A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[gwrrob]

I've just phoned Hello magazine with the tip off that Ant has a pearl necklace...

 

Blimey.There's no limit to your talent is there. You don't get this on Peterborough North.

[2ManySpams]

Blimey.There's no limit to your talent is there. You don't get this on Peterborough North.

Ah, finally you realise how lucky you are to have us all on ANTB!

[Mallard60022]

Other layout owners now pay me not to join their threads!

So what's it worth then Rob?

P

[gwrrob]

Ah, finally you realise how lucky you are to have us all on ANTB!

 

What's luck got to do with it as we have a beautiful Autumn morning in the South Hams.9f class 92220 'Evening Star' passes with a parcels comprising of a couple of full brakes from Hornby and a guv and two bg's from Bachmann.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello magazine were unable to record the event.

[gwrrob]

Before I hand it back to him I thought I'd take a few more photos of Mallards excellent Comet restaurant coach.A very good buy off ebay from Pete Morris I think ,it's very well made with exquisite detail a plenty.Seen here amongst my rtr GWR coaches.

 

 

 

 

 

[colin penfold]

why isn't the roof nice and white like yours Rob?????

[Mallard60022]

That naughty Mr Morris had a load of lovely stuff for sale on Ebay last year and that coach is the only one I 'won'. Pah! Never mind, it will get a damn good thrashing up/down Honiton Incline on the diverted WR stuff on Seaton Junctionish (around 2016 I should think at this rate!)

[gwrrob]

why isn't the roof nice and white like yours Rob?????

 

Stop being facetious Mr P.The difference between a train set and a model railway perhaps.

[gwrrob]

The H33 sit's in the siding of Tigley Junction.

 

 

 

 

[Kev_Lewis]

The H33 sits in the siding of Tigley Junction.

 

No doubt waiting to be restocked with saffron cake, scones, clotted cream and cider.

 

Or perhaps attention from then cleaners following the Finchings latest escapade!

[gwrrob]

Rather like last weeks pannier 7760 we find the Bachmann/Mainline Collett Goods of the same vintage.Here's 3202 rounding the curve with a coal train.How about an upgraded model please Mr Bachmann.

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

A few more.

 

 

 

 

 

[Donw]

why isn't the roof nice and white like yours Rob?????

GWR did paint coach roofs white although they didn't stay white. BR painted coach roofs grey. I admit white GWR coach roofs with others in BR livery might not be accurate.

Don

[Andrew P]

Hi Rob, just had a look at today's wonderful sets of pics, really good and I know what you mean about 3202, its the same with the J39, a simple 0-6-0 Chassis that they have on the 3F and 4F and yet still not a new DCC Ready one announced, just crazy.

 

Layouts looking lovely and I like the new coach as well.

 

EDIT = Bet Dave Jones could get one out next year if you asked, hahhaha

Edited October 5, 2014 by Andrew P

[Mallard60022]

The GWR painted their roofs white so that one would not spot the seagull ****

P

[County of Yorkshire]

Rob, excellent shots as always, but the appearance of the venerable Collett Goods has piqued my interest; have you ever considered backdating a BR black western loco into wartime black? I've recently done just that with a Collett Goods with ROD tender and it is something different - not that I would ever call middle chrome green monotonous of course! I might apply this treatment to a Hall or a 2800 next - our perhaps one of the big two might surprise us with a curve ball livery choice next year? 

 

Cheers,

 

CoY

[gwrrob]

That would be something different but I can't see Hornby/Bachmann doing it.Removing the smokebox number neatly would be the most trickiest part of doing that project.You would need to add plating over the windows too.Have you a photo of yours to shew.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 5, 2014 by gwrrob

[Trains&armour]

Rob, excellent shots as always, but the appearance of the venerable Collett Goods has piqued my interest; have you ever considered backdating a BR black western loco into wartime black? I've recently done just that with a Collett Goods with ROD tender and it is something different.

 

Cheers,

 

CoY

Great, just what I had planned! Could you post some pictures?

