Rhysb Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Cracking James well done! Love the roof peel! A technique I’m still trying to master! Rhys 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWS60065 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Great work there, I admire the incredible patience required to model so many without wanting to try something different halfway through! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 17, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2021 Thanks for the likes and comments guys! 18 hours ago, The Fatadder said: Very nice job on 019, I’m very tempted to do one of the 56s that ended up on Virgin XC with the Cavelex one (though I’m more tempted towards the Loadhaul example than 019 at the moment. (Though with 56049 I already have one more class 56 than I really need in Cornwall…) looking forward to the next batch… Cheers Rich, I agree on the Loadhaul ones, they looked fierce as well! I would like to do one of those so will likely wait and get a Cavalex one for that, and I'm also tempted by their Romanian EWS version as well, for a renumber to 56011. 13 hours ago, Wayne 37901 said: Hi James., Did I read that right, 40 locos done since January? You've been busy, I need to pull my finger out. These have turned out nice James. I know what you mean about Hornby's take on railfreight triple grey, I plan to re-visit my model of 56073 at some point. It was done as a ' quick n dirty' from a coal sector machine, but when I compare it to my other sector locos I'm not happy with it. Cheers. Thanks Wayne! Yeah, 40 locos! It sounds crazy, it was originally going to be a batch of about 20 (like last year's one) but I wanted to get through the stash and thought i'll just do this one and then this one, and it just sort of grew! I like to save up the final airbrush weathering to do in one final batch at the end but it did become a bit of a logistical nightmare moving 40 locos around to each get their turn in front of the spray! 7 hours ago, Rhysb said: Cracking James well done! Love the roof peel! A technique I’m still trying to master! Rhys Haha, thanks Rhys! The roof peel for this one was a case of painting the light grey top coat first, then dabbing on faded blue with a dry brush, and then drybrushing more roof grey over the top to blend it a little, and finally across the top of the whole roof I stippled on darker and lighter greys with a scabby, splayed old brush , and it all seemed to come together in the end! Cheers, James 3 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6775 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 56's look fantastic. Not sure what date you worked on for 56019, but by the time it made its infamous trip to Bournemouth it had gained EWS Red axle boxes. I recall it was on 1V50 from Manchester to Birmingham before working the Bournemouth which had it stuck to diagram would have headed West. I'd heard it was going to get ripped at Birmingham to work 1O38 (I think) so took a risk and leapt from Exeter to Basingstoke. Remember the bloke in the ticket office at Exeter trying to tell me I didn't need to go to Basingstoke to get to Bournemouth when I tried to buy tickets so eventually I just said give me a return to Basingstoke. A friend of mind did a conversion on an old Mainline model for me! 7 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Outstanding effort James as ever ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 18, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2021 16 hours ago, D6775 said: 56's look fantastic. Not sure what date you worked on for 56019, but by the time it made its infamous trip to Bournemouth it had gained EWS Red axle boxes. I recall it was on 1V50 from Manchester to Birmingham before working the Bournemouth which had it stuck to diagram would have headed West. I'd heard it was going to get ripped at Birmingham to work 1O38 (I think) so took a risk and leapt from Exeter to Basingstoke. Remember the bloke in the ticket office at Exeter trying to tell me I didn't need to go to Basingstoke to get to Bournemouth when I tried to buy tickets so eventually I just said give me a return to Basingstoke. A friend of mind did a conversion on an old Mainline model for me! Thanks for the photo, that is taken at a really useful angle for the underframe and chassis painting detail! At first I was unsure on whether to add red boxes, earlier 1998 pics seem to show the axleboxes either too grimy or unpainted, and most available pics of the Virgin haulage are the classic narrow-angle ones with gricers flailing out the windows! It would be rude to do an ‘019 and not have it rammed on the front of a Virgin rake, so I shall get tinkering with a little paintbrush! Cheers, James 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6775 Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 19 minutes ago, James Makin said: Thanks for the photo, that is taken at a really useful angle for the underframe and chassis painting detail! At first I was unsure on whether to add red boxes, earlier 1998 pics seem to show the axleboxes either too grimy or unpainted, and most available pics of the Virgin haulage are the classic narrow-angle ones with gricers flailing out the windows! It would be rude to do an ‘019 and not have it rammed on the front of a Virgin rake, so I shall get tinkering with a little paintbrush! Cheers, James No probs, I managed to bail off and over the bridge before it ran round and back to Basingstoke. Not the best of shots but had to record the event. Most of my pictures are the standard 3/4 platform shots as I was more interested in bashing than photting! