RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted July 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2020 A few projects 'in hand' at the moment but none worth sharing yet really. Meanwhile running sessions seem to be more frequent while the 'lockdown' (or whatever it is at the moment) grinds on, and the timetable day has come full circle once again. Tonight's locos on shed give the place quite a diesel depot atmosphere, and the guys in charge of the makeshift fuelling pump will be busy. They seem to be confident enough to leave it running while they go for a brew though, and the gaffers don't seem very bothered. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted July 25, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2020 This afternoon Control's computer played a blinder, and rostered an N7 to each of the simultaneous departures from Finsbury Square; an ordinary passenger and an ECS. Luckily a local spotter was on hand with a ciné camera to record them getting into their stride past City Road. In other news, I was lucky to get hold of a Chivers Finelines LNER Loco Coal wagon kit recently; great news that these are being reintroduced, and I've just about finished it. There's not much that needs doing to these kits, they're so good and all I've done differently is to replace the moulded tie bar between the axleguards with one from metal strip, and make the brake cross shaft from fatter wire than that supplied. Transfers are from Cambridge Custom Transfers. Also, a very welcome phone call was received from Monk Bar Models this morning to tell me that they'd got a Bachmann EE Type 4 with my name on it! So a quick foray across town to pick it up. This is the first Bachmann D200 that I've had, as to my knowledge they haven't made a plain green one with disc head codes and no name before. The usual additional bits still need to be fitted, but she certainly looks the part. My old Limby 'place marker' can be retired at last! 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) G'Day Folks I misread your last bit, and thought you'd said you had replaced your 'Limby 'Pace maker' !!!!! Nice loco. The racing N7's remind me so much, of leaving the 'Cross' in the late afternoon/early evening and racing a class 47 or Deltic between Gasworks tunnel and Holloway, especially when your banging the side of your class 31 to make it go faster !! manna Edited July 25, 2020 by manna 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 25, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2020 16 minutes ago, manna said: G'Day Folks I misread your last bit, and thought you'd said you had replaced your 'Limby 'Pace maker' !!!!! Nice loco. The racing N7's remind me so much, of leaving the 'Cross' in the late afternoon/early evening and racing a class 47 or Deltic between Gasworks tunnel and Holloway, especially when your banging the side of your class 31 to make it go faster !! manna Thanks Manna, It's a good job there isn't a tunnel on my layout or I'd have to fill the coaches with smoke! Did banging the side of the 31 really make it go faster, then? 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 G'Day Folks We always used to be in front until we got to Western sidings,( class 40 & 46) where we had to start to brake for our stop at Finsbury Park, we could hold our own against a class 47, but Deltics used to draw ahead, from Holloway. All good fun. manna 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2020 3 hours ago, 31A said: Bachmann EE Type 4 with my name on it! I thought they were named after ocean liners. 1 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 7 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I thought they were named after ocean liners. Steve's middle name is Carpathia. Did you not know that? 1 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Not Atlantic Conveyor? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted July 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2020 I watched that go down mate. It had all our heavy equipment on including all of our chinooks apart from bravo november. It turned into the most overworked helicopter in history. Fortunately it was there or I wouldn't be here. AC even had most of our guns. Luckily not our rapiers so we still had our air defence. Regards Lez. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted July 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2020 Sorry Steve. I shouldn't have popped off on your thread. Please accept my apology. 1982 might have been 38 years ago to most people but to some of us it still seems like yesterday. PTSD is like that I guess. Regards Lez. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 26, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 26, 2020 Just now, lezz01 said: Sorry Steve. I shouldn't have popped off on your thread. Please accept my apology. 1982 might have been 38 years ago to most people but to some of us it still seems like yesterday. PTSD is like that I guess. Regards Lez. No problem Let; it sounds as though you went through a terrible ordeal of the kind most of us can only imagine, I'm not surprised it left an indelible impression. I must admit it doesn't seem like 38 years ago to me either, although I wasn't directly involved. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2020 I've been doing "this and that" on the layout most of the time recently but most of it amounts to nothing worth showing! I'd noticed that I was getting a backlog of locos needing weathering, not helped by Lockdown distress purchases. 60533 certainly isn't one of those, I've had it for years but somehow it had escaped the treatment, so I decided it was about time. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 On 25/07/2020 at 23:28, manna said: G'Day Folks I misread your last bit, and thought you'd said you had replaced your 'Limby 'Pace maker' !!!!! Nice loco. The racing N7's remind me so much, of leaving the 'Cross' in the late afternoon/early evening and racing a class 47 or Deltic between Gasworks tunnel and Holloway, especially when your banging the side of your class 31 to make it go faster !! manna Pretty much my thoughts, except leaving Liverpool St came to mind. I remember a report In Trains Illustrated of a rush hour departure from LiverpoolSt with an N7 the Bethnal Green line , a diesel hauled express on the fast line , and Gidea Park stopper on the slow line, all going up Bethnal Green Bank side by side but with the N7 outpacing the other two ! No doubt about it Finsbury Square absolutely oozes atmosphere and that was a great video. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) On 18/09/2020 at 17:26, 31A said: The excitement of trying to bunk the shed... what a brilliant shot. Definitely a cop for me... Edited September 22, 2020 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 21 minutes ago, jazzer said: Pretty much my thoughts, except leaving Liverpool St came to mind. I remember a report In Trains Illustrated of a rush hour departure from LiverpoolSt with an N7 the Bethnal Green line , a diesel hauled express on the fast line , and Gidea Park stopper on the slow line, all going up Bethnal Green Bank side by side but with the N7 outpacing the other two ! No doubt about it Finsbury Square absolutely oozes atmosphere and that was a great video. Thank you, glad you liked it! