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    57xx Part 2

    By ullypug,

    With the weather pretty awful down here in Somerset (though nowhere near as bad as it is in some parts of the country I grant you), I've just had to retire to the modelling bench and make a bit of progress with the 57xx.
    5757 has reached working chassis stage and it's always a relief when things work. I put it down to Chris' design but this is the third kit I've built and the third which has run straight away without the need for tweaking/swearing/reassembly etc. I did quarter this one by eye though so maybe I'm also getting better at it too!
    After having pondered how I was going to do the pickups, I did what I usually do which is cut the springs off behind the wheels and use the gap to fit the 0.3mm brass wire pickups. That may offend some people but 1) it works and 2) you can't really see the springs anyway. If you can you just need to move further away. Once again I've fitted the brake gear convinced that something somewhere is going to short out and being pleasantly surprised when it doesn't. I should really know better by now...
     
    Bodywork detailing is almost there. I was hoping I'd be able to send the loco to the paint shop but I see I have a few handrails to tweak and I now need to get some replacement water tank vents (which snapped off) as well as a backhead and a crew. Chris' clever gearbox design means there's space to fit these (didn't think of that at the time). Never mind. Gibson buffers, smokebox dart and sanding gear from RJ Models have all been used. I've used oversized Smiths coupling hooks since this model will almost certainly be used for passenger haulage/3 link shunting as opposed to AJ's. I do need to work out how I'm going to fit some form of bolt at the front to fix the body/chassis.
     
    The body will be finished in unlined black with an early BR emblem. That'll have to wait until I've got the remaining bits fitted. Couldn't resist posing it in the yard for a photo though!

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    Cheddar Up yard update

    By ullypug,

    Couldn't resist taking a few piccies of the up yard on Cheddar. I've built a bit more track for this and as you can see made a mock up of the goods shed to check clearances into the down yard. I think I'll shorten the shed by 50mm or so as this is one of the areas where I put a bit of compression into the track plan. Still need to lay the track through the shed itself but need to check if this was inset or chaired first.
    The up yard sidings rose in level to that of the platform surfaces from what I can deduce but I think that'll be a recipe for trouble at exhibitions so I'm going to keep it at one level. I've put the turnout for the Bryants siding in, but there's only enough space for a single wagon. Still it means I can have a wagon being loaded as per the book I mentioned in the last blog (it would be so much easier to just insert a photo here - curse copyright!). I've also put a template down for the signal box footprint. Thankfully it all seems to fit.
    I'm quite happy with this board now as its starting to get a sense of space here I think.
    Soon be time to get onto the next board. Edit typos
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    57xx part 1

    By ullypug,

    Afternoon one and all and complements of the season to you. Hope Santa brought you lots of lovely modelling stuff.
    Now the mince pies have been eaten and the turkey mostly digested, I've turned my attention to the next modelling project. Let's face it, there's not much on the telly to be distracted by. Not that I watch much of it anyway...
    So, having acquired a second hand pannier body off eBay for a fiver, I've had the perfect opportunity to build one of the rather splendid High Level Chassis kits. This is the third one I've built and I'm hoping it will be as good as the 03 and the 14xx, both of which were an absolute pleasure to do. The body itself needed a few bits and pieces so a chimney was purchased from 247 and buffers from Alan Gibson. I see I will need some water filler vents too.
    This kit has been covered before on RMWeb so I'm not going to do a blow by blow build, but the progress below shows how much can be achieved in a good couple of sessions (as well as track laying on Cheddar, but more of that later). Listening to Test Match Special makes the time fly by!
    The chassis is being built for compensation as per the instructions and the engine will eventually be finished as 5757 in BR black.

