iankemp

Nice black five. Will you be giving them the brassmasters kit treatment?

sure them legs are gonna hold the weight of it. I mean wobbling etc.

Can't wait see the actual construction, waiting to see the whole layout being built!

The latest work on my layout. Some scenic stuff has been added to the slope down by the shed. I will have to remove the shed to do the bit down the side of the shed area. 

Here is a bit of an update.

I have started to build the shed area. It is made from Wills plastic sheets and also Evergreen stuff so far.

Hi all

Here are some more items for sale!

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Hello All,

 

Not much modelling at the moment but work has continued steadily in preparing Grantham’s new home, so hope the following is of interest nonetheless:

 

 

 

 

‘Robert’

How did you create the double crossover? have you got a separate picture of it and how you made this please.

Thanks

Ian

there is something wrong with this pic!! lol!!!

Any updates? any new pictures? Need input!!!

Well i have bitten the bullet and bought my first sound decoder and speaker. It is for one of my peaks that i have got so many of! I am not sure which one i want to put it in yet, the only thing is i can't put it in my new peak as that is a 21 pin decoder and the other ones are 8 pins. I have thoughts of putting it in my green D4 Great Gable. I will be saving up to get a 21 pin version of it. It is a LokSound one which i bought off a website. I saw some on ebay the other week so when i thought of getting one this week they had all gone.

Got a great bargain the other day. pack of 50 platform lamps and resistors (lights that WORK) for £11.98. They will be going on the platforms i have got for the Rothley station and also Dumbarton East!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150882472291?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Found this pic of RTC Ixion in Toton depot.

Work is slowly continuing behind the scenes, I have bought a midland style signal box and interior detailing which has been built. I have painted the exterior and i will at some point build the interior detailing.

Some more work has been done on the black 5. All is needed is a lick of paint now.

Unfortunately the work space has slowly been getting smaller and smaller so i spent over an hour putting stuff away that has not been used. (bad habit of leaving stuff out!) I have also painted the midland style fencing to which will be attached to the other that is on the layout!

Hopefully sometime this week i will be getting the next board attached and got ready as there is a bit that continues the down hill (up hill pending on how you look at it! lol) So that is needed marking out and cut. And then i can try and get the track work sorted out!

I have got this LMS Black 5 loco/coach set for sale

I am asking for £90 +£8.50 p&p

It is in good working order as i have not used it. The detailing parts are all there. I originally bought it just for the loco thinking it was the one like the one i have got. I even have the original packaging for it still. It will be sent 1st class recorded so you will need to sign for it and the tracking number will be supplied for it.

This is what i have been doing on the Black 5 detailing with the Brassmasters kit!

I have started doing the detailing for the inside of the signal box. I will also be building the Ratio kit for the midland signal box and the detail for the inside as well soon as i get the kits for them!

Some of the parts that i have got left to put together!!

This is one inspirational layout. The track work is very good. I like the point work and how you have modified some peco points to look more prototypical of the track work that was done near the station then. I will be watching this layout progress. I have taken to using hanging basket liners for the long grass look.

Now you are just showing off!!! lol. looks great, keep up with the great work!! good to see you back doing the model!

Thanks to whoever bumped the thread, given me the inspiration to dig one of mine out and finish it properly now!

I think that was me! LOL!!

I got the idea off this thread once i read through it and examined the pictures. I thought it was a good thing to do to one of my steam loco's. I will go through mine one at a time. This is the only thread i have found that this has been done!

Hi just to let you know i have started on the task of doing the Black 5!

More scenic stuff has been happening!

That ballasting looks great, looks better than mine!

Work has actually be done on the layout. More ballasting has been done and some scenic stuff has done! I have managed to get all the way up to the platform done. The area looks so different now. Used dry tea leaves come quite in usefull! I have also built a wagon kit that i found in a box, i forgot how much fun it is to build them! And i have also detailed the new addition Class 45. It also has had the decoder put in that i had spare and that has been programmed!