[Unfitted Wagons]

I'm thinking that LMS van is the new Cambrian one - looks nice, I picked one up last weekend.

[Class 24, D5038 (TTGFYE)]

No probs Mark, drop me an email - Phil (Bartlett) has the addy.<br>

[Class 24, D5038 (TTGFYE)]

Mark, I have a pic of 5038 in 1972 if it helps - it's the same side as the 'derbysulzers' shot but by then it'd lost the valance.  <br>

[Parkside Dundas 16T Mineral]

 

The guard strap/safety hanger mod only takes a couple of minutes and I feel does improve things without spending money on etched parts.

 

Over the last few years I've throttled back a bit on my detailing but that's something I still do when practical. FWIW I also use flattened staples.

 

I didn't use the supplied plastic door bangers either.

 

Good man They're too thick; too many people IMO build a kit as it comes, without looking at a prototype photo

 

Nick - I do get a wobble but I put that down to eccentric wheels, I've found it hard finding Gibson wheels that are concentric.

 

Sometimes it's the interaction of wheel and bearing, swapping the wheelset onto another wagon can sort it (or at least minimise it). But the tyre-on-plastic composite construction is rarely as reliable as a machined wheel like a Romford.

[The Highland Twins]

There you have it, a photo of watching paint dry

 

Love it

[D5579 - Body painted and weathered]

Getting quite popular, is this beastie - Alan Dewey had one on 'East Lodge' and I've got a LIma one lined up myself

[More work on 16 ton Minerals]

The other thing worth remembering is that the stripes aren't quite right - they didn't generally go all the way from corner to corner but stoped short with squared ends.

 

And as ever, study of (too many) photos will reveal other variations

 

 

 

The Airfix mineral was apparently a 1961 release so its half-century will be next year.

 

 

Cue for a party then

[More work on 16 ton Minerals]

Transfers from the Modelmaster range were applied this afternoon, the only concern I had was that the white diagonal line on the transfer sheet looked incredibly wide.

 

Thank goodness I'm not the only one - it always amazes me how many folk use them without alteration

[Airfix 16 ton minerals - getting the brakes right!]

Didnt see the original query David, but I can confirm that the brake layout is correct now - the mods you've made to the brakegear mouldings are pretty much what I settled on several years ago. Another way to improve the safety straps BTW is to cut 'em right off and replace with bent-up staples

[Who's that girl? - trying to i.d the blue Type 3 on the 0658 Hawick - Waverley]

As David Cross says in the caption in Last Years of the Waverley Route, pictures of EE Type 3s on the WR are extremely rare. Since Stuart's post above on Waverley Route new image links I've still only come up with these four:

Five D6858, looks like GSY, freight heading for Millerhill over Gala Water, 14.10.68 - nice broadside in 'Border Country Branch Line Album' by Neil Caplan.

[Lesser spotted Borders tractors]

I've got a pair of 37 238s and a D6707. Wonder if they'd be good for a nose job!

 

37238 has the Vulcan grilles - it's not just a D6826 in a different colour

[Lesser spotted Borders tractors]

Interesting. Early EE type 3 deployment in Scotland is something I've yet to get a handle on. In the mid-bottom left hand side of Scotland where I focus my attention, I seem to associate them mainly with oil traffic, locos which I presumed were off Grangemouth shed.

 

I think that's what they mostly settled into, thee heavier work, after the usual spell of 'oo, what can we use our new toys on' - the Glasgow-based locos also wandered up the WHL on freights for a time in the late 60s

I'm also interested in the cantrail grille arrangements for these transferred beasties with a view to three little projects I have in mind!

 

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Without rushing about in this heat to double check, I'm fairly sure most if not all of these early ScR machines were of Vulcan Foundry build (not RSH as per Bachmann's D6826). Parade, rain, rearrange

[Hornby class 73/0]

There's all sorts of nice moulding work on the body - some very nice grills for example (I never understand why people replace the grills on this model)

 

Cos it's the 'done thing' Beats me as well Pete, and not just on 73s - Lima has its faults, sure, but some of the mouldings were very nicely done

[Coal 21 VB]

Interesting as always, Pete. If you've got some duff buffers BTW, I'm sure Roger will change them

[More Shock open progress andsome finished stuff]

Shoc's looking good Pete, it's a nice kit with a lot of potential, given the prototype's variations. I never did fathom the variable stanchions on the cattle vans though - they can vary within the same diagram

[A few pics...]

3 wagons, 3 different finishes!

 

Addictive, arent they