robmcg Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 I've three of the beasts.... The Railroad version The Heritage Rail Express train pack The TTS one (full fat as far as I can see, with the plastic nameplates) All bought on the cheap side of "do I really need more than one?". What I need to do is decide on other Royal Dukes to call two of them. The running numbers are easy, 71001 and 71002.... I might even give the Railroad one the "toboldlygo" treatment! Nah, in BR days it was much cleaner than toboldlygo would allow... I personally think the Railroad version is ok and the so-called full-fat versions very good, at least they have brakes on the front drivers, unlike a certain new Duchess, ... I have three, a weathered 'as restored' one, a weathered 1960s version yet to be photographed, and a pristine 1960s version, and like you purchased at that great emporium, which I regularly frequent, 'on the cheap side'. Here is the pristine 1960s version, for what it's worth, acknowledgements to Hattons, and rarely for me, an honest photo! Not bad for £70.(I was lucky maybe). Lest we forget the Britannia , here is ex-WR 'Tornado' which must have been through toboldlygo's hands... or if you like actual WR Britannias here's what I think is the hardest form of weathering, the pristine-but-working look, 70015 .. both these pics edited, god forbid I use my 25p set of children's paintbrushes. I save them for the BR black look... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) I might even give the Railroad one the "toboldlygo" treatment! For a start I didn't use the Railroad version - so you may get a belated Christmas present from me to you - via the MiM, involving many sessions of Air Smoothing with the added bonus of Malachiting.... *Edited - due to being very drunk when I originally typed this! Edited December 30, 2017 by toboldlygo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 (edited) Air-smoothing be damn*d Engine design was complete when Drummond came up with this. Never really needed superheating either, you know it stops the hens laying. Edited December 27, 2017 by robmcg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 Air-smoothing be damn*d Engine design was complete when Drummond came up with this. Never really needed superheating either, you know it stops the hens laying. 30724_T9_portrait1_2ab_r1200.jpg The original batch were always a problem - they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Fortunately a fellow Bulleidnutter who has 2manyspams solved the problem... ... and the mod is still used on those errant early versions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 The original batch were always a problem - they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Fortunately a fellow Bulleidnutter who has 2manyspams solved the problem... ... and the mod is still used on those errant early versions. My T9s could pull 5-6 carriages right from the early batches, I recall possibly the front bogie had to be adjusted to put more weight on drivers. Meanwhile I am beginning to think the Britannia represents the very best of Hornby modelling, except for paint perhaps, and chimney, otherwise they are stunning, 70010 'Owen Glendower' even has the correct deflector handrails for later BR... how thorough is that! One type of engine which in its later Carlisle days had dirt and grime to make even toboldlygo wince with pain. I'm thinking of the photos in Gavin Morrison's excellent book 'Britannia Pacifics'. If I photoshopped the dirt and scale and rust nobody would believe me...even in the early 60s there are pics where engines have no visible signs of paint whatsoever. This below is ok because 70010 had several light conditional overhauls in the mid-60s picture edited 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Another reminder of the Britannia in its last days, well not quite, toboldlygo's 70042 still has plates and some faint signs of paint lef... based on those youthful Sunday afternoons with camera around sheds in the early 60s... I like to keep a degree of oiliness around drivers and motion, it was common on hard-used express engines even if they were never cleaned, top marks toboldlygo for that look. Cheers 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2018 Another reminder of the Britannia in its last days, well not quite, toboldlygo's 70042 still has plates and some faint signs of paint lef... based on those youthful Sunday afternoons with camera around sheds in the early 60s... 70042_Britannia_portrait20_12A_3abc1_r1200.jpg I like to keep a degree of oiliness around drivers and motion, it was common on hard-used express engines even if they were never cleaned, top marks toboldlygo for that look. Cheers And an early crest (also if memory serves didn't receive a speedo or AWS) No loco's at the moment, though I have a commission Merchant Navy to do - when it arrives (35030 end of Southern Steam, with repair patches on the tender) In the meantime 264 Squadron markings await this nearly finished Airfix Boulton Paul Defiant... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2018 Next Blog entry is up: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/135/entry-20325-a-slightly-smaller-build-boulton-paul-defiant-nfi/ And this one definitely has a Battle of Britain (Class) connection Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2018 Next Blog entry is up: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/135/entry-20325-a-slightly-smaller-build-boulton-paul-defiant-nfi/ And this one definitely has a Battle of Britain (Class) connection As will this one... SPOILERS!! Rolls-Royce Merlin anyone? