ArthurK

Yep, a glance through Locomotives Illustrated confirms it as an N10. I don't know what was going on with the number; I can't see one anywhere near 238. Anyway, that's a while off yet. It is a nice job and hopefully I can do it justice. A few extra detailing parts will be in order. I don't have that volume of the RCTS set, but I do have a very good pictures in the NERA book, Vol 3. Oddly, no drawing in there. I also have the 'LI' and that's without going through the rest of the library.

Sorry but that is not an N10 that you have there. The front sandbox/splashers are totally wrong for that. as someone remarked above the N10 had a pronounced drop at the rear. Therefore it can only be an N8 or an N9. There was very little visual difference between these. The overhang of the front frame was 5' 6" on the N10. On the other two had overhangs of 5'3" and 5'9" but I cannot remember which was which. Some of the N9s retained the low tanks. All the N8s were increased in depth from the original build. The wheels on your model are certainly more than the 4'7 1/4" of the N10.

ArthurK

Jonathan

Nice work as per usual. May I suggest you start a whole new thread for your models or some kind of page divider. My computer is going into overdrive as your thread is about a mile deep !!!!!!!!!!!! as there are no page breaks

 

cheers

 

mick

If there is a way of introducing page breaks please let me know. My Photos thread has the same problem.

As you might expect, a thoroughly absorbing topic to me. I too would love to see what the NPCCS LNER brown looked like. Was it similar in shade to the stuff the LNE brushed over the coaches it bought from other railways such as LMS ex Mildland Clerestory's used on M&GN lines?

 

Larry G.

In my youth LNER brown coach livery was just that, darkish brown. The same, more or less that that house doors window frames and the like were painted in those days. Totally without character. Certainly all the pre-grouping coaches that I recall were the same dark muddy brown. It was only the mainline stock that was different. Those were always in the varnished teak livery, but even that looked dirty brown after a few years in service. The Thomoson teak livery (painted) certainly brightened things up for a while.

As an aside I normally use precision LNER Teak paint for my models but to be honest with myself I have often thought that this was a degree lighter than reality.

Colour is a very difficult subject to bring back in one's memory. However having said that I know that some of the supposed 'Garter Blue' depicted on several RTR models is totally at variant with my memories. Many are much to dark (one example was bordering on deep royal blue, a sort of light navy blue). I saw the Coronation just prior to WW2 and from about 1945 these blue coaches reappeared and I saw these (without any train designation) at York on a number of occasions. They were certainly not the deep blue often seen on models. The Garter Blue of the A4s was a quite light vibrant blue and the coaches were much the same. THe Precision Paints A4 Blue is not far from that in my memory and almost certainly the best. Having said the my paint was bought a long time ago I can only assume that it hasn't changed.

Some of the ColourRail slides show just the colour that I remember.