RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted April 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Personally, I would have gone for the two bob Airfix kit, the underframe detail is better, and with the application of Masokits/RT Models improvements, scrubs up quite well IMHO. Mike. Yeah, but the one Damian found is in the correct livery. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Stubby47 said: Have you finished the rebuild of BCB yet? Just askin' Unfortunately not yet 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Does anybody know what the “B Tank” designation refers to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, Indomitable026 said: Does anybody know what the “B Tank” designation refers to? Flash points. https://www.igg.org.uk/rail/6-livy/odds/9-tankliv.htm Third paragraph. Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted April 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2020 6 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Flash points. https://www.igg.org.uk/rail/6-livy/odds/9-tankliv.htm Third paragraph. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6775 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Good to see this back up and (maybe) progressing!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 2 hours ago, 2ManySpams said: That wasn’t quite what is was expecting from you... I guess it could have been a lot worse. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 37 260 1983 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 On 01/04/2020 at 16:36, Mark Forrest said: Never mind all that; you mentioned having got some wagons - what did you get? Here you go, here’s the first one; 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Tonight’s Pic 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted April 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2020 5 hours ago, Indomitable026 said: Tonight’s Pic That’s got a really bad weathering job on the body side. You’d never see that on the prototype... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 6 hours ago, Regularity said: That’s got a really bad weathering job on the body side. You’d never see that on the prototype... I can just imagine explaining at a show - I’ve made a bad job of it because... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCT Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) On 04/04/2020 at 19:05, Indomitable026 said: Here you go, here’s the first one; This is a dead easy P4 conversion - I just changed the wheelsets on mine. No form of compensation, even with the 12'0" WB - it ran fine round my circuit and I wouldn't claim my track is any better than "reasonable". Alasdair Edited April 6, 2020 by AJCT 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 Today’s picture which is largely the scene I’m modelling, albeit from a different angle... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted April 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2020 All 3 visible numbers are different sizes! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Regularity said: All 3 visible numbers are different sizes! Yes, a right lash up. I kind of like those ‘bodge it and scarper’ times - a bit like the 27 that had its middle window blanked out and painted yellow. Money was tight... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 37 025 I love this shot, 37 025 before she was named and a modern rail-freight van. Hopefully someone can tell me exactly what sort of van? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railfreight1998 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Indomitable026 said: 37 025 I love this shot, 37 025 before she was named and a modern rail-freight van. Hopefully someone can tell me exactly what sort of van? Looks like a VAA to me - similar to the Bachmann model, but without the end ventilators. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted April 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2020 3 hours ago, Railfreight1998 said: Looks like a VAA to me - similar to the Bachmann model, but without the end ventilators. Close, but not quite. The central position of the doors suggest it's a VCA. VAA (and VBA) had a different arrangement of doors. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/vca 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railfreight1998 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 33 minutes ago, Mark Forrest said: Close, but not quite. The central position of the doors suggest it's a VCA. VAA (and VBA) had a different arrangement of doors. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/vca Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't quite see the 4 door handles (and I can't zoom on flickr on my phone!). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Mark Forrest said: Close, but not quite. The central position of the doors suggest it's a VCA. VAA (and VBA) had a different arrangement of doors. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/vca Thought so, minefield Does anyone produce a VCA? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianwales Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 57 minutes ago, Indomitable026 said: Thought so, minefield Does anyone produce a VCA? A company called A1 Models used to do etched VCA sides to convert the Hornby VDA, that is the only one I can think of. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted April 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 9, 2020 16 hours ago, ianwales said: A company called A1 Models used to do etched VCA sides to convert the Hornby VDA, that is the only one I can think of. Fairly sure I have a set of those sides somewhere, must try to find them at some point. I'd use a Bachmann VAA as the base rather than a Hornby VDA these days though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 17 minutes ago, Mark Forrest said: Fairly sure I have a set of those sides somewhere, must try to find them at some point. I'd use a Bachmann VAA as the base rather than a Hornby VDA these days though. Top man! You may just have saved me from googling “A1 models” ... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted April 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Indomitable026 said: Top man! You may just have saved me from googling “A1 models” ... Bad news, the one I have is for VAA/VBA sides so isn't much use: Random question, prompted by something else I found while looking for that; were there any retailing equipment/tool vans based at Inverness during your time period? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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