RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted February 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) I am fairly certain that @Compound2632 knows as I am certain that he put something about it on his wagon thread. (In the first thirty pages of D229 appreciation thread). EDIT: I was wrong, it was @Andy Hayter on Compound's thread, here is the link. Apparently you treat the Presfix as Methfix. Nothing at that point about the others. Edited February 24, 2021 by ChrisN added link 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted February 24, 2021 Author Share Posted February 24, 2021 Thanks for these thoughts. My biggest question is on the waters side transfers. They are the ones which break apart. So would a coating of varnish work to hold them together. If so which? Can it be water based? Ideas? many thanks richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxman1831 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 How old are the Pressfix transfers. Certainly, whenever I've watched my dad doing them (and apart from one odd sheet in my own use) the transfer itself is usually printed on a thin sheet, that will lift away from the main backing paper - a sharp knife inserted between the carrier and the backer is all I tend to use. A headtorch (in my own case attached to a magnifier) is usually enough to allow some degree of accurate placing - light shines through the paper, showing the silhouette of the transfer for placing. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 47 minutes ago, Manxman1831 said: How old are the Pressfix transfers. Certainly, whenever I've watched my dad doing them (and apart from one odd sheet in my own use) the transfer itself is usually printed on a thin sheet, that will lift away from the main backing paper - a sharp knife inserted between the carrier and the backer is all I tend to use. A headtorch (in my own case attached to a magnifier) is usually enough to allow some degree of accurate placing - light shines through the paper, showing the silhouette of the transfer for placing. Alas there does not seem to be a carrier film. Most strange, that’s what making me get stuck. richard 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 If there really is no facility for separating a reasonably thin and translucent carrier film from the more substantial opaque support sheet, then in my opinion the transfers cannot be used reliably in accordance with the original PC / HMRS instructions, may not count as "fit for purpose", and cannot be worth the money. Positioning by means of "best efforts" accurate hand-cutting around the design, followed by blind dead-reckoning to position the item on the model, is never going to be as certain as the "monitored positioning" that is possible if you can see through a carrier film. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2021 15 hours ago, Manxman1831 said: the transfer itself is usually printed on a thin sheet, that will lift away from the main backing paper - a sharp knife inserted between the carrier and the backer is all I tend to use. I've never had any Pressfix that weren't like this, whether bought 3 years ago or 33 years ago. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted February 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: I've never had any Pressfix that weren't like this, whether bought 3 years ago or 33 years ago. Same here, and some of mine are somewhat older than 33 years! I also have no problem with removing them with the merest hint of backing paper. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted February 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2021 Just a couple of observations: 1. When did HMRS ever do GCR crests? 2. The post on 19th Feb from Richard clearly shows that he is using Fox transfers. I think we have been drawn down the wrong path by the use of the word Pressfix 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Thanks for all the thoughts. Andy is right fox transfers for the crests, but the others are not water slide, they seem some sort of rub down style. I tried a first label like that and it adheres well, just a devil to position as Mr King has pointed out. So I do not think it is pressfix as we know it as most have been pointing out. I wondered if anyone else had had to fight with them before. Also has anyone got a clear shot of the compartment side of the full first in either of these liveries as that is proving elusive for working out the positioning of the mid level detail. ( numbers/ name etc.) many thanks for all your thoughts richard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Almost all numbers fitted. Some had up to three a side. Most individually fitted. Though I did fit a 21 upside down to give me 12 though I challenge anyone to spot which it is. still can’t work out the first. it does not have the odd number of spaces like the third which makes one gcr transfer in the middle logical and simple. numbers on the outside with two gcr next to each other or alternate numbers and gcr branding? ideas welcomed richard 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxman1831 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Hi Richard, just been looking at Google for "GCR Parker coaches" images and stumbled on pictures from the Steve Banks collection. One image that only helps for the corridor side is of a 4-coach train with a 11A at the head, BTK-TK-FK-BFK. It shows the positioning of the crests. Blowing the image up, I can spot the running numbers above the crests, what appears to be the company name in the long panel below the large windows. I've taken the liberty of slotting the image in below for you to blow up on your computer so you can see what I mean. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxman1831 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Done a little more perusing of blown up photos from Mr Banks' collection, in particular one showing 11B at the head of a 6-coach train. My educated guess is that the crests on the compartment side go on the plain panels between the doors - the corridor first only has two on that side (going off the smudges on the B&W photo), but it is hard to tell as it is the fourth coach back. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 46 minutes ago, Manxman1831 said: Done a little more perusing of blown up photos from Mr Banks' collection, in particular one showing 11B at the head of a 6-coach train. My educated guess is that the crests on the compartment side go on the plain panels between the doors - the corridor first only has two on that side (going off the smudges on the B&W photo), but it is hard to tell as it is the fourth coach back. Thanks I have been playing with these too and like you have found that any of the other side are of the carriages of interest have them far back in the formation. I am reaching the point of making a decision based on best guess. in better news the others have had their transfers. From four different manufacturers just to get all the right ones. Plus some great advice about transfer restorer from John. including the buffet carriage with all the correct labeling, except for one “kitchen” transfer in gold for the door I can’t track one down. richard 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 Quick quiz. Gcr tail lamps’ bodies. Red, black or white? I know the lenses are red but were the tail lamps like the side lamps on the brakes? Or black like loco lamps, but that makes them harder to see for the signalmen. Or white so easily visible like br era tail lamps? only images I can find on line are auctions of hand lamps which are balk bodied. many thanks richard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 The last side done. thanks to the help and advice of JQ. This is the best guess of the layout as no known clear picture of this side.....unless you know differently. now I have committed a clear photo is bound to show up. richard 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 7 hours ago, AVS1998 said: Hello all, I just wanted to chime in and say I've been watching this thread with great interest. Richard, it's been really useful reading your coach construction techniques, it's given me some ideas of how to approach some brass kits I have myself. I'm still not entirely confident with the medium, but I'm getting there! I just wanted to ask quickly, seeing as this seems to be 'the place' where GCR knowledge is abound, does anyone have any further information on GCR excursion stock? I've managed to piece together a vague idea of what may have been used during a particular period (1905-7, 1910+), but I've not got anything concrete. The implication of twelve-wheel dining cars from circa 1906 particularly interested me, as they were constructed at the beginning of the matchboard period but apparently still followed Parker practice. I can't wait to see more developments, it's definitely motivation to get back to my own modelling. Thanks! Alex Thank you for you kind words. there are photos of excursions run by the GCR to Plymouth and they ran elsewhere. There were twelve wheel diners from earlier too which were joint stock so traveled further around. I have not looked specifically at long distance excursion stock to see exactly what was in the train consist. However, pictures of local excursions from the northern heartland to the coast for instance had anything which could turn a wheel in their rake. There are a few photos of a series of boots excursions from the midlands in the early twenties (I think) which used match board stock. I do not think there was special narrower excursion stock built. However, I would need to look further to give a more accurate/ concrete answer. richard 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Little things make a huge difference. the lamps go on. then JQ kindly offered me these etches for the loo windows. such kindness will make such a difference to the model. In ordinary life it might surprise me, but I have found modelers to be such a supportive bunch which makes it such a great place to be. So thanks to JQ and all others who have added any support or advice in these builds or other previous ones. richard 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Am I missing something? Below the left hand crest. either I am blind and miss sections which do not cover the primer or the primer some how bleeds through the top coat. this is not the only one which has required remedial action. After I notice each one I check all the others and do not spot anything. Then later, this. I cannot imagine I would have fitted the transfer before addressing this if it had been there all along, or am I really that blind? richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2021 1 hour ago, richard i said: Am I missing something? Below the left hand crest. either I am blind and miss sections which do not cover the primer or the primer some how bleeds through the top coat. this is not the only one which has required remedial action. After I notice each one I check all the others and do not spot anything. Then later, this. I cannot imagine I would have fitted the transfer before addressing this if it had been there all along, or am I really that blind? richard Hi ricahrd As our late friend Pete would say "I don't mean to criticise but...." I wouldn't think it is the primer bleeding through. I know I can blunder along with a model and not realise an error until quite a few stages later despite it being all to obvious. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted March 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2021 Richard Have you varnished the coaches yet? What I see in the picture could be varnish blooming. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 54 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said: Richard Have you varnished the coaches yet? What I see in the picture could be varnish blooming. No varnish yet. So it can’t be that, which led me down my train of thought. 3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi ricahrd As our late friend Pete would say "I don't mean to criticise but...." I wouldn't think it is the primer bleeding through. I know I can blunder along with a model and not realise an error until quite a few stages later despite it being all to obvious. that’s why I am prepared to concede that I am getting blind. Well in the right eye now. We know the left one has been a write off for years. richard 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Maybe you are now using better light than you did when you applied the paint? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 1 hour ago, gr.king said: Maybe you are now using better light than you did when you applied the paint? This may be true as the day light get longer and the weather is sunnier. richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 The corridor connectors are on. They are a little basic but the have the right feel to them. I think windows next. richard 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 I'm envious (to the nth degree) of your coach building skills. Very, very nice work. Presumably the next project is a Parker or Pollit 4-4-0 (or even a Pollitt Single?) to haul them? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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