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And a little nightcap for one and all!  As I said above, always try new techniques and materials.  I picked some of this  up and wanted to give it a go.

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 A suitable candidate was the cab windows of this Airfix/Dapol JCB 3.  So run a bead round the edges and pull the film across.  It was then held as level as possible whilst drying.

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Finished, with a spot of weathering from various Games Workshop products. (Also the exciting debut of a new cutting mat!)

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Batch 3 of the figures is nearly done, with a family, random passenger (playing with skin tones here, to see what works and looks right) and the first of the Bobbys (because they’re going into a building, so I’ve not gone to town on shading).

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Some of the local wildlife (Langley).

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And a hound and owner (Monty’s), with said hound being taken for its mid-morning constitutional in the goods yard. (Must get rid of that bit of lead shot)

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Finally batch 4 of figures have been given a waft of primer.  These are mostly Hardies Hobbies (ordered Thursday morning, arrived Saturday very well packed, so impressed).  The mobility scooter is Langley, with a figure of unknown origin (nothing wrong cosmetically with the original Langley figure, he was just a bit heavily swaddled for a scene set in June).  There’s also another Monty’s figure in there as well.

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After a rather hectic last week before the Turkeyfest holidays, here’s a few more bits.  First up, some immaculate wagons picked up at Manchester, which aren’t quite as immaculate now.  A Heljan dogfish (playing with washes to get a stone dust effect)

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And a Bachman 20t brake van.

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On the vehicle front, this Springside TE20 has been hanging around for a while.  It’s a bit of a curates egg, some of it’s nice (rear link arms, posable front wheels).  On the other hand the rear wheels are wrong (think they’re off a fordson Dexta) and the steering box (a rather obvious lump, directly behind the engine) is missing completely.  However, I decided it  needed to be doing ‘something’.  So a few bits of styrene and it got a topper added.  This can be how the station group manage the various grass areas around the station.  It’s also had a roll bar added.

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Finally on the figures front, a few Bachman figures picked up very cheaply have been breathed on.  They include this couple (due to their dress, I aged them a bit).   These figures are nicely sculpted, just the painting can leave a bit to be desired.

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Then we had a couple with a pram.  However, I wasn’t convinced by the pose of the husband, so a subsitute Monty’s figure (with a slight tweak of the head angle) was used.

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The spare them ended up with the gaffer in the mobility scooter (unknown figure and Langley) in the car park.

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And a few more, following on...  First up, the fergie has had a splash of paint and a driver has been found, he’s nattering to the PWay gaffer.

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The Bobbys have reported for duty and signed on.

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A quick testing and development session lead to this short formation coming out for a gentle trundle.  Based on a rake run at the moors at their gala.

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Finally , these two shots of the station.  I’m really pleased with how this is looking now, I think these figures are about right.

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Right.  Now we’ve got this Yuletide nonsense out of the way, we can crack on!  Let’s be about it!

 

As I mentioned on my blog, I’ve just rebuilt my modelling workbench.  As a result, various little projects have risen to the surface (most notably a box containing 8 12t vans awaiting Kadees.  They must have been breeding, I thought there were only 4 in there).  Anyway, this little Dapol pug (incidentally the first detailed loco I bought with my own money, in early 1990-something, from a departed model shop in Penrith.  It was this or a terrier.  I chose the pug because it was built at Horwich, where several generations of my family worked).

 

Hang on, I’m getting distracted again......

 

