RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 13, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2019 And a few more of 2819 before it passes the next down train. John C. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2019 29 minutes ago, checkrail said: Yep, POWsides - well spotted Robin. But transfers only. Applying the transfers to the sides proved a bit easier than I'd imagined. John C. What a great idea , any tips on their application. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingleycustom Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 15 minutes ago, checkrail said: And a few more of 2819 before it passes the next down train. John C. Very impressed with this latest set of photos with the 28XX and goods train. The second shot in particular; taken from low down on the lineside, showing the crew in a natural repose is particularly good. Inspiring stuff! Glenn 1 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 12 hours ago, mattingleycustom said: The second shot in particular; taken from low down on the lineside, showing the crew in a natural repose is particularly good. Thanks Glenn. I'm glad I dropped the landscape a bit at that point in front of the signal box and junction. Andy York found it a useful vantage point too. John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 12 hours ago, gwrrob said: What a great idea , any tips on their application. Just to do it carefully after repaint is properly dry. I was a bit concerned with patting the transfers down properly around the strapping, rivets and other raised detail without distorting them. That was easier than I thought; the harder bit was to get them on straight, so that the top of the lettering was parallel with the top of the side - I've got an Ocean wagon that's just a tiny bit skew-whiff! But it's a great way of varying the PO fleet at small cost and small effort, re-liverying Bachmann or Oxford Rail wagons. And if you order multiples from POWsides they come with different numbers. Nice. John. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 What a load of Halls! Here's another, as 5975 draws into Stoke C. with a Plymouth service, including a 6 wheel low siphon, and passes 2819. Robin - in the last shot you can see the slightly wonky Ocean wagon I referred to. That one started life as one of those Bachmann 7 plank wagons in GW iivery with the pre-1920 25" lettering. John C. 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 While they are all fabulous pictures, the one from beyond the fence looking up at the 28xx is a particular favourite. Great stuff:) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2019 The coal empties trundle away towards the tunnel as 5975 brings its train to a halt in the platform. The first two pics were taken with the camera resting on an offcut of 2 x 1 straddling the platforms. For the third I removed the last few wagons from the coal train and placed the camera on the track itself with the tripod mounting plate resting on the rails. As the station master checks his watch and the Plymouth train pulls in right on time it may be goodbye for our pal and his lady friend. She'd better dash. Reasonably pleased with how Winslow Hall looks now. John C. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted June 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 Looks great! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 6 hours ago, checkrail said: Robin - in the last shot you can see the slightly wonky Ocean wagon I referred to. That one started life as one of those Bachmann 7 plank wagons in GW iivery with the pre-1920 25" lettering. Just the job for doing a couple of Measham Colleries wagons as I have a photo of them at Kingsbridge. We need the weather to improve before I get the aerosol out. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 Great set of pictures..... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 (edited) I think the gentleman has just introduced himself to the lady, this is indicated by the fact that he has just removed his hat. Being a gentleman and of course respectful, he isn't encroaching on her 'personal space' even though it hadn't been invented in the 1930's. Edited June 14, 2019 by Anglian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 16, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2019 8709 has just had some more weathering too. The first two pics show it pulling into Stoke C. with the pick-up goods. In the next two it's setting the train back into the yard. John C. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 16, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2019 (edited) 8709 shunts the yard, then pauses for a drink Funny - weathering the loco has made the lamp look whiter, though it's actually painted light grey. John C. Edited June 17, 2019 by checkrail typo 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 Here's 8709 putting its train back together for the onward trip. I was getting a nice accumulation of sooty deposits on the flat top of the boiler/tanks/firebox when the airbrush started to spatter a bit - too dilute a mix at too low a pressure perhaps. So I attacked the spots with a paintbrush to even them out and knocked off one of the tank filler handles. Grrr. It was replaced by a delicate bit of supergluing but inevitably came off again after taking these photos. I'm not sure if anyone makes these in brass or white metal, but impatient for an instant fix I've been fabricating one and will post pics when the paint's dry. John C. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2019 So, a straight bit of fine brass wire and a bit bent to an L shape, soldered together at right angles and trimmed to size with cutters. Then a short length of insulation from some fine layout wire slipped onto the upright to represent the housing. I left a longish tail to the upright so I could locate and glue it in a tiny hole drilled in the top of the tank - not prototypical but undetectable in normal viewing. Then a lick of primer, GWR green paint and a touch of black wash - job done. I notice from the last two photos below that it appears finer than the Bachmann version so I'll probably have to make and fit another one now! John C. 19 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold A Murphy Posted June 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 i think you need another fine scale homemade filler cap screw now John! Yours is miles better than the molded one. Sorry....... Alastair M 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, A Murphy said: i think you need another fine scale homemade filler cap screw now John! Yours is miles better than the molded one. Sorry....... Alastair M Agreed. Pity about that top feed. When will Bachmann wake up and see some of us do model pre-1946. Lost sales for Bachmann as all my panniers have now been replaced with kit builds solely due to the choice of having no topfeed. I have put a Bachmann pannier chassis under the Hornby 2721 body, shaved away the inside to show daylight and added detail. The early panniers far outnumbered the 57's in the early 1930's. Opportunity for Hornby to give it a make over. Mike Wiltshire 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 Couldn't agree more Mike - with all those points. Keep telling myself that one day I'll have a go at removing the top feeds and associated pipework (and the handrails!) on my panniers. I've a battered old pannier body which could be a guinea pig to practise on. Besides getting a smooth finish I guess that the other main difficulty would be removing the bits we don't want without damaging the bits we do! John C. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted June 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 That filler cap is a big improvement, I think I am going to need to dig out some wire and improve mine! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) And now for some motive power that's a bit more pristine (as yet!). King Henry V storms through Stoke C. on an up express, with one of those ubiquitous Dean 40 foot PBVs and a Siphon G behind the loco. John C. Edited June 17, 2019 by checkrail 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 39 minutes ago, checkrail said: with one of those ubiquitous Dean 40 foot PBVs. Another vehicle that would look nice in austerity brown and on my wish list. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2019 36 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Another vehicle that would look nice in austerity brown and on my wish list. Indeed. And many had been painted all-over brown long before the war. I particularly wanted mine to be brown & cream to add some tonal variety to my parcels train, but at some stage I wouldn't mind acquiring another and painting it brown. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2019 And a few more of Henry V and train. (Should have brought a bit of extra light to bear on the smokebox door on the last one, but I like the angle.) John C. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Pictures looking excellent now the camera and lighting levels sorted. One thing if I may, on the last picture, instead of bringing in more light why not try a reflective board - like a tin foil cake base - just angle it to catch the existing lights and aim at the smokebox door. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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