Edwardian Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 I have found a solution to replicating straw as packing for wagon loads. My old shaving brush. No longer will I need to ask blonde maidens for a lock of their hair. The results will be seen as a load in the 2 plank wagon which is still in the system. Richard Great idea. Unfortunately, my old shaving brush is my current shaving brush. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Great idea. Unfortunately, my old shaving brush is my current shaving brush. You obviously buy better shaving brushes than me, as mine fall apart after only 10 years of useful service 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Progress report The Cambrian wagon has had the ropes fitted to the tarpaulin and dusted over with powders to mute and blend in the colours. The ex LDEC weltrol has had the bi plane fitted as a load. I decided to sheet over the cockpit. It looks effective to me, it was loo paper with washes of brown and black. The road van is bringing up the back of this ensemble it is up to transfers, but those will be done in a mammoth session once I have cleared my desk of all the building and painting. Richard 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 (edited) Just reminded me. Came across a picture of a WD brake in Met livery. The thing is, it still has WD markings as well as MET. Looks as if it wasn't repainted, just had MET and the new number added. Not that this greatly helps in this case unless you fancy a MET van. The photo is in Southern Wagons Pictorial by Mike King, page 46. The same page has one in LNER livery, but it is ex-GE, said to have gone there in 1922, Edited August 10, 2016 by Poggy1165 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Just reminded me. Came across a picture of a WD brake in Met livery. The thing is, it still has WD markings as well as MET. Looks as if it wasn't repainted, just had MET and the new number added. Not that this greatly helps in this case unless you fancy a MET van. The photo is in Southern Wagons Pictorial by Mike King, page 46. The same page has one in LNER livery, but it is ex-GE, said to have gone there in 1922, That would be a fun style of paint job, where were all the markings place, the W and the D, did it have the arrow? Etc. I am trying to remember what Andy's looked like when he did a WD version for his layout. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Coal wagon loaded It looks better as the interior did not look right without the back of the door detail. It did have a slight lean to port as the sailors might say, I have in a very Heath Robinson sort of way tried to rectify it by putting the weight in it with a bias to the starboard side. I can not see why it wanted to lean over but after some strong words and the extra burden glued under it, it is now starting to behave. Now got to build the load of a steam traction engine for the other lomac and then all the 9 carriages and wagons will go into the works for transfers. I seem to build in 9s as that is the length of train my "temporary" fiddle yard will take. I say temporary, it has now been in place for ten years, but the aim is.... Like every one there is the bigger master plan Richard 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 That would be a fun style of paint job, where were all the markings place, the W and the D, did it have the arrow? Etc. I am trying to remember what Andy's looked like when he did a WD version for his layout. Richard The WD is high up, top left, top plank, and it looks like a little arrow between the letters, but it's quite small and the print not sharp. I was sort of amused at such casual painting but then again, when I think about it, at around this time the GC was sending out (some) locos with no lettering on the tenders, and with sundry other anomalies, because it was more important to get the engine on the road than do a perfect paint job. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Enjoying the continued progress, and I really like the biplane, a great feature and very convincingly done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 The WD is high up, top left, top plank, and it looks like a little arrow between the letters, but it's quite small and the print not sharp. I was sort of amused at such casual painting but then again, when I think about it, at around this time the GC was sending out (some) locos with no lettering on the tenders, and with sundry other anomalies, because it was more important to get the engine on the road than do a perfect paint job. And in grey primer which I should really model to ring the changesThank you for the livery description Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 Enjoying the continued progress, and I really like the biplane, a great feature and very convincingly done.That is kind, the rest is on a flatrol it will run in the WW1 train. That now has just the carriage for the troops to be built up from a 3d printRichard 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted August 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12, 2016 Hi Richard The bogie wagon does look better loaded. Cor I wish I had the guts to say "Told you so"!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 Hi Richard The bogie wagon does look better loaded. Cor I wish I had the guts to say "Told you so"!!!!!! It was the lack of internal detail which made the eye tell you something was missing. Next time I will have to do the doors properly, inside and out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Progress has been slower still. I have been teaching my six year old to solder and paint, here is the result. He did the joins and started the cleaning up. I finished that. He did the primer and main colour. I did the painting detail. I then chained it to the wagon. The roof is in the foreground and I can not decide if that should be another wagon load. Just the pipe load for the 2 plank and then it is on to the transfers for the nine pieces of stock. Anyone would think I was putting off that part of the process. Richard 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Progress has been slower still. I have been teaching my six year old to solder and paint, here is the result. image.jpg He did the joins and started the cleaning up. I finished that. He did the primer and main colour. I did the painting detail. I then chained it to the wagon. The roof is in the foreground and I can not decide if that should be another wagon load. Just the pipe load for the 2 plank and then it is on to the transfers for the nine pieces of stock. Anyone would think I was putting off that part of the process. Richard Excellent. I like the traction engine load, what model is it? Really looks the part and represents the sheer variety no doubt to be seen when more or less everything went via rail. For my part, I have now acquired a Dapol Lowmac, so a GER MacK will follow at some point. As I plan to have an agricultural contractors based at Castle Aching, I am thinking of loading mine with a portable steam engine to be delivered to them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 The steam tractor is a scale link one, they are still trading if you want to pick one up. However, I found mine at a swap meet here in the USA. Who would have thought. It was the only 4mm stuff for sale in the whole show. My lomac will be done as an LDECR one . I may have to second guess the lettering from images of one of their 5 planks which came into GCR stock. Richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon0r Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Traction engines being transported from Ransomes' : https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24206337434/in/album-72157663756160010/ Another load, they look like horse wagons on railway wagons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24716658692/in/album-72157663756160010/ All on the Great Eastern at Ipswich 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Traction engines being transported from Ransomes' : https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24206337434/in/album-72157663756160010/ Another load, they look like horse wagons on railway wagons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24716658692/in/album-72157663756160010/ All on the Great Eastern at Ipswich Brilliant photographs. part of my thinking was that they are a number of manufacturers of agricultural machinery in GE territory, so the Mac K with its steam engine could go anywhere. