landscapes Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Hi Daddyman Very professional job you have done there, it certainly improves the look of the Lady, Many thanks for taking the time to put your explanation and photos on the thread. Regards David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 This may be a more suitable place for my recent pictures of my D11s than Tony Wright's review thread, so here is my most recent; (there will be more, GC version is in the mail, and a scene with the early BR green version and Gresleys may be fun) Haymarket 1949 and a driver who undoubtedly knows these engines well, cheerful ain't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Well, he would be cheerful having to run a stopping train in the rain, even if the sun did poke through, it would never last... and fog rolling in we'll never make Waverley before dark... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I haven't thought of a title for this, but somewhere within range of an Edinburgh D11/2... with all the pleasures of 'new' British Railways travel 1949. Cheers, Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2014 Hi, Rob. What excellent pictures you have made here. You have those carriages just right, with a good mix of Gresley and Thompson stock. The D11/2 is good at the head of the train, and is clearly working hard! The research done has paid-off really well. Also, I find myself enjoying the Scottish scenery. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Thankyou very much. I have several more basic photos of the engine and carriages to come, but wouldn't want to succumb to Robinson-it is! It's fun fiddling with the details around the front of the green D11 and also perhaps changing the colour of the paint to something a fraction more likely... although full weathering would be the best choice. If the brownish colours on the carriages are slightly wrong I shall blame the colour film emulsions of 1949 Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2014 Hi, Rob, the brown on the carriages looks good to me! I look forward to more pictures - let that 'Robinson-it-is' continue! All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I have edited the pic from a 3/4-side angle a tad, about 5 posts back, less steam around the front, cylinders, wheels and so on, and colours made more to my liking. A beautiful engine, later valve timing and lubrication, but when was the curved smokebox-door handrail curved or straight, I wonder? Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Can't get away from these green D11s....! ..my NRM GCR D11/1 version arrived at the doorstep just as I finished this; the pic being somewhat in the style of the cigarette card, anyone remember those? Also arrived a weathered 9F so I won't be stuck too much with Improved Directors... so the last of the post-war new BR green D11/2 before pondering ways to make the Great Central version look as good or better. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Stepping back to the WW1 era, this upload failed at first, no doubt because of the suspect provenance of those celestory coaches! Edwardian gloom and darkness except on a shiny Robinson express engine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 or with GWR mail, far more important, and somewhat more cheerful... how else would Swindon mail get to Sheffield? edit; relief is at hand! A Hornby Princess arrived on the doorstep today.... no more dreams with D11 4-4-0s striding up grades with 9 carriages on! For now... but there is one more GCR pic in the works, at least. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 final glory... well, better than sitting in a museum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 final glory... well, better than sitting in a museum. 506_GCR_D11_Butler_Henderson_portrait1_4ab_r800.jpg Hi Rob Great carriage behind the tender what is it? Regards David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 It's one from the great photoshop workshop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi Rob Great carriage behind the tender what is it? Regards David The side of a Hornby Gresley brake 3rd suburban shaped and re-coloured and edited onto a Hornby GWR celestory, 'E' number removed, using editing tools. Alas it wouldn't be easy to create a mixed actual result from the two carriages (well, it would be a shame about the Gresley to cut it up). It does rather accentuate the lack of RTR carriages of the era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted June 14, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 14, 2014 TO be honest Rob, I think you might be as well to get a couple of old Triang 'shorty' clerestories and digitally graft them on to represent GC clerestory coaches; after all Peter Denny made some fairly respectable GC coaches out of them for 'Buckingham', although you might have to 'paint' the livery. The biggest drawback with what you've done here is probably the inset of the brake van sides on the LNER coaches, which does rather give the game away. Although, 'B-H' does look rather splendid! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Good Evening Help, does anyone know if you can remove the plastic coal load from the Bachmann D11/2 tender? Regards David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 If it is the metal one, It should just lever out, with a fine knife blade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 If it is the metal one, It should just lever out, with a fine knife blade. Hi andytrains Many thanks it is a metal coal load and it came out with a sharp blade just as you said. Regards David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hi. The coal on mine just dropped out on turning the tender up-side down when I was altering the loco to tender drawbar setting. I've used some blu-tack to help keep it in place since then. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Dread Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Why not carefully paint over the "coal" with PVA glue and sprinkle with the real thing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Why not carefully paint over the "coal" with PVA glue and sprinkle with the real thing? Hi I have done that in the past but I always feel that the coal load on top of the moulded plastic just does not look right. Also I like to weather the inside of the tender then put various amounts of real coal in to depict a loco that has used a large amount of coal. Many thanks David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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