Kev_Lewis

You're more than welcome Andy. I'm always happy to be helpful! The Dapol 5 plank looks the business. Great job. Your method of ballasting is exactly the same as mine. The washing up liquid really is the key. If you forget it you just end up with watery PVA running everywhere!

Just a bit of rust drybrushed on to a few spots of the metal work on the chassis ought to finish it a treat.

Excellent weathering. It's nice to see a wagon of this period that doesn't look like it's about to fall to peices! Perfick.

Ha ha!

You're a brave man Sandy. Perhaps you and Peter can get ajoining rooms at the nut house when re-building all of these badly built kits drives you both insane! The K18 really does look the part. Keep up the good work.

And borrowing her hair dryer by the looks of it. You'd better put that back before she gets home! I know what you mean. When I posted photo's of my JLTRT 57XX Pannier tank on my workbench thread the mistakes I'd made where pointed out very quickly.

Good thinking. That will definately make it easier for you to carry on entending. Keep up the great work!

Crikey! If that's a little bit of progress I dare not imagine what you call a lot. I really like the feeling of space you've created. How do you plan to hide the hole in the backscene?

I don't think there's any danger of mocking, Andy. The quality of your modelling is always excellent. The re-modelling of the over bridge looks great.

Thanks for the great advice Ken. All of the issues appear to be the same as with thier 14XX/58XX kit I built earlier this year. That's my shopping list for Bristol started!

Ah, excellent. I've been eying up the Scorpio Hall for a future project (I as originally looking at the JLTRT kit but that's a bit too expensive). It will be great to see how the 2884 goes together, especially with an expert like yourself manning the soldering iron! Of course, I have a Slaters Saint and several rolling stock kits in the queue. But what's one more kit?

You always amaze me Ken. You can make even the most challenging kit into a masterpeice. I look forward to seeing your progress on the 28xx. What make is the kit?

You've got on rather well there. The extra detail on the veranda looks great. I went in to my local Halford on friday only to find out that they run out of large cans of grey primer!

Yes, exactly. Hopefully your list of parts required wil be short.

Hmmmm...... that is a challenge. I think I'd start with a good soak in some cellulose thinners. That should get rid of the horrendous paint job and any bits glued on should drop off. I'd love a Hall of my own, but I think I'll wait and maybe one day I'll be able to afford a JLTRT kit.

That's a nice photo of 1466 on the turntable at Didcot. I don't see any reason why the chaps at 81E have to be 100% accurate all of the time. Especially something as small as the colour of thier lamps. How far you go with being prototypical is up to you. However there always seems to be someone at exhibitions who will point out anything that's incorrect.

The red bodied loco lamps were replaced by white bodied lamps on the GWR in 1934. They were the last of the big four to make the change from red bodies to white bodies. White bodied lamps with red lenses were tail lamps, usually on the last coach of the train. With the exception of yard or station pilot locos which would display one red lamp over one buffer and one white over the other buffer. An explaination of GWR headlamp codes can be found here: http://www.greatwest....uk/basic16.htm A 14xx on a passenger service would probably carry a Group 2 headcode. One lamp at the top of the smokebox door. Oh and the first link above is a photo of a 517 class. Your 1466 entered service in March of 1936 as number 4866 and became 1488 in late 1946. By which time 517 class has long been scrapped. Hope this helps.

I'm not sure that's been re-painted. I'm sure I remember seeing some photo's of the pre-production Heljan 33, that were silver. It was on the Antics website if I remember correctly.

Very nice. The subtle weathering is excellent. I currently have six of the Bachmann Brassworks O guage version of this type of tank wagon waiting for me to get around to painting and addding transfers.

Thanks Ian. I have indeed used grass mats, they're from the miniNatur range. I got them from International Models: http://www.internationalmodels.net/acatalog/Main_Catalogue_Index_Silflor_53.html

Evening. Just the last few photo's I took of Seagry at the weekend. The pannier shunts the coal yard. (My current desktop picture) More shunting. Through the hole in the backscene. The firemans view.

Cheers John. I've been following your thread on Hintock since the start. Your layout is fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing the re-modelling progressing.