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted August 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28, 2016 Traction engines being transported from Ransomes' : https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24206337434/in/album-72157663756160010/ Another load, they look like horse wagons on railway wagons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24716658692/in/album-72157663756160010/ All on the Great Eastern at Ipswich Hi Simon The loads in the second photo are British Army MkX GS Wagons. http://scratchbuiltarmour.blogspot.co.uk/2014_02_01_archive.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 Traction engines being transported from Ransomes' : https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24206337434/in/album-72157663756160010/ Another load, they look like horse wagons on railway wagons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24716658692/in/album-72157663756160010/ All on the Great Eastern at Ipswich The chaining is close, but now do I rig a tarpaulin ? It would need the company logo on and would cover up the paint job, I am tempted to weather it slightly and have it on a transfer between two owners who did not cover it.Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 30, 2016 Author Share Posted August 30, 2016 The three plank now has its load Clay pipes to sort out the sewers in an expanding industrial town. Pipes are the clips that turn narrow glow sticks into circles. If you turn the made in China to the bottom you are left with a number stamp on top. Different for each pipe. The straw is old shaving brush hair. Recycling at its finest. The batch build progresses, I might clear the wagons by doing their transfers and couplings and come back to the coach glazing which I find very tedious. Richard That photo has shown up how much there is to do to the cars to bring them up to standard. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 The three plank now has its load image.jpg Clay pipes to sort out the sewers in an expanding industrial town. Pipes are the clips that turn narrow glow sticks into circles. If you turn the made in China to the bottom you are left with a number stamp on top. Different for each pipe. The straw is old shaving brush hair. Recycling at its finest. The batch build progresses, I might clear the wagons by doing their transfers and couplings and come back to the coach glazing which I find very tedious. Richard That photo has shown up how much there is to do to the cars to bring them up to standard. A great load. That is the fun of modelling, when skill, inventiveness and originality come together in a convincing way. Unfortunately, my shaving brush is still showing no signs of wearing out! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted August 31, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2016 Progress has been slower still. I have been teaching my six year old to solder and paint, here is the result. image.jpg He did the joins and started the cleaning up. I finished that. He did the primer and main colour. I did the painting detail. I then chained it to the wagon. The roof is in the foreground and I can not decide if that should be another wagon load. Just the pipe load for the 2 plank and then it is on to the transfers for the nine pieces of stock. Anyone would think I was putting off that part of the process. Richard Richard, Could I borrow your six year old to teach me how to solder and paint like that please? I think it looks brilliant. I wish I had had someone to teach me things like that when I was six. Excellent, and well done both of you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Richard, Could I borrow your six year old to teach me how to solder and paint like that please? I think it looks brilliant. I wish I had had someone to teach me things like that when I was six. Excellent, and well done both of you. He is available to give lessons, his rates are two jammy dodgers a session. It is just the matter of getting to the USA for each session which might not make it a viable option. Richard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted September 3, 2016 Author Share Posted September 3, 2016 The wagons are complete First up the thirty ton bogie coal wagon. Transfers done, no two photos found showed the same layout of wording on the side of the wagon. Then the pipes being transported. Dragon model dry transfers used which shows up plank detail nicely. With its roof in the fore ground removed for transport. The wagon for that needs completing. It is labelled up as LDEC as they originally got this type if lomac. Named after a mentor of mine, not sure what his company works on but it certainly needs a steam tractor. The other is labelled as taken over by the great central. Lastly the road van. I decided to GCR it as it is in the southern book as such. It adds to the variation. I know the debate will still rage over if it is correct but I feel that we will never get conclusive proof one way or the other. That and brake vans and loco should match and I don't have a war department loco to run with it. Now to finish the horse box and carriages. Richard 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 The wagons are complete image.jpg First up the thirty ton bogie coal wagon. Transfers done, no two photos found showed the same layout of wording on the side of the wagon. image.jpg Then the pipes being transported. Dragon model dry transfers used which shows up plank detail nicely. image.jpg With its roof in the fore ground removed for transport. The wagon for that needs completing. It is labelled up as LDEC as they originally got this type if lomac. Named after a mentor of mine, not sure what his company works on but it certainly needs a steam tractor. image.jpg The other is labelled as taken over by the great central. image.jpg Lastly the road van. I decided to GCR it as it is in the southern book as such. It adds to the variation. I know the debate will still rage over if it is correct but I feel that we will never get conclusive proof one way or the other. That and brake vans and loco should match and I don't have a war department loco to run with it. Now to finish the horse box and carriages. Richard All very nicely done. The subtle weathering is very effective. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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