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  1. Miss Prism
    Yes, thankyou, a 58 for Malmesbury. I should have remembered that.
  2. Miss Prism
    Undoubtedly. As the older 4-wheelers bit the dust in the early-30s, loco buffer-packing increased. Which reminds me, I'm fairly certain a 48xx worked the Malmesbury branch with a new Bristol Division B-set from 1933.
  3. Miss Prism
    Yes, I think that is the key. It's perhaps more appropriate in another thread, but I'm currently trying to track down, for non-autocoach buffers and non-NPCS buffers, when the GWR 'standard' (ahem!) coach buffer length changed from 2' 0.5" to 1'10.5". (An early Churchward-ism, I suspect.)
  4. Miss Prism
    No (for the latter). It was a trick of the light. See #839. All locos were fitted with drawhook plates. (It's side is hidden by the steampipe in your 5813 pic.)
  5. Miss Prism
    Yes, you're right. The reflections are deceptive on the shiny paintwork. (The pic is of the brand-new 1932 loco, btw, with the original 'leaning inward' front steps.) And painted safety valve cover...
  6. Miss Prism
    Here's 4805 when new out of the shops: (edit: please note, this is not a 'packed' bufferstock plate) Btw, thanks for the 1464 explanation - I guessed it was a 'drilling the wrong place' sort of situation.
  7. Miss Prism
    There doesn't appear to be any evidence for 'Great Western'. And if any did carry it, it would have been with the shorter chimney. See post #69 et seq. Edit: sorry, 1364 was in 'Great Western' at Newton. Picture undated as yet.
  8. Miss Prism
    See post #183
  9. Miss Prism
    Mmmmmm - damp patches
  10. Miss Prism
    A30 (Airfix/Hornby), and E140 (Airfix/Hornby/Mainline) respectively. I think an 0-4-2T plus B-set combination was uncommon/rare.
  11. Miss Prism
    Trevor's point still stands. The slider 'grabs' are absent on the Dapol. (Bachmann did them rather well on their Mk1s.)
  12. Miss Prism
    Very nice LNER J15 chimney!
  13. Miss Prism
    The SEF is a 15'6" w/b *, closed cab, belpaire box, narrow tank, early Collett (1924) bunker, Churchward smokebox, can be built with or without rear outside boxes. Essentially: http://www.gwr.org.uk/notes/4c-517L.gif A good 517 thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/92797-george-armstrongs-masterpiece/ * edit: not completely sure of this yet, the kit might cater for the 15' w/b.
  14. Miss Prism
    More oddities - 1464's extended lubricator pipe cover, and 1404's very strange topfeed:
  15. Miss Prism
    Where was the ATC shoe on these locos?
  16. Miss Prism
    How common was packing of buffer stocks?
  17. Miss Prism
    No, I'm not saying it cannot be done. I'm just saying it helps to have the real thing if the real thing still exists.
  18. Miss Prism
    Back on topic, here's 'only one step' 1451 at Exeter:
  19. Miss Prism
    It's normal I think to get the set marginally in advance of the blade tip, to ensure the finite thickness of the blade tip stays within good gauge. http://www.templot.com/forum_img/set_bend_rea.png
  20. Miss Prism
    Offhand, I can't think of a GWR loco whose prototype no longer exists that has been made available in model form, at least in the last 30 years or so. Irrespective of whether something made it into the BR period, if it doesn't exist now, it is not scannable, and there is little evidence that modern RTR manufacturers are capable or willing to use 'old-fashioned' drawings. My heart doesn't want to disagree with you, but my head does.
  21. Miss Prism
    [edit: duplicate post deleted - sticky mouse!]
  22. Miss Prism
    Looking good. Yes, a little bit more dressing to round off the top and bottom surfaces of the front face:
  23. Miss Prism
    I'm not convinced about the 'untapped potential'. All it shows to me is that those models (CofT and CofL didn't look like that in red-frame times!) are in the "I've seen something like this in a museum or on a preserved line, and it looks so pretty in that ornate livery, and I want one" category. There's no correlation to people who actually model pre-grouping GWR, who can probably be counted on the fingers of a few hands.
  24. Miss Prism
    I understand completely Hatton's decision to confine this model to a post-WWII depiction, but it's interesting to compare the necessarily-constrained commercial tooling aspect and the questionable (IMO) commercial extravagance of 'milking the liveries'. If I was Hatton's, I'm not sure I would see much return from the production batches of the lined black 1470 and 5816.
  25. Miss Prism
    4825, 4871, 5808 and 5814 remained in pre-1942 livery after the bunker steps were fitted and the footplate steps were apertured?
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