Duncan. Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 4 hours ago, RBE said: I agree Duncan. I always renumber mine. Ironically two of my 47s, 550 and 436 were repainted examples that Farish then came along and released later so it makes mine now look like straight RTR locos! Not really happy about that. C'est la vie! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted November 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 6, 2020 Personallising a loco, be it just weathering, renumbering or a complete repaint is always rewarding (if occasionaly frustrating along the way). That said, it is quite nice when Dapol or Farish produce a model matching the livery and number of one known to operate in the area you model! Steven B. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Duncan. Posted November 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2020 Hi, Here a couple more photos of the class 44. I wanted to try to show the transparent nature of the bodyside grilles. I painted the sides of the chassis with rail grey to help with the see through effect. I hope you can see the 'engine' behind the loco framing in the photos below. Do you think it was worth all the work? Cheers Duncan 18 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBE Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Looks awesome that Duncan. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Hi Duncan, 44010 looks the business, I have never had much to do with Peaks but looking on Flickr the grills look spot on, especially the see through effect. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend and getting back to modelling, the 47 looks very smart. A quick question - how do you manage to removed the moulded handrails so neatly? Every time I've done it, it's been part of a full respray thankfully, as any patch painting never matches the factory paint I find. You would never know on your loco that you've done any work that's affected the paint. Cheers Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 46 minutes ago, Steadfast said: Hi Duncan, 44010 looks the business, I have never had much to do with Peaks but looking on Flickr the grills look spot on, especially the see through effect. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend and getting back to modelling, the 47 looks very smart. A quick question - how do you manage to removed the moulded handrails so neatly? Every time I've done it, it's been part of a full respray thankfully, as any patch painting never matches the factory paint I find. You would never know on your loco that you've done any work that's affected the paint. Cheers Jo Hi Jo, Covid recovery is slow and difficult for me, but I am going in the right direction. I cut off the hand rails with a new scalpel blade I use swann morton no 15A. I don't cut the handrail off in one go, I make many light cuts until I reach the base profile. I never force a cut and I take care, one slip could be costly! I use Precision paints and I mix colours to try and match the factory paint, weathering and fading help the completed model Cheers Duncan 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 A great explanation, thanks Duncan Jo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Duncan. Posted December 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) All the same but all different- 36 shades of HEA Here are 36 kit built HEAs. They are the now unavailable TPM kits. I started collecting kits around 1990 and just last year I reached my target. Many were purchased second hand, part built or damaged. I had to ask Bernard Taylor for spare etches and I cast some of the lower hopper weights myself. I found the kits tricky to build and I found the etched parts very easy to damage, therefore the hopper operating handles, ladders, footsteps and brake leavers were added after the bodies had been painted and weathered. The etched parts themselves were pre-painted before gluing in place. And that's what you see now, they will be matt varnished next and a little further weathering will be applied to the etched parts to 'tie' them together. The last wagon in the rake has been further detailed as shown below. The Peco 'elsie' coupling has been removed and the rear of the peco chassis 'squared off' and filled. Replacement turned brass buffers and spare pipes and couplings left over from Farish loco purchases have been fitted to the now flat bufferbeam. A lamp iron was formed from 0.33mm brass wire. This rake of wagons has taken over 2 months to get to this stage and they should be completed before Christmas. This is the final mass kit building project for the stock that will run on Shirebrook. I have a rake of PFAs and a couple of class A tanks and Holdall wagons on order from RevolutioN but otherwise I am happy with the the stock I now have available to operate on the layout. Cheers Duncan Edited December 10, 2020 by Duncan. 23 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
87023Velocity Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Hi Duncan, Good to see the HEA rake almost there, the various paint schemes, patch painted, weathered differently will make it look smart running through Shirebrook. Hope yourself and Janet are better? Cheers Simon 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Hi Simon, We are both well on the mend thanks, it has been a long and rough road! Cheers Janet and Duncan 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott B Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 They look great Duncan, especially with all the individual paint jobs. I cannot believe that in this day and age we still have no decent RTR example of this wagon in N. May have to resort to looking at what can be done to the Farish example, especially the hideously thick chassis. Regards Scott 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Glad to hear you are both on the mend properly now. Have a good Christmas. