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The next pictureis of the four buffers fitted awaiting the return of the station canopy.

 

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Two more pictures with the canopy back in place. One in low light levels. The photos tend to show the lamp levels very brightly, in reality they are much less pronounced than they look.

 

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Next week ,pictures of the new signals for Wimhill and the water tower for the small engine shed.

 

Regards. Brian  ( wireman ).

 

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On 05/10/2019 at 11:14, Oldddudders said:

Lundy?

 

On 05/10/2019 at 12:05, drummerboy said:

hi Ian  you are correct Lundy is an offshore west country.

Thanks Gents, I hadn't thought of that one, interestingly they are consecutive numbers, I wonder if that was intentional or just chance?

 

On 04/10/2019 at 17:34, wireman said:

Next week ,pictures of the new signals for Wimhill and the water tower for the small engine shed.

 

Brian, I like the buffer stop lamps, looking forward to seeing the signals. :D

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Signals are on the way. Meanwhile the train spotters are obviously not interested in  BR standards.

 

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In the face of public opinion, (Nick told me to do it ), I have dimmed the lamps on the buffer stops , as can been seen in previous post, three variations are possible using the small PCB supplied. 

 

Regards Brian. ( wireman ).

 

 

 

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The next two pictures are of the Wimhill station signals. these still require fixing to the baseboard so may not be quite upright. They are both from Ratio kits and I am informed not that easy to build. As always, Nick is never going to make anymore signals, although thats what he said last time and the time before that. Between Wimhill and Coleborne the line still needs a couple of distant signals plus an outer home down at Coleborne, have to wait and see.

 

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This class 4 seems to be .everywhere.

 

Regards Brian. ( wireman )

 

 

 

 

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On ‎04‎/‎10‎/‎2019 at 17:34, wireman said:

The next pictureis of the four buffers fitted awaiting the return of the station canopy.

 

20191002_151511.jpg.b8f3f457364e7c64a1987e94df2bf20b.jpg

 

Two more pictures with the canopy back in place. One in low light levels. The photos tend to show the lamp levels very brightly, in reality they are much less pronounced than they look.

 

20191002_152313.jpg.a964a53c20679be22902d8da9cca168c.jpg

 

20191002_152355.jpg.7b2c397855d0c5ad653459b747f313e1.jpg

 

Next week ,pictures of the new signals for Wimhill and the water tower for the small engine shed.

 

Regards. Brian  ( wireman ).

 


They look straight forward to fit Brian! :D 

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I had forgotten to include a picture of the new water tower outside of the the small Wimhill loco shed from last weeks visit. So here it is.

 

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Next, the three signals between Coleborne and Wimhill.  Despite Nicks declaration of never building signals again. these have appeard since last week and during the afternoon were fitted to the in the appropriate places. First, last weeks Wimhill signals firmly planted.

 

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Despite lack of entries recently, progress continues. The most recent aquisition has been a spray bay booth to enable use of the spray gun purchased a while ago. The first picture is of the booth, then a couple of pictures of Nicks first attemps at weathering.

 

 

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New name plates have been ordered for this loco and together with a little real coal in the tender and loco crewe added will really look the part.

what's next for the treatment. Who knows.

 

 

Regards Brian.  ( wireman ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Brian.

I too have taken a punt on one of those spray booths. I think they are damn good value for money. I haven't yet used it in anger but I tested it out with my vape and all of the vape cloud did indeed exit out of the window pipe. I used to have one that I had cobbled together out of a cardboard box and an old extractor fan and that worked ok although it was a bit heavy, not to mention noisey, it was also a bit tatty being heavy on the duct tape but this one seems to work much better than the home made one and it looks better as well. 

Regards Lez. 

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5 hours ago, wireman said:

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New name plates have been ordered for this loco and together with a little real coal in the tender and loco crewe added will really look the part.

what's next for the treatment. Who knows.

 

 

Regards Brian.  ( wireman ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe Nick would like to try on some diesels??

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Hi Guys

The spray booth shown above was purchased from Amazon it's supplied by Display4top Airbrush Toy ( China ) and cost £72:00, there were cheaper models available but i felt it was worth spending the extra on a model with L.E.D. lighting, makes all the difference. I too was going to make my own but, these booth are so good it's just not worth the effort.

 

Scott, would love to try weathering a Diesel , will need some pictures!!

 

I've always wanted to learn how to weather models, but didn't know how to start, i read many articles on the subject but it's making that first move, so i enrolled on a one day course at the Airbrush Co. in Lancing, Airbrushing and Weathering Techniques for Railway Modelers with Mick Bonwick,  brilliant course, gave me the confidence to use and maintain my airbrush, which i feel is very important , plus a great start to railway weathering techniques.

 

Regards Nick.

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I had a vist to Coleborne Junction today, taking one of my recent purchases for a run in session with me. 

37421 on a NR test train is seen arriving at the seaside resort of Wimhill. Where the driver managed a bag of chips before returning back down the branch. 

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It also had an impromptu visit to the spray booth, where Nick worked his magic, giving the underframe and bogies a quick blast with the airbrush. 

 

 

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