David Bigcheeseplant
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I went to Didcot today and I must admit City of Truro looked great in its new livery. David
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untilRAILEX 2010http://www.rdmrc.nildram.co.uk/railex2010v.html Presented by Risborough & District MRC RAILEX 2010 Stoke Mandeville Stadium Harvey Road Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP21 9PP Saturday 29th May 10.30-1730 Sunday 30th May 10.00-1700 WEBSITE http://www.rdmrc.nil...railex2010.html CONFIRMED LAYOUTS (April 2010): Albion Quarry 7mm (O Gauge): Bob Alderman Anderstaff Yard 4mm (EM) Brendan Walsh Arne Wharf 4mm (009): Chris Nevard Bawdsey 4mm (EM) : Paul Marshall Potter Blakeney 4mm (EM): Geoff Kent Clinkerford 4mm (P4): John Darch Connerburn 2mm Jim Watt Dainton Bank 7mm (O Gauge): Peter Talbot Dinas Blaenau 7mm (0-14): Paul Holmes East Lynn & Nunstanton S Scale : Trevor Nunn Grafenwalde 3.5mm (HO): Tim Hale Grove Ferry Junction S Scale: Robin Fielding Kilbrandon S Scale: Paul Greene Lower Soudley Ironworks 4mm (P4): Shropshire & Herefordshire Group - Scalefour Society New Mills 4mm (OO): Cooperhire MRC Quai: 87 3.5mm (P87) Brian Harrap Totnes 2mm (N) John Birkett-Smith Treneglos 4mm (OO): Stafford Railway Circle Westford 4mm (OO) Westford Modellers Group Whitchurch Road 7mm (O gauge) Paul Bambrick Demos Malcolm Smith Cottage & structure modelling Nick DeCourtias Scratch building coaches from card and paper (see Model Railway Journal No. 105) Philip Hall Wagon & rolling stock contruction CONFIRMED TRADERS (April 2010) 247 Developments Alan Gibson (new for 2010) ALL Components Bill Bedford Models Brilliant-Baseboards.co.uk Cheltenham Model Centre (new for 2010) C&L Finescale Comet Models Dart Castings David Geen (new for 2010) DC Kits & D&E Videos Dragon Models Eileen's Emporium Exactoscale Ltd & The P4 Track Company Finney and Smith Freestone Model Accessories Golden Arrow Productions Gramodels GW Models High Level Kits Hobby Holidays (new for 2010) Ian's Trains Inter-City Models International Models Judith Edge - Etched Brass Kits Kevin Robertson Books London Road Models MB Models Marc Models / Electrifying Trains Model Loco Resprays N Gauging Parkside Dundas Phoenix Precision Paints Plus Daughters Railwayania Road Transport Images (new for 2010) Roger Carpenter Roxey Mouldings Rural Railways Shawplan Southwark Bridge Models Sunningwell Command Control Tools 2000 Unit Models Wild Swan Publications Wizard Models (inc MSE/51L) Societies Great Central Society O Gauge Guild RMWeb Scalefour Society Scale 7 Group S Scale Society Free Vintage Bus Service We will be providing a free bus service from Aylesbury railway station direct to Railex and return every forty minutes during both Saturday and Sunday. The service will start half an hour before Railex opens and the last bus will depart Stoke Mandeville Stadium a few minutes after the show closes each day. The bus service will be run by a vintage routemaster bus.
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Hornby 2721 class detailing - continued
David Bigcheeseplant commented on Barry Ten's blog entry in Barry Ten's Blog
The front of the pannier tanks really should be black not green, other wize a nice job. David -
Most of the ex GWR locos had black tops. David
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I use 51L bearings that are deeper than the exactoscale versions, although there is variations in these and in my latest batch and had to deepen the bearings with a drill, Ultrascale do a tool that will deepen bearings. Also I replace the spring wire with 8thou that does give a softer spring. David
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Just thought I would say what a great taste in music you have.