[County of Yorkshire]

That would be something different but I can't see Hornby/Bachmann doing it.Removing the smokebox number neatly would be the most trickiest part of doing that project.You would need to add plating over the windows too.Have you a photo of yours to shew.

 

I will admit to being a little lazy/hesitant over the best method of removing the smokebox numberplate and have thus not done it yet! A file may well be needed but I've not attempted it before. I won't fit window blanking plates as I'm assuming they removed them in time for the long, hot summer of 1947. Pictures will appear perhaps after Downton Abbey or if not tomorrow evening sometime (all rear 3/4 shots to sidestep the matter of the smokebox!)

 

Thanks for now, 

 

CoY

[County of Yorkshire]

Here we are. Wartime black Collett Goods with ROD tender. Smokebox numberplate still to be removed, but it gives you a good flavour of the thing. This was my first guinea pig for this treatment as many box shifters were practically giving these away last year in the early BR livery so I had to snap one up. I think it looks quite handsome in this livery and will sit in well amongst my heavy freight section of green 28/38xx's, ROD's, 56xx's and of course the 42xx & 72xx's! The manufacturers have released wartime liveried locos for the rest of the big 4 in the past but unfortunately they seem to neglect Swindon beasts. I guess if you want something doing you have to do it yourself!

 

 

Cheers, 

 

CoY

[Captain Kernow]

Removing the smoke box door number plate needn't be too onerous, provided it's taken at a nice, steady pace, using some fine-graded files and wet & dry paper. I'd definitely remove the main handrail first, though, otherwise that will get in the way of the filing, making the job much harder. It might be judicious to first remove as much plastic as you dare with a very sharp/brand new scalpel blade (I'd suggest a curved one)...?

[gwrrob]

 

 

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Cheers, 

 

CoY

 

Nice work so far County.

 

Removing the smoke box door number plate needn't be too onerous, provided it's taken at a nice, steady pace, using some fine-graded files and wet & dry paper. I'd definitely remove the main handrail first, though, otherwise that will get in the way of the filing, making the job much harder. It might be judicious to first remove as much plastic as you dare with a very sharp/brand new scalpel blade (I'd suggest a curved one)...?

 

A skilled modeller like yourself makes it sound very easy.I will  have a go one day.

[gwrrob]

Thinking more about this topic, are there any West Country panniers that are known to be in wartime black post war as I'd be interested. 57xx or 8750 class.

[NHY 581]

Here we are. Wartime black Collett Goods with ROD tender. Smokebox numberplate still to be removed, but it gives you a good flavour of the thing. This was my first guinea pig for this treatment as many box shifters were practically giving these away last year in the early BR livery so I had to snap one up. I think it looks quite handsome in this livery and will sit in well amongst my heavy freight section of green 28/38xx's, ROD's, 56xx's and of course the 42xx & 72xx's! The manufacturers have released wartime liveried locos for the rest of the big 4 in the past but unfortunately they seem to neglect Swindon beasts. I guess if you want something doing you have to do it yourself!

 

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Cheers, 

 

CoY

Do you know what, I quite like this. ....

 

Rob.

[BenL]

Thinking more about this topic, are there any West Country panniers that are known to be in wartime black post war as I'd be interested. 57xx or 8750 class.

I'd also be interested as I've thought about repainting a Bachmann pannier into wartime black. I haven't got my books to hand at the moment and can't recall when top feed started to be fitted -if it was just after the war, then I guess the black livery-top feed combination would be unlikely. Although I suppose it's possible a pannier in wartime black could have had top feed fitted postwar without being repainted into green? This is similar to a question I asked in another thread about any evidence of Halls - or any other mixed traffic GWR 4-6-0s for that matter - having their cab glazing restored postwar but remaining in wartime black.

 

Maybe these are questions we will never get definitive answers to given the relative lack of postwar photos and the grimy state of most locos at the time, but you never know what people know or can find out on RMweb!

 

Btw, I'd just like to say what a huge fan of ANTB I am, it's a great inspiration in my attempts to build a nod to the GWR in Cornwall in 1946/7!

 

Ben