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    December update

    By ullypug,

    Evening all
    Another update and surprise surprise I'm still building track.
    Moving on to the sidings on the up side (South side) of the station. There were three sidings on this side along with the permanent way hut. I picked up a book at Warley a couple of weeks ago called 'Quarry Faces', the story of Mendip Stone Quarrying. There's a rather nifty photograph on p252 of the loading bank complete with Dodge tipper lorry. something to acquire from Road Transport Images I feel.
    Anyhow, the sidings on this side fed straight into the up line and so the first turnout incorporated a pair of single tongue catch points.
    I wanted to make sure I included these so out came the GWSG's book on GWR switch and crossing practice by D Smith. This is a really useful piece of reference material. There's also a very useful article in Scalefour News No 172. As you can see from the photos there's nothing particularly tricky about building this in 4mm, you just need to take care and obviously allow for the extra pair of switch blades. All seems to work rather splendidly and nothing has fallen off yet.
    One of the after effects of Warley was me digging the Bachmann prarie out after we decided that the Hawksworths stock would look better being hauled by it. This loco had languished in its box after I somehow had become convinced that it wasn't working. Once again, the pick ups were the culprit (when will I learn) and after no time at all all was working well. I have done my usual of replacing the ones on the loco with 0.33mm wire and epoxied copper clad to the underside of the keeper plate.
    I'm running out of chairs so may well choose something else by way of a modelling project over the Christmas period.
    Just in case I don't post anything before, I hope Santa brings you lots of lovely modelling stuff!

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    November update

    By ullypug,

    Only just, but here it is...
    In all truthfulness I've been getting Wheal Elizabeth ready for Warley this weekend and as the layout hasn't been out since the RMWeb members day at Taunton it's taken up the majority of my modelling time, along with one or two associated items of rolling stock I hope to run at the NEC.
    However I've returned to track building on Cheddar, finally lifting the turnouts from the bench and placing them onto the layout boards proper. These are for the down yard. There is still quite a bit to do so I will carry on with the main running lines and up side yard turnouts. Pretty much everything happens from these pair of boards. No rush, but I'm starting to get there.
    See you at Warley if you're going. Come and say hello. We're next to the Scalefour Society stand.
  6. ullypug
    Pretty much finished for now. Needs some grills adding behind the guards compartment. I've got some somewhere but do you think I can find them?
    May have to add handrail to the guards door yet and it needs a driver hence the tail lamp for now but otherwise done.
    Toned down the paintwork with lifecolor acrylic washes removed immediately with moistened cotton bud.
    Coupled with 1454 (though I see I've chipped a bit of paint off some of the pipe work) I have to say I'm pleased with how this has turned out and the train will be in service at Warley in a couple of weeks.

  7. ullypug
    Evening all
    I've taken advantage of the rotten weather to have a very relaxing weekend indoors making progress with the auto trailer.
    When I last posted back in January, it had been stripped of all paint and had the detailing added from the Dart kit.
    Roll forward some 10 months (yikes) and things have moved on a bit. The body finally got sprayed all over carmine and I've fitted the Lazerglaze windows from Shawplan. Funny thing was one side needed virtually every piece of glass filing down. The other side virtually nothing!
    It is a faff but it is worth it. I was really dreading the top lights but in reality these were the easiest to fit.
    The cab's been detailed and I've got some passengers to fit. They've been primed and I'll paint them this week.
    I was going to fit Bill Bedford bogies but as the auto trailer has repeatedly made it from one side of Wheal Elizabeth to the other without falling off I came to the conclusion that it was going to be a lot of effort for no improvement.
    The roof still needs another cost of paint and I need to apply transfers. Anyone got any ideas what font & size the running numbers were?
    There are a few little details to fit but nothing major and I'm quite pleased with how this has turned out, given I think it was 33 years ago that I bought it!
    All being well it'll be in service at Warley at the end of the month, along with the Railbus.

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    Cheddar update October

    By ullypug,

    You might have been thinking it'd all gone rather quiet and that I wouldn't be putting any update this month.
    Or you might think that I'd actually forgotten all about it.
     
    One of the above statements is true but I'm not telling you which. Ahem...
    I finally took the plunge and made a start on the single slip that gives access to the down yard and stone loading point. Over the course of the last week, I've been slowly making progress. I use a mixture of rivets and plastic chairs all on stained ply sleepers. Taking it a bit at a time I'm now just about there. There have been a couple of tweaks, and I'm still not 100% about one of the switch blades but it all seems to work and stuff goes through without falling off.
     
    Had a bit of a result recently when someone kindly gave me a copy of a drawing of Cheddar station. I've never seen anything like it and it's certainly cleared up a few things, like how big the goods shed actually was. Mind you it also showed that the overbridge walls were curved and the Bryant's stone loading bank was much further to the south than was previously thought, but all in all it's a wonderful bit of info so thank you Mark!
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    A miscellany

    By ullypug,

    Having had some time off, I've been trying to get finished a number of projects that have stalled at various states of completion.
    With Wheal Elizabeth's forthcoming appearance at Warley, I've made a bit of an effort to detail the pair of Hawksworth coaches that form the WR set.
    These use the Masokits etches for the sprung bogies, corridor connections and miscellaneous brake gear. I got to the point of wondering whether all the faff was worth the effort, but then I remembered it was P4 and I should try to be bothered about it. Still not convinced that the 3ft rule would have saved me a lot of hassle (i.e. can it be seen from 3ft) but at least I know it's all there, even if I'm not.
     
