JamieR4489

32 minutes ago, Ribird said:

Well if looking at the unpainted sample parts (from a engine shed a while ago), the tender fairing was a separate piece, as the rest of the tender parts seem to be existing toolings, or at least modified with the apple green having the coal rails)

Ah yes I hadn't seen that. The fairing over the water space does indeed look removable but the one over the front of the bunker appears to be moulded integrally, so one would still need to cut it back themselves.

I’ve done a few little projects this last week.

I got round to fitting 4489 with full length drain cocks and my other A4s will hopefully soon have them as well. I need to paint the handrails silver at some point.

I was looking at my J11 and decided it was about time I renumbered and weathered it. I started doing research but I hadn’t appreciated how many variations there were. It quickly became apparent that I would have to do more than renumber the engine. My options were change the chimney, dome or safety valves, move the lubricator or add a snifting valve. I settled on 5208 which required new safety valves, snifting valve and the lubricator moving. Luckily the parts are all separately fitted so I could pull them out. I had a few spare Ross pop valves so I used these and made a base for them out of plasticard. The snifting valve is two pieces of plastic tube with some filler in the end.

I also replaced the tender coupling and the coal load.

Then some filth was applied based on a picture on the RCTS website.

Jamie

I’m very tempted by the garter blue version but it’s a shame that Hornby have done it in immediately post rebuilding guise, with the larger fairings over the tender. I imagine more LNER modellers would choose to model 1938 rather than 1937 as there would be more A4s around. The fairings were cut back or removed in early 1938. I suppose one could alter the fairings themselves or buy an A4 tender.

On 03/10/2020 at 19:01, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Yes, a branch train with 6-wheel coaches. But how many branches, close to Doncaster works, could accommodate an A4?

I think the standard running-in route was Doncaster to Grantham or possibly Peterborough and back. There's a photo of Mallard in 1938 at Askham Tunnel hauling a train with a 6 wheel D.303 full brake at the front.

The 1:40 King's Cross to York, Scarborough, Ripon and Bridlington had a 6 wheel full brake at the front to carry linen for York. It's very possible that this would've been hauled by an A4, if not it would have been an A1/A3 or a C1.

In the '30s the 3:30 Peterborough to Grantham was always hauled by a Grantham pacific as a balancing turn to get the engine home. This would sometimes have at least one 6 wheeler.

16 minutes ago, davidw said:

Not sure what else.

I think the cab and boiler fittings are slightly lower on Tornado to fit the national loading gauge.

No doubt LNER4479 will be able to give us chapter and verse on how Tornado differs to the original A1s.

Hornby R1072 Flying Scotsman set for my 5th birthday. The carriages still form the backbone of my expresses, however the loco has seen less and less use since I got a super detail A1 and realised just how poor the old tooling looks, especially the tender. That said, I did replace the gears earlier in the year after they'd split so that I can continue to use it.

A Hornby 0-4-0 in Highland Railway livery and some wagons were bought with birthday money at the same time. My first 'proper' (super detail) loco was a Hornby R2339 Mallard for Christmas of (I think) the same year.

... and that 61338 is a B1, not a Southern mogul...

Thanks for the tip-off about the plans. I need to try and get some of Coster’s books at some point.

Regards,

Jamie

Hi Sam,

It was actually your thread that introduced me to Tuxford North. I’d never heard of it before but when I started looking at photos I thought ‘yeah that’s do-able’.

Photos would be great, thanks. I’m struggling to find decent ones from the right era.

Regards,

Jamie

I feel like I ought to go for Tuxford as I’m modelling it but I’ll vote for Newark. There would be much more to see there and if I had the space, I’d model it.

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Welwyn North for me

8 hours ago, great northern said:

Does anyone else get slightly annoyed when TV programmes refer to locomotives as trains, rails as tracks, and train stations instead of railway stations?

Yes to the first and last of those but the one that really irritates me is when ‘the’ is put in front of the locomotive’s name. The most common one is ‘the Flying Scotsman’ when referring to 4472. I think the trend of using ‘the’ for locomotives probably originates from confusion between Flying Scotsman and The Flying Scotsman.

20 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

but has anyone ever tried to remove it?

T-Cut removed the factory weathering on my Black 5 and gave it a very pleasing shine, although compared to that 14XX, the weathering was quite light.

I think microsol was suggested to me by someone as well.

I've been working on the V2 this weekend and it's finished for now. I say 'for now' because it still needs the wheels lining but I need to get some enamel black and white to do that.

The colour is completely home-brewed and I don't think I'll be using this approach again. In future I'll go for railmatch or precision. The engine and tender initially looked completely different colours but a coat of satin varnish and a very thin light grey wash on the tender brought it to near as dammit the same colour as the engine. It's as good as it'll get without a full repaint so I'm happy with it. This is my first attempt at painting and lining a green engine and I'm rather pleased with how the lining has turned out. It's HMRS pressfix, as per usual, with the washout plugs brush painted.

My phone makes the loco and tender look different colours but it's much less noticeable to the eye.

I'm not sure if the mudhole doors should be black or green so I've left them green for now. I'll consult colour photos later.

Overall, I'm very impressed with the V2 body. Like all 3D prints, it needs some work to smooth off the ridges (although I found a few places in this print where it looked like it had sagged and needed some filler to smooth it). The other body I've got will likely become 4792 so I'll need to source a high fronted tender body.

Jamie

This week I ‘ave mostly been...

50 minutes ago, jools1959 said:

I’m attempting to model it as it is now as you can see in the pictures I took at Peterborough in December 2018.  Can I assume that R2535 would be the closest match?  The tender maybe from the W1 but it’s a close match (In my opinion) and meets the 3 foot rule 

I was on that tour, a lovely day out.

Yes R2535 would be the best match. Although 60009’s tender is from the W1 I think when it was partially streamlined in 1937 it was modified so that it’s identical to an A4’s tender. The only difference AFAIK was that the tender had holes drilled in the buffer beam so that the instruments in the dynamometer car could be connected to the cab.

I think the springbok was always just on one side.

What era are you going for?

For the BR era, 60009 had a streamlined corridor tender until 1963 when it got a non streamlined corridor type. In 1966, it got another non streamlined corridor and this is what it tows now. The double chimney was fitted in 1958.

So your options are:

1949-52: I can't find a BR blue model with the right tender

1952-58: R2825 Commonwealth of Australia

1958-63: R2340 Golden Plover (would need OHLE flashes removing for pre 1961)

1963-present: R2535 Woodcock

Weybourne for me as well.

I think if you panned the camera to the left a bit so that the sign is a bit more central it would work nicely.

3 hours ago, The Johnster said:

hasn't considered that Walter is worthy of a shot

I think 60028 was a very common A4 down south so he's probably more likely to have shouted 'Scrap it!'

The loco is carrying a reversed headboard so it's possible that the photo was taken on a Sunday when the Elizabethan stock was used in normal trains and the headboard kept on the loco to save losing it. I don't know if the Elizabethan was still all Thompson stock after 1961 (the OHLE warnings on 60028 date it) but if it was, it could be the Flying Scotsman stock.

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2 hours ago, great northern said:

which do you prefer?

Definitely the top one for me.

Thanks 4479,

The only track plans I have are the ones on the national maps of Scotland website. Beyond the bridge, the two goods yard roads converge and then cross over a double junction into Dukeries Junction goods yard as shown in the first photo here.

Jamie