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    A look at the Hawksworths

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    Or you could be absolutely prototypical and have a 'Modified Hall' in full GW livery as one survived in that condition until the mid 1950s :)

     

    You are a tease Mike!

     

    Ref the full brakes, obviously until we have one in our sticky mitts we don't know how to dismantle them (possibly to remove the glazing if needed) but I guess a repaint into BR blue wouldn't be too difficult. Likewise with the gangways, It shouldn't be too much to remove them and plate the area over, I've done it with a few old Lima Syphon Gs in the past and it was a quick and easy job.

     

    Here's W333 at Toddington last year...

     

    Nidge ;)

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    A look at the Hawksworths

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    I suspect those built and outshopped between 1948 and May 1949 were in chocolate and cream double waist livery with W prefix numbers, and those after this date in bood & custard. If we give a coach five years between painting, the choc & cream liveries would last until 1954 and possibly longer if Swindon was still busy with a backlog of other work.

     

    Thanks Larry. Time to dig out a few more books and have a good old perusal methinks... a nice plain black Grange with early BR crest and red backed plate, hauling some choc & cream / blood & custard Hawksworths and the odd Syphon suddenly seems very appealing B)

     

    Craig - I wasn't aware of the Royal pair, cheers for the tip.

     

    Nidge ;)

    A look at the Hawksworths

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    Before I dive in and respray a blood & custard into GWR/BR chocolate & cream livery of early 1949, is there any indication Hornby will eventually do this or the full GWR variant?

     

    Can't answer that Coach but the very idea of it has made me reach for Russell's 'GW Coaches Appendix #1' again.... on page 165 our man has an official Swindon shot of W7383 in double lined out chocolate & cream 'as bult in 1948'! How long would they have lasted in this livery do you think? (I'm not sure how often Swindon shopped their coaching stock in those days).

     

    A mate is bringing his Hawksworth round tomorrow, can't wait to get my sticky mitts on them!

     

    Nidge ;)

    A look at the Hawksworths

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    Very, very nice Larry, thanks for posting those pics.

     

    As soon as my eyes fell on the first photo I said 'wow' out loud, I know it's easy to gush about each new model we see these days but that really is a beauty. This one just oozes finesse and I can't wait to get my hands on some, in both liveries. If that top photo were in black and white it could easily be slipped into one of the Jim Russell books. I wonder what these would look like mixed in with some Bachmann Colletts and Airfix Centenaries...;)

     

    Now then... who's going to be the first one to commit blaspheamy and repaint three of them in blue and grey livery.....!

     

    Nidge

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