Steve Sykes

Wasn't City of Lincoln one of the black Sam Fays?

Hi,

There was a drawing in Model Railway News way back in the 60s, and I think there's a GA drawing in the back of the Wild Swan book on the Adams classes. As the GAs are reproduced at a relatively small scale, about 7mm I think, the wealth of detail can be hard to interpret. If you PM me your email address, I can scan the MRN drawing for you.

Steve

Very nice. Have you seen the articles in Southern Way issues 9 and 10 which have drawings and a lot of information on the quite complicated history of the rebuilds?

Cassidy Yard? As in Apalong Cassidy. I'll get me coat....

It's a King Arthur, isn't it? Or one of the other Urie 4-6-0s - N, H or S followed by 15.

Sadly Allen's etches for the C2X brakegear are a bit generic and don't capture the unusual angled shape of the brake hangers. Possibly a job for the piercing saw and some n/s sheet? Or if he's doing an etch for you, maybe he could add the brakegear to it?

You'll be able to triple-head with Butler Henderson soon!

Looks an interesting project. What period are you considering modelling - for the pre-grouping/early grouping period David Eveleigh has done a number of appropriate kits, covering the A class 4-4-0, the B 4-4-0T and is currently designing the C, D and Da classes. He also does kits for appropriate Great Northern and Midland carriages. Details of some of these can be seen on the 2mm Scale Association website, under Small Suppliers within the Products section.

Steve

Hi Tony,

Have you treated the Scalescenes paper in any way? A friend locally has had problems with home-printed Scalescenes brick paper fading a lot, even though his layout is in a north-facing room that doesn't receive direct sunlight. There has been some discussion as to whether different printer inks are more or less susceptible to fading, and whether varnishing or treating the paper after printing might help to protect it; presumably it's the UV component of light that causes the fading. No definitive conclusions, I'm afraid

Steve

There's a full set of drawings of the Banff trainshed and station in LNER Country Stations by John Brodripp, and I think there's a drawing of the Blacksboat goods shed in an old GNSRA Journal, if that's any help.

Nice models! I think we need to be a bit cautious about interpretation of colours from old monochrome photographs - the orthochromatic plates used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries responded differently to the various light wavelengths. IIRC in general reds appear very dark, while blues are much lighter compared to modern monochrome film. Given that the GWR wagon grey was pretty dark anyway, distinguishing between the two colours may be pretty difficult.