RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 What colour should I be painting coal sack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 15 minutes ago, Kevin Johnson said: What colour should I be painting coal sack. Google: 'uk coal merchant's sacks images' Google is your friend! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Google: 'uk coal merchant's sacks images' Google is your friend! I keep forgetting about Google. Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 31 minutes ago, Kevin Johnson said: What colour should I be painting coal sack. 50 shades of grey in the early 1980's round here...... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 45655 Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 37 minutes ago, Johann Marsbar said: 50 shades of grey in the early 1980's round here...... Looks like an electric vehicle. Very eco friendly. Incidentally, I am looking for a "proper" coal sack (full size) for display with a set of coal scales. Does anyone have any idea where I might be able to find one? It's not the kind of thing which is routinely sold on eBay. Keith Alton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherman Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 I would use a mid grey then give a matt black wash or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 18 minutes ago, 45655 said: Looks like an electric vehicle. Very eco friendly. Incidentally, I am looking for a "proper" coal sack (full size) for display with a set of coal scales. Does anyone have any idea where I might be able to find one? It's not the kind of thing which is routinely sold on eBay. Keith Alton. It's a 1951 Morrison Electricar 3 Tonner and the sister to this one, which is preserved........ There are a few coal sacks on the back of that vehicle (filled with drinks cans with some real coal on top!) as part of the display. Next time I see any of the team who have just restored the vehicle, I'll ask them where they sourced them from. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 This is a relatively recent shot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherman Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Dapol do coal sacks on 00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 45655 Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said: It's a 1951 Morrison Electricar 3 Tonner and the sister to this one, which is preserved........ There are a few coal sacks on the back of that vehicle (filled with drinks cans with some real coal on top!) as part of the display. Next time I see any of the team who have just restored the vehicle, I'll ask them where they sourced them from. Thank you - most helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 Thanks all for the comments and information.👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted March 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2023 6 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said: 50 shades of grey in the early 1980's round here...... I seem to recall that "light grey" is actually a silver colour. Could be wrong, I'm trying to remember back to the early 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 1 hour ago, 57xx said: I seem to recall that "light grey" is actually a silver colour. Could be wrong, I'm trying to remember back to the early 70's. I think it was originally silver - a satin shade rather than matt - but the coal dust impregnation over time eventually changed it to various hues of grey down to more or less matt black. A bit more variation with some more pristine looking sacks..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 They are good photos but just go to show that not mentioning a period makes answering so difficult. I would suggest that the silver ones are a more modern material - possibly a plastic. The car behind would suggest this is at least from the 1980s, possibly later. The others on the lorry are more the hessian used for many years, and I would use black smoke paint to reproduce them, with a gloss to the coal showing on top. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 45655 Posted March 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 4, 2023 I'd agree that the lighter coloured bags are likely to be modern polypropylene and the black ones are the earlier hessian sacks, which I remember well from coal deliveries to my parents' house in the '60s and '70s. If they weren't black when they started they were soon impregnated with coal dust! Keith Alton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Merit (Now part of the Peco empire), do coal sacks. They are a bit long but wire cutters with solve that! It depends on the period (they are now probably plastic) rather than sackcloth, but scruffy grey/black is about right. Somehow this missed being posted earlier - probably my fault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 14 minutes ago, hmrspaul said: They are good photos but just go to show that not mentioning a period makes answering so difficult. I would suggest that the silver ones are a more modern material - possibly a plastic. The car behind would suggest this is at least from the 1980s, possibly later. The others on the lorry are more the hessian used for many years, and I would use black smoke paint to reproduce them, with a gloss to the coal showing on top. Paul The BMC lorry was photographed in late 1981, the Smiths electric in 1983. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simonmcp Posted March 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 4, 2023 If you look at Marklin of Sweden on YouTube he shows how to make Hessian sacks with air drying clay and a nylon mesh. Starts at 15.22 https://youtu.be/8BICJS6-8TE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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