Your neighborhood GWR diesel

Someday I’m actually going to start my own and not just watch people halfway across the world online...

On 25/04/2021 at 14:54, 009 micro modeller said:

 

Is that what this is?

http://www.tramz.com/br/rj/vj/vj.html

 

 

Or like this?

 

 

It's an 009 rail-van - basically a Kato 11-104 with the ends chopped off and then stuffed into the body of a Triang Minix Ford Thames van. It awaits a slightly more detailed and realistic paint job but runs reasonably well. Amazingly the 11-104 wheelbase is the same as the van's wheel arches.

Beautiful!  Kind of looks like the VW bus rail maintenance cars in West Germany.

Wow, that van!  Maybe it should be put on a motorized chassis like on top gear?

Incredible!  I’ve always loved crane tanks...

Nice!

5 hours ago, Sophia NSE said:

What a difference some lining makes!

 

I even bothered to paint the wheels. Might rob the handrails off the other Q1 as a temporary fix. I also need to get some vacuum pipes for both ends and some thin black strips for the boiler bands

Looks great!

The tram, the SE&CR Thomas and 4-4-0, the Hornby diesel and the 3D printed tender loco are all looking great!

On 01/03/2021 at 13:11, Sophia NSE said:

It might end up doing a bit of shunting in the yard at quiet periods of running. Be a shame to have it hiding in a fiddle yard

 

Cool!  It also looks like the plastic is very malleable.

On 28/02/2021 at 10:22, Sophia NSE said:

 it's a passenger loco!

 

This, however, will be the local quarry's shunter 

Even if it is a passenger loco, I was saying it might also make a good industrial.  Love both of those beautiful engines.  True works of art!

21 hours ago, Sophia NSE said:

Just a little more progress today. Front end shortened a bit and lamp irons added to the bufferbeam

Needs a little bit of filling and chopping the irons down a bit. I'll be adding irons to the bunker too

I think it would make a good shunter with dumb buffers.

23 hours ago, sem34090 said:

It's a Hornby Dublo/Wrenn R1.

Ah. Thanks

22 hours ago, Sophia NSE said:

Just thought I'd knock up another SECR Q1, this one will be ending up in photographic grey for the full SECR effect 

Someone previously mentioned I tended to just post almost completed models so this time you get to see exactly what happens. Fortunately I happened to have a couple of R1 bodies in different colours 

Hopefully this shows the beginning of the process and inspires someone else to give it a try! Next step is to clean up the filler and file away any excess plastic coal

It looks beautiful already!  I love the SE&CR.  Also, is that a Tri-ang body?

2 hours ago, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said:

Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design.

Beautiful! If I was good at chassis mods, I would totally do that! (Also, are you going to have a go at it? I would love to see that.)

4 hours ago, papagolfjuliet said:

This week's evening project: 'Bramblewick,' an Edwardian light railway 0-6-0. Tri-ang 3F body with the cab filed down, Hornby Jinty chassis trimmed to fit, GBL C class tender body, Mainline Scot tender chassis, Narrow Planet nameplates, Precision NER brake van red oxide paint, HMRS LNER coach transfers. BCR stands not for Bishops Castle Railway but for an imagined line connected with another Shropshire castle, namely PG Wodehouse's Blandings. 'Bramblewick' is the name given to Robin Hood's Bay in the novels of Leo Walmsley. The coach is a butchered Hornby 4 wheeler mounted on a Lima HO BR brake van chassis to give a suitably low ride height, and is awaiting oil pots and final fitting of the roof.

Great work!

1 hour ago, Sophia NSE said:

For some reason it's my favourite wheel arrangement. Big tender engines generally don't do it for me

Same here.  I like tank engines and diesel shunter s best.

23 hours ago, Sophia NSE said:

My work here is done!

r/ATBGE on Reddit.  Look it up.

18 hours ago, Sophia NSE said:

GWR fans of a sensitive disposition may want to look away now! 

That actually offends me.  Good job though!