ozzyo Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Well it looks like I've got a bit of work to do not that much, only all of the uprights and turn them around then remove the crossbeams.Then refit the uprights and get all of the other bits in place. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted February 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 10, 2017 Well it looks like I've got a bit of work to do not that much, only all of the uprights and turn them around then remove the crossbeams.Then refit the uprights and get all of the other bits in place. OzzyO. So what will you be doing after tea tonight? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) 27010 is now finished apart from a bit of muck on it later. It's a JLTRT one next to it. I am still waiting for some straight windscreen wipers from Laurie so in the mean time I have put the Heljan ones back in. Shawplan roof grill. Details here will show better once weathered. Edited February 19, 2017 by brian daniels 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 The last few weeks I have been building a Connoisseur kits Queen Mary brake van, and very nice it is too. All the parts fit together very nicely, it will never catch on! I wanted to do it as one with the sandbox on the ends and the side planking still on it, I have only found one picture of one like this in Engineers Olive. Would have been nice to use a resistance soldering iron on this but we got there with my trusty 25W and big 75W irons. It is fully sprung and runs really well. The couplings are the kits hooks and CPL bits I had spare for the links. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian G Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Whose transfers did you use for the bogie bolster? Ian G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 M&M ones Ian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Siddall Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Brian, The Queen Mary looks spot on, hope you had as much fun building yours as I did mine. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 link Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Hi Brian, Just wondered if you got my pm regarding the 08's? Regards, Martyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Brian, cracking work on both models-lovely detail and added finesse to the Heljan. ATVB CME Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Hi Brian, Just wondered if you got my pm regarding the 08's? Regards, Martyn. Replied Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Brian, The Queen Mary looks spot on, hope you had as much fun building yours as I did mine. Andy Yes I did enjoy it Andy, always helps when a kit falls together. Wondering if I could add some working sidelights but am thinking where to put a battery! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 (edited) Hi Brian, I have pinged you a PM. Thanks in anticipation. ATVB CME Edited February 26, 2017 by CME and Bottlewasher Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Boucher Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Yes I did enjoy it Andy, always helps when a kit falls together. Wondering if I could add some working sidelights but am thinking where to put a battery! Hi Brian, Get one of these and attach the battery holder up on the underside of the roof... http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/single-light-kit.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) I have got a tail light unit from DCC Supplies. It has a flicker circuit for the fire in the stove and a steady circuit that I will use for the tail and side lights. It is on a button battery that will hide in the roof. The last few days I have been building a M&M Lowmac. To say it's an interesting kit is an understatement! It's the first kit I have built where nothing locates into another part so every part can go where you like buy a mill or two either side of where it should be. But we got there in the end. Buffers are from NMRS to replace the solid ones in the kit. Vac pipe is from Slaters. Coupling plate is from CPL and the coupling is an Exactoscale one that I had spare, I have ordered some Exactoscale screw couplings for this. Nice and strong underneath. I have changed the cast on brake pulls on the shaft for etched ones that were spare from the Queen MAry Brake kit. Whilst not acurate they are a lot better than what was there. Original brake cross shaft. Modified brake cross shaft. Handbrake guide has been anchored to the axleguard with a bit of flat wire. I have since drilled out and filled the 4 holes by the handbrake pivot with EDM plastic bolts as the casting with four bolts on them that should have protruded through these holes were at a different spacing than the four holes! Edited March 7, 2017 by brian daniels 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian G Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Who's transfers will you use? Ian G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) Not sure Ian. Will look in my transfers box to see if I Lowmac on any but apart from that the rest can be made up with what I have. If I don't have the Lowmac one I see Fox do it on a sheet. Edited March 11, 2017 by brian daniels Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) Here are a couple of pictures showing the 4 EDM bolts I used on the handbrake fixings and some lift rings that I made up. These are made from a lost wax loop on a spigot that's spare from my CPL chain tensioners that I am useing to fix loads to my wagons. Made the loops from .5 wire. Should be giving it it's first run tomorrow at the Hurley test track together with a Heljan 61xx! Just weathered the Heljan 26-27 conversion. Still got to get the right straight style windscreen wipers from JLTRT. Edited March 11, 2017 by brian daniels 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Very Nice Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiles Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Excellent Brian. Just says "McRat" all over. I really must get round to doing 27014 one day, the only one I remember seeing - they didn't get to East Anglia much! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Superb, the colours in the underframe weathering are spot on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class27 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Could you tell us a bit about the weathering methods you use it is superb cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 What do I do to weather these models? Well I have just weathered a pre-production Heljan Industrial maroon livery 05 by spraying with Railmatch Frame Dirt, Roof Dirt and Black. For the underframe area I spray frame dirt first to give a fairly even coat underneath but don't have to be too fussy about this. Then spray roof dirt in uneven passes of the airbrush, just a dab of it here and there. Then re-do a dab here and there with the frame dirt. Then a bit of black around the fillers and drains areas. For the bodies I spray frame dirt into the grill areas then wipe off in downward motion with blue paper roll. Spray more frame dirt around the lower body and wipe upwards trying to leave a thicker deposit at the bottom and thinning as it goes up. I also spray a bit more frame dirt in handholes sandbox filler recess and wipe off again with a bit of paper roll with thinners on it as the sides will start to look a bit streaky by now. Then it's basically just building it up until you are satisfied, also useing roof dirt around radiator side grills. I tend to rub the sides so as you are basically trying to polish it as if you look at pictures from the late 70's the blue and yellow is very clean generally. I repeat this on the ends, spray on and wipe off. The roof just get a mix of frame dirt and roof dirt and black around exhausts. Then I will do a bit of dry brushing maybe with rust colours around buffers and bogies. Bufferbeams and snowploughs are a mix of frame dirt and roof dirt but then I dip a paint brush in thinners and flood it onto the parts to make the paints run and mix, dabbing off excess thinners with a bit of blue roll. Maybe one day I will try and get a mate to video me doing it! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) What have I been doing recently? Finished the transfers on the M&M Lowmac. They are from a number of suppliers including the Lowmac lettering from an old dried up sheet of Woodhead ones! Now the eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed the load on it. It is a Wickham trolley made by DJB I believe many years ago and motorized with a Tenshodo spud under it. I originally painted in this fictitious livery of coal sector so it could go over a coal mine branch and inspect the line. I have now repainted it into MoD green to represent a load out of one of their bases. Again fictitious but it looks the part. I have been doing a bit of work on one of the pre production Heljan Peaks to make it 45137 with marker lights. As I had a few castings from JLTRT in the spares box I thought it would be rude not to use them. So I changed the airpipe around the batterybox to their castings. I am doing this as 45137 so have used the JLTRT Peak ETH castings on the bufferbeam. Lampbrackets are etched ones from JLTRT that I will add after I have masked up the yellow ends. The marker lights are from DJH that thankfully I still have another set for anything in the future. The boiler roof panels needed removing and I replaced the large one with a piece of thin brass sheet and just filed down the exhaust , leaving a base to represent the replacement panel. The holes I have drilled into the boiler filler blanks are to take a JLTRT vent casting when I get some from Laurie. The chassis on this was from one I did in green with a full set of sandboxes but I need to remove the inner ones for blue livery. Edited April 11, 2017 by brian daniels 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted April 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2017 Looks great. At the time I was hugely disappointed when they removed the headcodes but I quite like them in that form now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Forgot to add this pic of the first pre production 37 that we had that had the slightly lower headcode box. I have as you can see weathered it now, still looks ok running round a layout. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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