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1 hour ago, 97406 said:

 

Just need the Sybic one now. I think I’ll also renumber and tweak the livery on my RFD one (to 90022 I think) and get it the plates to make the set of 4 to fit in with the end of my modelling period. 

Sybic one you say? It appears I didn’t take a picture after it got the etched bits 😂

3 minutes ago, Melton Works said:

How about one of these?......

Nice. Really suits it. I’m trying to decide whether to reinstate the bodyside window and relocated the orange stripe or not 😂😂😂

Firstly well done on supporting such a great cause, but it looks like you’ve repeated the Hattons error with 66623 in using the lighter shade of orange as only featured on 66413 in real life. 
 

I’m hoping it’s just a trick of the light in the pics. It should be broadly the same as 37405. 

If the Bachmann 90s are whizzing around making tracks today they are the correct shade. 
 

Fingers crossed it’s just me 😂

16 hours ago, LMSfan72 said:

Just to provide variety with all these as built models appearing, and as I wait for HNRC 37405, here are my 2 Accurascale 37607. Obviously one has had a little bit of work 🤫

 

Tasty!

15 hours ago, 55020 said:

 

Ahh, the font of all knowledge that is Wikipedia.  It it great until it isn't!  In this case it isn't too helpful, as the 37/0s were numbered 37001 to 37308.  Your model of 37305 is a 37/0.  The rebogied 37/3s started at 37310.

 

You are correct in stating that the 37300-308 locos were very much South Wales machines in the 70s.

 

 

Steve

And then most of them became frothy 37/4s in Scotland, 37305 becoming 37407. 

1 hour ago, GBRf 66 The Flying Dustman said:

If you go onto rainbow railways website Colin actually does the proper harry needle orange 

Strathclyde PTE / Loadhaul orange is the same shade I believe. 

On 25/09/2023 at 22:34, PM47079 said:

I remember seeing 86432 about this time also in BR blue. I don't think that many 86/4s were BR blue

Just those 2 I think!

Looking great. Re the marker dots, I use black permanent markers, with no lenses in place and run the pen round the inside. Usually does a neat job. Any residue can be scraped off with a cocktail stick. 

1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

 And you never even mentioned 37047 & 37053 after they'd had their noses picked.

 

Shame on you.  :-)

You forgot 37031 as well… sure there are others that I’ve forgot too 😂

2 hours ago, LMSfan72 said:

Well I did find the nose aerial and fuel tank fitting to print as well as the ETH connector!

 

The finished conversion, although I still might paint the head code panel black as I think that’s what the prototype wears today:

 

Looking good. Are you going to attempt the reinforced windows?

On 24/08/2023 at 16:40, LMSfan72 said:

noses prepared

 

 

next photo will be the finished one (I hope!!)

Looking good. At least you’ve no excuse to do 3D printed noses for the new model now 😜😜😜

1 hour ago, Daddyman said:

Agreed - but just not etched in 5 thou with half-etched folds! The person I'm thinking of could also do an etch, and he's reliable too: 6-8 weeks last time I used him. Now, does anyone have dimensions? 

Are you referring to the PHD ones?

2 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Back in the day ?

Thats only 30 years ago.

 

Funny thing is in 1993 folk around me were saying the same thing about BR Steam, and thats was 30 years ago then.

 

 

 

Mad isn’t it. Almost 20 years since the EWS 37/4s finished on the sleeper, to keep it vaguely on topic 😂

1 hour ago, rob D2 said:

very nice EWS loco .

Im hoping eventually either bachy or accura do some on the original EWS red before they kinda faded to maroon 

What do you mean by the original EWS red? The colour didn’t change, it always looked very different on film back in the day. I remember seeing 419 for the first time and was surprised how dark it was 😂

13 hours ago, Andy7 said:

It does look good but it’s a shame the windscreen wasn’t fitted/refitted properly.

Can confirm they’re in properly. Just a trick of the light I guess. 

21 hours ago, meanach said:

It looks great . I’m intrigued by the nose , was it a complete swap or a lot of chopping filing and filling going on ? 

Lots of chopping and filling 😂

Not up to @Daddyman standards but here is my latest take on 37801. Already did it RF style, thought an EWS one was required. Full repaint of modifications as per the real thing in and around 1994. 
 

2 hours ago, Daddyman said:

This is my 37423. I have no need for a loco in this livery, but reading Nick Meskell's books can be dangerous... Still a few jobs to do - glazing, more air pipes, ETS and MW pipes, metal arrows of indecision, possibly a few other things. 

 

An outdoor shot in rather too bright sun before I noticed it needed the fuel capacity wording. The fuel tank to underframe gap has been corrected by removing the detail between tanks and frame and reseating the former, but it's all lost in shadow here!  

