Chris56057

On 23/01/2019 at 21:18, Melly said:

Chris - top tip for sleeper replacement for joins.  Get a spare sleeper and cut the inner chairs only off with a scalpel.  Then cut sleeper next to chair underneath where rail sits.  Slide into position from either side and you have a sleeper in situ missing only the inner chairs.  This helps maintain the uniform appearance of a chaired sleeper at all times when viewed from the side :-)

Thanks for the tip! 

Progress has been slow of late due to work and other commitments. But here's a photo of the track weathering I've been doing today - for now it's Railmatch Sleeper Grime. I'll add more shades in due course. 

Some further progress today, filling in the gaps with spare sleepers. Not the most interesting of jobs, but needs to be done.

Painting the rail sides next..

Hi Chris. Most WRDs for your era are old steam shed type constructions. Theres some great shots on Flickr from inside Toton WRD. An older style shed with more space either side of the track may look more prototypical. Alternatively, model the front 10m only of the shed and have a small FY on the left fir the wagons to disappear into. Good luck.

Thanks Melly, I may change the shed in due course to suit the prototype better.

Thanks Ian, the fish plates look great but are rather difficult to use! Going to take my time with the scenics.

Looking good Chris and the bullhead track looks great.

 

I'm a big fan of small layouts, so I'll be following with interest.

 

Mal

Thanks Mal, I've always admired your work.

I've recently started a new project which attempts to depict a fictional wagon repair depot with small fuelling point. Plenty of inspiration has been drawn from Tees Yard WRD and I'll be using this as a base for adding further details later down the line.

I decided to bite the bullet and try out the new Peco Bullhead range of track and points and so far I've been very impressed - it certainly looks the part. Progress so far has seen the track laid on to a cork base and lightly pinned down. I've also added the dropper wires and now have power.

I've been testing the layout to ensure the track work is all fine and so far everything has been okay. Over the next few weeks I intend to add a backscene - probably the new self adhesive range from ID backscene and attempt to look at weathering the track.

The layout is DCC controlled and is set in the 90's to the early 2000's. Any comments whether positive or negative are welcome.

Have just cancelled one of my hattons class 66 and ordered the Bachmann version- it's the best part of 30 quid saved so if that's what Bachmann intended it worked!

Mark

Interesting that you've done that - have you still got a Hattons 66 on order? To be fair the Bachmann 66 still isn't bad with a little detailing.

I suppose it's comforting to know that the 158's are on there way at last - roll on Q4.

With the 2019 announcements tomorrow are we hoping for any more 158 liveries to be added to the list

 

 

 

Would love to see any of these liveries announced:

 

First Great Western 'local lines'

South West Trains

South Western Railway

 

Or maybe even some different variations in 158 tooling, for example the GWR/FGW 158/9s

Not sure we need more liveries just yet,let's get the model out first.

Not sure on the 58 as the Heljan model is very good in most respects. Plenty more livery variations to tackle yet.

I've not posted on here for a very long time, we all know what life is like - it gets busy and modelling slowly slips down the list of priorities. I thought I would share something I've been working on this afternoon - it's a Lima 60 in the attractive BS Blue livery which I picked up on eBay a while ago. So far I've added a driver and second man, picking out there orange hi-vis, added bufferbeam detail and started weathering the underframe although this is still WIP.

There's a still a lot to do, weather the bodyside, pick out the exhaust in a rust colour and some other detailing that I'll add later on. I'm not going to replace the grills or re-do the glazing on this model but hope the end result will come out good.

The Hornby 60 is without doubt a much better model, but I still believe that the Lima 60 can still scrub up well.

There is always modellers license with this Tim, in that you can run anything you want as it's your layout. Freightliner 57's were predominantly allocated to intermodal traffic. The RF 20 would be a better fit I think, along with the 47.

Lima GNER HST set - wish I had kept it.

As many have said already, I think Hornby are missing out by not releasing more livery variants of the 56 and 60 in particular. Re-runs of the Loadhaul and Mainline Blue would certainly go down well and might mean that they stop going for stupid prices on a well known auction site.

You could try somewhere like Fox Transfers - https://fox-transfers.co.uk/transfers?model_product=1181&scale=2235&transfer_company=2298&transfer_model_type=2169&transfer_period=2257

Really impressed with your work here, fantastic progress.

Fantastic modelling here Nick. I particularly like the way you have created a lot of depth to the backscene with the trees and lineside fencing. Lovely stock too!

Excellent photos Neil!

Excellent progress here so far, looking forward to furthwr updates.

Thanks Chris. Welcome to the thread. I don't think I've seen you post before on here. Apologies though if you have. Never thought I would get to 50 pages!! Always like to welcome any new posters.

I've got about 10 more trees hanging in the shed drying which will be added soon. Then I just want to add a few more bushes and brambles around the bottom of the embankment and I will be happy with that part of the embankment. At the moment there's quite a few ready to plant trees off my old layout dotted about but these will get replaced with more sea moss eventually.

Excellent work Marcus, I really like the way you have added the wood and blends in really well with everything else.

Morning ER's, a wet and windy start to this morning up here in the north. Not up to much today, moving forwards with the Uni work one can hope! 

Have a good day. 

Chris 

Morning all, bright and sunny here this morning. Lots of Uni work to catch up on now after the Christmas break- enthusiasm needed! 

Have a good day!

Chris 

Good morning ER's, a windy and grey start to this morning but managed to sleep all night which was helpful!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year

Chris