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See my username and avatar! Somewhat of a family favourite ever since my Great-Grandad took Grandad on his first loco footplate aboard 1516 when he was a young boy in the early 1930s. 'Big' 1516 in 7mm is currently looking a bit scruffy - she's in the middle of a 'major' - Bought second hand, I'm working my way through issues both with the Underhill/CSP kit and the previous builder's choices so when I start my own, I can correct at source. Chassis done, boiler/cab part way through and then the major work on to correct both bufferbeams being soldered far too low... 'Small' is the K's kit, with it's own problems, also having work done so i know what needs doing on the others. Will be either 1500 or 1501 about 1921 in the end. For Midland days, there are few differences between locos - the main thing not to mix up the smaller 1322/1116As with the much beefier 1134A class, as with your photo of 1142a (and your dome shape suggests the smaller classes). Really changes are the H-spoke wheels being replaced, full cabs for some and bells for those sent to work at docksides. It's really when the survivors get towards LMS days that you start to see individual 'fingerprints' - replacement /patched bunkers, short/long buffers, injector pipework differences, smokebox side lubricators and so on. If you'd like any measurements to help (or a scan of the cab etch) I can certainly try to help.

Correct for Vol 3, RCH 1923 Specification wagons only.

Thanks to Aquired Wagons Vol 5, I'M looking forward to finishing a LNER Diagram 3 6-plank as E6. Will save me time doing the decals!

Would be interesting to know how long that arrangement lasted. One may suggest that the arrangement may have been helped by Michael Thomas Bass being a substaintial investor in the Midland, having 90% of outward trade brewery from Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton carried by the Midland and also being MP for Derby 1848-1883... (he also turned down Directorship with the Midland, something his son, Michael Arthur, did not).

A little strong perhaps. At the turn of the century, Bass was using around 8000 tons of anthracite per year, so a rough average being 15 10 ton wagons per week where annual output was ~1.3 million barrels. At the same time there were recieving "40 trucks of coal and 86 trucks of coal dust"* from local colleries per week. Even if you pro-rata out a similar usage to all of the smaller breweries (Bass producing about the same as the next 4 largest Burton Breweries combined at the time), it's not a huge weekly amount for anthracite traffic. *('The Greatest Brewery in the World' A History of Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton, C.Owen Pg115-6)

Now produced by EFE: https://Bachmann-spares.co.uk/category/9-efe-rail-parts/j94/body-parts

Ellis grease axleboxes on the one closest by the looks.

Do you have any photos? Cambrian's Lowfit shared everything except the solebars with the FM chassis, so I wonder if the masters went to ABS which would explain why the current owner of Cambrian doesn't have them. Or Mr Swain produced the masters for the white metal parts to begin with?

I have nearly two full kits of the old Cambrian LMS FM containers/wagons that have come to me second hand - I don't think I'd want to start from them now if I had to. A fiddly challenge at best, being all whitemetal for the chassis. I think the newer Cambrian 17'6" 10ft WB skeleton chassis kit (C105) with new springs/axleboxes from Rumney Models, brakes from Parkside PA16 and the side stops from etched checkerplate might well be easier.

There's a photo I've linked before elsewhere on the forum of a Jinty at Port Dinorwic with shock opens (probably from Penmorfa.com, will have a look...) Edit. There we go

youtube link There's at least one in 4mm about on one of the L&Y exhibition layouts doing the rounds (can't remember the name...) - it stood out as I'm in the process of having a stab at the earlier single door diagram (45) using two Hornby Kelloggs vans* as a starting point for 'as close as' model using those as a base. Dia 45 chosen out of the two bogie vans as there was less to go wrong with scribing new sides! WIP below, with much tidying up still to do. (roof beam looks wobbily where the white plastic blends with the background) *see the Hornby LWB van thread EDIT - Layout is Eastwood in P4. See van from 5.40 on this Youtube link

Very possibly the ancient Slaters kit - I'm hoping this link to a completed ebay sale works.

That's a lovely ladder. I'm generating a box of second hand ones and the handed nature seems to have caught out about 80% of the past builders!

Here's video featuring master Mk1 chopper @Clive Mortimore showing his technique

Tail traffic behind a Sprinter does sound like the kind of thing East Midlands Trains would do on the Derby-Crewe line....

As is the backhead, which is MPD/Slaters.

Absolutely Barry. Much better than opening a box for me.

I've only got as far as the stripping stage (that took long enough!) - Like you it needed to be done while I had the enthusiam to see what was there. I did think it might be a Gibson kit, but the tender doesn't match the other Gibson etches I have. There were some right horrors, the tender tank being supported by cardboard, no loco running board and part of the tender frames cut up to use instead!

I bought the Midland 2F, so no, not the only one! A full brass kit held together with what looked like UHU multi purpose.... I reasoned if I could salvage the wheels, chassis and tender to cross kit with parts of a K's kit, I'd come out ahead. I did, just about.

Time for a thread reboot. Dunno who these 'Loggs' fellows are... I got a bit fed up with doing 'useful' modellling, i.e making things of future me will need. After rescribing and adding strapping to the insides of several Slaters wagons over christmas I completely lost the will to scribe the floors. I needed some escapism for January. Thanks to watching some VGAs thump through the station one morning at the end of last year planted the seed, so the result being 'what if VBA but also VGA?' isn't a surprise due to the need to both widen the van and ideally finding a new roof that wasn't a traditional full arc. Left over sides from the previous victims, lengthened chassis, new ends. If I hadn't used the roof sections for the L&Y van (it will return...), the top roof section would be a narrowed part from the LWB van. Left over Cambrian oleos, Parkside tube buffers, etc. Hiding undergubbins with VGA type frames helps too. Trying to remove the moulded brake lever off the chassis isn't nice, but doable with a careful use of blade and rotary milling tool, it can be just about done. Over exposed photo below to try and illustrate. I was going to hold on for a full reveal after it gets painted, but that could be months at this point, so here we are!

Light Railway Stores have the Thatcher Plates range listed on a downloadable PDF, including Midland builder, tank capacity and tender plates in 7mm.

Railtec do custom 3D GWR plates with smokebox numbers and shedplate. Tender totems too.

https://www.powsides.co.uk/product.php/passenger_milk_vans/?k=:::2103556:0

It was, but the update on the main page says: "Also, we are closing our PO Box with immediate effect and will therefore only be able to accept orders via email."

The lowmac would make an excellent addition to the what have you done your with Keyser kit thread Jesse. I've got two or three in the roundtuit pile.