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Maroon is an easier paint to lay my hands on. The paneled one has already gone into wood finish.

First try at a real teak finish Now not up to mr king's standards but as a first try I am encouraged. The CCT finished...... There is a lot of me which thinks it needs reprinting in a lighter teak colour. Opinions? Richard

And in scale miles? 50x76 3550 miles only half way to a general service. Unless my maths this late at night is poor due to doing it in my head.

As a bastion of lner teak, can I ask the wise folk on here, where does one get transfers for npsc in lner livery? I can see the major suppliers of transfers do coaches, wagons and locos. Have I missed the sheets on this vital group of vehicles? Many thanks Richard. Ps my wood effect stock using oil paints so far, no sniggering at the back please. The underframe will be dealt with next.

Ignore the underframe it needs to be finished in black.

The painting has been a chance to play merging in oil paints trying to use their slow drying time to good affect. This seems to work on a planked wagon, but would it work for representing teak stock? Only an experiment will tell. Richard

The final two......complete.......or as close as I can get before having to put in an order to the U.K. Roof tidied up on the paneled coach and other one finished off. Just need bogies, or at least central part of bogie for steel one , I could file down the back of the bogie sides for the other but it seems a waste and I am looking what can be achieved with blue stuff which I hope to get soon by molding a front of one bogie side. Bachman does make several versions of the bake, but at three feet this will stand up fine against them going past. No one does the paneled one. What colour though? Too late for an lner train prewar so maroon seems the easiest option, or dirty teak paint never repainted for the paneled one. Richard

Ahhhhh magnahesion

Which 10 year old boy in 1913 would not want it. Only the fools and illiterate.

I was given the right mug for you mr wright, just wrong spelling. Being over here I can assure you it holds a lot of coffee. Richard

I found that you can get per rail from the university of Michigan through amazon, it has all the content, but not he price of an original, nor the fear of damaging it. I wonder which other long out of print railway books they might have? Thought this would be of interest to others. Richard

And now i have another set of stock t fit in the fiddle yard/ build to go alongside the GWR train that made it up the GCR. You are right on location. I have not completely pinned it down but the layout is set somewhere between just north of nottingham to just before woodfood halse. I should probiblly be more precise but then i would need to think more about the trains i could run.

They are not quite finished spider. patience my boy. I do have a queston as one looks to be LSWR origin in this set, so what colour were they painted in LSWR days? Brown or Brown and salmon? Could it be a pointless question because parcel stock did not leave its railway of origin and so would not end up on the GCR pre grouping? Help / advice please Richard

A Thompson parcels in brass It was mostly there with just a little detail had to be built. Then this. It has been done recently by Bachman, but it was fun to go back to first principles. More here needed to be scrounged or made up. It is from an MTK kit which I have always thought was a pun on empty kit. There was not much it the box but most important bits were there. It did need more work to get doors on etc. it will have an impressionist feel when finished and run in a rake, from three feet will it be noticed? Richard

Modeling mojo on major projects is like learning a language where you wax and wain between thinking you can speak it well and then look how much you still don't know. I try to remember it takes 10% of the time to get 90% of the way there and 90% of the time to get the last 10% of the way. Richard

Yes Clive how is that loco that shot off the end of the layout on to the floor?

I thought it was a house in mock Tudor style and further away, but then the chimney is massive if that were the case and your suggestion is far more likely Richard

Work is very busy. I have to be there but have time. So i have done these because taking in modelling is much more difficult. Normal service will resume in a week. Not as happy with them as the B3 maybe the background photo gave less feedback about colour change to the programme. Richard

you like me have backed off from the red lining. i was looking ito a pen which might do it. If you solve the issue first let me know as it has puzzled me for a while.

I which case my locker is empty, you better look for a solution from people cleverer than i am.

Those cabs look great. Good to know they exist for future projects.

The paint issue is down to resin casting having a film on it from the casting process. Washing takes it off. So by removing the paint you solved the real problem.

I'd be happy to take the 3d print when you are finished with it. It would make up into a great static model in its own right with a bit of sanding down of the grain.Then a full paint job. Perhaps raffle it off. I can't be the only one thinking this. Richard

With ease..... cut and shut bits from the GBL director. Why did I not buy more when they came out?

A GBL d11 or I am salvaging one from a d11 kit which comes with both types to build a d10 or d11 so any b3 should be possible. It is a starting point. Or cut one from scratch. It is a set of rectangles to cut for Valour. The curve at the back for lord faringdon might be a little harder, but that is what I did to convert a GBL d11 to a d10. Richard