 Anyway, earlier in the year I insinuated a DCC chip into the saddle tank (it’s on my blog as ‘Pug and Chips’).  At the time it got no further, due to the back to back of the wheel sets not liking the points (curiously, these aren’t the original wheel sets, they’re Hornby replacements following the drive gear on the original stripping).  It surfaced from the pile of loco projects (which is now down to 2 08 shunters, that jinty and the sentinel).  First up, tweak the wheel sets until they accepted the point work.  Then add a crew and also a runner/tender.  My logic for the tender is as follows a) it may need further pickups, b) I’m assuming the station uses track circuits and small wheelbase locos can disappear off track circuits c) The coal capacity on these is tiny and my logic for it appearing is that it’s ex industry, owned by a volunteer and appears on high days and holidays to trundle around on brakevan rides, short goods or (I’m pretending it’s vac brake fitted) short passenger trains.  To do a decent run, it needs an extra coal supply.  The owner found this wagon and restored it as well.  Plus d) I picked up the wagon due to the name on it (as I suspect a lot of engineers did) and it’s an excuse to run another P.O. wagon.  It’s going to get some bits and bags of coal added.  To ensure that it won’t uncouple unexpectedly, the Kadees between the two have had their operating tails snipped off.

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A ratty lowmac (bought cheap off the club secondhand stall at Shipley).  Timbers weathered, steel and kadees in progress.

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A queen Mary  brakevan.  This is the the spare Pway brakevan, hence the ratty finish.  It’s a mixture of an unknown dark wash, dry brushed humbrol 121 for the wood effect and typhus corrosion on anything steel and exposed.

 

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Fitting kadees proved entertaining.  There isn’t enough space between the floor and the bogie for a body mounted no 5, so a piece of styrene was glued into the bogie and a surplus Bachman NEM pocket glued to this.  The a No.19 was plugged in and away!

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Finally, batch 4 of  figures are coming along nicely.  Taken with these from Hardies Hobbies, they’ve got good detail and the realistic poses/body shape that comes from 3D printed figures.  I can feel another order going in soon...

 

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And just a few more tidbits, the pug has been let out to play.  First with the PO wagons, then a single Mk1.  I’ve seen a photo of the steamable survivor with the vintage carriage rake at Embsay, so I’m assuming a mk1 is within its capacity.  Just needs some extra coal in the runner.

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The lowmac has been weathered further and fitted with no5 kaydees plus the steel ballast weight removed and replaced by lead shot set in hot melt glue (steel ballast weights and kaydee magnets are a recipe for frustration).

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And a last post for 2019!  The amount I’m getting done, anyone would think I’m on holiday!  The clutch of 12t vans mentioned earlier have had the pick of the litter fitted with kadees and tweaked.  The differences in roof and body colour are entirely intentional, to create a bit of variety.

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Two members of the loco fleet have been gently weathered (I’m aiming for used but kept clean).  So a bit of black along the top of the boiler, cab roof, bit of muck on the running plates, gently rusting the tender top around the filler.  Used humbrol rust wash, typhus corrosion (both stippled and dry brushed) and dark brown/black weathering powders).  Also  added a crew to the 4F (driver, fireman and cleaner on a rideout, with it being a preserved railway).

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Found these metcalfe laser cut picnic benches a while back, so made them up and trialed with occupants.

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Finally the station building has found its way onto the bench, for final fitting of the roofs, filling various gaps and finishing off.  Playing with some bits out of a woodland scenics set picked up a while back, think the railway has a fundraising stall on the go.

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Anyway, all the best for 2019, the chaos and lunacy will continue in 2020!

 

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Here we go!  The last day off and a bit further!  The station building has been finished and blown over with grey primer.

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I’m also tackling the weathering of the coaching stock.  Having studied the prototype, it seems the heaviest weathering is on the roof, mostly soot, road dirt on the chassis and the sides reasonably clean.  So, the roofs were attacked with a black wash, with weathering powder dusted on for a bit of texture and cinders.  Then around the doors was done similar with the excess wiped off.  

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And in the platform

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Just got the other rake to do now, the spares, the BG and the diner rake.....  The SO on the left was done earlier, it’s being kept as a tatty example hat can’t be far off due an overhaul.  The BCK is secondhand and had its roof repainted before I got it, so that’s staying different and cleaner as well, to suggest it’s been repainted recently.

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Nearly got the figures finished as well, just the last touch up and tidy up skin tones.

