Phil Brighton Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Few more pics. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phil Brighton Posted August 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2019 Been a while.... However there is progress on the layout and stock. The bulk of the layout is done with details like fences, lamps and bits and bobs being added now. I am also building a DJH C2 which is beyond this now and sitting in primer. Finally I have been building a Mailcoach Coronation set. The observation coach is done now and the rest of the set are very nearly at the same stage. Never easy kits these. 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 As normal I have got 99% of the way there on both the C2 and the Coronation and something else has got my attention. I will finish them in a week or so. I was flicking through a carriage drawings book and though that I could use a kirk non corridor full brake as the basis for a GNR passenger van Diagram 307. Sides have been made from plasticard layers using a cutting machine. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nest Posted September 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2019 Great to see progress...now you just need to be finished in time for our next club cup night nestor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 Van mainly built barring a few handrails. Think I got the toplights right. Just perched on the bogies, not really that wonky. I think maybe the footboards are too prominent so may swap them. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) I am afraid Steve Bank's website is a bit dangerous and it tempted me into building another GNR full brake along side the one above. This time I took an old Hornby Gresley, sanded and cut off the detail, shortened it to 55'6", make a new floor and sides. Edited September 25, 2019 by Phil Brighton 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbler Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 On 22/09/2019 at 23:11, Phil Brighton said: Van mainly built barring a few handrails. Think I got the toplights right. Just perched on the bogies, not really that wonky. I think maybe the footboards are too prominent so may swap them. She looks a beauty. On my scratch building thread (my/our carriage building thread ) i do my duckets like this.... Dont have a cutting machine, all my stuff is done with a scalpel Cheers Scott 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted September 26, 2019 Author Share Posted September 26, 2019 Thanks. Useful to see. The ducket on the 55'6" is a more complex shape that the first one but should be ok. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phil Brighton Posted October 13, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 13, 2019 (edited) The 55'6" brake has been narrowed to 8'. Was fairly straight forward in the end. However I have been finishing off other bits I have been working on for a while. In no particular order the Coronation, GNR full brake and DJH C2. Edited October 13, 2019 by Phil Brighton 26 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 I had planned to get to Southampton today to see Grantham but it wasn't possible in the end sadly. However it did mean I had time to start the buffet car from the Cambridge Buffet Express. I am planning to make the 5 coach set 1933-1939. The diagrams I am going for are: 58'6" GN 258 Corridor Brake 3rd 58'6 GN 248 Corridor 3rd 58'6 GN 78T Buffet 61'6" GN 164K Corridor Composite 58'6 GN 258 Corridor Brake 3rd They will be made from converting old style Hornby Gresleys (spot on for 58'6" and spare Kirk kit parts. Good opportunity to give D16s, B12s, B17s a reason to be at Potters Bar. First up a old Hornby Gresley Strip it back sanding off all the beading, roof vents and cut off the corridor connectors. Cut out a strip where the windows go. New floor from 1.5mm plasticard, channel for solebars, buffers cut from the Hornby coach and spare kirk bogies. Sides drawn up from Islinglass drawings and Steve Banks website. Then cut on the silhouette machine. Assembled Added to the coach with roof vents, kirk corridor connectors and a few other bits and bobs added. 9 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 58'6" 3rd done in the same way. 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phil Brighton Posted February 19, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2020 A few images from around Potters Bar. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 8 hours ago, Phil Brighton said: A few images from around Potters Bar. The A4 is very realistically weathered. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 G'Day Folks Great looking layout. manna 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 8 hours ago, richard i said: The A4 is very realistically weathered. Thanks. I was pleased with how it turned out. I found the blue quite simple to weather. The silver far more difficult to not over do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nest Posted February 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2020 Grand work Phil! ...and i believe a happy birthday as well! Nestor 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 Progress on the Cambridge Buffet Express has stalled and instead things have moved onto a quad art train. Kirk kits, one of the two kits was part constructed but when it arrived it looked like someone has been shooting glue at it out of a cannon. Thankfully very little of the sides was ruined by glue and I had spare bogies and could make other parts that couldn't be rescued so after a lot of rubbing down has come up ok. Footboards made of staples and scrap brass were a pain but pleased with how they turned out. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 Also while I do know they didn't run through Potters Bar I have always liked the Sentinel Railcars and have had a Nu-Cast kit on the shelf for ages. I had to swap the wheels on the motor bogie as they are very small. I know others have said the Tenshodo couldn't cope but so far mine seems ok. 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 I am being very undisciplined and starting all sorts of new things. I had a old version Hornby B12 I had ruined when practicing weathering and I have a picture of a B12/1 running through Potters Bar on a Cambridge train. So when a Mcgowan kit for a B12/1 came on ebay for what I thought was a reasonable price I went for it. The idea being it a simple looking kit, use the old Hornby B12 chassis and quickly and easily get a decent and a little bit different B12 for far less than a new Hornby B12/3. Unfortunately the kit is proving a pain, the parts don't fit together, it needs loads of filing to get the close and is going to have a ton of filler needed before the end. On top of this it appears the B12 chassis has chewed up its gearwheel so a new one will be needed. All in not proving a simple project. 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Progress on the Quad Arts continues and am pleased with how they are looking. The McGowan B12 is continuing to need a lot done to it to get it to both fit together and look like a B12/1. It was too long, the smokebox front was wrong, steps in the wrong place and the decorative valencing didn't match the castings. After much though and a realisation you can use solvent to stick plasticard to white metal I ended up making a thin skin for parts of the frames, the smokebox, top of the running plate and cab front. This was after a very large amount of filing the castings down all over. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brighton Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) A few updates on builds I haven't popped up pictures of and are finished. The McGowan B12/1 needed loads of work not just to get it to sit on the Hornby chassis but because the kit just didn't fit together or was simply wrong. To say what I thought would be a quick project took a lot more work then expected is an understatement. Its weathered and all running now. The railcar is performing well on its little Tenshodo - which is a relief as I understand can struggle with the weight. Finally the Quad Arts. Edited July 17, 2020 by Phil Brighton 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted July 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2020 You've got a really good look the the quad arts. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nest Posted July 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2020 Looking good Phil Nestor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phil Brighton Posted October 21, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2020 A few pictures of progress. The old Hornby Gresley conversions to GNR coaches are pretty much finished. They make up the 5 coach Cambridge Buffet Express. 23 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2020 Your ability at recreating teak finish is as good as any that I have seen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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