RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted January 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2022 Forgive me if I’ve asked before, how did you do the curtains on your H33. I’ve just dug mine out in preparation of forming a new Plymouth - Paddington set to make use of the slip (that’s nearly built), but just realised it has no curtains (or door handles) so I will need to do a little more work to finish off the h33 once I finish with the brass… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2022 9 hours ago, gwrrob said: Lovely photos as usual John and all the talk about coaches has me thinking about next weeks Hornby announcement. A new restaurant car wouldn’t go amiss. Yes a new Restaurant carriage would be good. Let’s hope it’s not one I am about to start building! 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted January 4, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 18 hours ago, The Fatadder said: Forgive me if I’ve asked before, how did you do the curtains on your H33. Rich, I made them from coloured post-it notes which I obtained several years ago (IIRC from the stationery aisle in Tesco). If you cut the curtain shapes from the sticky-backed edge of the note you don't even need any adhesive. Another example of the Blue Peter school of modelling I guess! Of course, the method is good for buildings too. With regard to my choice of colours for coaches I read somewhere that on certain stock (was it Centenaries perhaps?) first class had blue curtains and third gold. Don't know if this is right or how widely the rule was applied but it didn't seem a life or death matter. Nice to see you've just done an H33 and that Neal @Neal Ballis beavering away with an H57. John C. 13 4 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted January 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2022 Thanks, that looks a really good solution, I think I currently have a H33, H26, A20, A22, a whole set of centenaries and probably something else as well all requiring curtains (did the sunshine stock have them? that would add another two coaches... So I am going to have quite a few of them to cut! The H33 was converted years ago (predating the latest Hornby Colletts by a year or two), I did two D95 at the same time neither of which are finished after using the early version of the model which arrived on BR bogies, and being replaced by the new Hornby one by the time I finished. Giving serious thought to using the more recent Collett coach as a basis and starting again... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 15 hours ago, The Fatadder said: Giving serious thought to using the more recent Collett coach as a basis and starting again... If using the newer Hornby Collett for conversions, I have found the non corridor stock more useful as they do not have roof tanks. Maybe it is me but I do not find removing roof tanks and having a smooth surface easy, but I can add end steps without much issue. I had a spare set of K38 and brake compo sides and some of the non corridor compos was being sold off cheap from Peter's Spares. Straight forward conversion with the better detailed underframe and coaches..... and no roof tanks to remove! I am on with a toplight C32 using the non corridor. I have a picture of a C32 with replacement 7ft bogies. Worsley Works make the sides and ends...challenge accepted. Mike Wiltshire 3 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2022 55 minutes ago, Coach bogie said: If using the newer Hornby Collett for conversions, I have found the non corridor stock more useful as they do not have roof tanks. Maybe it is me but I do not find removing roof tanks and having a smooth surface easy, but I can add end steps without much issue. I had a spare set of K38 and brake compo sides and some of the non corridor compos was being sold off cheap from Peter's Spares. Straight forward conversion with the better detailed underframe and coaches..... and no roof tanks to remove! I am on with a toplight C32 using the non corridor. I have a picture of a C32 with replacement 7ft bogies. Worsley Works make the sides and ends...challenge accepted. Mike Wiltshire Interesting Mike thank you - I'm currently struggling to get water tanks off - Although my current project relies on the Bachmann collett as a donor. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted January 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 4574 stands in the branch platform /goods yard loop with a pick-up goods working. That chap on the bench is still searching his waistcoat pockets for his ticket. John C. 40 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) Lovely as ever John, a 45xx always looks good. (FWIW today I learnt that the Dapol O Gauge version is now in production so fingers crossed it may reach our shores by Easter this year !?! ) G Edited January 6, 2022 by bgman 2 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted January 7, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2022 11 hours ago, bgman said: (FWIW today I learnt that the Dapol O Gauge version is now in production so fingers crossed it may reach our shores by Easter this year !?! ) Didn't know Dapol were doing a 45xx in 0 gauge. Will look forward to seeing that - could be very tempting! 