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How long are the green zones? If you only have locos on the front then twice loco length is enough. But if your banking or emus on the DC lines then they have to be longer.
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Yet more sheeted wagons
Penrhos1920 commented on Dave John's blog entry in Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.
I didn’t know you could get a fixer that prevents/reduces UV caused fading. Thanks -
Sorry Sir, I’m not paying proper attention sat here at the back!
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Does anyone have HMRS Members photo 15192? In the GWSG/Dave Geen 3 plank kit instructions this photo is described “Various wagons in red and grey. Cinderford Iron”. Ambiguous in itself as is could mean red and grey wagons, or red and grey wagons.
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So are the 20+ N4 20 ton loco coal wagons photographed in 1902 during vacuum brake trials in red, grey or black livery? I thought I’d just drop that musing in. Maybe I should take my gems are visit a stone circle?
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Yet more sheeted wagons
Penrhos1920 commented on Dave John's blog entry in Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.
What brand of paper do you use? Do you have concerns that the ink will fade in time? -
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Yes @37079 they are bashed from the old Ratio kit. I bought 5 body only kits in with a large box of kits on eBay. @drduncan is also correct. I’ve got 8 coopercraft loco coal wagons on the go. The kit is meant to portray diagram N13 but it 2mm too narrow and the corners are square not round. Fixing them both isn’t too difficult but very tedious. By changing the buffers and doing the width and corners as N13 you can make diagram N19. By changing the buffers and adding corner strengthening plates diagram N20 can be built. These 3 diagrams are all easy to do and I’ve done a few i
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CEINEWYDD started following Penrhos1920
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I can’t believe that it’s a month since I posted. I have been modelling, but I can’t exactly say busy modelling. Although there have been plenty of shards of plastic flying around the room and the carpet goblin has been particularly busy! What I need is a faithful Modelling Elf. Here’s the latest output. I’d be interested to know if you can see what the starting point was for these. Here’s a clue as to the next project. A second clue is that built straight out of the box the kit is wrong, but correct that error and you can build 3 different diagrams and with a bit of pushing
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Penrhos1920 started following Semaphore Signals - 4mm Scale (Mainly) and 80’s rolling stock to/from Oban
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I'm afraid that Russ rather confuses me here. The brake third is actually very close to diagram D7 in design. It's just 2' shorter than a D7 and the difference is the length on the van area. This has been discussed elsewhere, but I can't find it quickly. The all "second" coach is pure fiction. Russ gets confused himself as the C20 was a corridor coach and so out of the running and I don;t know why he's mentioned.
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Hang on, hang on. There was actually only ONE, yes only ONE GWR all second non-corridor clerestory design. C19 which is shown on that page. Where a coach had second class compartments I do make sure that they do get mentioned. Most GWR coaches with 2nd class compartments were actually composites.
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Cwmhir - C19 clerestory 3rd and LMS D1666 builds
Penrhos1920 replied to Darwinian's topic in Layout topics
What glue are you using for the lead? I looked at a couple of my wagons that have lead weights and the lead has all curled up. I thought that I’d used a non-pva glue.