Jesse Sim

Can anyone help identify this coach for me please? I haven’t a clue and I need to know what it is so I can sell it. Many thanks in advance

Don’t be silly, look at the GNR goodness 😍

I scrolled down and got too excited

You ungrateful bas……. Better not finish that until you finish the d2… 🤣 Only kidding, thanks Tony. The big lump of green soap (it looks like it) was in the tender, whoever owned it before used it to glue the tender pick ups to something.

Where’s the nearest airport?

Funny looking LNER D2…. 😉

Thanks mate, I appreciate it.

Exactly my point, one photo on one particular day. Out of how many days did she run?

I’ll have a look and see what I have on. My planned 4x4 trip to the top end of QLD has been cancelled so I might be able to take a week off and come to the convention.

But we do not have photos for every single detail is the point I’m trying to make. I have this photo of 2511, she looks pretty dirty to me, but she’s not on a prestige service. 4497 here looks rather dirty. Maybe my model of 4491 is little too dirty, but I stand by my theory of she’s just about to finish a 6 hour journey from Scotland on a crappy day. Of course if I was to run her on a down train she’d be spotless, which is how I’ve modelled 4476.

My layout is situated not far from London, so the idea is that she’s just worked the UP train, I also model just before winter. I think the cold, damp weather and a decent few hours on the road would make her somewhat dirty. I thought I might also add: Who’s to say one loco didnt slip through and end up not being as clean before departing on the Coronation? Do we have a photographic record of every train that hauled the coronation? I think one of the biggest thing us modellers do is speculate what happened. Considering it’s what 90 years ago that I’m modelling. Couldn’t we speculate that COA wasn’t cleaned very well before leaving on a particular day? What did the Coronation do Edinburgh to KX? 8 hours wasn’t it? In that 8 hours of travel at high speeds, in the rain, on a cold, wintery wet day couldn’t we speculate that she may have gotten just a little bit dirty?

I have no details about the convention …

Thanks Andrew, send it over to me I’ll do it! I didn’t know about the tankers, oh well, they’ll do for now.

Some work I’ve completed in the past week…. So we’ll start with the B2. I bought this loco off Tony years ago, it’s a whitemetal kit and was already built and painted. It had a horrible lime green looking paint job, I couldn’t get it to run properly on DCC for some reason, I put it down to my mechanical limitations. I ended up substituting a Bachmann GS tender for her, altering it to look like the whitemetal one. With tender picks up now added I turned to changing the motor, opting for a DJH one like usual and away she went. She started to perform effortlessly. She stayed in horrible green and black tender for a while until I asked fellow BRMA member Charles Rudder if he could paint her, which he did. Charles did a beautiful job and again she stayed in a better green for about a year and half. I decided to finish her off on my second day into isolation. So the HMRS sheets came out, so I started on the lining, my second attempt at lining and I feel it’s a much better job then my first. I opted for 5427 as she lost her name plate in ‘37 I believe, lazy modelling at its finest, no need to buy and wait for a nameplate…. Oh and there is the ah thin red lining on the front it’s just ahh covered you know…by the weathering……… Shes not perfect, definitely a layout loco but I’m quite happy with her. Moving on I finally decided on tackling the loaded coal train. The Empty train was weathered last year so it was good to see some muck applied to the loaded ones. Only about 15 left to do… Three tankers weathered as well. Lastly, an A4, sacrilege some might say! This loco is somewhat a celebrity on my layout, she was on the roster at Warley in 2016 on Grantham and on the roster again for the Little Bytham LNER weekend. I weathered her back in 2015 but now that my weathering has excelled I thought a re-weather was needed. Being a Scottish based engine she was no where near as filthy as she had ought to have been. So I went to town her. She’s still somewhat clean, more of a hard days worker that needs a good scrub. She’s rostered on the Coronation on Woolmer Green so she’ll be getting that scrub at Top Shed.