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post HillsideDepot Posted December 18, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) 56019's trip to the coast certainly sticks in my mind as it thundered around the curve at Didcot. I decided to stay on at Didcot for the return, my customary homebound fish & chips would have to wait that week. And I'm glad I did. The train wasn't booked via Reading on the way back as the shunter had finished by then, so it was Basingstoke to Oxford non-stop. But it did stop, for about 10 minutes, in the far distance at Moreton Cutting, before coming at us on the Down Relief, flat out, swaying over the connection and around the curve, that mighty Ruston pounding, turbos screaming, as only a 56 could, and still ahead of booked time! Edited April 4, 2022 by HillsideDepot Photos re-instated after Dediserve debacle 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 18, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, HillsideDepot said: 56019's trip to the coast certainly sticks in my mind as it thundered around the curve at Didcot. I decided to stay on at Didcot for the return, my customary homebound fish & chips would have to wait that week. And I'm glad I did. The train wasn't booked via Reading on the way back as the shunter had finished by then, so it was Basingstoke to Oxford non-stop. But it did stop, for about 10 minutes, in the far distance at Moreton Cutting, before coming at us on the Down Relief, flat out, swaying over the connection and around the curve, that mighty Ruston pounding, turbos screaming, as only a 56 could, and still ahead of booked time! Wow, stunning shots there, and of course the best location that one could ask for, thanks ever so much! Cheers, James 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Departmental203 Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Stunning work on these Grids James, really see that the 56's look like they're on their last legs with the weathering! To think 56019 was on Virgin services....wow! Unfortunately, I was only a toddler around this time and compared to now, these were really glory days! PS, I'm listening to Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" as I type... Jules 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37403 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Great modelling as always James, and good to see some grids coming off the workbench. Are you going to keep us all hanging for the next update... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post James Makin Posted December 23, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 23, 2021 Here's this week's new toys, and with Christmas just around the corner, what could be more festive than the comforting warm red colours of a pair of EWS 37s! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Joining the fleet this time is red duo 37370 and 37669, ready to be regular performers on my Didcot layout. Interesting/shocking trivia, the original EW&S livery, introduced in 1996 is now 25 years old, and the newer '97 version with Gill Sans font and 'three beasties' logo is going for its quarter-century next year, officially classic livery territory! When I was getting into trains in the 90s, liveries like Rail Blue seemed positively prehistoric, I can't get the head around EWS being just as old now 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr These two machines were picked as fairly representative, average examples of the period, but with a little personal twist! EWS' 37669 was a long-time Cornish china clay loco, and back in the day I used to have a Cornish layout, I was mad into modelling that part of the world! For my 13th birthday, as a surprise, my mother found a photo of a then-current china clay train in a magazine, and carefully handpainted it onto my birthday cake using edible food colourings, it looked pretty awesome! The loco at the head of the train she had picked, was 37669! Meanwhile, it was an easy selection choosing 37370 - going through some of my terrible old Didcot photos the other year unearthed the blurry image below, taken on my old holiday snappy camera was the very beast, snapped while shuttling back and forth in Didcot Yard in early June 2000. Ironically back then, I used to view the loco as a bit boring, no name or anything special about it, just another number to tick off in the spotting book and that was it! How times would change if it happened today. 37370 and 37375 at Didcot Yard June 2000 by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr So the starting point was a pair of red Bachmann 37s, an old 37411 model (of 2007 vintage) and the more recently released 37174 from 2015, which would become 37370. 