jessy1692

Surely there is no incentive needed to spend an inordinate amount of time scouring pictures if containers looking for that one oddity you think you once saw in a book 5 years ago! I'm glad iv got my quota of freightliner stuff now, it gets obsessive.

Amazing progress as ever Darius! I have to say spraying the flats is a lot quicker than brushing them as I did by the looks of things. Any plans for exotic containers? Cheers James

Evening all, bit of an update on the Cemflo's, I have got transfers onto 5 of them after applying a bit of black and crud to the underframe this aft. Once the transfers have set, work will move onto playing with various grey paints and talc/cement to weather these down some more, aiming for late 60s/early 70s era on these as I was going to work up some TOPS panels and numbering as per my original plan but I need to get these finished quickly now so will just leave as is with the lovely CCT transfers. Packing up for the evening, it's been a productive weekend. Cheers James

Sounds like good advice does that!

Great modelling as ever Darius, you really will have quite a rake now. If you a fancy a copy of the artwork for the Happag Loyd & ACT containers I did for a bit more variety in boxes just let me know and I can send on. Cheers James

Ah now I havnt spotted Railtec doing 2 types, may have a look for a bit of variety. Good thinking on the builders, plenty of works going in my area at mo so I'm sure I can cadge a bit off one, I'll have a play with talcum powder though as well. Cheers James

Cheers mate, oh don't tell me that about CCT it's just had me check in a panic! All seems well though, there just seems to be BL145 on the CCT site and they look scale to me so perhaps John only does scale ones now because I think Railtec do ones to cover tri ang length ones? As for paint, it's Holts car paint, serial number HSILM14, I used it for my tubs on the HAAs last year and liked they way it came out so did the same again for these. Used a full can on my ten over a few coats but it does dry very quick so you can soon get them sprayed up. Weathering is happening at the mo, just muckied up the chassis and tank ends, transfers going on next then a bit of fun with different greys and talcum powder as I've seen good results on the net, all out of cement at my house and doubt I'll get away with buying a bag just for these! Cheers James

Big step forward this morning, transfers arrived from CCT so glad I bought some silver yesterday! All now looking like silver queen's! Looking forward to transfers and weathering now, the end is in sight. Time for the leeds game and packing the house up for our move. Cheers James

Looking very good Darius, I'm sorely tempted with this and HSFV kit but still have the PoP train to build whenever I'm allowed back to the bench. Looking forward to seeing this progress and to what Leadley Kits come up with next. All the best James

Cheers Gibbo, I'm pretty pleased with how they have come out so far. I'm sure once you get going on them you'll get more done quicker than I have... never drilled so many holes in my life!

Evening all, the cemflos are slowly getting there. The Easter break allowed me to get cracking to get all 10 to just about ready for proper paint. I'd made up jigs to do the circular holes and oval holed plates but the oval ones were a bit of a fail. Plan b for them saw me get some brass tube squashed to shape and used as a punch, but I ended up heating the end with a candle and using the hot brass to melt oval holes in the 10thou plasticard on the solebars. I think I got 4 wagons done like that but ended up doing some more circular ones with a drill as they actually are easier. A little bit of fettling still requires on a few whilst the weather decides what it wants to do, hopefully I'll get some silver paint on soon so I best get some transfers ordered. Cheers for looking in James

Ahh, now I was thinking of doing the same making a punch for the ovals but I didn't have anything to hand so have drilled 3 holes and will open them up, might not end well if I can't get them uniform. I actually used I beam on mine but c channel may have been easier in retrospect, its Evergreen 3.2 section as recommended by Gibbo. The only thing with re using the Hornby W irons is that I tried to keep the axle boxes over the end of the axle which has left me a bit of a gap between the top of the axle box castings and the sole bar. I think ill get away with it when the are painted and on the layout from normal viewing distances. I probably could have shifted them up a bit without it looking too bad to be honest. It just annoys me of I see axle boxes not looking like they are on the end of the axles! Glad to hear your going back to them, looking forward to seeing how yours come out. All the best James

Looks a fair but of work gone into the underframe detail on yours, very impressive detailing. I think if I'd gone that far I'd have given up by now, they are becoming a slight chore but the end is in sight. The oval pattern plates you have done look excellent, iv just drilled mine out and just about to oval them around a bit... think I need a need to push on now. I'm guessing you did new W irons as well if your P4? Cheers James

Nice one! Just taking a break so will have a look, been drilling holes.. so many holes ...

Cheers Gibbo, the round ones like you say should be easy enough, a jig sounds a top idea too, should keep things uniform. I'm after a bit of a mix of the round and ovals so may do the oval ones first. I'll sleep on it tonight and get going in the morning. I'm sure you'll be back to the bench at somepoint soon, good to have a break for a bit every now and then. All the best James

Evening all, the Cemflos are slowly edging down the production line still. This week I have got pretty the underframe stuff pretty much sorted and bent up the bodyside pipework. The central connector things have been made up from sliced up bits of lego and old bits of sprue. The postman delivered a lovely package of buffers from Lanarkshire models, very impressed with the quality of these buffers. I also bought a pack of coupling hooks too but stupidly only ordered one pack of 12... I blame ordering them at 1.30 am the other day and thinking 12 would be enough for 10 wagons..face palm moment. Tomorrow I'll start on the sole bar plates, iv a couple of plans so let's see which one works best, not really looking forward to cutting the ovals out! Cheers James

Looking good Jon that Pacific will look stunning in green, some serious detail gone into that, top work. Good luck with the airbrushing too, I'm sure itl turn out very smart. All the best James

No worries Martyn, we all need a good ramble to vent the frustrations! Slightly reminds me of lettering up my blue stripe containers with freightliner branding instead of British Rail. I even had a pic open on my phone for reference whilst I applied transfers and didn't spot it until Gibbo pointed it out on here. Admittedly it was much easier to sort than your current predicament but these things are easily done I suppose.

You really couldn't make that up! These things are sent to test us. I'm sure you can make it right though, how frustrating.

Seconded, a brief write up of what you guys do for the checks etc would be quite interesting. Cheers James

Always the way isn't it finding things after painting! How frustrating, but the big question is now you know can you live with it? Cheers James

No problem at all, should be on the way tomorrow once iv chopped them down

Evening Gibbo, yeah iv got some copper wire lined up but on the hunt for something I could recycle easily for the central thing, itl probably end up with some plastruct rod/pipe like you say. As for posting, I think I got accustomed to the fast pace of the 1830s stuff you were posting nearly daily, I think iv been missing seeing what contraptions you were modelling there! I think I may be slowing down shortly, my house is being packed up ready for a move and have had a text from the other half stating I need to move my wagons...

Cheers Martyn, they definitely got a bit repetitive but just pushed grided it out, i think the lack of anything else to do really helps. If it wasnt for Lockdown i think they have been started but pushed to the back of a box waiting for a rainy day. Managed to get some varnish out yesterday so will have some PWA bits and bobs on the way this week for you too. Cheers James

Evening Gibbo I have been thinking it's gone very quiet on the Gibbo modelling front, thought you may have gone fully into 1830s mode and we're sending hand written updates into RMweb towers! I am enjoying the Cemflo project but repeating things in a multiple of 10 is a little much,I should have learned lessons from the freightliner and HAA sets I did last year and not try do too many at once. Having said that I think most of tricky/time consuming stuff is done now on these. The thing that's got me wondering now is the body side pipework centre filler/connector and what I can fashion 20 out of without too much faffing, any thoughts? Cheers James