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said: The excitement of trying to bunk the shed... what a brilliant shot. DefiDefinitely a cop for me... Thanks Doc, glad you like it! The wall is actually the front edge of the layout; you can see that the bit below ground level is varnished plywood. It helps to stop me knocking locos onto the floor, but I thought I might as well make the non-scenic side look like a wall, as well as the inside, and I thought leaving a gateway in it would give an opportunity for views such as this. 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted September 25, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2020 Another shot of the loco yard. This is taken at the end of the day (must be mid summer!) and shows the motley collection of locos that the computer has thrown together tonight. On the left, the N7 and the Baby Deltic will be first off in the morning; by then the Type 2 will have been fuelled although there's no sign of anyone doing it at the moment. Next off will be the B17, followed by the K3 behind it. Deltic will leave last, and the two tank engines on the blocks behind that will both be spare tomorrow. The gaffers are still putting the world to rights. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted October 1, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2020 Rummaging through drawers the other day I cam across a stash of unmade Airfix wagon kits, which included these. I thought I'd put one together quite quickly and use it to practice rust painting techniques, as I have several other mineral wagons in the "Round to it" file and it's not a thing I've been very happy at doing. I seem to have got a bit carried away, and the 'quickly' part of that was forgotten. As well as deleting the big hinges and making good under the doors, I added brake lever and V hangers from a 51L etch, from Wizard Models. Buffers are from ABS, etched draw hooks from somewhere or other and door springs from a strip of nickel silver drilled & pinned to the solebar. Removed the moulded safety loops from the brake gear moulding, and replaced with new ones from thin metal strip. I'd wanted to try the method of 'rusting' that uses Maskol applied and then peeled off, so I sprayed the finished wagon with Halford's Red Oxide Primer, and dabbed patches of darker rust colour at random, applied Maskol and then sprayed again with Humbrol 64 Light Grey, and peeled off the Maskol. However I wasn't happy with the results, and think this method is probably 'not for me'! So, re-sprayed with the Humbrol 64. This had the unexpected benefit that the Maskol 'patches' were still visible in relief, giving the effect of a wagon that had been repainted without being rubbed down! I thought I'd see whether the 40+ years old Airfix transfers would still work; they did, although the white stripes tended to fray at the edges as I put them on, which was another unexpected bonus. I hadn't realised that the white stripe transfers aren't 'handed' until I'd wetted the second one, so I had to hastily cut one end to the right angle; the other end fell off! Then had another go at the rust. This time more in line with how I've done it previously (and as suggested by @Neil ), applying rust colours mixed up from Humbrol 160 Red Brown, 53 Gunmetal and matt black and matt orange colours, using a small brush to apply 'blobs' and then dragging the wet paint with a clean brush, also dry brushing on edges etc. Whilst doing this I was looking at photos of real wagons in the 1950s and 60s, and bearing in mind at that time these wagons would have been quite new, I've tried to be fairly restrained with the rust. A lot of model 16 tonners are painted with big rust patches, but I wonder whether this reflects the state people remember them from the 1970s, or what is seen in colour photos from that time. 17 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 1 hour ago, 31A said: I seem to have got a bit carried away, and the 'quickly' part of that was forgotten. Like it ! AMS - Advanced Modeller Syndrome - is a thing in the aircraft/armour scale modelling community, the inability to build anything out of the box without etched or resin gucci bits. The accepted cure is to build something horrific (like a Matchbox three colour kit) using only the tools available when you were 14, in a day. No aftermarket bits or even filler, bonus points if you get it painted and the transfers on before bed time. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 31A Posted October 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2020 Bit of a dull day here today, and not much motivation to start anything serious. Just looking around at small jobs that needed doing, I thought it was about time I 'planted' the home signals gantry properly; it's only about 3 years since I built it. So I tore some bits of rough sandpaper roughly to shape, and cut them to fit around the feet of the signal posts. Then glued down with PVA, and painted 'ground colour'. 17 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 A really rather splendid idea that! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 01/10/2020 at 16:30, Wheatley said: Like it ! AMS - Advanced Modeller Syndrome - is a thing in the aircraft/armour scale modelling community, the inability to build anything out of the box without etched or resin gucci bits. The accepted cure is to build something horrific (like a Matchbox three colour kit) using only the tools available when you were 14, in a day. No aftermarket bits or even filler, bonus points if you get it painted and the transfers on before bed time. Hi I still use the same type of tools for my modelling as I did when I was 14, I am now 63. 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted October 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 26 minutes ago, danstercivicman said: A really rather splendid idea that! Thanks Dan; I hope the thing doesn't go wrong now!! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi I still use the same type of tools for my modelling as I did when I was 14, I am now 63. I still use some of the same tools! My Dad's old electrical screwdriver, pliers and wood chisels for example. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 I too still use the modeling tools I had as a teen. I also have all my dads engineering tools and his tool chest. He was a toolmaker back before he got the calling and became a minister. I followed in his footsteps and trained as a toolmaker as well before serving in the army. I returned to it after serving through the 80's so I have an extensive range of tools, both old school and more modern ones, many made by my father and myself as apprentice pieces and if I don't have one chances are I can make it or something that will do the job just as well. Regards Lez. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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