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  1. David_Belcher
    Some years ago I saw the end results of what could be done with a Lone Star 23 and a Farish 20 chassis plus extensive super detailing. A labour of love but the outcome was superb.
  2. David_Belcher
    Not the most flattering photo going, but progress is being made on my 2-railed 'Montrose' from eBay ending up as 'City of Sheffield'. I'm not sure why it slants downwards in the pic as this isn't the case in reality. Probably my camera work...
  3. David_Belcher
    Only the other 4 left to do. And the dummy loads. And the Airfix brake van. And the repaint/detail on the Derby Type 2 to haul them. You get the idea... David
  4. David_Belcher
    They did indeed. And the early batches were Electric Blue rather than Rail Blue - red buffer beams are the giveaway, RB ones didn't have them. Although both liveries started out with the aluminium lion emblem so confusion arises. David
  5. David_Belcher
    Playing about with weathering ideas - Ocaldo acrylic paint and a slightly damp brush, plus dabbing with a cloth.
  6. David_Belcher
    Farish were ahead of the curve here IIRC, the Large Prairie (the only GF model to be resurrected as they moved into the all-plastic rolling stock era), MN and King all being early 50s IIRC - their 94xx came later, early 60s probably? David
  7. David_Belcher
    Glazing done. Merit driver and fireman added.
  8. David_Belcher
    Now I have...some tweaking of piston travel needed but otherwise all good for a 50 year old chassis. David
  9. David_Belcher
    Was unaware about the tender vents. Fabricated some sieve boxes from plastic scrap, and as the Mainline axlebox mouldings are quite neat, renumbered to plain-bearing 44743. David
  10. David_Belcher
    Just the cab glazing and footplate crew left to do!!
  11. David_Belcher
    Finished as no. 44753, correct for a single chimney version. Lining the other side of the tender, varnishing, cab glazing and then lamps and crew figures left to do...
  12. David_Belcher
    Not tried it yet!!
  13. David_Belcher
    <Harry Hill voice> "Hmm, you like the lining, don't you?" The more complex shapes on the tender can wait until another day. Cabside numbers to do on Thursday night... David
  14. David_Belcher
    They can get brittle as the years go on but warping not an issue with these, unlike earlier Triang they're styrene not cellulose acetate. I kept the working door mechanism so it's still there if needed although I don't have the appropriate unloading facility.
  15. David_Belcher
    I caved in and bought a Hornby 25 which needs detailing and flush-glazing. Seen here on my bookcase with 3 modified ore wagons, paint done but still got to finish the decals, varnish them and add dummy loads. The Retrodecals ICI logos are actually a more recent type (Dublo & Mainline wagons in 60s livery have a different typeface and more wavy lines) but look the part all the same. Paint is WRX navy acrylic spray, very good it is too.
  16. David_Belcher
    Sawed away some of the original casting to an approximate shape then thin brass sheet cut to the right profile was Araldited to the inside surface and built up flush using Milliput. The front footplating was just extended backwards with thick styrene sheet. Oh, since I took those pics I clean forgot to pick out the cast whistle with brass paint...sorted now!!
  17. David_Belcher
    Reprocessed the pics, should be a little better now...
  18. David_Belcher
    So, as an aside to the Caprotti Black Five build and the HD Duchess project AND the Transcontinental bogie hopper conversions, time for the Wrenn 4MT I converted to a Fairburn (as per 1964 RM article) to shed its tired paintwork. Went for unlined 'economy' black which one of the Bradford contingent had after repair in 1964. Nice easy job thanks to Halfords spray enamels but did fit a brand new top feed casting from Phoenix Precision. Decals mostly HMRS Pressfix, 51L brake pipes, Springside lamps. David
  19. David_Belcher
    Black spray paint at last...
  20. David_Belcher
    More of them about in later years - as a regular Bescot visitor on Sundays in the mid to late 80s, quite a few were based there either for Engineers' duties or the New St-Peterborough/Norwich trains in those pre-Sprinter days. David
  21. David_Belcher
    Primed!! BR lined black, plus removing paint from the slide bars, and it can be reunited with the chassis. Cab needs glazing & safety valves replacing along with a brass whistle. The cylinders look a bit crude and overly deep but I've had fun building this so far.
  22. David_Belcher
    Looks pretty decent. The original had the tender off the L1 IIRC? The 6 wheelers were a Brighton/Chatham lines thing as the water capacity didn't need to be massive & LBSC turntables (dunno about SECR) were too short for Urie 'watercarts'.
  23. David_Belcher
    The little things make a big difference...in this case the proper sized buffers (which I think Tri-ang's AL1 & EE Type 3 had as standard?).
  24. David_Belcher
    Update...ladders and chequer-plate added, brake cylinders cobbled together from plastic nuts and bolts going surplus at work, domed tops (Milliput) still to be done. Ditto dummy coupling hooks and vac pipes before the paint goes on.
  25. David_Belcher
    My layout uses a fair bit of stuff made in the early/mid 60s era it's set in, or thereabouts; Dublo, Trix, 00 gauge Farish, Triang... there's even an old Jaypee brass-bodied coach knocking about!
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