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Cheers just I'm interested in trying to do the drax wagon in OO just can't get measurements anywhere

Hi the drax power wagon looks great ! Can you tell me the measurements for it please for oo gauge ?

I brought this Gen 1 Bachmann 37 as 37429 in Regional Railways specifically to do up as 37425 in her current state with DRS. Hents why numbers and names are missing. However I'm sure alot of you know the exhausts and fan grill sit too proud on the roof. So I took the body off and the exhaust and roof fan grill pops out via locating pins (unscrew the fan first). From here smoothen out any glue inside the cut outs in the body, then carefully rub down the exhaust panel to a certain point and same with the supports in the body hole. Repeat this process for the roof fan grill (be careful as this can easily be broken during removal). Once your happy with the new hight simply glue it back into place. I have also included a picture of Bachmann's latter gen 37099 exhaust as it's what I used as a reference to get the correct position.

Having brought my self some Railmatch FGW blue and the barrier coaches awaiting their livery to be applied. I decided it had to be done! So while struggling to sleep one night intended up giving the first coat of blue to the coaches around about 2:35am one night. The other two coats of paint came during the next day. In terms of the BG I just have to make handrails and apply transfers that can be sourced from Railtec. However, the MK2 BSK still requires more work. From chassis details having to be cut off, handrails being made and transfers Bering added. These coaches will eventually have Kadee coupling fitted to one end and a small Bachmann tention lock fitted to the other.

Both HST barrier coaches 6338 and 6330 now in Halfords enamel grey primer and the MK2 BSK since having one corridor connection removed and having the door blanked off. This was achieved the same way I blacked off the windows.

After taking months off the HST barrier coach convertions it was time to get the project is full swing once more. This time the UK being on lockdown due to Covid, this gave me time to make some outstanding progress on the models. In the last blog I left off with 6338 in grey primer. This time I made progress with the MK2 BSK (soon to be 6330). For the window blanks to sit correctly on the body side I did have to rub down the rather thick window frames on the body side. With doing this I also had to smoothed the moulded rib on the body side that was used for the old blue and grey livery.

Once all the windows was blanked on the BG (soon to be 6338) I have it a coat of Halfords enamel grey primer. After this the project went on hold for a long time due to work and college. However, I did get the mojo back month later and the project continued...

After seeing HST barrier coaches 6330 and 6338 with a pair of 20s on the GWML, I wanted to model them. So using an old Lima BG and Lima BSK progress had to start! I started off with the BG (6338) as it required less work to convert. I used the clear plastic your get from a kids toy packaging for window blanks. I also had to cut off some of the chassis details to get the prototypical look of the barrier coach. Taking the corridor connection off one end was time consuming but the outcome for a unique model is definitely worth it.

nice layout great to see it at Reading yesterday some very nicely build shunters im now very tempted to try and build my own model of number 20 but just need the measurements i got some pics of the layout too.

Im only 15 so never got to see the place but u do live in the Reading area so nice to see the pics !! looking good mate keep it going . zoidberg

OMG the best station building i have ever seen good job. i cant wait to see more of this exsilent model zoidberg

you could look at some of the Bachmann ones they are really nice models i have a pair my self from zoidberg

nice model keep going from zoidberg

what did you use to make the levers and windows from zoidberg

no i mean Reading society of model engineers

nice to drive but very powerful and is 'the only one in this livery in the UK' i have been told and if you want a chance to see the western champion at the R.S.M.E she will be running on July 2nd at our public running day

nice i love the look of the green 40