    Next I got around to lettering the wagons that have been lurking in dark corners of the work bench and making frequent appearances on the various Cheddar track laying updates. Still a bit to go but with some 3 links we should just about be ready for the NEC, not that I've got anywhere to actually put the things. Might need to consider a new stock box at some point (or just take less stuff...).
     
    I also took the autocoach to the spray shop and it no longer sits in the display cabinet in white primer, now it's BR carmine all over but I've now got to glaze the thing. This might get done for Warley but I rather suspect it won't as I'm now back on track laying with Cheddar, doing battle with the single slip. It appears to be going well, but I'll post pictures of that on the other blog.

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    AC Railbus

    By ullypug,

    Fuelled with post Scaleforum modelling mojo boosters, I've been having a play with the Heljan AC Railbus. Conversion is straight as per the EMGS manual sheet using Branchlines 12mm wheels. No real problems though I should have taken a photo of all the gubbins underneath before I took it all apart.
    Once I'd worked out why I needed to put insulated wheels on both sides (ahem), it ran really well...
    Also fitted with a driver and a couple of passengers. It'll look very nice on Wheal Elizabeth when it gets to Warley in November. Just needs a tail lamp and the wheels blackening.
    Edit: typos

  11. ullypug
    Another month another update!
    As I've had some time off I've been playing with the Palight sheets I bought and I have to say I'm really impressed with this stuff.
    It's a foamed pvc sheet, denser than foam board and no skin as such, the material being the same consistency all the way through. It cuts with a scalpel, can be sanded, scribes really nicely and can be glued with Loctite 401.
    I've used an artists scraper board blade ( no idea what the technical term is) much the same way I scribe DAS.
    I'm just trying various paint options using Tamiya acrylics to represent mendip stone. Not quite there yet I think. It's too dark at present and needs a bit more experimentation.
    However, once I've got the colour sorted I'm sure I'll be using this for the station and goods shed buildings.
    The light wasn't the best but I've attached some photos so you can get the idea.
    Edited to upload photos with lighter stonework.
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    Cheddar update August

    By ullypug,

    I can never quite believe how long it is between blogs. Doesn't seem like 5 minutes since I posted the last one. Mind you I suppose it isn't 5 minutes is it?
    I must say thanks to the gent who sought me out at Wells last weekend and kindly gave me a load of photos of Cheddar goods shed taken in the 1970's. Must have been just after the branch finally closed in 1969, by then nothing more than a long siding operated from Wells. I didn't get your name but the photos have wealth of information, especially as some of them are in colour and have a ranging pole in them, perfect for scaling dimensions.
     
    Anyhow, I'm in track mode at the moment, particularly with the down mileage sidings and cattle dock spur. Sleepers are all ply and I'm using a mixture of C&L chairs and brass rivets. It's funny how you forget how to make things like switch blades, then after the 2nd one you remember what on earth you were supposed to be doing in the first place. I'm starting to get a real sense of scale of the place. I suddenly twigged tonight that the mileage sidings are about the same overall length as the whole of Wheal Elizabeth. Hmm.
    Anyway I've got a bit of time off at the end of the week so the plea is to carry on and get as much done as I can.

    I'm also going to be having a play with some sheets of Palight I've acquired. Palight is foamed uPVC and is quite a bit harder than foam board. It's used by a number of model makers for making buildings since it can be scribed like Das but weighs a lot less. I think scribing is the only way I'm going to achieve the stone work effect I want.
    I'll be really happy if I can get results anywhere near what Iain Robinson's achieved in his blog. Quite inspirational:
    http://iainrobinsonmodels.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Goods%20Shed
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    Cheddar update July

