RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2021 Just now, TheSignalEngineer said: Those tinlets were good quality back then and can still be revived if they've been properly closed. . and stored upside down. Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted February 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 21/02/2021 at 14:04, Porcy Mane said: You decide. (A few metallics thrown in for good measure). No matter what, I can think of a few that would contest they were the wrong grey. Why do some tins have a circle lining the inner lid of some tins, and why do they and others have a mark drawn on the the lid's rim? (I can guess popular and opening point respectively but I just don't know.) Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 minute ago, SHMD said: Why do some tins have a circle lining the inner lid of some tins, and why do they and others have a mark drawn on the the lid's rim? (I can guess popular and opening point respectively but I just don't know.) Kev. It's Mr Mane's ADHD! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 28 minutes ago, SHMD said: Why do some tins have a circle lining the inner lid If I have more tin one tin of the same colour, the ring indicates which has been opened. 29 minutes ago, SHMD said: why do they and others have a mark drawn on the the lid's rim? Contents thinned for putting through the airbrush. 28 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: It's Mr Mane's ADHD! Ermmmmmmm... ...what was that you were saying??? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: In the real world plastic doesn't rust!! Mike. Think about it rust comes from beneath the paint so start with an undercoat of rust and apply the poor paint over it on the model! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2021 D5527 Belstead 21 August 1962 by snatmann, on Flickr D809 CHAMPION passes Bath 5.69 by George Woods, on Flickr D2xx Brinnington 30.4.68 by George Woods, on Flickr 40056/20009 Ribblehead Viaduct 8.82 by George Woods, on Flickr 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Porcy Mane Posted February 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: Think about it rust comes from beneath the paint so start with an undercoat of rust and apply the poor paint over it on the model! All of these test pieces apart from bottom left & centre started off with "rust" undercoats (Subtraction method). This is three of them prior to having their top coats applied. Closer look at the bottom left which started of in gray undercoat after making a start applying a bit of weathering over the top. (Additive method) 12 4 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 ...now if only someone made a model of one of these ...from Pete Wilcox's flickr site. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) ...when one door isn't enough, just add a couple of extra! A Ballast wagon conversion on the SNCF...thanks to 'The Clearing House' Facebook Group for the link. Edited February 26, 2021 by Axlebox 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 ...at the waters edge again, this time its Manchester Docks from Paul Molyneux-Berry's flickr site 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2021 Longford (Coventry) Nechells Woking Kirkby in Ashfield 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13, 2021 Beattock Station Skelton Junction Furness line Preston 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 ...have we seen this before? From the flickr site of 'Liverpolitian', some good rolling stock pics in there. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=267735581593240&set=gm.2934168033573807 ...from the BRS pages on Facebook (you can have hours of fun looking through their archive of old lorry pictures...its what Sundays were made for...there are even some Roadrailer pics in there if you dig deep enough) Nice French style 16T just sneaking into the shot . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 Prestatyn Warrington BQ Guide Bridge 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 On the Western mainline near Teignmouth in the summer of '59. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 Pannier without a top feed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 20 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Pannier without a top feed! Model Rail 16xx. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steam69 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Model Rail 16xx. Not a standard pannier, only 7714 exists in preservation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I'm suspicious of the date, the minerals appear to be in much too good a condition especially the two middle ones, the 2nd appears to still be in MoT Bauxite and the slope sided is very neat. Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2021 6 hours ago, gwrrob said: Model Rail 16xx. Model Rail seem to be doing 16xx with and without top feeds, and photos of the class suggest that this is correct. I'd never thought about it before and assumed that all the class were built with new top feed boilers, but apparently not. Previous parallel boilered panniers, the 54xx, 64xx, 74xx, 57xx, and 8750 and variants, seem to have all been prone to acquiring boilers that were the next in the queue when they were overhauled, as the boilers were changed because the loco took two weeks or so less to overhaul than the boiler, so the next one in the stores was put on and the loco sent back into revenue service to earn money and free up the erecting shop bay for the next overhaul. This means that locos built with top feed boilers may have had plain boilers later in their careers, and while the top feed type became more prevalent over time, as more were built and ultimately put into the boiler pool, some locos had plain boilers at the end of steam on the WR in 1965. It is difficult to ascertain which locos had which boilers at which times without verified and provenanced photographic or certified written evidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 12 hours ago, hmrspaul said: I'm suspicious of the date, the minerals appear to be in much too good a condition especially the two middle ones, the 2nd appears to still be in MoT Bauxite and the slope sided is very neat. Paul Paul, "M.o.T bauxite"? I always thought that bauxite on wagons denoted vacuum braked or through piped. Could explain what the M.o.T bauxite colour scheme was about and how long it lasted. Gordon A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Gordon A said: Paul, "M.o.T bauxite"? I always thought that bauxite on wagons denoted vacuum braked or through piped. Could explain what the M.o.T bauxite colour scheme was about and how long it lasted. Gordon A What you may think of as "standard" BR mineral wagons began to be produced towards the end of WW2 for the MoWT often in munitions factories as their war work ended. They went on until c 1949. There was variety of design and they had bottom doors and independent brake - unlike the BR 108 and 109 minerals. They were painted Bauxite. The freight stock grey and freight stock red separation was a BR idea introduced soonish after nationalisation. My later photos https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmowtmineral See Paul Edited March 30, 2021 by hmrspaul 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2021 17 hours ago, hmrspaul said: I'm suspicious of the date, The photo was taken by the great Dick Riley who's usually good on dated photos. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 8 hours ago, gwrrob said: The photo was taken by the great Dick Riley who's usually good on dated photos. Thanks for confirming that. Yes, I'll accept that, it is an interesting photo. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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