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The loco fleet expands again!  I’ve fancied one of these little Rustons since Hornby announced them and today, following a good natter about DCC’ing the little beast, one followed me home from Monk Bar Models.  First up, despite the tiny size, it’s got to be one of the easiest installations I’ve done.  Pop the body off (remember to remove the coupler blanking plates and push the sockets for the pickups on the runner into the body) and a gaugemaster 6 pin chip (wrapped in tape as insulation) slotted on top of the motor with no problems whatsoever.

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The other mod I did was to swap the conflat body on the runner for an open wagon body, to give a bit of variety and what might be used as a runner.

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 Then it’s onto the temporary programming track (a wonderfully fancy name for the short cassette connected by wander leads to the controll setup).

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Finally, on the track.  Really pleased, superb near silent slow speed running straight out of the box.  Lifted a rake of 6 wagons out of the goods yard with no problems and over several points.

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Moving pictures to follow...

 

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And a few more!  I’ve been carrying on with the weathering of the coaching stock.  The major difference is that I wanted the maroon rake to be a bit more varied in condition, to suggest some coaches are due an overhaul.  At this point I was browsing the paint rack in games workshop and I found one of their dry brushing colours, the wonderfully named ‘Verminlord Hide’. To my eyes, this looked like faded BR maroon, so the rattier of the two SO’s had this dry brushed on the sides, with the brushstrokes kept vertical and the difference with the second SO behind below.  

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And in the platform.

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I’m still rather fond of the Ruston, so after rearranging the yard (it’ll happily shunt 6 wagons, any more than that requires an ‘all or nothing’ driving style that anyone who’s driven an underpowered car will recognise), it collected a short train for the station group (tree pruning and brush-bashing?)

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And later returned to the yard.

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Whilst shaking off round two of the lurgi that’s doing the rounds at work, I’ve been getting distracted (as is my wont).  In the last months  of 2019, I moved the main modelling workbench from a cramped corner of the garage to a much larger, warmer space in the small conservatory (this is on my blog, and before anyone asks, yes, I do live on my own).  Anyway, one rather palatial bench was joined by a rollchest to give a bit of extra storage and somewhere for the loco servicing facilities to live.

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Now, I want to add a test/programming track to this.  This is the previous effort, which served two earlier layouts.  I fancy replacing it because a) over the years, it’s acquired an impressive bend, b) it would be handy to have a set of points on the test track to check back to back dimensions and c) I fancy something a bit more scenic, to be able to grab the odd photo of a new arrivial or detail and weathering jobs.

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So, whilst coughing, sneezing and dozing, ideas began to form.  Here’s where I’m basing it on, and I’m sure this will be recognised.  Several reasons, it’s a compact area with a backscene and it’ll serve as a testbed for modelling track buried in ash and filth.   The track plan is nothing fancy, loco length headshunt, LH point, two sidings.  Backdrops to rear and RH end comprising of boiler shop wall and running shed end gable.

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And see if it’ll fit, it should do, just need to add a small overhang for a headshunt.

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Finally, whilst having  the clear out of the bench, this older ratio kit surfaced (LNWR corridor third).  According to the net, a couple of these survive as bodies, so the railway has recovered one and started to build up a vintage rake, along the lines of Embsay or KWVR.  Might be joined by one of the Hattons Genesis offerings, or other kits might pop up.  It’s going together nicely, the lining is something I’ll worry about nearer the time.

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On 29/09/2019 at 13:03, Firecracker said:

Finally, the PO wagon I picked up at Shipley has been painted internally, again a small detail that I feel makes a real difference to an empty wagon (one of these days, I’ll do a step by step blog on my method, it’s basically a light tan, dry brushed with greys and browns in in the direction of the grain, then a grey wash with the excess removed with a cotton bud).

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Just catching up - haven't looked in for a while. As someone who knows the Sedbergh area reasonably well - though not a native - I'm enjoying this.

 

For once I can't complain about a 1923 RCH standard 12 ton wagon painted up in a clearly earlier livery - that's just what preservationists would do!

 

(8 tons my foot. And no way the tare weight of that wagon is under 5 tons.)

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3 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Just catching up - haven't looked in for a while. As someone who knows the Sedbergh area reasonably well - though not a native - I'm enjoying this.

