Wayne 37901 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Hi James, Nice job on those two, the weathering looks typical of the HAAs before replacement by HTAs. One little thing though and sorry if it sounds a little too picky, but your coal looks a little too lumpy for power station coal which is usually finer in appearance. When I did my rake I tried to ground the coal down as much as I could and use mostly the dust. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Nice. Have a good new year ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Hi James, Superb modelling as usual, very inspiring. Happy New Year to you too. All the best Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 28, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2015 Hi James, Nice job on those two, the weathering looks typical of the HAAs before replacement by HTAs. One little thing though and sorry if it sounds a little too picky, but your coal looks a little too lumpy for power station coal which is usually finer in appearance. When I did my rake I tried to ground the coal down as much as I could and use mostly the dust. Cheers, Thanks Wayne, this is good feedback! I've got a bowl of coal and was pinching off the top dust and sprinkling, so some larger bits got in my fingers too, I was feeling too lazy to sieve it properly, but that could solve the consistency issue! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan452 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) Hope you all had a good Christmas! But enough of that, back to the meat! The HAA coal wagons were utilising the cheap ones bought from Amazon earlier this year for about £8 each, the only trouble being they were covered in graffiti! HAA wagon WIP 1 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr It looks as if quite a few First Capital Connect (sorry I mean Thameslink) 319's have also got covered with graffiti during the Christmas Break. Maybe they can join your 377. Edited December 28, 2015 by jonathan452 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Nice update That RS looks the business Good to finally see some signs of activity at Didcot too, mind you it took for ever to pave the car park there too. Wagons looks great as usual Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Haas Looking great David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 That's very nice looking Focus Rs,might have to see if my local dealers has one in now... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted December 30, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2015 That's very nice looking Focus Rs,might have to see if my local dealers has one in now... There's this Nitrous Blue production demonstrator in LHD that's touring UK dealers at the moment, orders are being taken with March delivery at the earliest, should be interesting! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight-Freight Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I love the pics of your Hornby MHA's, they look fantastic. I'm currently building up a collection of those along with Bachmann MFA+MEA's and while some are factory weathered some are too new and shiny looking. Whilst I wouldn't try to replicate the level of detail you have I would like to give them a more used appearance, particularly the insides. I wondered if there was a relatively simple way to achieve a look similar to what you have that you could suggest? Keep up the good work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted January 2, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2016 I love the pics of your Hornby MHA's, they look fantastic. I'm currently building up a collection of those along with Bachmann MFA+MEA's and while some are factory weathered some are too new and shiny looking. Whilst I wouldn't try to replicate the level of detail you have I would like to give them a more used appearance, particularly the insides. I wondered if there was a relatively simple way to achieve a look similar to what you have that you could suggest? Keep up the good work. Thanks, I'd recommend just building up a few simple shades on the insides of the wagons, and looking at pics of the real thing to stain them accordingly! Most of the MHAs I've seen have quite a sandy/earthy brown shade inside, so have painted them with Humbrol 119 as a base colour, which is quite sandy brown. Then there are darker stains and rain marks, dust marks etc which you can pick out as streaks and patches using darker or lighter shades built up over the top. Soon what is a uniform shade of Humbrol 119 is transformed into something a lot more realistic! If you are a Humbrol fan, the colours 119, 113, 62, 186, 1, 32 and bonus ball 250 come in handy! I'd reckon the main part is observation of the real thing using Flickr photos etc, and playing around with a few paints on a test wagon to see how you get on - you can't really go wrong and at the end of the day, anything is better than the shiny EWS red interior that Hornby have painted those 'Coalfish'! Cheers, James 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs4 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Picture the scene, I'm standing on the bank at Toton, collecting prototype photos. I spot this beaut and who do I think of ??? Yep, you Mr M. All the best for 2016. May it be a very grubby year. