RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 9, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2015 Got on really well with the lining tonight, the boiler's done, right hand side of cab and tender. Also started with the edge lining, the separate black and white lines for the straight lining around the sandboxes and the curved broad black and thin white over it for the splashers. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 and as such; missionaries will be expected to give many free trinkets & discounts to the local ignoarti. and then cast away any coverings from your various organs of locomotion (walk bare foot) to travel but a few hundred yards from the venue to pay homage at Dial Cottage https://goo.gl/maps/wpaLK991xGK2 to the past residents, Mr George and Mr Robert Stephenson (Engineers) without whom we would have no railways. Tiz here you will be expected to kneel in the local mud and generally bow in the direction of the Sundial. Failure to fulfill this missionary duty will result in the penance of decamping to the local hostelry known as the Brandling Villa (So named after the well known 19 century railway promoters) where for atonement, ye shall purchase some of the many and varied ales for both me and my heathen followers for the rest of the day. (For those of a stingy nature from south of the River Tees beers & alcoholic beverages are sold in the convenient measure of 1/3 of a pint). For a further small inducements, steps may also be taken by one of my followers, that could lead to many female nursing staff from the local hospital turning up at said hostelry. (They like toy twains.) P According to a previous post, as you won't be at the exhibition, you won't get to sample my trinkets and bric a brac. I'll still have a bash at sorting the local women out though. Before the organisers get a bit twitchy about losing income due to yours and Barry O's non appearance, I have specially arranged a contingent of fellow DEFine modellers to fill the gap, in fact all being well there should be three so I expect some commission as an appreciation of my efforts. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 According to a previous post, as you won't be at the exhibition, No, no. Just agreed that attendance would be slightly less palatable due to parameters outside my control. Glad your fellow Define modelers will be helping you fill the gaps. They tell me you use many, many tubes of green stuff. Re: commissions. I'm still waiting for the appearance of that rarest of commissions, the 35t GLW tank chassis. How many years has it been coming... So all being well, I'll see you at the weekend. P Paul the loco is coming on fine. Lining from those folk at Fox I presume? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Yes, Fox transfers. And I'll be glad when that exhibition is over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Okay Paul, it's starting to look as nice as a Midland ingun, isn't lining fun on pre-group locos.... But seriously, it's just a bit gorgous ... In a North Eastern way. Dave Franks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Not sure I'd describe it as 'gorgeous' but it is very distinctive, form following function etc, and they certainly lasted for a long time so they must have been effective. Like the model, like it lots. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Paul, The livery on that 1001 is beautiful. Will you leave it 'pristine' or will you weather it. I believe that the Q5's, when originally built, were also finished in this green lined livery and must have looked lovely even if they were humble 'coal draggers'. Lovely model and a great thread. Regards Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Paul, The livery on that 1001 is beautiful. Will you leave it 'pristine' or will you weather it. I believe that the Q5's, when originally built, were also finished in this green lined livery and must have looked lovely even if they were humble 'coal draggers'. Lovely model and a great thread. Regards Mike Hi Mike, It will have a bit of weathering, we're going back to the days when locos were looked after. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class O Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Were the cab and tender roofs green or black ? I have seen both on models...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Were the cab and tender roofs green or black ? I have seen both on models...... Not sure, it's something that can be changed any time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jason T Posted December 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2015 It really is a lovely model of an odd looking loco but if anything, it's oddness makes it all the nicer. Would they put much effort into cleaning a loco that spent it's final years atop a moor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 It really is a lovely model of an odd looking loco but if anything, it's oddness makes it all the nicer. Would they put much effort into cleaning a loco that spent it's final years atop a moor? I think they would have looked after them, they were a self contained little fleet with no chance of loosing them to another shed and they had the staff to look after them. Looking at the photo of it, it looks fairly clean, not spotless but definitely not 1960s 9F. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class O Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 The men were very proud of their steeds and looked after them in those days, my grandad told me that Guards had their own vans and used to clean and varnish them, also having bits of carpet in the doorways, they also could get "stained glass" transfers that they applied to the windows..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 And I'll be glad when that exhibition is over. Why? Have you had a change of plans? Will you be gracing the plains of North Tyneside with your presence? I can put your name down for one of my guided tours of the local pit heaps. I'm sure Mike will be first to rubricate into attending one of the illuminating jaunts. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 ...I see Poursea's dictionary eating has got as far as the letter R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Nah. Just reading about Leonard Sachs. Seems like Peter Wyngarde, he was a bit of a dandy. Ha ha, did you have to look it up? P Edited December 10, 2015 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Topic reset time, exhibition chatter in exhibition thread please chaps. No I won't be there. Back to the cleanliness of the locos, this one on the Rosedale branch seems by the look of the sandbox lining to be quite clean indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Duly admonished. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted December 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2015 Back to the cleanliness of the locos, this one on the Rosedale branch seems by the look of the sandbox lining to be quite clean indeed. One thing I have noticed, in my recent browsing of photos from the pre-group era, (tastefully liveried blackberry black engines, not green stuff) is that often the locos appear clean, with an oily sheen I guess from being polished up with an oily rag, but often the tenders seem quite grubby. Don't know if the same was true of other railways? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class O Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Often condensation makes clean tenders appear dirty ..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Why does that put me in mind of ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Sorry Mr eightpints, we wuz only trying to injoy us-selves. PM and me will sit on the naughty step all weekend and do some lexicographical dining. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 The wheels have been primed and had their first coat of green, the clack valves brassed, the springs blacked and a bit more lining on the tender. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Sorry Mr eightpints Hmmmmm. You can elucidate with I on the origin of that nom de guerre whilst we sit upon the punishment step. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 11, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2015 Looks very nice. "Loco shed cleaned" weathering will yop it off. What's next in the build room? Baz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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