Indoor shots 

This one seems to be afflicted with particularly setback glazing:  

 

The loco has had new ploughs from PH Designs as I've run out of Heljan class 47 ones. I don't like the fitting of the PH ploughs, especially on the centre one, and am not convinced by the shape of the centre one either, so I've left it off. I modified the fitting by inserting a piece of 0.6 wire up the "boxes" at the back of the PH ploughs, and then drilled this into the b.beam: 

 

 

This has been P4'd with Branchlines coach wheels mounted on the original Bachmann axles - we'll see how bad an idea that was. There were clearance problems on the brake pull rods so I replaced them with 0.3 wire, drilling out the shoes to give a firm fixing. Th

 

The next shot shows the cut-out on the corner of the b.beam and replacement ETS fittings with my own resin castings that I made some years ago - original source unknown. On my first new-gen Bachmann 37 I replaced the feeds to the brake cylinders with 0.3 wire, but you're looking at a week in rehab (at least) after that, so nowadays I leave the originals. 

The curve of the Bachmann pipes is wrong - airpipes curve out from the b.beam and then dangle vertically. I kept Bachmann's cocks as they're OK (I know, I know), and drilled them to take 0.5 wire bent to shape and crimped at the end to represent the connections at the other end. 

 

I also replaced the handbrake chains with 40-links-per-inch chain from Branchlines. The roof fan is Shawplan, obviously, and all transfers from Railtec. Oh, and the aerial is a toothbrush bristle - not my idea!  

 

This has had quite a lot of work done on getting the work-worn look to the finish. As I've said earlier in this thread, Bachmann didn't bother to paint the upper grey band behind the sector logo, so when you remove it you're left with a square of the lower bodyside colour intruding into the upper grey band. As the grey looked wrong anyway - or wrong for a weathered loco - I repainted the whole band with LMS grey mixed with white as there's quite a blue tinge to the band in photos of locos in 1993/4. I then gave the whole body a white filter coat, laying it on pretty thick on the roof as on the real thing this area looks far paler than the colour supplied on models. Not sure about the lower bodyside colour, even after the white filter - shouldn't this be the same colour as the grey in blue-and-grey carriages? 

 

I paid a lot of attention to the roof weathering. There is a tome to be written on the subject. Before the rot really sets in, 37s tend to have clean patches on their roofs - between roof fan and roof hatches, between roof hatches and cant rail, and between roof fan and cant rail. At the same time, there will be muck in all the seams and around all the straps, even in those clean areas - this begins to collect after just one journey. Modellers (and "professional" weathering companies) tend to just squirt some muck on the roof vaguely along the centre area, but there are two problems with that: first, it doesn't get the muck into the seams, and second, it ignores the characteristic clean patches on a 37 roof. My process is to coat the roof with a muck mix and then wipe it off, leaving it collected in seams and around strapping. Only then can the airbrush come out, being used to mist exhaust carbons on certain areas - longways from the exhausts, drifting over the hatches and part of the boiler room roof, and in the fan itself. I then use black pastels (the darkest, mattest black I know) to add some darker patches around the exhaust ports proper, and perhaps in the fan grille. The effect can be seen here, with the clean (and faded) patches in evidence: 

My goodness that is off the scale fabulous. Well done. Also glad to hear that you share my niggles about roof weathering. I’m fact weathering in general, and the clean (faded) bodysides instead of the approach that some take where dirt is just clarted all over them. Great inspiration for everyone here. 

31 minutes ago, Johnson Street IEMD said:

On topic, then, my first DB92 is about to land in the coming weeks, 92042 is the chosen one, weathered and DCC sound fitted. I can't wait to see the mucky-ish Dyson, a mainstay of Team Red's HS1 workings, parked awaiting maintenance slots at Johnson Street alongside the 90s and 66s.

I too have just ordered 92042… but for another purpose 😂

9 minutes ago, Johnson Street IEMD said:

tomorrow ? 😢

 

They're very much alive in my modelling world ... we're moving WHM cleaner, greener and quieter ... as opposed to dirtier and noisier - if Freightliner can manage to operate the same locos on the same lines without any of the problems DB have faced, surely, the answer is find out what they do to keep theirs purring ... surely, they wouldnt have to save face too much ...

I think it’s also linked to the traffic they could work self contained without a traction change but others better placed would know more. Their regular working - coming south as 4M25 - got merged with the other one - 4M30 - which was lengthened and moved to run overnight to allow them to haul it with a 66 without it getting in the way of passenger traffic. Sad times indeed. 

4 hours ago, Johnson Street IEMD said:

Probably only when being bussed back and forth by a 66, 67 or the only remaining DB90 in service, Backbone branded 90039 on the moves like the below:

 

 

Think the 90s are doomed alas Kat. Word is 39 is going out of service after its jaunt tomorrow. 
 

Might it be back to the future with 92s back on freight work? Time will tell. Apparently 92009 is next for resurrection. 

13 hours ago, Accurascale Fran said:

 

Hi Andi,

 

Thanks for the correction, I had forgotten that it's GBRf who are the ones who upgrade their lights. I don't think DB have done so to date.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

Me again Fran. 44 and 32 are GBRf machines, but it seems they only put the new lights on the Sleeper/Dellner fitted ones. 
 

A

11 hours ago, Accurascale Fran said:

 

Hi @Johnson Street IEMD,

 

As above, easier to respray a loco without them fitted. Something like 92010 or 92020 in our first run would be good candidates. Would have the prototypically correct upgraded LED lights too.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

Hi Fran,

I don’t think that 92044 or 92032 got the upgraded lights that the sleeper fleet got, although happy to be corrected. 
 

Cheers,

Andi.