary source reference to the axlebox-protecting flaps being made of canvas. I've wondered whether they could be leather, having seen wear holes in some. But different railways may have used different materials.

     

    The ballast plough brake you say is bashed from a Cambrian kit - for the Shark, I presume. are the overall dimensions a good match?

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    Mikkel

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    2 minutes ago, Brassey said:

    in both instances the gold/ochre lining is on the quadrant. The shape of the quadrant on a plastic kit is different to that on an etched kit. Some have commented that the Slaters kits are more of a challenge to line. 

     

    I think you are referring to this:

     

    1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

    In the full late-Victorian / Edwardian chocolate and cream livery, the raised moldings were painted black, with the edges lined - in the manner of Midland carriage livery. In the lake livery, the raised moldings were painted body colour, with the edges lined - in the manner of North Eastern carriage livery, or North Western, barring the white upper panels. 

     

    rather than the text quoted.

     

    Yes, for all the instances mentioned. The edges of the moldings are more prototypically rounded on most injection-moulded kits than on etched brass kits, by virtue of the manufacturing process. 

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    Mikkel

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    16 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

    Lining and insignia much the same as before,

     

    That's a difficult statement. In the full late-Victorian / Edwardian chocolate and cream livery, the raised moldings were painted black, with the edges lined - in the manner of Midland carriage livery. In the lake livery, the raised moldings were painted body colour, with the edges lined - in the manner of North Eastern carriage livery, or North Western, barring the white upper panels. That, to me, is hardly "lining much the same as before".

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