 

For once I can't complain about a 1923 RCH standard 12 ton wagon painted up in a clearly earlier livery - that's just what preservationists would do!

 

(8 tons my foot. And no way the tare weight of that wagon is under 5 tons.)

Well thank you!  That was one of the reasons I picked that wagon up, the second was the livery.  That’s the entire joke behind the rake of P.O. wagons, there’s only two different designs in the rake and I justified this as someone’s acquired a rake of internal user wagons from a works somewhere, then set to and repainted them into liveries that either someone likes or have local connections.

 

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So what do you do when you’re bored and taking it easy?  Let’s have a little photocharter!.  So the standard 4 departs Sedbergh with the BR goods wagons.  This is my take on the goods rakes you see in preservation, a surfeit of 12t vans, not enough 16t minerals (or any in this case), brake vans at both ends (makes the running round easy) and something unusual (that milk tanker) in the middle of the rake.  Someone needs to tell that cleaner you don’t need hi-vis on the footplate as well.  Enjoy.

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The latest bits!  First up, breathing on the DMU, or more specifically closing the gap between the two cars.  I picked this up in Wales last year,it’s a lovely model apart from the massive gap between the cars.  Why bother with the close coupler mechanisms and then fit a drawbar that’s far too long?  Anyway, I’d researched this and found that there were shorter drawbars out there, for other Bachman DMU/EMU’s.  This then got forgotten, until a browse of the spares in Monk Bar models (I was actually after a spare pair of mk1 bogies, but that’s another story).

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When compared with the original DMU offering (DMU lower) they’re quite a bit shorter.

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And trialed, they’re ideal.  The lights still work, the cars negotiate the points with no problems but the gap’s gone.  Think that’s a result.

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On the scenery front, these Scale Model Scenery manholes have gone in the cess in the cutting, to suggest that as part of the track relay the drainage has been tackled as well (soil colours aren’t quite right yet, it’s a mixture of the wrong paint and it’s still wet)

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Whilst clearing some assorted wagons out to move them onto a new home, this pipefit appeared (parkside dundas kit)..  It’s been weathered, kadees fitted and entered service.

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Finally, here’s a cheap and easy way of holding lots of individual bits for a spray coat of primer.  Plywood offcuts and double sided sticky tape.  A mixture of skytrex drums and barrels, with some Langley tyres for the yard junk pile.

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And a little bit more, one tedious job and one I’ve been putting off for a while.  Tedious - finishing off the point rodding in the platform roads.  This is from the Wills offerings, so it’s assembled into longer runs on the bench.

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There’s also compensating cranks in that run, they’re made up on a base of 20thou styrene sheet.  Da plan is that this will be painted to resemble timber before it’s bedded down.

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And offered up.  

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The job I’ve been putting off is sorting the southbound platform.  As I said earlier, due to a cockup when this was laid, it’s 4-6mm too close to the track.  There’s clearance, but no room for the cosmetic platform face (a mixture of breeze block on the new extension and stone on the original).  The reason I've been putting this off is it involves a mallet, chisel and slightly more violence than I like around finished models.  But I wanted to sort it before any more details (ie the point rodding) went in.  So here’s the aftermath.  The edge is now where it should be, the ballast will retouch and no other damage occurred.

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Finally, a couple of shots taken from the operating side.

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Superb photos, they showcase your absolutely fantastic work. I love that last photo, especially the ground cover - the grass and the fine ground gavel in the regularly used areas look spot on, as does the varying levels of weathering on the entire model. Very well done, and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

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2 hours ago, TechnicArrow said:

Superb photos, they showcase your absolutely fantastic work. I love that last photo, especially the ground cover - the grass and the fine ground gavel in the regularly used areas look spot on, as does the varying levels of weathering on the entire model. Very well done, and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Well thank you!  The ballast siding area is experimentation from one end to the other.  It’s a base of plasticote textured ‘stone’ spray paint, which turned out to be a very close match to woodlands scenic ballast.  So areas where there would be no/less traffic got a bit of the ballast added over the spray paint.  Then the tyre tracks were added.  First work out how and where  the vehicles (telehandler loading wagons, lorries delivering ballast) would manover.  Then the tracks were added using games workshops dry brushing colours.  Then a bit of contrast was added with dark washes.  Finally, in the middle of the tracks, a bead of glue was very carefully applied and turf dusted on.