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted January 7, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) A couple more of the 45xx and train. Think I might have found a new angle here - or maybe just rediscovered one I'd forgotten about. That lamp on the bunker of the 45xx was straight when I took yesterday's photographs! John C. Edited January 7, 2022 by checkrail typo 39 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I need one of the Dapol 45xx. Or three, so I can butcher two into a 42xx or similar. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallpaul69 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, AlfaZagato said: I need one of the Dapol 45xx. Or three, so I can butcher two into a 42xx or similar. Wouldn't the Hornby 42xx be an easier starting point? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 7, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2022 17 hours ago, bgman said: (FWIW today I learnt that the Dapol O Gauge version is now in production so fingers crossed it may reach our shores by Easter this year !?! ) I do believe even our mutual good friend @2ManySpams and he of Southern persuasion has one on order for Pencarrow. 2 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallpaul69 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Tallpaul69 said: Wouldn't the Hornby 42xx be an easier starting point? Oops, that will teach me to read the preceding posts before commenting! Didn't realise we had slipped into 0 gauge mode!! Edited January 7, 2022 by Tallpaul69 mistype!! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 19 minutes ago, gwrrob said: I do believe even our mutual good friend @2ManySpams and he of Southern persuasion has one on order for Pencarrow. That'll learn 'im ! 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2022 21 minutes ago, gwrrob said: I do believe even our mutual good friend @2ManySpams and he of Southern persuasion has one on order for Pencarrow. Yes, in 7mm to use as a door stop. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Just now, 2ManySpams said: Yes, in 7mm to use as a door stop. Very expensive but GOOD taste mon brave ! Will it be running across the carpet as well ? 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, bgman said: Very expensive but GOOD taste mon brave ! Will it be running across the carpet as well ? Yes, and also tested in a paddling pool... Fingers crossed it turns out to be a good un, Dapol can be a bit hit and miss. Obviously will become 4569. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 6 hours ago, checkrail said: Didn't know Dapol were doing a 45xx in 0 gauge. Will look forward to seeing that - could be very tempting! 1 minute ago, 2ManySpams said: Yes, and also tested in a paddling pool... I must apologise on behalf of my friend John, he knows not what he is doing, one day all railway layouts will be GWR based 4 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted January 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2022 4908 Broome Hall on a westbound fitted freight as 6305 approaches with an eastbound stopping passenger service. Looks like that platform lamp needs some attention. Did they have vandals in the 1930s? John C. 31 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 If it helps, we've had vandals since at least Roman times. It actually comes from a tribal name. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted January 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2022 2 hours ago, MrWolf said: If it helps, we've had vandals since at least Roman times. It actually comes from a tribal name. Ha ha! You're right. By coincidence I spent a week or two last month reading about the 5th/6th century Vandal kingdom in North Africa and its eventual reconquest by the East Roman general Belisarius. As for somewhat later pre-1930s references to vandalism I've just remembered a TV interview with Enoch Powell (it was a long time ago and the TV was black & white) in which, when asked about any youthful misdemeanors, he regretted "the depredations which we made upon the rolling stock of the Midland Railway Company". 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Bricking windows is not a new thing. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) Slightly off topic John, Whilst searching for other stuff this afternoon I came across some of my 'railway ephemera' and found several interesting labels etc of which this was one.... OK it's NOT Stoke Courtney but made me think of your thread. It is one of many which I saved from the furnace at an old Victorian building contractors founded in 1840 which I ran back in the '80s. I asked if the owner of the Co. if he minded me having them so lots of labels and other interesting railway related items were saved by me both for posterity and railway interest. Here's one on my favourites... G Edited January 8, 2022 by bgman original photo pasted incorrectly 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 That's interesting, there wasn't very much at Great Rollright. A halt atop an embankment, a road underbridge and that siding it seems. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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