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr I buy cheapy old models to do up, and this was no different. The 37174 had been weathered by someone else before coming into my possession and over the years it had been stripped of its original cab ends and other parts to go into some of the other models you've seen on the workbench before! The weathering was stubborn to come off, and worse still, Bachmann for some reason modelled this loco incorrectly, with their 'side trench' moulding and full complement of bodyside footsteps and access panels - regardless of which donor loco this would become, it was going to need a big fill and repaint! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Going into the detail, for 37370, the lower footsteps were filled in alongside the usual upper ones. There is some variation amongst locos so always worth checking. The 'trench' was also filled in at this point, as well as additional strapping added on the cantrail grilles from thin styrene strip. 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Shawplan's gorgeous Extreme Etching roof grilles were added too, really lovely and nice to look at! Little other details such as the roof configuration and nose end grilles were changed where needed too. I don't tend to go much further in my detailing here, you could easily spend time adding the revised brass window parts and much more chassis detailing but it comes down to a question of time - the sheer volume of 37s I have done recently and am putting together in upcoming batches next year, plus the cost of brass parts would just add hugely to it being a massive, massive project. My philosophy is that these are just cheap-as-chips old hardworking 'layout locos' that will ply their time on my Didcot layout, thumping by a good 4ft or so from viewers, and if you want a display case beauty, then nothing's going to get close to an Accurascale one at £180+! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr After the detail work was completed, the locos were given luscious new coats of EWS red and gold, using shades from Phoenix Paints. Railtec Decals supplied the transfers, and I'm really pleased with the colour match and intensity of the colours compared to the overall EWS red. If you look back through these pages to my previous 37057 project a few years ago, you can compare how much stronger it looks compared to the old Fox decals when it comes to the colours. 37370 was also interesting in that it had a body-colour radiator grille, really cool when it came to weathering a bit later! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The customary paint-on/wipe-off phases occurred again, I'm a bit stuck in the ways on it, but it works for me, the old Humbrol enamels getting a right battering! I did washes of browns and dark greys to build up dirt in the recesses, whilst the flat surfaces were entirely wiped back to the original paint finish. With EWS being such a new colour scheme at the time, it was more a case of just putting a good coat of traffic grime on, rather than any battering or damage as with some of the older liveries tackled lately. 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr With the bodies completed, attention turned to the chassis where some detailing was applied around the ends, couplings and the NEM pockets removed, Smiths screw couplings attached and the various pipes recreated either from Bachmann's pack, Replica Railways parts and the rest bodged in from .45mm handrail wire. The fuel tanks on 37669 had the second set of steps removed, so the tank was filed back and a recess filled in for the flush appearance. 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 37669 was an absolute china clay favourite of mine, but it did stray out of Cornwall and made its way to Didcot on a number of occasions, and well into my remit! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Moving through to 37370, this was reassembled too, little details like the engine room windows are blanked in from the inside with black electrical tape, to avoid sight of the grey chassis block, and then the locos chipped for DCC using the cheapy Hattons 21 pin own-brand decoders, they run well from experience, and I'm not any good at fancy DCC lighting tricks so they work well for me..! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr One of the subtle things I liked about the locos is that they each display both versions of the old pre/post '98 electrification warning flashes, the new ones in the easy to reach places and the old ones gathering dirt on the roof! For the final weathering, layers of Phoenix's brake dust, track dirt, roof dirt and dirty black were airbrushed on, before finishing the roofs again with my mix of black & dark blue for the oily sheen finish around the exhaust ports. 