 

That scene isn’t quite finished, the bank behind the ballast heap is getting another layer of static grass and a bit of scrub, I think it needs to look more overgrown.  Also the running line needs its ballast weathering, the siding will be left pretty much as is, because steam locos rarely enter.  Then there’s the point rodding (oh goody) to go in, I’m also debating would the trap point be controlled from the box or a ground frame.

 

I use the photos as a way of examining the modelling.  It’s easy to miss something at the time, and notice it later in a photo.  It might be something that’s the wrong colour, or isn’t stuck down.  So there’s a lot that don’t make it onto here.

 

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And a late night milestone!  With the point rodding down, the platform road has been ballasted.  That means all the track is now ballasted.  There’s the ballast shoulder to tidy once the southbound platform is finished and the facing is in, around the compensating cranks once their base is made to look more like creosoted timber, but it’s near-as-damnit done. 

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With the completion of the impromptu wood butchery, thoughts turn to the platform edging.  This is coming out of Wills embossed styrene.  With the platform there’s a slight difference along the full length, a 2 coach length will be stone (wall and slab surface), being the original platform, then the remainder will be breeze block  wall, with scale model scenery’s fine edging and a tarmac surface.  The first challenge is cutting the stone sheets to a consistent width for the wall, where following a less than satisfying result with the ‘score and snap’ approach the bandsaw is fired up and goes through the sheets (in the words of General George Patton) ‘like crap through a goose’.  Just mind your fingers....

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Then add a surface, fence, a strip of edging flags and it’s ready for a coat of primer (the whole lot is just sat on the batten, it’s held together by a length of evergreen styrene along the upper inside join).

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Then it’s onto the breeze blocks, showing the difference.  Here the evergreen strip is on the outside, to give an impression the edging slabs are thicker than the thin ply they’re layered out of.

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Continued to the ramp end (the batten offcut is purely to stop it tipping over for the camera).

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In other news, a box of little detail bits have been amassed and are ready to go (platform seats, road cones (all will be revealed soon), various oil drums in various degrees of rust and some tyres for the junk pile or a wagon load.

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I’ve also continued this ‘going out in public’ lark, visiting Kendal exhibition (and the parents).  The loco fleet has expanded again, I’ve been looking for one of the standard moguls at the right price for a while with the BR2 tender (the only ones I’ve seen at the right price had the high sided BR1 tender) and one finally appeared.  It’s to be renumbered to 76080 (so I’ve got to swap the builders plates as well, I forgot the later ones were built at Donny).

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Thanks both!  Newbidston, I don’t pretend it’s an accurate model (mainly due to space restraints and the resultant compression) but I hope you like it!  Corbs, coal in the tenders is definitely on the hit list.  Finally got round to ordering the requisite transfers from Fox, so,the renumbering I’ve been spraffing on about for over a year can finally happen (which will be fun, I haven’t touched a set of water slide transfers for over a decade).  

 

On a a related note, any recomendations for removing Bachmann numbers?  I’ve heard t-cut?

 

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More progress, mostly on the platforms.  First up, the stone flagged section has been painted (it’s not quite finished, still playing with colours and it’ll want blending into the section with the building on when that gets finished).  Also the ballast has been touched up, just needs a once over with the hoover once the glue’s set and weathering in.

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Then it’s onto the preservation era extension.  The first section goes in.

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Then the base for the remainder (this time, it’s glued down in the right place).

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A top (mounting board card sprayed with plasticote stone textured spray paint) and a fence are added.  Just the ramp to do and that awful joint hiding behind the goods shed to sort.

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Finally, another selection of figures and bits from Hardy’s Hobbies has arrived.  They've since recieved a coat of grey primer so that’s the entertainment for this week sorted!

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