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3 hours ago, KNP said:

 

Interesting idea, I shall give it some thought........but I have the sinister wagon to build (plus I have a Macaw kit on its way that I have just got of Ebay) first.

Then I shall do some thinking......

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A Macaw, hope it doesn't say rude words, anyway thought you where making a PW train or is it a zoo.. mind you that would explain a smuggled load of cannonballs and a pirates parrott

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7 hours ago, wiggoforgold said:

Looks like you've moved the shield behind the top bunker lamp bracket from the moulded coal to the back of the bunker. How did you do it? (I've got 4588 btw)

Alex

Coal load very poorly fixed in and just need a bit of gentle prodding and it fell out.

Used as a new base lower down

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2 hours ago, KNP said:

A gaggle of Prairies.....

 

5531 trundles into town with a coal train

4589 passes by with the local passenger service and into the distance

4550 with the PW train waits at the signal for the main line to clear.

 

Boy, a busy day at LM, unusual to see all three Prairies out and about at the same time....almost as if it was staged?

 

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Staged. Come on this is Little Muddle absolutely nothing is staged in LM. Its all real isn't it.,......?

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On 07/02/2022 at 22:06, Neal Ball said:

Shameless plus, apologies @KNP for high-jacking your thread (ingenious hidden lead shot on the sleeper wagon btw).

 

Followers of Little Muddle might be interested in joining a poll in the GWR sub forum, where we are casting votes for a new GWR R-T-R Pannier tank 0-6-0. As well as the poll, on Page 1 there is my rationale / suggested specification for a new loco. One of which is that the loco should be designed before WW2.

 

With that being one of the criteria, I thought it might appeal to some of your followers.

 

The poll is here, together with my rationale: 

 

Thanks, Neal.

 

 

 

Is there an option in the poll for 'i have 1 and that's far too many'?

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On 07/02/2022 at 08:50, KNP said:

Work continuing on the sinister wagon….

Sleepers being added by what with the cut out holes????

 

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Now I see

 

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Lead smuggling, very rife in these parts!!

 

Wagon very light even with the brass couplings fitted so weight needed but where to put it??

In the load of course hidden from view…,,

 

 

There is space to fit 30g of lead under the end platforms as  I did on mine. Ingenious solution you have found there though.

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The lack of the diversity of livery of pre war coal traffic is one thing I do miss about modelling in the turn of the 60s.

Somehow the differing types of 16ton steel wagon and their differing patterns of rust patches are not quite the same! Admittedly I do cheat apply rule 1, and run a higher proportion of wooden coal wagons than is perhaps prototypical of the time.

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6 hours ago, SteveTheSteam said:

Very nicely weathered

 

 

They certainly are. I've long avoided brightly colored PO wagons because I have always thought that they looked toylike.

 

I've just changed my mind!

 

BTW. There was a sleeper wagon kit appeared on eBay yesterday for under a tenner including the postage. 

I was trampled by the buy it now urge....

 

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