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Another great fun project to get over the line! It is nice to celebrate the EWS colours in a time when most of the remaining active Class 37s appear to be decked out in a combination of DRS, Colas or yet another predictable large logo blue repaint! The real machines have had mixed fortunes since their portrayal in my late 1990s guise; 37370 didn't have long left, being withdrawn in late 2000 and finally scrapped in 2005 at Booths of Rotherham. Meanwhile on a happier note, 37669 saw life after EWS, when it was sold to the West Coast Railway Company and can still be found plying the network, ironically still in a rich maroon livery! 37370 and 37669 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Wishing you guys a Merry Christmas, and hope that you get all the train bits you asked for! (or more likely, carefully ordered yourself instead of leaving it to chance..!) Cheers, James 32 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted December 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2021 Very nice James !! Bang average, with absolutely no redeeming features……..lovely ! cheers, Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff west Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 I agree average is good. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted December 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2021 Good to see 669, another Cornish loco which is on my eventual to do list given that as well as the usual Cornish freight it was on the other end of the Cornish Gnome rail tour in 1998 along with 37403 in green (which is my justification for a model of my favourite 37.). I keep debating changing the numbers on my slightly less useful 37667, but can’t bring myself to losing another favourite… the weathering looks superb 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Great stuff ! I’ve done 669 - although that was really just a renumber from 411 , I don’t have your exact precision on the detail . I’ve also got 174 , which stayed as 174 as I saw it on an engineers train in 98. Didn’t realise the moulding was as bad as 242 ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazRail Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 Great pair of 37s! Love the EWS livery, and looking to make a 37670, in its faded condition after it's DB revival before DB paint. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2021 Thanks for the likes and kind words guys! On 23/12/2021 at 19:04, Phil Mc said: Very nice James !! Bang average, with absolutely no redeeming features……..lovely ! cheers, Phil. Cheers Phil! It's funny how as time has gone by that even the 'dull' ones have become pretty interesting! I do like modelling the bang average ones as normally they are the ones that you do see when out 'spotting, and I can't wait to recreate those times on a bleak day when you'd head up the steps to Didcot's platform 4 & 5, excited to see what feast of stock awaited you in the adjacent stabling sidings, only to find one or two locos, plain vanilla livery with nothing notable about them, chances are you'd already crossed them off the spotting list - complete duds, but great fun now looking back at those days! On 23/12/2021 at 19:10, The Fatadder said: Good to see 669, another Cornish loco which is on my eventual to do list given that as well as the usual Cornish freight it was on the other end of the Cornish Gnome rail tour in 1998 along with 37403 in green (which is my justification for a model of my favourite 37.). I keep debating changing the numbers on my slightly less useful 37667, but can’t bring myself to losing another favourite… the weathering looks superb Some great choices there Rich, 37667 is definitely a tasty one and 37403 is nice in its slightly more tatty form, some good character there! If it were me I wouldn't sacrifice any of your fleet but just buy more! Hopefully once the Accurascale model is out, there may well be a glut of Bachmann examples going on eBay or at shows again! I've been quite lucky as a number of my Loftus Road mates have trimmed their collections in recent times with big surpluses of 'Tractors' and the like but once the exhibitions return properly then there should be much more bargains to be had, eBay prices seem to have gone silly during the pandemic! On 23/12/2021 at 21:10, rob D2 said: Great stuff ! I’ve done 669 - although that was really just a renumber from 411 , I don’t have your exact precision on the detail . I’ve also got 174 , which stayed as 174 as I saw it on an engineers train in 98. Didn’t realise the moulding was as bad as 242 ! Thanks very much Rob! The 37669 isn't too far from 37411, it's always those pesky nose side grilles and roof arrangements that generally need looking at, the Shawplan brass end grille parts are pretty good to work with and it's possible to fit those and not need a full repaint if you're careful in removing the old mouldings underneath! Haha, sorry to break the bad news on the 37174 moulding! I had a few of them bought over the years in anticipation of some easy renumbering, until that sinking feeling set in having taken the loco out the box and noticed the side panel lines which would be impossible to remove without a repaint, and very few 37s ever kept those panels late into their lives! The 37242 release is definitely a bit of a nightmare as well, same moulding and certainly my 'easy-renumber' Mainline blue 37 project went out the window there for