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarnish1 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Merlin XX as redesigned by Sir Stanley Hooker at Rolls Royce prior to the BoB 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2018 Nude Bulleid warning... I've been appointed by the MiM as the Official Sanctuary for Sick Bulleids or OSSB for short... My first two patients are well on the road to recovery: Split gear* and bent valve & coupling rods on one and dodgy Blue-Box decoder on the other.. *Been given top-secret information with regards to alternate parts too 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 I was surprised by the 15 Guinea Special pack, I had exhumed my 70013 from storage for a photo just a few days ago.... but look what it's up against! blue box drool! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) We could have a seriously impressive model on our hands soon... pic from 2/2018 Hornby magazine edited by me.. a little, nothing changed in the detail.. cheers the MiM are watching. Edited January 10, 2018 by robmcg 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) Agree. My wobbly bits are wobbling with excitement, not only at the prospect of a LN to modern RTR standards but also at that of the artistry you will bring to it, Rob! Edited January 10, 2018 by olivegreen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) Indeed! Won't have to make pictures like this... from a blue box. based on a lovely pic by Maurice Earley hardcover A5 landscape format 'The Southern Scene', with 859 'Lord Hood' at Worting Junction in 1946. The details of the Lord Nelsons are a lot of fun. Cheers edited to fix engine number Edited January 12, 2018 by robmcg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOgaugeJaf Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 The Q6 for me. Just bought my third 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Q6 or Lord Nelson, hmmm It occurs to me that the pre-production model from the Hornby magazine is single chimney with deflectors, so no doubt there will be various produced eventually. Here to whet the appetite, and showin what great-looking engines these were is SR 861 'Lord Anson' in 1933 being prepared at Brighton for the Golden Arrow, from a pic by M W Earley. drool, again... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2018 We could have a seriously impressive model on our hands soon... pic from 2/2018 Hornby magazine edited by me.. a little, nothing changed in the detail.. 850_LN_Image2a_r1200.jpg cheers the MiM are watching. Oh they are watching, in fact they intercepted the first engineering prototype a while back and persuaded Hornby to delay the reveal until this week - well a certain device was used to do the persuading... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2018 (edited) Indeed! Won't have to make pictures like this... from a blue box. 30851_SR_Nelson_Battledown_portrait1_4abcde_r1200.jpg based on a lovely pic by Maurice Earley hardcover A5 landscape format 'The Southern Scene', with 850 'Lord Hood' at Worting Junction in 1946. The details of the Lord Nelsons are a lot of fun. Cheers 850? It's 860 and if it was the Lord Hood in 1946 she would be running with Boiler 860 (that's the longer boiler) - but as it's 851, you won't be reported to the MiM. Compared to the Hornby engineering prototype - no wonder there a so many Blue Box LN's looking for new homes. Edited January 11, 2018 by toboldlygo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Nelsons are a bit lumpish, aren't they? I've no reason to have one and they don't tick my Rule 1 book either so thats them sorted. However Ohhhh Bathtubs!!!! (aka Streamlined Coronations...) Wantone! However, Red? Blue? Decisions, decisions!!! I dithered over Sir William A. Stanier FRS and missed out. This time... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2018 Nelsons are a bit lumpish, aren't they? I've no reason to have one and they don't tick my Rule 1 book either so thats them sorted. However Ohhhh Bathtubs!!!! (aka Streamlined Coronations...) Wantone! However, Red? Blue? Decisions, decisions!!! I dithered over Sir William A. Stanier FRS and missed out. This time... Bathtubs? You do realise that the Stanierists sub-contract to the MiM (the Stanierists like to keep their hands relatively clean).- you shouldn't give them idea's... Bathtubbing - a new improved form of Air-Smoothing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 (edited) Bathtubs? You do realise that the Stanierists sub-contract to the MiM (the Stanierists like to keep their hands relatively clean).- you shouldn't give them idea's... Bathtubbing - a new improved form of Air-Smoothing Thats rather brave of you, implying that a streamlined Princess Coronation is better than a Merchant Navy.... The MiM will NOT be impressed! Edited January 11, 2018 by Hroth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2018 Thats rather brave of you, implying that a streamlined Princess Coronation is better than a Merchant Navy.... The MiM will NOT be impressed! Not brave, I know what I can say, where the MiM are concerned... You must be volunteering to be inegeral enthusiast to be bath-tubbed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 850? It's 860 and if it was the Lord Hood in 1946 she would be running with Boiler 860 (that's the longer boiler) - but as it's 851, you won't be reported to the MiM. Compared to the Hornby engineering prototype - no wonder there a so many Blue Box LN's looking for new homes. Sorry, typo, it's captioned 859 'Lord Hood' at Worting Junction 1946, and my pic is of course 30851... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted January 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2018 Sorry, typo, it's captioned 859 'Lord Hood' at Worting Junction 1946, and my pic is of course 30851... Lord Hood had the 6'3" drivers btw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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