Kelly Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I tend to like anything 'oddball' so unique/unusual liveries fit that. I quite like the liveries that came about around the exchange trials, with a MN in blue looking rather good to my eye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessy1692 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Very nice, Jessy! A stretched, double engined Hymek. If they really had done that, that would have given it around 3,500 hp, using the existing Maybach engines. That's more powerful than a Deltic! My model was also double motored, with two chassis cut and joined through the middle. Mine is an early one with the non-ringfield metal bogies, and runs very sweetly (albeit not all that quietly!), and with all wheels driven and picking up power, it will pull anything I put behind it. There is one TCS T1 decoder feeding both motor bogies. I like your full yellow ends as they spark up the plain maroon. I was debating what treatment to give mine, but settled on the 'traditional' style matching the green ones, although I did try grey cab window surrounds rather than white: that did nothing for the appearance and looked quite drab. Keeping mine as a class 35 meant I had a dilemma as to what to do with the numbering too. I ended up using transfers and chose a random Hymek number, D7013. p.s. I note we both used the BR coach stock crest. Cheers SRman, that was my plan, iv got 3 3500hp Super Hymeks,one red one green and a blue one, i even named them using wr 47 names, think the red one is mammoth and the green one is python but i cant remember if the blue one got name plate! It started as a scrap lima deltic chassis and 2 bust up hymeks obviously, once cut and rejoined they sit very nicely on the lima chassis, and dont cost much to make. Wish BR had made a few... might do a load haul one next hmmCheers James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Hmmm, I like the stretched, twin engine Hymek, James. I also think the grey stripe works well with the maroon, SRman, it'll be added to mine now! I kept the white window surrounds, as I felt it looked better than both the grey or yellow, but I am going for the 'standard' BR logo (as in the type for green livery). My solution to the numbering was the same as Tornado's, it will be D7101, ie the next one that would have been built. The other unusual thing about mine is that it has the (highly modified) chassis from an Atlas 'Union Pacific' F9, which meant shortening the bogie sides to match the wheelbase, and having a much larger fuel tank. It still looks like a Hymek, until you put it next to a 'normal' one! It also has all wheel pick-up and drive, so performs quite well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanchester Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 On the subject of unusual liveries I vaguely recall reading somewhere that, for one of Queen Victoria's Jubilees, either the LNWR or the Cally turned an engine out in some form of Tartan. Can anyone confirm? (Would have looked rather dapper with the Cally's 'white bow tie' route indicator thingy). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 On the subject of unusual liveries I vaguely recall reading somewhere that, for one of Queen Victoria's Jubilees, either the LNWR or the Cally turned an engine out in some form of Tartan. Can anyone confirm? (Would have looked rather dapper with the Cally's 'white bow tie' route indicator thingy). I'm not sure about the railway application, but in the early to mid 1970s, London Transport sent a long Routemaster (RML) to Scotland to have an all over advert for Younger's Tartan Beer put on. This was a tartan finish with white posters and patches for the logos and wording. I have only ever seen photos of it in black and white, unfortunately; it must have been a very unusual sight in full colour! P.s. Needless to say, I have NOT attempted to replicate this scheme in model form! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 I would be willing to give it a go if I could find somewhere selling tartan paint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 They don't come any more unusual than this, forget your modern vinyl's!! Edit to add the video link from this forum back in 2011 http://videosostav.ru/video/3e09c793518c4ed692296db2fac4f79b/ Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Has a certain Lufftwaffe mottle camo look to it almost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold John B Posted June 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2016 I still rate the Holstein Cow livery applied to certain GMD SD9s operating the Port of Tillamook Railroad as one of the finest ever.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanchester Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I'm not sure about the railway application, but in the early to mid 1970s, London Transport sent a long Routemaster (RML) to Scotland to have an all over advert for Younger's Tartan Beer put on. This was a tartan finish with white posters and patches for the logos and wording. I have only ever seen photos of it in black and white, unfortunately; it must have been a very unusual sight in full colour! P.s. Needless to say, I have NOT attempted to replicate this scheme in model form! I think I may have answered my own question - if we look on www.steamindex under Crampton, there is a C Hamilton Ellis pic of a NBR Crampon in Tartan dated 1851 (if I've read that right). Mighty fine sight to see, both for design and livery! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 I think I may have answered my own question - if we look on www.steamindex under Crampton, there is a C Hamilton Ellis pic of a NBR Crampon in Tartan dated 1851 (if I've read that right). Mighty fine sight to see, both for design and livery! a quick search online shows it as NBR No 55 built by E.B. Wilson and Company in 1849 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 I still rate the Holstein Cow livery applied to certain GMD SD9s operating the Port of Tillamook Railroad as one of the finest ever.... Like this. The Tillamook area is dairy land and home to this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold John B Posted June 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2016 Like this. The Tillamook area is dairy land and home to this. Lovely area. And Tillamook is my preferred brand of Greek yoghurt, delicious stuff. Their ice cream is fantastic, too, albeit not for the waistline.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Back in the late 1970s or early 1980s, there was a Queensland Railways diesel of the 1460 class that suffered a combination of fading of its blue colour plus exposure to the red dirt of inland Queensland, which resulted in it running around the Brisbane suburban system in a rather delicate mauve and pink scheme. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Back in the late 1970s or early 1980s, there was a Queensland Railways diesel of the 1460 class that suffered a combination of fading of its blue colour plus exposure to the red dirt of inland Queensland, which resulted in it running around the Brisbane suburban system in a rather delicate mauve and pink scheme. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of it. Around the same time that Victorian Railways/VicRail were actually painting a locomotive into something of that colour. T334 in "Ozride" livery, stored at Cowper Street sidings, Mebourne (March 1987). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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