Sam Moss

Have you got a video of the sound at all? Would love to hear it!

They've also spelt Sentinel two different ways on the paperwork that comes with that model. Sentinal and Sentinel.

1163 Whitehead was running up the Old Swanwick Colliery Branch.

I don't know if the prototype had a plated body but the model you have has a wooden planked body. Still looks good though. One thing I would do is tone down the underframe slightly with a bit of darker brown/black.

For dark green try Brunswick. Thats what my Grandad always used on his windows until they had them replaced with plastic. Such a shame aswell but it was cheaper than having central heating fitted upstairs.

Adam,

 

Thanks for the extra pics - always useful.

 

I wondered for a while as to the best way to do the patch on the back of the bunker. I tried small pieces of styrene, but even at 10thou thick (the thinnest I could lay my hands on) it looked like someone had patched it with offcuts from a ship! In reality, the plate on the bunker is probably 1/8" thick at most? I toyed with the idea of a small piece of tape, which when painted would be about right, but I'm not sure as to the longevity of that. I have decided to represent the panel just using paint effects - i.e. mark out the panel with a technical drawing pen, then brush in some of the rust surrounding it. Will let you know if it works or not!

 

Your comment on being based on a prototype is interesting - I think that if I ever exhibit the layout I'll have to print out some of the prototype photos (no-one would ever belive you'd paint a 3F that colour unless they'd seen the pics).

 

Right, off to finish the buffer beam paintwork and blacken the wheel rims...

 

Alastair

The patch on 47445 is about 2 or 3mm plate. Its about the only left of the original bunker.

Hopefully the real thing will be in traffic by 2015