David Bigcheeseplant

There is a colour photo of collet trailer 172 in crimson in September 1960

Back to the colour of the seats in Last Days of Western Steam by Bill Reed there is a colour photo of Wren in unlined maroon with red seats. David

My eyes don't confuse me, the lining has nothing to do with it, the end should be less pointy, on cars 1-4 the ends were sharper than the units that followed. David

One thing I don't like about these kits and some other laser cut kits are the but jointed corners. When I have done by own laser cut buildings I either mitre the corners by a 45 degree sanding disc, or when I got York modelmaking to cut bits I had drawn up they used a circular saw to do the mitres. If you have mitred corners with no but joint you can have all the quarter bricks and get the brick bond spot on. David

Very nice photo, good to see crimson and cream coach behind at this late date. The non driving end looks like it is very dirty maroon but unlined. David

Contractors loco and wagons.

First rule is model what you see rather than what you think you see, I copy an actual photo if possible, keep the number of colours limited, for this wagon I just used a mix of roof dirt and humbrol leather. Do a little at a time and put to one side. David

Not oo but p4

No its 4mm scale Parkside kit Masokits, sprung chassis, home made three link couplings.

Still some work to do but its getting there.

Hi John I would have expected the barge boards to be light or dark stone I posted a link here before but to my mind the model looks right http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/52409-blogentry-5869-0-67722200-1358517373-thumb1/ I expect there were exceptions to the rules hence the light window on Milbay but generally I would go for what is in the thread dark windows and doors and a mix of light and dark stone.

A wagon I have painted to represent one I have couple of prototype colour photos of. Not the best photos, and I need to add the buffers and coupling plus redo the brake gear as I have it the wrong way round. David

It may help looking at the Martin Finney instructions http://www.brassmasters.co.uk/gwr_2301_dean_goods_0-6-0.htmas there were two widths of footplate, fluted or plain coupling rods two shapes of cab cut aways and that's before you get into boiler, smokebox and chimneys!

Flying Scotsman on the 28th April 1952 in BR blue at Aylesbury station, it is still right hand drive, so never wore apple green as a left hand drive loco in LNER or BR service.

Here is my Conisseur Models PMK J50/4 which I built a few years ago, the number is the same one as Hornby has chosen for there model. It seems everytime I build an etched kit Hornby bring out the same model, as I built a Q1 and Hawksworth full brake.

It has been a while since the last post, the decision has now been made to start from new with new baseboards and turn Aylesbury in a roundy roundy. Quite a bit of planning was done to ensure we don't make or repeat mistakes. The whole layout will be 31.5 feet long and around 12 feet deep. the boards are 25mm foam with 3mm ply laminated to the top and bottom. the idea is that the boards will located in a several storage boxs which in turn will support the baseboards, so everything will be self contained. All the baseboards storage boxes and legs will be built first hopefully by March 2016 and we plan to run the two main lines within a year. The model is not compressed although some trackwork has been adjusted very slightly to avoid baseboard joints. The plan was drawn up in AutoCAD and a map imported and scaled to fit while the track was drawn in Templot and again imported. as can be seen things are not far out. The curves at the end will need to be adjusted but hopefully we are almost there on design work. David

The first photo is of 94XX at Swindon museum, which would be a stange choice as Bachmann are doing one unless they plan to do a 15XX!

A few things that don't seen quite right the chimney has a ridge where it meets the cap and the base. the smokebox handrail is not quite right where it curves down the side of the boiler, also the regulator handle in the cab seems too low. I do have one on order and none of the faults will put me off buying but it would be nice if these are corrected before production, The Chimney really sets the face of the loco and to me this is not quite right, but way better than the old Airfix model. David

I like the matching bananna shoes on the chap on the photo of the Dapol flying bananna.

The coupling rods on the Oxford Model are, correctly, mounted outboard of the connecting rods. Beattie Well tanks (prototype and Kernow's model) are also like it as is the preserved T3 4-4-0, so it was probably usual LSWR practice on outside cylinder locos built prior to the adoption of Walschaerts valve gear on Drummond and Urie 4-6-0s. It presumably minimises loco width by allowing the cylinders to be mounted closer together but I don't know if it was a done by other railways (possibly the GER where Mr Adams worked before his LSWR days?); maybe others can enlighten us I would have thought the connecting rods being inside the coupling rods would be that many loco builders in the earlier years were still building single drivers, where the connecting rods would be on the face of the wheel. If you use the same cylinder castings which I would expect happened then the piston centres would be on the same centre line, so you can't move the centre line out with out using new castings, so the coupling rod is added to the outside. David

There were four trailers that were based on the two lines. W228 and W228 are the two that are currently being used at Buckfastleigh. W240 (which is usually stored undercover, despite the photo linked earlier and has not been in service for many years) W238 was retained by the Kingswear line and used as an observation car - it was stripped of most of its autofittings and had a corridor connection fitted. More recently, it was sold to Mike Little and restored as an autocoach (this is the one that is now named "Chaffinch") W233 is a more recent resident and is the former RTC vehicle. http://www.southdevo...w-auto-trailers I think you mean W225 & W228 rather than W228 & W228, I wonder if anyone has photos of the seating in W238 in early preservation to see if it had its original seats and what colour they are.

There is also W232 which ran on the Dart Valley again it was messed about with but has since been sold and restored and now runs on the Bodmin Railway.

I don't need a radial tank or intend to buy one but like Nhj581 said I rely on my eyes and something is a miss. the fineness just is not there. the bottom of the dome where it flares into the boiler looks blobby, as are other parts of the model. It is great that others are coming into RTR market, but if I did need one looking at what I have seen in photos I think the Hornby one looks a lot better, but the Finney one is the best if you want to build it. David