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  2. TheCromptonParkinson
    After an accidental time wasting visit to Staples I discovered them flogging off desks for £27, a small nook in the spare room means I'm off the precious dining room table and into my own space!
     

     
    Its a tad cramped. Here we see 'Build your own GTi', I had an old Heljan 33 chassis knocking about from an ancient project gone pete tong. I found a perfect Pre TOPs BFYE GTi on Ebay and some spares from Howes, saw me bag a 27 for around £27. AWESOME.
     
    Here she is going together.
     
    What else has occurred? GSYE 26 gained her horn covers and a new bit of weathering on her roof. And the 27 had her window seals done black with a marker, both now sit calmly waiting for a dose of Laserglaze and a final weather. The BRCW GTi is a bit mad, as the connecting door should be there, and it is, but Heljan have only choosen to inscribe the centre, with no ridge nor groove on the outer sides. Meaning that my technique of weathering and then bringing back gives you a mad looking line right down the centre of the cab.
     
    The seals just need some powders to calm them down to stop them looking so shiny and black. They do make the Heljan body look suddenly much more like a 27. They both need their awesome two arm wiper blades fitted after the glazing.
     

     
    And the 3rd project saw the need to get convincing looking 40s, cheap and easily for the FWL (Future Welsh Layout) as without them we'd be pretty screwed.
     
    Thanks to Red Devil I got some railroad 40 tanks and set about converting a random Bachmann 45 chassis knocking about. Oh how I thought I was being clever. It doesn't fit at all. I got it sat on the body, all too low, and the 45 chassis a good few MM too short. That shows me for being tight and trying to be clever. However all is not lost. The plan is too keep it mega simple and mega cheap so we can easily knock out 4/5 without too much aggro. They aren't perfect by any imagination, maybe one day when things calm we can go back and revisit them with some more Shawplan bits. But for now, it's Shawplan etched windscreens, some new headcode boxes, a shaved and shaped bonnet and opening up the cabside windows - again massive thanks to the guys over at emgauge70s.co.uk as without their amazing website and modelling I'd be back at where I was at 14 (and of course RMweb).
     
    Anyway here is 337:
     

     
    So she needs glazing, wipers and her boxes finishing off. We'll get there. But it turns out that a Lima 40 with only a little breathing on makes an ok model. Maggie seems pleased anyway.
     
    Happy Modelling
     
    Oly
  3. TheCromptonParkinson
    I probably should of started this sooner, I'll give a round up of what i've been doing over the past week or so and then continue to update as work is completed (hopefully)
     
    As Stoating Bank's exhibition invites have dried up its given me time to concentrate on some other diversions, namely my clubs new layout and my new layout. Working on a layout for me involves ChrisM planning it on templot and me getting the T&RS ready (nothing like skipping forward!)
     
    The clubs new layout, has a Welsh flavour, and mine very Scottish. So a lot of locos we can get away with on both (rather handy)
     
    I'd toyed with P4 for mine, but on thinking it through and the fact I'd have to buy nearly everything twice (not to mention the waiting times with Ultrascale) I decided to stick with OO finescale. But more on the layout later.
     
    So this week I've mostly been doing wagons, which has been an eye opener. Usually the locos look ok pulling around factory fresh wagons.
     
    My foray into P4 meant a Parkside Dundas riveted 16T had been built and could be practiced on. After speaking to ChrisM he mentioned the technique of Salting, and after a google I gave it a go:
     
    First off was the brushed rust layer on some Tamiya primer,
     

     
     
     
    Then the salt applied with water and left to dry followed by an airbrushed coat of wagon grey after it dried, chip of the salt,

     
    Then BOOM a wagon:

     
     
     
    It was then decided to treat the whole of Stoating's 16T:
     

     
    I used modelmaster's decals. Problem is I ran out so they're only done on one side!!!
     
    And at the rear is a Dapol break van finished off and made in P4 only to be converted back to OO!
     
    So for the locos,
     
    Crude is the close up, here we have a Heljan 26 with Laserglaze, and some other bits like painted out D numbers (deliberate different shade of blue!)
     

     
    The 25 is Hornby body on a trimmed down Bachmann chassis, also with laserglaze not fitted quite right and with my microwave in the background.
     

     
     
    ScR 1970 layout would not be complete without:
     

     
    And coming along is this old BRCW, just waiting for some horn covers, a roof respray, laser glaze, her wipers and some nice black ploughs,
     

     
    And this mornings pleasure was a VERY subtle weathering of this newbie:
     

     
    No need for it, but it ran in Kent and was sub £70 so it figured!
     
    And here is a quick sneaky peak of the layout:
     

     
    Next week should prove quite fruitful, anything worth looking at I hope to remember to post!!!!!
     
    Thanks for looking,
     
    Happy modelling.
     
    Oly
  4. TheCromptonParkinson

    Project DUFF

    By TheCromptonParkinson,

    Modelling is slowing down ready for the Christmas break as the spare room gets taken up by sleeping family members.
     
    Plus I'm in the vain hope that if I don't crack on with my Bachy/Hornby 24/1 model Hornby will announce it on Monday.
     
    The 40s are tucked up and waiting for their Bachmann Chassis, or selling on eBay if the new Bachmann retool really is the holy grail.
     
    So for "FWL" three class 47s appeared. These girls are from 3 different ilk, and really transcend my active modelling years.
     
    1764 (Bachy's first GFYE beast) was brought for me when I was 19 as a leaving present for my first job. The BFYE headcodes and yellow weathered duff I treated myself too when I was quite a bit more well off from a pro modeller, the final duff an out of the box duff who's bad headcode box had seen her enter the 'I'll fix that one day' shelf.
     
    And now the layout Klaxon has called and they are required.
     
    Also the new calendar for 2013 arrived, the missus hasn't seen it yet.
     

     
    I know the Bachmann 47 is far from perfect, but to me it looks the part, and as it's a side show to the NCB's finest we hope you'll be distracted by some hellfire 0-6-0s rather than the duff's bogies.
     
    Here they are out of the shoe box:
     

     
    Part way through her 'deweathering'
     

     
    All polished and ready for some transfers:
     


     
     
     
     
    All three are now wearing their liveries minus numerals. GFYE will get new numbers in the corporate font. The pair of BFYE end examples (featuring the never modelled by Bachmann headcode/serk grille combo) will carry two differing variations of blue, one with arrows behind the cab doors and the other with a single one in the centre of the bodyside. Everything will be pre TOPs to fit into the 70-72 period.
     
     
     

     
    Roll on Monday and what 'Shocks' Hornby's announcement contains!
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