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Scott B said: They look great Duncan, especially with all the individual paint jobs. I cannot believe that in this day and age we still have no decent RTR example of this wagon in N. May have to resort to looking at what can be done to the Farish example, especially the hideously thick chassis. Regards Scott Thanks Scott. The Farish rtr ones are a disappointment, it's not just the hideously thick chassis but the impact that has on the hopper- making the sides too squat! (as the overall wagon height is correct). It would be impossible to run a mixed rake of Farish and TPM examples together. Knowing my luck, having spent so long working on the HEAs RevolutioN will announce HEAs as their next wagon project... think about it... HSA and MEA varients plus the barrier wagon conversions, but if they do, a rake this big at £40 per wagon would set me back over £1400, that makes me feel better about the tricky kit build! Cheers Duncan 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted December 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) Lovely work as even. I've got a rake of eight of Bernie's HEAs (although they look a little worse for wear as brake levers have fallen off over the years). I hadn't realised until seeing your model with main and reservoir brake pipes that they were built with both - they appear to have had the reservoir pipe removed in the mid-1980s. Whose tail lamp are you going to use? Steven B. Edited December 11, 2020 by Steven B Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 9 minutes ago, Steven B said: Lovely work as even. I've got a rake of eight of Bernie's HEAs (although they look a little worse for wear as brake levers have fallen off over the years). I hadn't realised until seeing your model with main and reservoir brake pipes that they were built with both - they appear to have had the reservoir pipe removed in the mid-1980s. Whose tail lamp are you going to use? Steven B. Hi Steven, Certainly a kit prone to losing detail etches, they are all so delicate and vulnerable! I have both Springside (whitemetal) and Modelu resin/plastic tail lamp types available. Cheers Duncan 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWS FAN Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Hi Duncan hope you are both feeling better. Your rake of HEAs look fantastic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 8 hours ago, EWS FAN said: Hi Duncan hope you are both feeling better. Your rake of HEAs look fantastic. Morning, Thank you for your kind wishes. I'm glad you like the HEAs, I will probably run a rake of 30 with the others in reserve as I expect there will be some casualties, and there are now no spare parts available! Cheers Duncan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Ben Posted December 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2020 Hi Duncan, I am glad to hear you're on the mend. Thanks for posting these inspirational images - something to cheer us all up after a year to forget! cheers Ben A. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 What's this apparition! If you're familiar with Shirebrook you will be very aware that I try to run stock that is relevant to both modelled period and location, so you won't find a maroon warship or Freightliner liveried class 70 on the layout! So what are three 9ft wb wooden minerals from the 1920's (?) doing on the layout! Yes OK it is a fiction! However, this is my excuse/reason/back story for their inclusion on Shirebrook. I got the inspiration from the preservation centre at Didcot. Quite some years ago there was a TOPS registered (POA?)wooden planked wagon that was air piped and used, I think, to convey coal from Wales to the centre for the steam locos there. I assume it was tripped to Didcot yard and then added to a trunk freight service to one of the South Wales yards and further tripped to one of the valleys collieries. The idea behind the Shirebrook 7 plankers is very similar- they have been restored and repainted into the original Shirebrook Colliery livery and are used to take coal to the Butterley Preservation Centre down the Erewash Valley. The models themselves are the excellent Mathieson Models, unpainted kits (sadly no longer available), they have commendably thin sides and have the look of the prototype. Cheers Duncan 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigP Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) -- Edited February 1, 2021 by bigP Deleted 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott B Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Also ran from Three Spires Jnct (Coventry Colliery) to Didcot. Scott 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 The ex-Southern Region Ferry Open, minus tarp. bar. And Peco even did it in GWR livery (though not with a TOPS code). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Duncan. Posted December 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 19, 2020 2020 Sign Off. Evening All, With further restrictions announced today it rather tops off a difficult and sad year. Shirebrook was booked to appear at Scarborough (Pickering) Show and Wigan Show alongside the excellent Dallam Sidings and we are sad that it has not been possible. We hope none of you will be alone on Christmas Day and wish you all good health and peace. We thank you for your kind messages after we both contracted covid-19 we have made a good recovery. The last show Shirebrook attended was Leeds, Attached below are a couple of photos taken there. The first shows Norman, one of our operating team taking a photo of the layout while the second is a close up of the same photo highlighting the 24 tonners MEO rake - happy days. We hope you have enjoyed reading the thread and have found something of interest or something to inspire. We have enjoyed your comments and learned much ourselves. We look forward to the New Year and hope to show you more developments for Shirebrook. Happy Christmas Janet and Duncan 15 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Happy Christmas to you and your family too Duncan. Your amazing layout has given me lots of inspiration this last year and thank you very much for your kind answers whenever I’ve had a question. This year has been pretty rotten but hopefully it’ll start getting better from here. Nick 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBE Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Happy Christmas to you too Duncan and hope that you are both feeling much better now. Several rebooked shows for Burton on Trent have also been cancelled next year as well so I am actually planning now to cut Burtons shows completely for next year to allow improvements to be made and the Covid situation to settle. Like many I am sure, I personally am getting sick of the whole thing and want to draw a massive line under whole deal ASAP. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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