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted January 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2016 Picture the scene, I'm standing on the bank at Toton, collecting prototype photos. I spot this beaut and who do I think of ??? Yep, you Mr M. image.jpeg All the best for 2016. May it be a very grubby year. Oh yes I do like that one Nick! OCA 112230, looks like it was once maybe a Mainline blue and loving the sideways '50' part on that too! Definitely on my 'to do' list for 2016 now! I also have another eight 'OBA's sitting around in boxes, so if you see any particularly interesting ones...! Wishing you a Grubby New Year yourself haha! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Looking forward to another wagon update James... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessolomon Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Saw this interesting wagon on Flickr DB Schenker Coal Wagon HTA 317082 love the full body graphiti https://flic.kr/p/CsAE6r 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted February 7, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2016 Saw this interesting wagon on Flickr DB Schenker Coal Wagon HTA 317082 love the full body graphiti https://flic.kr/p/CsAE6r I pressed "like" but I do not condone graffiti. Full body graffiti on wagons isn't common - most wagon graffiti is usually at lower levels on the body because the scrotes can only reach so high from track level. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasatcopthorne Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) James. It looks like you've fitted new brake leavers on the HAAs. If so. Who's did you use, please? Great work as usual. Dave Edited February 7, 2016 by dasatcopthorne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted February 7, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2016 James. It looks like you've fitted new brake leavers on the HAAs. If so. Who's did you use, please? Great work as usual. Dave Thanks Dave! These are the original brake levers from the "new" (post-2003) Hornby HAA, and just a bit of weathering! I had a choice between using the old or new Hornby HAAs, but noticed that since they both have major hopper body errors, it worked out cheaper to obtain new-style ones for an average of £10 each, rather than go for the cheaper one and then spend out on new wheels and etched brass components to bring the underframe up to the same level! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Any new updates James?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but where did you get the Southern paints? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 nice to see some more great modelling, and that RS does look nice. Personally I'll stick with my Mondeo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted March 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3, 2016 Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but where did you get the Southern paints? No worries, the Southern paint shades all come from Phoenix's range, they do the whole selection! What sort of unit are you planning to splosh up in Southern? I keep meaning to break out the greens to turn the Hornby VEP into No. 3514 but that's a project for another day! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 (edited) No worries, the Southern paint shades all come from Phoenix's range, they do the whole selection! What sort of unit are you planning to splosh up in Southern? I keep meaning to break out the greens to turn the Hornby VEP into No. 3514 but that's a project for another day! Actually, it's a small N gauge project (I work for Southern and managed to get hold of a 171 second hand in Paignton of all places, and have the 73 on order) so this is actually to paint up the station furniture in appropriate colours. I want/need some 377s (OO would be great but I'd manage with N) but I don't have anywhere near your level of skill to make one like you have). Still hoping that one of the mainstream manufacturers comes up with some rtr ones in due course but they seem adverse to wanting to make things I need. So I've found P323 Dark Olive green P324 Malachite Green P325 Ivory P326 Traffic White Which one is the light green shade? The Phoenix site isn't terribly helpful... Edited March 4, 2016 by cromptonnut 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted March 5, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 5, 2016 So I've found P323 Dark Olive green P324 Malachite Green P325 Ivory P326 Traffic White Which one is the light green shade? The Phoenix site isn't terribly helpful... Nice, sounds like a fun project! With the above shades, it's the Malachite Green that is the bright green circles over the vehicle ends/cabs etc, Ivory for the lower green strip below waist height and then the Olive for the darker doors etc! As a tip, the Traffic White I originally sprayed looked a bit yellowy and dull, so substituted for Humbrol 34 Matt White and it gave a much brighter appearance! Hope this helps! James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post James Makin Posted March 13, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 13, 2016 (edited) It's been an age since the last workbench update, mainly as I've been spending my time on the club's Loftus Road layout, building posh houses! In the background however, I've been working on this Virgin quartet, handpicked from my Didcot spotting days around the Millennium - Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr The Virgin Cross Country ILRA loco fleet was amongst my absolute favourites back in the day, a great selection of workhorses with some nice names! I've modelled a fair selection of these locos over the years using Lima and Heljan models as a base, but these are first ones I've created using the Bachmann '47'. Not actually that many more to go before 'completing the set' as it were! Joining the fleet today are 47702 'County of Suffolk', 47817 'Institution of Mechanical Engineers', 47841 'Spirit of Chester' and 47849 'Cadeirlan Bangor Cathedral'. 