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  1. Grampus

    A really useful picture and a very nice model.  Thanks for posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Paul

    1. truffy

      truffy

      Thanks for sharing. I guess. :scratchhead:

  2. wessexmodels

    I came across this photo recently of a Bedford MK Army truck on a Lowmac; and it seemed a good model addition to my Shortmoor Military railway layout. There aren't many 4mm scale 1970's British military truck models available, but I did find this excellent JB Models Bedford MK Army truck kit from the 1990's on eBay, but  realising if I built it built straight from the box with the canopy fitted; it would foul the loading gauge. So I scratch built a platform load bed to lower the height, airbrushed it in Tamiya Dark Green after masking the windows, as the cab is a one piece clear plastic moulding. I had to make some tiny hooks for the securing chains from 0.5mm brass wire ( a fiddley job!). I shall have now to build an end loading dock now to facilitate unloading!

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    1. Grampus

      Grampus

      A really useful picture and a very nice model.  Thanks for posting.

       

      Best wishes,

       

      Paul

    2. steveb860

      steveb860

      I did the same a few years back. Fitted a Kingfisher models resin  non tilt fitted rear body to my MK.  I also have a picture of a lightweight land rover (available from Oxford diecast) loaded on a lowmac, which I modelleid n O. Just a thought, perhaps you should do a model thread rather than a status update

  3. wessexmodels
    Whilst not modelling specific, I was wondering if any of our learned members could tell me a something about these cast Iron wagon plates that I bought in the early 1970's for, I think £3, and have been hanging on the wall since then. I am guilty of painting them in non original colours, as they were were decorative purposes back then. I guess the 12 ton plate would be from an early 1920s LMS van, and the 10 ton plate from a private owners wagon. Any idea of the value nowadays? Not that I wan't to sell them, but my relatives might! Thanks for your help.
  4. wessexmodels
    I have just received this morning, for a project on my OO scale Shortmoor Military Railway, two sets of Modelmaster MOD/WD wagon lettering decals in white and yellow; but I have found it very difficult to find pictures or books illustrating MOD vans in the 1950's to 80's period, as to the correct lettering placement etc; so I would be very grateful for any help or advice given. Can I assume that the vans would be lettered as the BR vans of the same period? Incidentally, the Modelmaster decals were delivered promptly, despite criticism of delays I have seen posted.
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