    By ullypug,

    Evening all
    Time for an update, even if it's not all that interesting.
    Modelling does slow down in the summer. Must be all those long sunny evenings (looks out window at rain and damp seagulls flying backwards in the wind)...
    Inbetween the golf and the odd walk or two, I've found a little time to make a bit of progress on Cheddar.
    We're on to board 5 which is where things start to get interesting track wise. This is bar far the 'busiest' board, as the tracks fan out into the up and down sidings. The sequence is the same though. The boards have the combination of ply track base and foam every where else. Tonight I've been sticking the foam laminate floor underlay down onto the ply track bed.
    The Templot track plans have been laid temporarily just so you can get an idea.
    The track has been laid across the board 7 to 6 join including the up sidings. I'm rather pleased to have acquired some of the LMS models short GWR buffer stops which will be perfect here. These were the sidings that housed a camping coach and the old Perry coal yard.
    I got distracted for a week or so, playing around with the station drawings on Coreldraw. Don't think I'm too far away from the finished plan and being ready to cut some mdf. Still pondering the best method of doing the stonework though.
    Modelling wise, I've managed to paint a couple of wagons but that's been about it.

  14. ullypug
    Afternoon all
    It's been a few weeks so I thought I'd put an update on here.
    Progress has slowed, due to other pressures, shows etc, but in between I have been soldiering away mainly with the overbridge at the Wells end. This has caused a bit of head scratching since the underside of the turnout needs to be accessible should it ever need adjusting/fixing etc.
    Therefore I've build the bridge on a ply base that can be lifted off the layout and separated into two sections. Originally I chose to have the join on the viewable side of the layout, not quite sure with hindsight and after trying various combinations and permutations, swapped it round so the underbridge walls are joined to the visible side headwall so to speak. Pictures here would help...
    Anyhow, after what has seemed like ages with trying to get plastic card to bend and hold its shape, I've settled on a brass soffit arch and am going to line it with embossed brick paper. The arch has been formed in a set of rolling bars and is presently in the paint shop having had a spray of etch primer.
     
    With that finalised, I've carried out a bit more terra forming on the north station approach and laid some foam board over which I'll lay some PVS soaked newspaper to give it a hard shell.
    I've also prepped the trackbed for what will be the two mileage sidings on the down side with ply and foam underlay. One of these is going to ultimately be used to stable a camping coach.
    Next step will be to lay track over the board 2/3 joins and then I can think of board 4, which has lots of turnouts.
     
    I've taken a few shots showing the first 3 boards. Scary to think this isn't even half of it yet.
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    Scenic update

    By ullypug,

    Just a quickie. Have been experimenting with Artex, PVA glue, paint, fixative and coloured foam.
    The results are shown below. Not quite to the standards of Gordon Gravett ( in fact nowhere near them), but happy with my first attempts. I shall have these, along with one of Clevedon's boards at Expo EM this weekend. Come and say hello. I'll be the one covered in flock.

  16. ullypug
    Evening all
    One of the nice things about our hobby is we can decide to do something completely different if the mood takes us, so in a break from layout building I decided I needed to build some whitemetal wagons.
    A fruit C/D and Southern Open from David Geen and a diag AA16 (I think) brake van) from D&S I've had lurking in the cupboard for a while.
    As they're all P4 I decided they needed some form of compensation or springing. In the end the brake van is compensated using the original parts and the other two sprung with Bill Bedford W irons.
    Not completed, but they're getting there. The brake van needed new solebars forming from channel to allow room for the rocking W irons.

    The bridge is showing the effects of filling and scribing the stones to join the PECO stone sheets I've been using. I think the technique is going to be ok for the station building but more of that anon.
     
    I try and spend some time at the tinking table every day if I can get away with it, even if it's only 10 minutes or so and the next couple of wagons have benefited from this. They're both RTR and as they're hoppers, in both cases I've decided not to spring but compensate with a sloppy axle and add quite a bit of weight. The Hornby ex LNER coal hopper has had a bit of work done to get the wheels in. They said the Heljan dogfish couldn't be re-wheeled to P4, well it can and without major dramas. The trick is to file quite a bit of the pin points off the axles before putting the wheels back in. Cheddar's going to need quite a few of these and I wanted to see if I could find a way of not having to build them all out of Cambrian kits with the individual spring axle boxes I added for the one on Wheal Elizabeth. Don't worry, it's going to get repainted!