47841 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr These locos will appear at the front of VXC services, both on Worthing MRC's Loftus Road in the short term, and in the longer term, on my upcoming Didcot Parkway project. 47841 in particular evokes memories of hauling a dead Fragonset 47712 into Didcot back in 2000, covered in oil! The work started back last August, armed with four bargain-bin Bachmann donors and Madge on the iPod, I set about attacking the locos - Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Quite a few detail variations were to be modelled, including flush ends, marker light changes and different boiler arrangements. A proper 'Whoooooo' moment was had while performing a 'Crewe cut' bufferbeam conversion to one of the donors - flashbacks to the old days of cutting up Lima class 47s!! Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Here's how the locos looked before outshopping in the classic Virgin red and grey - can you believe that this livery is nearly 20 years old? Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr 47817 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr 47817 'Institution of Mechanical Engineers' was a particular favourite, having been sitting at a picnic table in the Great Western Society during the Didcot 2000 event to look up and seeing it storming by with a Reading-bound service on the Oxford line on a sunny Saturday afternoon! 47817 lives on as 57311, although a shadow of its former red glory! 47702 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr 47702 'County of Suffolk' I love as it was a bit of an early anomaly amongst the fleet, (together with 47711) it was the first non-Virgin loco to be hired in from EWS and painted in the corporate colours. An added detail bonus was the running number being at the wrong end of the loco! It was to be a while before more EWS 47/7s were painted into Virgin, leaving 47702 a cool novelty in my young eyes! The dream had to end sometime, and 47702 was cut in 2005. 47849 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr 47849 'Cadeirlan Bangor Cathedral' was an absolute beast! I was excited to see this in real life having seen photos of it being named in RAIL Magazine just days previously! This loco suffered the injustice of being prepped for a rebuild into a Class 57 'Thunderbird' only for it to be rejected due to a bent frame suffered in a previous accident, and was sadly cut up. 47817 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr As part of the fun, both 47702 and 47841 have flush ends, and No.2 and No.1 ends respectively, for 47702 I managed to find an old Bachmann 47835 Intercity bodyshell with the correct arrangements, but for 47841 I did a filling job and used Shawplan's marker lights to rebuild the panel as appropriate. Drivers were painted up in Virgin uniforms of the period. 47702 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr A reminder of it's old Scottish 'Shove Duff' days, 47702 has the classic white pipework on the side, I bodged this up from thin wire and superglue to join the rows together at the correct place! Shawplan's beautifully detailed nameplate can be seen on the side, with some of Brian's layered plaque transfers giving the perfect finishing touch! 47849 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr 47849 has an equally detailed crest, this time from Fox - they aren't cheap but they certainly do the job! 47841 by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr The final loco of the quartet was 47841 'Spirit of Chester' - the condition being just past ex-works special with some dirt covering the attractive whitewall wheels! The authentic Gill Sans white numbers were robbed from a DRS Class 20 renumbering pack. Ironically '841 lives on with this very company, now daubed up in their 'Compass' blue - it's not a patch on Virgin though is it!! Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr All four can be seen together - probably for the last time as they enter service on Loftus Road - I'll cycle the locos round during a show weekend though the plan is to create a second VXC Mk2 rake once the newer Bachmann Mk2f's arrive in due course...time to crack open the red paint again..! Virgin 47s by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr This has been a great fun project and another one of those recreating childhood memories! Next on the menu is another nostalgic 'Duff' and some interesting wagons! Cheers, James Edited March 14, 2016 by James Makin 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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