brian daniels

D4 for me not far from the grub

Thanks now painted black

I am painting a Great Western 3,500 gallon tender in Great Western green and am wondering what colour they were on the rear water filler area. Was the base and sides black or were the sides green? Also I know the tool boxes are green but what about the front plates of the tender. Any help gratefully received as all my models are usually BR Blue!

I will have "Pinky" on my demo stand at Telford if you want to see it close up.

They are CPL ones but the tel tail on it only covers half the length so I soldered a piece of brass strip full length on it.

Nearly there with the 4TC. Did a bit of weathering on it recently. . That corner handrail has been sorted since it showed up like this on these pictures. Had these transfers made by Precision Labels. Why does my old Combined Volume list these as Class 491 but when they re-numbered them they were Class 438? Jumpers still work ok with their magnets. BSK Interior.

I take it these tankers can't get into Fawley fully loaded? Xin Yong Yang arriving on 15-06-17

A couple of pics of the old Saga Ruby in Southampton.

And here are some in Austria.

Here is 1043.002 back in Sweden at Kristinehamn in 2015 And here are 1043.006 and 1043.008 both at Kristinehamn in 2016

Front decks don't look deep enough for Aurora.

Undercarriage problems I guess preventing it going by rail.

Looks like Arcadia to me.

Don't think the funnel looks like Oceana?

66005 has finally left Didcot for Crewe on a low loader. Here it is heading north on the A34. Some wag had it on TOPs as 0A34!

A couple of liners at Southampton. You either like the AIDA or you don't. Got to admit it's different!

Damn,can't go anywhere incognito! I have a picture very similar surprisingly. I thought whilst it was there I might as well take some close ups, you never know when you will need them.

Having a go at making 37692 that I named Didcot Depot back in 2002 when it was a sandite loco based at Didcot. The fitters at Didcot did a major exam on it and re-painted it in a colour they mixed themselves! I have acquired a DJH Heljan class 37 conversion kit to make the new model into an ETH one with cutaway bufferbeams. All I did was leave off the ETH. What you get in the kit are some nice whitmetal and lost wax castings, a nice set of etches and instructions. The instructions are good but I found could have done with some text to give you a hint at what to do as it's all picture based. The new bufferbeam is a whitemetal casting that is glued to the coupler casting on the chassis.As it is not load bearing glueing it is fine. The buffers supplied were whitemetal but were not drilled through. As I had a set of JLTRT ones I opted to use these. When the bufferbeam was attatched it was a tight fit into the body so I removed a bit from inside the nose as the body is quite thick here. Side grills were filed down and marked then drilled out to take the new etched grills. Steps filled in and boiler side panal removed Boiler exhaust and safety valve removed from roof New grills are made up of three etches soldered together to make a thick grill that's recessed into the cut out side. I opted to use JLTRT bufferbeam details as I had these to hand. The cut away bufferbeam etched lip is now fitted Etched steps soldered up and new details added to the bogie sideframes Details added under the valance New axlebox covers were rounded by placing a ball hammer into them and giving it a tap with another on a wood bench Speedo drive modified and the sandite filler added. The etched surround for this is actually a Pete Harvey coupling surround etch! Seen here attached to one of his etched bufferbeams I used JLTRT airpipes so I could bend them upwards to attach to chains on a lost wax ring in the front. These rings are removable so I can remove the body! Headcode was filed flat and one of two sizes of etch supplied attached. The cast marker and headlight needed drilling out. The original LED lights shine through these adequately. I have added a new bright white LED for the headlight with a hole drilled through the font that thankfully misses anything important on the PCB. New lost wax lampirons are supplied. There will be a bit more cleaning up to do after it's in primer that's a fact. I will leave it like this for the time being as I will have it at Telford so people can see what's been done with it in this colour.

These any good Steve on my Flickr site https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianews/albums/72157627707976022 Unfortunately I can't put a picture up on here as I can't re-size it at the moment.

Hi Ozzyo Just had my first payslip from the Railway Pension, not as good as working for a living but we will get by I'm sure. Got a good lump some in the bank just waiting for for some lovely models to buy with it Got my computer back, repaired under warranty thankfully but I have to re-install some programs so will do some updates when that's done. Off on holiday first though!

I do have one Phil but I don't have its build on here. Must do some more updates on here when I get my computer back after a hiccup after installing widows 10 updates.

The hole is intended to be oversize so the buffer pin passes through so the buffets still work. You should glue them in place behind the buffer beam. And before you say it yes I know that makes taking the body off, er, difficult.

A couple of pics of it passing through Oxford.

Don't worry Miss Prism the Chinese were playing a joke on us and put some wrong bits on the wrong model so it's ended up a bitsa model. Bitsa GW and bitsa BR.

Got the Severnmill nameplates for my Heljan 4 character headcode conversion peak this week so got on and weathered it whilst I was doing the plates. This is still the Heljan blue on this model but a re-paint of the yellow ends following the mod.