Sylvian Tennant

Superb work.

Thanks for the reference just noticed your Thompson thread which i'd shall be taking great interest in in the very near future. I had the same trouble with my concertinas which I had use some string to keep them at bay. Also out of curiosity how do your coaches tolerate curves with this amendment?

Hello there I'm looking for images of steam locomotives hauling modernised stock in the very late steam era. I have seen evidence of this but I'm trying to track down images of locomotives hauling wagons such as HAA MGR wagons, TEA bogie tanks and TTA tanks. Specifically the TEA and HAA type wagons.

Phwoar - the refit Enterprise, or is it NCC-1701-A? or will it be another one of the class.

It was the Revell semi-matt. It was okay for this project but it is a little glossy.

A commission I did about a year ago for a lady's son. He wanted the LT 150 Prairie tank but with "Metropolitan 1" on the tanks instead. It was a bit of a ###### to finish off (possibly due to bad planning on my part) but the results speak for themselves . This is the overall process in pictures. It was a bit of a ###### to finish off (possibly due to bad planning on my part) but the results speak for themselves .

There were a few things I forgot to post a while back that I had done for other people so I'm hoping to catch up on this. Recently I was given a Class 08 (well I say recently I must have had it for the best part of a year). It was in a slight state of disrepair and had been bought second hand. I was told to replace the ladders and front steps as they had either been broken or broken off. there wa also a missing sandbox which needed replacing. All that finally required was to weather and I was specifically told to not over weather... make it look new but used. The customer is a regular of mine and is pretty much always pleased with any i do. Though I feel a little awkward about receiving too much praise.

For some reason I started on this last night ... I think it was a Scratchbuilt J27 which another dickie X04 motor and dated chassis. Like the G5 it may have seen many owners and i think compared to any later offers may be slightly out of scale but overall it looks like a J27 and that's all that really matters to me as I think I can finish up with something that looks good. The chassis is now a Bachmann Jinty which we undergo some visual mods to look like a J27 under frame. I'v had to cut a fair bit from under the boiler to shoehorn the chassis and take to it and yes, unfortunately the daylight will be limited and I think there may be some shorting issues with the can motor and the metal body but I think they're easy to solve. The body itself needs a lot of work both from when i received it to further work that needs correcting after I started hacking. Plus a snowy finish from white spray paint I accidentally let off in it's presence. Hopefully with all going well I shall have a BR locomotive with a detailed (and removable cab) that can be put to service on local freight trains.

Just a quickie to say I've started cracking on with a couple of new projects. This year will mainly be tank engines as I have none updated so far and since finished the Gresley coaches I may need venture into other projects for the variety. Currently in the works are a G5, which I think is Nucast originally. Built by a member of my old club and handed to me as some sort of sixth hand gift. TBH the original motor was a Triang X04 motor which I think has seen it's best days. So I'm going to open out the chassis and try and a fit a high level gear box with Mashima motor. I also need some new wheels as the original ones were for a live chassis operation - I have been told this this is a simpler operation than the wiper pick-ups but i'm not buying that! Next up is a Gresley V1/3 (I don't know which!) which is the old Bachmann model - this is just a simple update to compliment the Gresley coaches I've built. Later on there will be a Ivatt 2MT Tank and a Thompson K1 (not a tank engine and somehow I've rejected the idea of the Hornby one and decided to build me own!)

Why thank you Unfortunately not - I don't think I've even met him before unless it was a brief passing as an exhibition. His work is brilliant - I'm a big admirer of N Gauge modelling.

Here Tom. The only modifications to the technique I made was to use Pledge with klear as I could find Humbrol Clear for love nor money and Railmatch Roof Dirt & Frame Dirt (10:1 ratio in favour of roof dirt) instead of the black washes.

Sorry to reanimate a dead thread. but I've just finished modifying some Hornby Railroad coaches - two of which were finished din weathered teak.

