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No, no more model railways, it's far too complicated for me I'm going to watch endless episodes of Pointless and fry what brain cells I have left, either that or drown them in beer. Drink!

Someone appears to have put that Hall in LNWR livery! (that nice Mr Collett would throw a wobbly) ... what?, 'British Railways'?, no, never heard of such a thing. Seriously (for Brent!), it looks good but it doesn't look right, not to my eyes anyway. GW 4-6-0s are supposed to be green! Glenn in soggy Portsmouth

Blimey, if that electricity stuff was far too complicated for chocolate and cream brigade in 1947 ... "Look mother a magic candle!", perhaps that is why the GW mainline is only being electrified now? I'll put my flak jacket on.

How quaint to put oil lamps on the front of a Bulleid - no need, it has electric lamps!, possibly Southern Electric lamps? ... okay I've gone too far. Glenn

Someone appears to have put that T9 in LNWR livery! ... what?, 'British Railways'?, no, never heard of such a thing.

Now that is true finescale modelling!!!

Very nice vehicles are the Hornby Staniers but those rooves need toning down, they're far too bright/ex-works/silvery coloured. Odd how Margate can get the Maunsells, Staniers and Colletts right, but made a bit of a pig's ear of the Eastern Railway carriages. Back to the diesels ...

Due to unforeseen circumstances I haven't been able to do a great deal of work lately, but most of what I have been doing has been Great Western ... what's going on!!! One commission was a Bachmann Dukedog resprayed and renumbered as No.3211. The colour used is Phoenix P10 GWR loco green - thanks Rob (among others), GWR roundel and power/weight restriction are HMRS transfers, the etched numberplates are Modelmaster. Glenn

What the 4F is that!!! Don't tell me, it got onto the SW mainline at Templecombe and then managed to get lost again at St. Davids ... modeller's licence (and why not?!)

I suspect the sound fitting was done first and then the 'renaming' was done by the buyer. I've had a few YouChoos sound fitted locos pass through my hands and I must say he does a very tidy job, not just with the speaker and light fitting, but with hiding the wiring, as well.

You're not fooling me, that loco's a true rarity and I want it ... Should have gone to Spam-Savers

It would be easier, yes, but having just resprayed a Star, a Small Prairie, a Pannier and a Dukedog, I'm on a repainting roll at the moment. Hmmm, not sure I have enough paint to cover a 72XX though?!

7200 looks an absolute beast in GWR livery ... and I just happen to have one in BR black (something called: 'British Railways' apparently?), time to get the P10 out again with the shirtbutton, methinks. If 'GWR' looks lost on that beast the shirtbutton will disappear!

It keeps them warm in winter

Bless you young man. Once upon a time I too was foolish enough to think ANTB was about a GWR layout set in 1947 ... thankfully it's far more entertaining than just that. Play Up Pompey!, oh, sorry they lost (as expected). Must get back to those green coaches, Set 146 this time around.

Yes they did and the Eastern Railway and those Pullman chappies too. It must have taken some fiddling about to get them into the full size NEM pockets though, the Shunters must have had biceps the size of Bournemouth! (to quote Mr Slack-Bladder)

Excellent photography young man! However, I'm sure you'll need more than four coaches for all the Pompey fans going to Plymouth this afternoon. A procession of 'green stock' heading west hauled by those Bulleid pacifics I expect; setting the south Devon banks alight no doubt (quite literally!)

Kadee 18's on the SR coaches Rob? Like all rakes of coaches, they really do look so much better when they're close-coupled with the corridor connectors almost touching.

SR (just green) Coaches = the joy of Sets

Everything's Gone Green - (The) New Order

Can we have that one again, but in colour?

Now I definitely remember Paddington; he was the Bear that likes marmalade, but who is Kingsbridge?, the Jaguar who likes jam perhaps? ... and did he have a brother called Kingsmill?! ... I'll get my coat

Is that the revised Gresley family crest? Where's my tin hat?, flack approaching

I removed the couplings and simply masked off the sides with newspaper and Tamiya tape. I then applied a little H67 dark grey to the gutters and around the shell ventilators and airbrushed more H67 over the entire roof and the majority of the ends. A second coat was sufficient to cover all of the original white. Underframes, bufferbeams and lower ends were sprayed with R402 Frame Dirt (brown). Wheel centres are painted in a similar colour and that was about it. Two lots of hand-brushing and about three with the airbrush with roughly a day in between each airbrush coat and 'job done'. For a really professional finish, see: Collett 'Bow Ended' Standard 57' Corridor Stock Coaches for 2016, under the Hornby thread. Bulwell Hall's post; No.759 shows a particularly fine weathered Collett Brake with patchy roof and runs to the sides picking out the door frames nicely - very impressive. Glenn

That's okay, I'll keep them then.