Etched Pixels

For 3D print I mostly use the white aerosol primer they do, mostly because I have a GW in walking distsance and Halfords is not.

Enamels and FUD don't get along. Some primers seem to act as a good enough barrier between the two that it usually works out - Games Workshop I find does providing its had a decent coat. It will probably set. The first time I hit this with a North London Railway coach it did eventually set - just took a few weeks !

https://www.shapeways.com/model/486085/wismarwagen-der-mpsb-in-nf-1-160.html?materialId=61&li=ostatus

Fun with lighting

yes - but thats getting a couple of stages ahead of "does it work".

I've just added some elasto plastic gangways for the ETR500 bits I'm working on just to see. I'll report back in due course.

I would have thought for that 1948- 1950s period that was actually a good and interesting choice but its a good question.

Great Western Coaches Appendix vol 2 p 158. It shows W195 in 1949 (so late GWR c&c colours) bearing PADDINGTON & PENZANCE PADDINGTON & CHESTER and the other panel PARCELS TRAIN BRAKE VAN but unfortunately shows one side only The photos also show 147 (Swindon & Carmarthen) both sides - with gas tanks, and a GWR all brown one with even more inconvenient lettering on it (actually has the train times on it!) which shows that the gas tanks appear to have been removed by that period. Alan

The most generic I've seen is the Paddington Penzance / Paddington Chester shot in Russell, two routes for the price of one 8)

Any reason they are both Carmarthen rather than one being "Paddington Penzance/Paddington Chester" or similar as per other photos in Russell. Not complaining just curious ? I assume the guards hand rail not being split is just a livery drawing quirk ?

If you want a batch its worth asking them. Dave (back before being NotDapol) was able to oblige for other bogie types. You will need to ask and be in with the running of the Cargowaggons. Maybe its the sort of thing the NGS could get involved in supplying ?

Those bogies used to be available as Roco spares - not sure if they still are

Dapol's has the 'A' frame ends. There are a good half dozen different styles of end, although I don't recognize the one you have there in any UK photos I've seen of an IWA/B. Both the IW and IWB have different roofs to your van. I think your van is one of the DB steel carriers (ILE690 "Holdall"). They used to run through the chunnel to Wolverhampton in the 1990s. If you remove most of the body and add stakes you get a Colas timber carrier from it, which is I believe where they all went ! If you want a "distinctive" van then the IZA and IVA are four wheel ferry vans which I keep thinking I should do but please beat me to it! Alan

2mmSA code 40. Nickel silver in this case but needs to be steel for the layout as T uses magnetic wheels.

The open coach I built a while back has died somewhat so it seemed to be time to build something more robust, and perhaps a little less "garden railway" looking. The body is a narrow gauge coach off Shapeways which has been slightly anglicised by paint job and then fitted on a scratch built chassis using T scale parts to run on 3.1mm soldered track. The weight may need adjusting - with a vehicle that size on 15" track the weight needs to be low but at the same time the mechanisms can't haul much weight, The Eishindo 103 has a separate gear box and motor so I may just have to put a "proper" motor unit together - that would also improve running considerably although I have a few things to do before I can really test the weight and motor situation out properly.

I've done 2 thou or thereabouts via PPD for one thing. I think Bill is right however that to get the sharpness you need at that resolution you would be looking at Chemix (aka Precision Micro and now Meggitt or some such as they've been taken over again) Alan

Things have been a little slow owing to a number of deliveries for other railway lines and the continued bad weather keeping the paint shop closed. It wasn't helped today when the works closed for the cricket. Another Nightstar sleeper has however joined the formation, which leaves two more to do to build the full rake. and while tidying up the scratch etches I decided this slighty faulty horsebox could be rescued even if not sold. Its now waiting some filling and the paint shop, the wonky bits having been adjusted after the photo and another Thompson has joined the paintshop queue to go out in lined maroon I've also put my clay wagon (flat) tarpaulin artwork up. It's too big to attach on RMWeb so can be found at http://www.etchedpixels.co.uk/Gallery/claytarps.tiff Those match the Parkwood/NGS clay kit. Alan

Certainly an interesting idea and possibly the first "work suitable" use for it I've heard suggested ;-)

On 5 thou I suspect you are going to be disappointed - 2 thou maybe. But you'll still get the 'sense' of the writing being there so if you have the detail you might as well put it on. Alan

Looks really good. Have you considered simply starting at the beginning of the TOPS wagon list and working down

N or OO ?