the same reason with those silly hatches!! On 24/12/2021 at 15:21, CazRail said: Great pair of 37s! Love the EWS livery, and looking to make a 37670, in its faded condition after it's DB revival before DB paint. Ooh I would love to see your go at the faded 37670! I remember seeing some pics in Rail Express and that loco was properly faded down to an almost unrecognisable state, that would be a beauty of a model to do! Cheers, James 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted December 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2021 6 minutes ago, James Makin said: Some great choices there Rich, 37667 is definitely a tasty one and 37403 is nice in its slightly more tatty form, some good character there! If it were me I wouldn't sacrifice any of your fleet but just buy more! Hopefully once the Accurascale model is out, there may well be a glut of Bachmann examples going on eBay or at shows again! I've been quite lucky as a number of my Loftus Road mates have trimmed their collections in recent times with big surpluses of 'Tractors' and the like but once the exhibitions return properly then there should be much more bargains to be had, eBay prices seem to have gone silly during the pandemic! I do think about adding a couple more 37s, though I try to consider how many would fit in my planned layout’s fiddleyard (and I already exceed that number). I was looking at more photos today, getting tempted by 37262 in all over tatty grey with a Transrail /0 And ten clay tigers…. 37403 was always a bit of an indulgence, but was always a favourite (and was a real challenge doing the failed logos). however what really tempted me (although way out of budget at the moment). Is a photo on Flickr of a HST on a Virgin XC Dundee to Penzance in 1998. It included one powercar in tatty Intercity, 4 intercity coaches, a virgin first, a GNER TSO and a Virgin XC powercar on the rear. Just wish the Hornby powercars were not so pricy as I’d love to get a second Virgin pair to model it 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post James Makin Posted December 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 Hope you all had a nice Christmas, with plenty of overindulgence! It felt like a good time to have some more '47's on these pages, so here are a couple to be going on with! 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Joining the fleet today is former Intercity Mainline-liveried 47528 The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry and 47627 in plain red ex-'Celebrations' colours, modelled in 1998 condition. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The starting point was a couple of original Bachmann '47's, picked up for peanuts and stripped down, ready for the fun to begin! 47627 has its origins in the Rail Blue 'Hadrian' model, whilst 47528 owes its stripes to a modified Intercity Swallow 47835 'Windsor Castle' model. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr One of the challenges of working with cheap cast-offs is the donor model is rarely quite like what you need! The BR blue model needed updating with a Replica Railways high-intensity headlight and a lighting circuitboard borrowed from a previous Bachmann 47 dummy conversion from last year. Meanwhile, the donor for 47528 needed to have a headcode panel re-instated to a flush end...normally the opposite of most projects! 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Shawplan came to the rescue for this one, with a part for every application, their brass plated headcode was placed into a recess carefully cut into the flush end. Next came the painting, the BR blue donor being rubbed back and receiving a new coat of yellow and an all-over dollop of EWS red. 47528 meanwhile had its 'Intercity' branding removed and the lower white panel sprayed with the familiar buff colour from the IC Mainline colour scheme. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Decalling took place using Railtec numbers and a set of Fox etched nameplates, with both bodies varnished and left to harden for a month before being attacked with the weathering washes, accompanied by some of Kate Nash's delightful first album. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr After weathering, the bodies were fitted out, the Humbrol Maskol removed from their windows, cab interiors detailed and drivers painted up. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 47627 used to fascinate me, readers may remember that this was once plucked from Res-fleet anonymity for a one-time marketing tour of the UK to promote the then-new Mars 'Celebrations' launch around September 1997, being painted red with a giant Celebrations logos plastered down the side of the train... 47627 5Z19 Tollerton ECML North Yorkshire. 23-9-97 by locoman1966, on Flickr Photo from Flickr by 'Locoman1966' Shortly afterwards however, once the party was over, 47627 had its big stickers removed and returned to relative anonymity in its dull and dowdy plain red colour scheme in which we see it here today. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr New underframe tanks were added to represent 47627's minimal battery-box-only arrangement, using a moulding from Bachmann (available via the spares department) and then with the moulding opened up and a representation of some of the underneath piping and gubbins going on between the boxes. Buffers at the No.1 end were swapped out to the rectangular 'Class 60' style buffers instead of the classic round Oleos. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr In comparison, 47528 is a bit of a dump! 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Looking on it's last legs in 1998, 47528 just had to be modelled! The classic workmanlike Intercity Mainline livery was losing the battle to the elements, and covered in a good amount of grime. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The red stripe has seen a fair bit of battering, alongside some big paint chunks and fading in the years since it first received the colour scheme. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr New to BR as D1111 in 1967, the loco interestingly carried a crudely painted '1111' number on the secondman's cabsides, which was fun to recreate in miniature using tiny brushes and masking tape! 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Those big nameplates were an attractive part of the loco, and for me one of the more interesting parts was the ghosting of a small dedication plaque that was once carried below the main plates, on the red & white stripes. Now removed, all that could be seen was the rusty bolt holes and dirt outline from where it was attached. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Additional details such as the train heating sockets were added on the bufferbeam, and pipework added from a mix of Bachmann parts and thin handrail wire. Thin wire loops provide the replacement for the tension lock couplers which have been removed to allow fitting of the bufferbeam piping at both ends. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr This pairing of locos fills out more of the 'middling' gap in my Brush fleet, I have many of the traditional freight-only 47/0s and a whole heap of the refurbished 47/7s and top-link 47/8s, these 47/4s represent that middle ground of locos that had, by the 1990s, found themselves generally in Rail Express Systems allocations but didn't quite make it into conversion to full-fat 47/7s and instead were gradually run into the ground - with EWS's hatred for 47s making sure their end came sooner rather than later! 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Bringing these two locos into life in model form has been particularly fun! The two locos didn't have a lot of life ahead of them, with sickly-looking 47528 succumbing to withdrawal later in 1998, meanwhile 47627 was part of the infamous EWS anti-competition scandal around allegedly scrapping perfectly working locomotives when the entire side was ripped out of it at Wigan CRDC to perform component recovery on its power unit in 2000. 47528 and 47627 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr I do love working on vulnerable old Class 47s and these two were no exception! There's plenty more things coming, both 'Duffs' and some much meatier items too! Cheers, James 38 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne 37901 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Nice work again James, Although my modelling ends at the start of 1996, before the big EWS cull and 'shed' invasion I do enjoy seeing how you capture these still working locos, it's almost as if they're refusing to give up. My favourites have to be the ones still carrying older liveries, who would have they'd be around for so long. If you're looking for an interesting, but odd (in my opinion) freightliner duff to do then how about 114 Freightliner Bulk in green. I've got an old crappy 35mm shot of it I took at Newport once somewhere. Cheers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Super work again ! It’s raining quality locos at the moment - long may it continue ! I did wonder if 627 was EWS maroon under the stickers or some Mars based bauxite , I think you’ve answered that question 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted December 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2021 Very nice James, I think the all over EWS red actually looks rather smart. But it’s the tatty Intercity Mainline that really appeals. Other than the obvious Virgin/Intercity/GWT 47/8s, res (and the odd Fraggonset) 47/7 and RFD /0s, I haven’t found many interesting 47s to model In Cornwall in 98 (other than Atlas on Virgin XC duties). Having spent a lot of time on Flickr over the last few days searching out 1998 photos in the south west. Speaking of GWT, are any of their 47s in your plans? I’m assuming you will be having the sleeper and the GWT loco hauled passenger sets on Didcot? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff west Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Nice work again James. There's something about tatty looking locos, far more interesting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Brilliant work James! Happy Christmas! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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