Finally they're here! Based on an image I've found of a D49 on a local train. Save this time - I have Saltburn's Ivatt 4MT to hand. The weathering was basically rail match roof dirt and frame dirt - with a ratio on favour of the roof dirt. I wanted to try something different from my umbral and I think it's paid off. Apart from the end corridor connectors which were MJT - the central ones are scratch built using the MJT ones. built with 20 thous plasticard, black paper, some thread with the weather sheet made of out small square sections of black bin liner. The only downside is that they are close coupled and do struggle to make it round even 4th radius curves. I may have to return to this issue later. the inspiration taken from this blog. Finally - and although you can't see them really, i've added passengers as a finishing touch taken from the praiser Seat Fingures set. Most of which were painted to reflect the 1950's save these three which are me, my partner and my dear friend on our way to Whitby Goth Weekend in style I'm quite pleased with what started out as some Hornby Railroad stock. Any questions - please feel free to ask. ed: the 4th radius curve issue has now been sorted Here some more picture's i've just taken to highlight some of the modifications I've made.

I've been away for a while, mainly due to personal tribulations, moving house, finishing uni for the year and trying to find a job to maintain our overheads. However this has not entirely stopped me from modelling when we finally managed to settle down. I now have a room all to myself to model and a garden (of which you may soon see some railway related activity once finances and time improve). I last left you with my updating of some Hornby Railway Gresley stock. I finally managed get to a position where they are beginning to come together. The technique I have follow mainly can be found here and in my eyes looks near perfect for what I want as a teak finish. The transfers are HMRS and are meant to represent them in the early to mid fifties when the original liveries were mingling with the newer blood and custard. These coaches were inspired by an image I have of a D49 on a local train not to far from where I live. It was taken in 1954 and shows two coaches in teak and two in crimson and cream which seems perfect for a local train being pulled by a 4MT or V1/3. They are defiantly not perfect, the lining on the Crimson stock is not the best and maybe a little too high to be deemed "proper" and the guards handrails on the brake coaches leave a lot to be desired however, I'll live with that. The under frames with painting with a mix of under frame grime and roof dirt from Railmatch - a 2:1 mix in favour of the roof dirt. and the roofs were giving a similar undercoat of the mix but with a bigger ratio of roof dirt (5:1 this time) The under frame sides for the teak stock where given a Humbrol 62 & 70 equal mix. The interior were painted Railmatch teak (ironically) and washed down with Humbrol 98 which was wiped away. The seat where Vajello red and blue (I can't remember which but any of the more vibrant ones should be okay) the pictures and mirrors was just a silver and white gel pen which won't look to out of place once installed properly. Next up - to weather them and hope some of the little niggles blend in and finish the roofs. hopefully by the next post they've finished with glazing, corridors and passengers.

Love it, the Constitution refit, my all time favourite design.

Just a quick update on my Hornby Teak conversion project. The bodies are now complete. I've drilled the holes to accept MJT handrails and grab handles, added roof vents from Lanarkshire models, and roof handrails. Toilet pipes and emergency brake pipes. I've also removed the gangways to later be replaced by some scratch built and MJT concertinas and glued the ends to the bodies removing filling and sanding down the joints between them. Hope you're all having a lovely weekend.

So after ramming some engines through the updateometer I realised that I haven't done any rolling stock for at least a year! Which is terrible of me. Worse still, apart from the support coaches for my breakdown crane, I have no passenger stock at all. Well that must change so first things first, I have set about doing a local passenger set to go with my Ivatt's and a V3 I have waiting to be converted. Now it might have been a simple affair of buying some new and improved Hornby Teaks and in an ideal world I might have. But I'm a poor student and i have a rake of some Railroad Teaks lying about so I thought, sod it, I'll use them instead. I'm not bothered by the inaccurate length of the coaches - they look enough like Teaks to me. The underframe however is something I would struggle to live with. So I set about with some MJT bits and some parts that had come through to my local shop from another which had closed. On hind sight the white metal battery boxes could have been scratch built to fit in with the support girders. the MJT parts - being accurate - were too long to fit between the frames. Originally I was going to make the girder frame from plastic card but they proved to be too arduous a task, plus when the original moulding were not too badly damaged and could be reused in part. the only replacement was the centre bit so I swapped for some evergreen 'L' section. the read was pretty much straight forward bar some slight inconstancies but visually nothing to cause too much alarm. I'm wondering how to couple the middle set of coaches up but I have an idea in mind.... watch this space.

Hello again I'm doing on a bus, which is a first. Just another completed Mucky Duck. Complete a with a clean (ish) smoke box and another fireman having a sneaky tab. I might have to introduce a workplace ban on this from now on as I run the risk of it becoming Samey, the same with the clean smoke boxes Anyway here's 43054 (a Saltburn engine) either her Teesside based sisters.