Penrhos1920

Merf Could you post a roof shot of the restaurant first please. Thanks

I think that all coaches used in the Holyhead - Cardiff express have been in the same Ocean Blue colour. There may have been some exceptions in the early days. Arriva Trains Wales coaches used in the valleys and on the Fishguard trains were in the light turquoise livery. Looks like the varnish has got underneath the transfers? I've never had this problem but I've read some transfer instructions that say to use matt varnish first before the final gloss top coat. Time to practise of a piece of scrap plastic first. I think the Grand Central RFM and EWS RFM are the also the same body. There's talk of this threadhttp://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/22810-r4431-virgin-charter-4-window-mk3-buffet/ that the roof hatches might be wrong though?

These are the first photos I every took of class 37s. They are taken straight from the slides with out any processing. I've used my old film slide copier which gives a better picture than a slide scanner, but only does 2/3rds of the frame. 37050 and 37053 storm through Chelmsford with a Felixstowe bound freightliner 1982 37118 southbound through Chelmsford with an ex Harwich train to Liverpool St? 1982 37026 Oban August 1883 37108 departing Oban to Glasgow August 1983

Wasn't there a 37 hauled Rhymney to Fishguard service in the late 1990s?

Progress has stalled. Whilst I was waiting for the roof to come from Shapeways I moved onto another project and 'forgot' about the coaches. The other project is a 14 coach parcels train for Awrhyllgwami Quarry. It was meant to be a short train but has grown in length!! This is the roof as it arrived from Shapeways; What I did not expect was the segmented profile for the main section. As expected there are a pair of dimples where I could not get the profile correct whatever I did. Fortunately it is easy to correct with a bit of filler: At least the inside came out as expected. All I need to do here is scribe some planking under the verandas. The roof was printed in White-Strong-Flexible which has turned out good for a trial run, but the final version will be in Ultra detail. One thing I need to change is the end curves of the verandas; the outside corners need to be about 0.75mm lower. I did manage to laminate the wrought iron, although it was very easy to fill up the tiny scrolls with solder. In the end I have managed to make 6 ANDR ends and 12 gates out of the etch shown in a previous post. The little bits are lamp irons which are almost a fiddly as the wrought iron. The bogies are totally unique to these coaches so they are going to be etched. This is a screen print of the autocad drawing which I think is complete except for the tabs and frame. The bogie is a one piece fold up job with overlays for extra detail on the outside. The leaf springs are formed of the laminates in the bottom left corner and the rectangularish plate is the spring carrier which sits inside the bogie under the coach body. The coil springs will be hand made from brass wire (but won't work!). The only castings will be the axleboxes which I think are going to be L&Y. I'm part way through drawing the sides, ends and internal partitions. This etch is a hybrid of numbers 1 and 3 which had the same sides but different internal partitions and ends. I figure that I'm bound to get something wrong so I'll draw all the parts I need and then get 2 coaches out of one etching tool and save £25 or so. This last drawing is where most of the remaining work is left. The plan is to modify the roof drawing and send it to shapeways along with a second version of my Rhymney van. Then I'll finish the etch drawings and send them off.

Have you seen my models of the Pollen C half way down this page: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/62835-ebay-gwr-pollen-cs-and-es-for-sale/page-2 I'm tempted to do the Pollen E but I'm not sure whether the models available are representative of what was running in 1920?

The June 1926 edition of "Special Wagon" shows all of the Corals and Coral As as glass wagons. In the July 1939 edition the Corals are "Allocated to Port Talbot for steel plate traffic". In January 1947 a separate memo simple states that Corals 36971, 39974, 36975 and Coral As 41712, 41715, 41724 & 41727 are deleted.

Whilst we've lost most of our small birds over the last 2 years and they've been replaced by 'Flying Rats' and magpies we are starting to see a few less common birds in the garden. the best so far is a female Blackcap who has made appearances three days running this week.

I have been inspired by your brake van and AJ's N1. So much so that I've bitten the bullet and made a start on a Rhymney goods van with plans for a Rhymney brake van and loco later. I'm wondering why have you separated the floor and solebars from the body and why you have printed the roof and not gone for a piece of rolled brass?

There are two different designs I'd like: 1) one of the predecessors of the Bachmann/ratio AA20 such as AA13 or AA15 which were both built in large numbers but look different in the detail - axleboxes, springs, buffers etc. 2) the early wooden framed vans that were 'rebuilt' into AA16

Now then. The AA3 sounds an interesting idea for Bachmann or Hornby. It wouldn't be too much extra to add an enclosed veranda and stable doors for the Severn Tunnel vans, or enclosed veranda and full height door for a Permanent Way van. One model - three models. they should like that.

Working side lights would be great but I think it is almost impossible to do them properly in 4mm. As each side light should show white forward and red backwards. This I've managed to do on a couple of brake vans. But what I haven't managed is to make the red lamps switchable which is sometimes required. There is a story in the Harold Gasson books where he slammed the brakes on because the guards van on the adjacent running line was showing tail lights that indicated it was on the same track as the express Harold was firing.

Recently heard in a Leicester car park: “I think I can findus a horse my Lord.” “Thank you Catesby.”