Continuing on from my post of Isolation Modelling, here are some of the things I’ve done. It’s mostly been some well need weathering apart from finishing off a B2. So we’ll start with the B2. I bought this loco off Tony years ago, it’s a whitemetal kit and was already built and painted. It had a horrible lime green looking paint job, I couldn’t get it to run properly on DCC for some reason, I put it down to my mechanical limitations. I ended up substituting a Bachmann GS tender for her, altering it to look like the whitemetal one. With tender picks up now added I turned to changing the motor, opting for a DJH one like usual and away she went. She started to perform effortlessly. She stayed in horrible green and black tender for a while until I asked fellow BRMA member Charles Rudder if he could paint her, which he did. Charles did a beautiful job and again she stayed in a better green for about a year and half. I decided to finish her off on my second day into isolation. So the HMRS sheets came out, so I started on the lining, my second attempt at lining and I feel it’s a much better job then my first. I opted for 5427 as she lost her name plate in ‘37 I believe, lazy modelling at its finest, no need to buy and wait for a nameplate…. Oh and there is the ah thin red lining on the front it’s just ahh covered you know…by the weathering……… Shes not perfect, definitely a layout loco but I’m quite happy with her. Moving on I finally decided on tackling the loaded coal train. The Empty train was weathered last year so it was good to see some muck applied to the loaded ones. Only about 15 left to do… Also three tankers went under the brush. Lastly, an A4, sacrilege some might say! This loco is somewhat a celebrity on my layout, she was on the roster at Warley in 2016 on Grantham and on the roster again for the Little Bytham LNER weekend. I weathered her back in 2015 but now that my weathering has excelled I thought a re-weather was needed. Being a Scottish based engine she was no where near as filthy as she had ought to have been. So I went to town her. She’s still somewhat clean, more of a hard days worker that needs a good scrub. She’s rostered on the Coronation on Woolmer Green so she’ll be getting that scrub at Top Shed. I must apologise for the horrible photos, I’m still at home and it’s very windy here so I couldn’t take the photos in my normal afternoon sun spot. EDIT: Apologies again, I forgot to crop the photos, ignore my sisters sowing mannequin.

Thanks Baz, where all good down here. Mum copped it the worst out of all of us but she only felt crap for three days. Last day of ISO tomorrow, back to work Thursday and let me tell you a schooner of Tooheys New has never sounded so good.

It’s interesting the different takes on Covid by everyone. I come out of my isolation period tomorrow, it was no more then a very mild flu, I’ve definitely had worse! I spent the majority of the week modelling, playing various games on the PlayStation and watching movies/tv shows. Down here in Australia we don’t have to test negative to leave ISO, as long as you have no particular symptoms you’re free to go. My whole family and partner got it at the same time, which was something of a silver lining as we spent the isolation together and not seperate on our own. It was tough as we had to close the family business, I don’t think it’s been closed this long since my great-grandfather started it in 1927. I’ll post my modelling efforts later today.

We must be channeling each other across the world Tony. My symptoms have been very mild, hoping yours are as well. Talk soon.

Now that is a beautiful looking wagon. Is it a kit or scratchbuild?

Mate of mine knocked this up for me. I think I owe him a couple of beers for this!!

Now that we’re getting into little details/tips & tricks with weathering, I thought I’d show this simple Bachmann NE fish van. I’ve modelled it as if someone has given it a clean whilst the door was open. Which then obviously leaves the panel behind the open door some what dirty. I also used a scalpel to show scratch marks from the sliding door. I admit going down the lazy approach with the fish train, I should have renumbered all of these fish vans but with about 12 of them I decided to just weather them around the numbers or change one and disguise it with weathering. Considering it’s in a train doing a scale speed you can’t spot it! Something else I like doing is changing the lettering to the post 37? 36? Style but having the original lettering showing through. As seen here with another Bachmann Fish van.

Many thanks Tony, I prefer not to use an Airbrush as it makes everything look to uniformed. You get more textures I think with paint and powders just brushed on. I thought the same regarding working on black locos, I think it’s actually easier weathering a green loco as it shows the weathering more.

My scratchbuilt/rtr-bashed c1 4419.

Two more locos weathered. I’ve decided on starting a weathering page on Facebook and a thread here on RMWEB hoping to get a customer base for my weathering skills. I say weathering skills, but I’m very low on the list compared to others. However, after receiving a lot of compliments and questions asking if I’d weather peoples models for them I decided why not! Now it’s time to work out some prices and all the other stuff needed and fingers crossed I can push through and create a name for myself. Here’s a link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Weathering-by-Jesse-Sim-108423315206993/ And the RMWEB page: Thanks Tony for letting me humiliate myself… I mean promote myself 🤣

Wasn’t sure where to put this topic but I decided the best spot was here. I thought I’d start a new topic to keep my stock building free from my layout thread. You’ll see a bunch of different stuff, ranging from kit building, scratchbuilding, painting, lettering, weathering and of course detailing RTR products. I’ve also recently started a Weathering business, Which I’ll post regularly in here and on Facebook (which you can find by searching ‘Weathering by Jesse Sim’). Over the next few days I’ll post up some of the stuff I’ve built. Let’s start off with the new Bachmann V2 and a Heljan O2 conversion. The V2 has had nothing more then a weather, some real coal and the supplied detailing added on. This O2 was started by Tony Wright back in 2018 and it’s finally finished. This has a GN tender and cab and a new buffer beam. It’s also been lettered, numbered and weathered by me. Stay tuned to see more.