    Lastly, I've made a start on some of the trees that will be gracing Clevedon using armatures from a mixture of paper coated wire and ordinary stranded stuff. Long way to go yet but I thought I'd better start since I'll be demonstrating some of this scenic work at Expo Em in a couple of weeks!! Method copied straight out of Gordon Gravett's book. He's a clever chap isn't he?!

  17. ullypug
    Well it's been a few weeks since my last confession, so I thought I'd post an update.
    It's quite useful seeing where I was at the beginning of March because to me progress is glacial. When I look back at the last entry I can see that I've done more than I realise!
    Board 8 (the one at the Wells end of the layout) has seen the contours formed with a mixture of foam board and one strike light weight filler from my local diy emporium (Proper Job - other retail outlets are available) which can be applied in a thick layer and sets hard after 24 hours. Very impressed with this stuff and crucially it's really light. Almost foam like.
    I've made a start on the overbridge now that the turnout mechanism has been installed, driven via a remote linkage from a Tortoise motor. The stone sheeting is Peco 2mm stone. Better than the usual Wills coarse stone for representing Mendip stonework IMHO.
    Board 7 was worked on at the same time to match contours etc.
    Board 6 has been dragged up from the garage and the baseboard tops added from a mixture of 12mm ply and 3mm laminate floor underlay for the track base and blue 15mm foam everywhere else to keep the weight down.
    With boards 6&7 bolted together I've laid the main running lines with ply and plastic components.
    Most of board 6 will have the main station building and train shed covering it hence if you look closely you'll notice I'm using a load of 3 bolt chairs I had left over rather than 2 bolt GWR ones...
    That's my story anyway and I'm sticking to it!
    Track work flows nicely to my eye anyway. Need to finish off board 8 before the next board can take its place on the production line.
    Until next time.TTFN.
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    WC&PR repeats

    By ullypug,

    Clevedon was out at the Nailsea show last weekend and a good time was had by all. It's probably the closest it'll ever actually get to Clevedon and as usual, the local shows bring out the locals. Some of whom know more about Clevedon than I ever will. We had the projectionist of the old Curzon cinema and someone who's house wasn't shown on the backscene despite it being built in 1935...
    It's always interesting to hear tales and recollections of those who actually rode on the line, though as you might expect these are getting fewer and far between.
    Enough sentimentality, here are some video clips..
     
     
  19. ullypug
    Some 46 years since the track as lifted in this quiet corner of Somerset, the permanent way gangs have returned once again.
    After having expressed a desire to go down the flexi-track route, I have persevered with the original ply and plastic option as intended, for the time being at least.
    Step 1 was to make a suitable jig from offcuts of plasticard.Pre-stained sleepers are then slotted in and the first rail added, the chairs having been threaded on.
    I've printed off templates from Templot and stuck to the track bed having cut through the sleeper positions. The track edges are drawn on with a ball point pen and the rail positions pushed through the template into the foam beneath.
    Step 2 is to glue down the sleepers with first rail into a bed of PVA, before completing the other rail using appropriate S4soc jigs.
    It helps that I've managed to rig up space to allow me to work on 2 adjacent boards (1&2) up in my tinking room. Plan will be to complete scenic base layer for board1 before moving onto board 3.
    Track testing so far is an assortment of wagons of varying wheel base and weight.
    All is well.

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    WC&P in the movies

    By ullypug,

    Had a great weekend at the Eastleigh show last weekend so I thought I'd try to take a couple of movies. It's taken an age to upload the first, so I'll need to sort out a few things before I upload the second...
    The locals don't even seem to notice the 11.30 from Weston...
  21. ullypug

    Eastleigh

    By ullypug,

    Just a note to say Clevedon will be out and about next weekend at the Eurotrack show in Eastleigh.
    I've been taking the forthcoming deadline as an excuse to finish building a few of my older Cambrian kits as well as one or two new ones. They should be in traffic during the weekend.
    Come and say hello if you're at the show.

