Warren Branch

[chuffinghell]

What a load of bollards….

 

….well six of them

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by chuffinghell

[Graham T]

My counting isn't great I know, but that looks like three...

[chuffinghell]

20 minutes ago, Graham T said:

My counting isn't great I know, but that looks like three...

I spotted that and added another photo, I must have edited the post at the same time you posted

[Graham T]

You just did it to make me look like a dullard, didn't you!

[chuffinghell]

3 minutes ago, Graham T said:

You just did it to make me look like a dullard, didn't you!

I wouldn’t do that, not intentionally at least

[Graham T]

No need really Chris anyway - I usually manage to do it myself without any outside assistance 🙂

[MrWolf]

25 minutes ago, Graham T said:

No need really Chris anyway - I usually manage to do it myself without any outside assistance 🙂

 

I remember during an impromptu silly night out a friend who was definitely the worse for wear commented on my seemingly relaxed disposition saying: "You never seem to get out of your head, do you?" I told them that they might think that but in truth I had spent the last few years trying to get back in.

 

Whether three or six, it comes across as a couple of people talking bollards.

I might as well watch the news! 🤪

[chuffinghell]

I’ve painted up the coal bunker and have used the ‘coal’ I didn’t use out of the Ratio coaling stage kit (it will be covered in real coal)

 

 

Also I have a few yard cranes

 

a Gaugemaster (Faller) kit

 

 

and a Wills kit

 

 

I'm favouring the Faller kit at the moment because it has more (and finer) details

 

which ever one I go for will have the base modified, I’m going to insert a 2mm diameter steel rod into the ground and have a corresponding 2mm hole in the underside of the crane to allow for movement, I had considered motorised but that’s too far even for me

 

Edited August 20, 2022 by chuffinghell

[chuffinghell]

I’ve built up the Faller kit first and it’s in primer

 

 

I think tomorrow I’ll build the Wills kit too and put each one on the layout and decide from there

 

However I do like how the Faller kit has turned out

[MrWolf]

That's very nice and really looks the part. 

I drew up plans a while ago to build a timber scotch derrick for loading tree trunks but there's no room on the layout even for a 16ft version.

 

Perhaps I can build another layout?

[Winslow Boy]

24 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

That's very nice and really looks the part. 

I drew up plans a while ago to build a timber scotch derrick for loading tree trunks but there's no room on the layout even for a 16ft version.

 

Perhaps I can build another layout?

 

Well just so long as it doesn't have a crossing on it as someone hasn't finished the one he's started.

[chuffinghell]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

Perhaps I can build another layout?

And why not

[NHY 581]

10 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

I’ve built up the Faller kit first and it’s in primer

 

 

I think tomorrow I’ll build the Wills kit too and put each one on the layout and decide from there

 

However I do like how the Faller kit has turned out

 

 

Morning Chris, 

 

I do like that  and agree. That's turned out really nice. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

[chuffinghell]

6 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Morning Chris, 

 

I do like that  and agree. That's turned out really nice. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

Thanks Rob

 

I'm wondering if it’s even worth building the wills kit and to be honest because I really like this one

 

Gaugemaster sell it as part of their Fordhampton range and sold as OO gauge, being a Faller kit it’s quite clearly HO but I quite like that it’s a little smaller and less ‘bulky’ than the wills kit especially as it’s going into a small area

 

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by chuffinghell

[Bluemonkey presents....]

56 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

I'm wondering if it’s even worth building the wills kit To be honest because I really like this one.

.............but I quite like that it’s a little small and less ‘bulky’ that the wills kit especially as it’s going into a small area

 

 

There you are, you have answered you're own question.  😃

[chuffinghell]

17 minutes ago, Bluemonkey presents.... said:

 

There you are, you have answered you're own question.  😃

you’re quite right, I think I’d convinced myself as soon as I opened the box and saw all the gears and levers 😂

Edited August 21, 2022 by chuffinghell

[chuffinghell]

Coal bunker nearly there, I added the coal to the fake coal heap separately so I need to add a little more here and there, I think I need to dirty up the inside wall with some more smoke weathering powder too……but it’s getting there

 

 

I’ve had to do a little rework on the bottom of the wing walls because paint has highlighted a distinct horizontal print line, nothing a little sanding and repainting won’t fix though.

 

For some reason I decided to paint the crane with railmatch oily steel and I think it’s given it an almost  antique look (still needs weathering)

 

 

[chuffinghell]

I’ve been putting it off but I’ve now fetched 1mm off the bottom of the pump house doors and reattached them

 

 

🙂

 

[MrWolf]

The crane looks spot on, this one stands by the canal only a few hundred yards from our house.

It's since been repainted when waterfront property was built around it.

 

 

Photo: Joan Martin.

[chuffinghell]

I really need to change that skip colour, anything but grey or brown

 

I’m thinking blue or orange but heavily used but I’m open to ideas

 

I have a pack of three and I’m only using two so potentially I have a guinea pig left over

 

I think Sarah will be pleased I’ve found a use for them especially as she bought them for me before I decided to model standard gauge

[chuffinghell]

1 minute ago, MrWolf said:

The crane looks spot on, this one stands by the canal only a few hundred yards from our house.

It's since been repainted when waterfront property was built around it.

 

 

Photo: Joan Martin.

Great find Rob!

 

Thanks for posting that, it will help with the weathering

[Rowsley17D]

1 minute ago, chuffinghell said:

I really need to change that skip colour, anything but grey or brown

 

I’m thinking blue or orange but heavily used but I’m open to ideas

 

I have a pack of three and I’m only using two so potentially I have a guinea pig left over

 

I think Sarah will be pleased I’ve found a use for them especially as she bought them for me before I decided to model standard gauge

 

Most of these sorts of wagons had a good coat of rust except where the contents had scraped some of the insides back to bare metal.

[MrWolf]

War Department green with plenty of coal dust on the insides?

Bought cheaply after 1918 and as Johnathan says, a lot of the inside would be scraped to a dull steel colour, think fireman's shovel.

Edited August 21, 2022 by MrWolf

[MrWolf]

8 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

Great find Rob!

 

Thanks for posting that, it will help with the weathering

 

Despite the supposed lack of health and safety in the past, I noticed the white painted hook and the white band on the Jib at head height that also has the SWL data painted on.

Edited August 21, 2022 by MrWolf
Stupid autocorrect

[chuffinghell]

20 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

War Department green with plenty of coal dust on the insides?

Bought cheaply after 1918 and as Johnathan says, a lot of the inside would be scraped to a dull steel colour, think fireman's shovel.

I don’t have any war dept green but I do have a Vallejo Airbrush primer in ‘parched grass’

 

 

I could darken it to more of an olive drab maybe?

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by chuffinghell