David
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In the old York museum it was lined, while in Swindon chapel museum it was unlined although you could see the 1957 lining under the plain green. really for unlined livery it should have a 3500 gallon tender, hence the most correct livery for its current condition would be 1920 lined with black frames. David
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I think thats what I just said. I feel that it should be lined rather than just plain green.
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Unlined green is more correct for the condition COT is in now although the brass beading to the splashers was reapplied in 1957, it was removed around 1914 (I will need to check my books) I would like to see her restored with black frames lined out with Great (garter) Western on the tender as no preserved loco carries this livery and could retain the brass beading. David
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I have just read in Steam Railway that City of Truro is to be repainted with black frames and numbered 3717 for GWR 175 this year. David
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The image of the limited edition 7007 Great Western in the Hornby 2010 range seems to have the wrong front cylinder cover with the early curved corners. David
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Interesting thing about City of Truro is the brass beading when built followed the arc of the splashers and also the straight part were it joined the footplate, the brass beading was completely removed I think around 1914, although when returned to service in 1957 the brass beading was restored but only to the curved part, and remains like that today. Athough detail is the whistles as built the smaller one was on the right, this later changed to the left which I think it retained though the first restoration in 1957, although currently they have seemed to have been swapped around again. David
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I understand the current indian red colour was matched on the 1985 restoration by scraping the paint back to the first layer found on the frames. The double lining I think has the effect of lighting the green colour, although I think the green still does look too light, as built it is very unlikely CoT had double lining in fact the lining would be orange/black/orange rather than the later orange/green/black/green/orange. In the 1957 restoration the sandboxes were red as was the spacing plate below the name plate and splasher, as built there were no sandboxes above the footplate, although I think they look better red, and I am sure the spacing plate should match the frames. David
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Looking at plotos it seems that the large wheeled locos such as the City's required the footplate on the tender to have the spacing framework, on locos like the Dean goods with smaller wheels the footplate of the loco was lower requiring no spacer. David
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It seems like they have missed out the spacing framework on the tender footplate, this was required on the prototype to allow the loco footplate to be level as dependent on what class of loco the tender was coupled to, I remember building a Martin Finney kit and I think there were parts to ensure you could couple to any class type. David
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Me too...........straight boiler, no top feed, cast iron chimney...........maybe a later Bachmann release? The city's always had taper boilers, the Atbaras had parallel boilers when built but were later rebuilt into the City class. David
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I think I would still go for the Martin Finney Kit http://website.lineone.net/~cbwesson/GWR%20City.htm Note that the photo shows how City of Truro should look with Indian red frames in as built condition, it has no copper cap chimney sandboxes top feed etc, I would like see CoT in green and black lined out with Great (garter crest) Western on the tender. The current livery and condition annoys me as much as Flying Scotsman with smoke in apple green livery. The Martin Finney 4mm kit is ??96, you needs to get a tender, wheels, and motor plus inside working motion. So you are heading for ??200 before you start it plus it need painting and lining, so in reality the Bachman model maybe is good value for money. David
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Interesting choice to model City of Truro, as the locos present condition and livery is only suitable for the preserved era. When built in 1903 with Indian red frames the loco had no top feed, no patched frames, shorter smoke box, no splasher sandboxes and a host of other differences. When it ceased working in 1930 the livery would have been plain green numbered 3717 and coupled to a 3500 gallon tender. Even when running in its first preserved form in 1957 the Indian red was more of an orange shade and the splasher sandboxes were painted red instead of the green it now carries. In fact the double lining the loco now carries is hardly correct as when built it would have had the standard lining orange, black, and orange. David
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Not my model but a layout I have been taking photos for a future MRJ, although lacking in depth of field I do like, and will revisit and get a better shot in the future. David
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I go with Masokits you need to solder them up but they are cheep and look good, I am not too sure what you mean by working as the Exactoscale are the only ones with a screw you can tighten up. David