  22. ullypug
    With 1454 finished (don't panic, we have 2 independent witnesses confirming it was indeed in unlined green with the early emblem), I'm now working on the Autotrailer.
    I reckon I bought this when I was about 13, which is a long, long time ago. I know there's a new RTR model in the pipeline but that's not the point. I really enjoy updating all the old models in my collection. In some cases it's quite poignant to see what I managed to achieve as a teenager (or not as was frequently the case) and it does make it a bit more personal.
    So, to the Autotrailer. As is well known, the old Airfix (now Hornby model) is a bit of a mishmash of diagrams A28 and A30. The seminal article is in MRJ No 9 (and that's going back a while too) which details the differences and describes the work required to make either variant.
    I'm going for the A30 and have one of the Extreme Etchings packs to use to replicate the flush glazing. I've used the Dart Castings chassis kit and as others have described this in detail on here before, I won't bore you with another step by step blog, rather just a bit of a pictorial update.
    Someone told me this conversion would be a bit of a faff and I think I have to agree. Don't know if it was me but I found some of the instructions a little confusing and quite offer ended up referring to the pictures in the MRJ article. Following on Highlandman's advice, I decided to use a 10 thou brass sub floor (good call that) and solder everything to it. I replaced the trussing using 1.2mm angle from Eileens Emporium and think it was worth the extra effort. I had to trim the brass baseplate back as originally it touched the wheel rims and that would have led to a short.

    I've put the original bogies back on for now. I'll replace with either a Bill Bedford sprung bogie or MJT CCU, depending on which I see first. I've some white metal bogie sides to fix to whichever I use.
    All the rodding and linkages will wait until this bit's finished.
    The body was treated with Modelstrip. I was amazed how well it worked on the 33 year old body. Handrails etc are from the Dart kit. Still a couple to do before it's ready for the paint shop. I think the livery will be all over carmine, though I'm tempted by carmine and cream.
    Still more to do but we're getting there. I might even give it a trial run at Yate next weekend.

  23. ullypug

    Wheal Elizabeth at Yate

    By ullypug,

    Just a quickie. Happy to report Minion has been successfully delivered to Wheal Elizabeth and will be on shed this coming Saturday at the Sodbury Vale show In Yate. It will get toned down a bit when I can bear to get the airbrush out but at the moment it's too cold to stay in the garage for long. Excuse the lack of backscene. I've only put the layout up to track test everything.

    Am also playing with a couple of Hawksworth coaches. I've done nothing other than re wheel at the moment but the Masokits bits and pieces have arrived and will form their place in the queue. The idea is to give us another passenger option to play with.

    Do come and say hello if you're at the show. Looks like a good line up.
  24. ullypug
    Have had a bit of a modelling spurt and finished off 1454. Should be released to the operating department for Wheal Elizabeth's forthcoming appearance at the Sodbury Vale show on 31 January (though what the engine is doing in that part of Cornwall is anyone's guess...). Minion will be making it debut too. Hmm note to self, must build a new stock box.
     
    Anyhoo, the numberplates and smokebox plates were attached with Johnsons Klear and the final details (buffers, couplings, balance weights etc have been added). Cab glazing is acrylic filed to fit and fixed with Klear.
    Engine was given a few coats of the same before the transfer was added and sealed with (you've guessed it...). Incidentally, what I'm going to do when I get through my bottle I've no idea. Answers on a postcard please.
     
    I've discovered Testor's spray laquer which I think finishes things off rather nicely. The T9 got the same treatment and I must profess to being impressed with the stuff.
    I'm really rather pleased with how this engine has turned out given I've had it for over 30 years. Another ling term project realised from the depths of the modelling cupboard.
    I'll turn my attention to the Airfix A30 autotrailer now and post progress once there is any. Underframe's kind of finished, but it needs a bit of adjustment before I can get one of the bogies back on (ahem).

  25. ullypug

    14xx part 3

    By ullypug,

    Just a brief update, though it doesn't quite convey the journey since the last update.
    Over the festive period I made progress with the engine. I had decided for ease to finish the loco in unlined black so duly primed it no bother using sprayed enamel. However when I applied my usual satin black from a Halfords aerosol disaster struck. The paint blistered and peeled almost immediately. I worried that I'd somehow damaged the body underneath so there was an anxious 24 hours until I was able to have a look at it. Thankfully it was just the paint and even more thankfully treating with Modelstrip successfully removed all traces of paint back to the body. Nervously I tried again, though this time decided to spray in green using Phoenix paints with the airbrush. This time successfully thank goodness as the photos show. Smoke box is brush applied acrylic and we now have a rolling chassis.
     
    I've settled on 1454 as there are a few photos of it in unlined green with the early BR logo circa 1957 at Yatton and that's good enough for me.
     
    Whilst ordering the cab side and smoke box plates, I thought I may as well acquire a few others to suit the various kits I've got for the planned loco fleet...

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