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5 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

 

Poor Jimmy.

 

 

 

 

Oh, sorry, didn't see the comma.

I don't know, a couple of days in MK, even operating a GWR Layout and your eyes are playing you up!

 

Sorry I didn't get to chat on Saturday, but you did seem busy "MurKling"!!

(apologies for hijacking your thread Kevin)

 

Cheers to all GWRers

Paul

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Reworked the wagons as not happy with first effort.....

 

Still more to do

 

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Roofs looking better but still not totally sure about them...

 

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All work in progress

 

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18 hours ago, KNP said:

Reworked the wagons as not happy with first effort.....

 

Still more to do

 

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Roofs looking better but still not totally sure about them...

 

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All work in progress

 

Hi Kevin,

The wagons look fine to me. What is it about the roofs that you are unsure of?

Colour maybe, perhaps too light? should the roofs be weathered darker?

The rain strips look the right shape, and the curve of the roofs look  right.

 

Perhaps if you leave them a week or so and then look again, they will look ok?

 

I think there is a fine line between fidelity to reality and over fussing, but who am I to critique your fine results - I've got nothing so good to show!!

 

Cheers

Paul

 

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5 hours ago, Tallpaul69 said:

Hi Kevin,

The wagons look fine to me. What is it about the roofs that you are unsure of?

Colour maybe, perhaps too light? should the roofs be weathered darker?

The rain strips look the right shape, and the curve of the roofs look  right.

 

Perhaps if you leave them a week or so and then look again, they will look ok?

 

I think there is a fine line between fidelity to reality and over fussing, but who am I to critique your fine results - I've got nothing so good to show!!

 

Cheers

Paul

 

Thanks but I feel the roofs just don’t like quite right, the dark ones.

Normally, I park and come back to it, so I will do that and get on with the S & W couplings..

Hopefully with answer

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2 hours ago, KNP said:

Thanks but I feel the roofs just don’t like quite right, the dark ones.

Normally, I park and come back to it, so I will do that and get on with the S & W couplings..

Hopefully with answer

 

Wouldn't the dirty streaking tend to be more longitudinal rather than across side to side?

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3 hours ago, Donington Road said:

 

Wouldn't the dirty streaking tend to be more longitudinal rather than across side to side?

 

No because vans don't go fast enough for speed to streak the rooves. They are streaked by gravity. @Mick Bonwick   will be along in due course to confirm.....

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8 hours ago, colin penfold said:

 

No because vans don't go fast enough for speed to streak the rooves. They are streaked by gravity. @Mick Bonwick   will be along in due course to confirm.....

 

I'm not going to be drawn into any topic that involves streaking. It just doesn't seem right, somehow.

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I was puzzled by the reference to one of these wagons being an Ale Wagon.  If this referred to the enclosed conversion of the cattle wagon, this is a Goods Fruit Van (Diagram Y10).

 

I assume that the middle vehicle was built from a Coopercraft kit, whereas the other cattle wagon (at the left-hand end) is a Bachmann model.  For reasons that only Bachmann could explain, the latter is 4mm too long.  This doesn't generally  matter, unless you run both types together, when the discrepancy becomes apparent.

 

This is a minor point, and  is hardly important.  I am a great fan of Little Muddle, so this passing comment shouldn't be taken as criticism, merely a random observation. 

 

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