Skinnylinny
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My Bachmann London Transport 57xx appears to be a shade that is almost exactly BR maroon (when held up against a Bachmann Mk1). It's maybe a shade lighter, but if you're going to do any weathering at all I suspect it'd be unnoticeable. I'm going to assume it's a more realistic colour than the old Hornby one in pillar-box red! SECR grey tender numbers are available in 4mm from Fox: http://fox-transfers.co.uk/transfers/secr-locos-1915-1922(although they also do a 2-pack of the sheet for a slight saving if you're renumbering several locos) along with bufferbeam numbers and SECR markings. As for the shunter's truck, I'd be interested. To be honest the loco put me off buying that magazine as I've enough panniers not to want to have to detail one!
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Scratchbuilding a SECR Aeolus 2-4-0t in N
Skinnylinny replied to Gareth Collier's topic in RMweb/BRM 'build a loco' Challenge
Wow... I was impressed by the P class, but that tiny 0-4-0 can't be more than an inch long in N, surely? After hours of sweating over single-colour lining transfers in 4mm, I'm thinking I might be better off looking into printing my own decals if the results can be that good! -
In fairness, the magazines I've had with the models I've bought have generally been pretty interesting and full of things that I (as a rail enthusiast) didn't know. There have been some minor slip-ups (but what magazine can ever claim not to have had any?) but overall, I've actually been impressed with the standard of the magazine, given it's been pitched at the non-enthusiast. Granted, some of the models have been of a poorer quality than others, but they've mostly been very good copies of already-made models, and it's the parentage of the models involved that is to blame. To my mind, the models look good (often with only minor issues), and I'm happy to display them on my shelves until such time as I get around to hacking them about. And I've been keeping the magazines too!
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Worried about a loco that Hermes are apparently attempting to redeliver. I haven't had the first delivery attempt yet!
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I believe Bachmann did this in pewter, but I don't know to what scale, and it's a decidedly static model!
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I have to agree with you, but for different reasons: The valve gear on the cover looks far too fine to be the original Margate valve gear, and we've seen from the B12 that they're not afraid to copy huge great stamped coupling rods. Also, there are what look to be cab doors fitted, but these are absent from the original tender-drive 8F. We can but wait and hope.
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I've got a fairly-battered-looking Bachmann N class here that's just had a new body donated for it. I'd be happy to donate the whistle assembly if you would like? Edit due to ham-fistedness: Or not... Delicate and solidly glued in place, it disintegrated as I tried to get it off the firebox. Sorry!
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It looks like this is going to have similar painting problems to the pannier, namely a lack of black paint on the front end! Except that instead of the smokebox and chimney being green, the footplate on the Britannia at the front is green. The lack of (visible) combination lever on the valve gear makes me suspect that this one is copied from a loco-drive Britannia, but one of the early Tri-ang ones, as does the elongated shape of the cab front spectacles. There's also a glint on the tender axleboxes - the visible ends of the Tri-ang axles, perhaps, meticulously copied? Hard to tell from a picture that size, but I suspect I won't be getting a Britannia.
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I can identify with this! I bought a few Mallards (thinking I will eventually get around to hacking them into representations of the Great Gathering locos with odds and ends) and several of them I can't get the tenders off the display bases. I've chewed up the screws and am not looking forward to Dremelling through the base to release the screws. It seems like the screws are applied with a power tool, or by a bodybuilder...
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This is a new one on me: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PIECE-OF-A4-PAPER-GREAT-FOR-WRITING-Hornby-Bachmann-LOCO-NUMBERS-ON-067d-/221735848105?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item33a07c88a9 It is as it says, a sheet of A4 paper... The starting price of £250 nearly made me fall out of my chair! Edit: For those of us on a tighter budget, he also seems to have several at only £50 starting price!
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Just had my B12 arrive - picked up by a friend in Glasgow as I couldn't find any at the usual suspects in Edinburgh. I'm quite impressed with this one, almost wishing I'd asked for a second one to keep the livery as it is! Almost seems a shame to slice it up...
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You're absolutely right! Can hardly believe I missed that now... Ah well, I'll probably still have a look at it in the shop. Almost as strange as the Royal Scot where the front half of the crosshead was in one position and the back half another...
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Pardon my ignorance, but what seems to be the problem with the valve gear, other than the motion bracket being painted silver? I'll grant that there have been... interesting interpretations of Walschaerts valve gear so far, but I can't see anything on (the tiny picture of) this model.
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There's a couple of things that make me think it's not an *exact* copy, but better in some subtle ways - the lack of the slot in the front of the body for the thunking great piece of metal that holds the Hornby chassis in place, and the rather nicer vacuum pipes and coupling hooks than on the original. The lack of chassis slot would make a simple re-body of an older model a rather more challenging prospect.
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What I was thinking was that the 0-6-0 chassis is fairly cheap off eBay, so it might be possible to use the GBL model to make a Duck? I think there's a seller on eBay with just the face from Duck available as a spare part...
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That does indeed look like a Hornby chassis underneath the loco, which is a pity... the shunters truck, however, looks to be from the new model, and might be worth looking into, although I believe the RRP is only £10.95, so not *that* much of a saving (if any by the time wheels and couplings have been fitted). Might still be worth a look for bits and pieces, but I suspect that there won't be too many modellers going for this one. Perhaps a "Duck" from Thomas the Tank engine with a cheap chassis off eBay?
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I suspect it might be there to help with aligning the lining/number printing on the cabside? There were similar raised parts on the splashers of the Wainwright C (though I think they *were* copied from the Bachmann model) but the lining inside these was very well aligned on each of the 4 C classes I got.
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You know the student budget is tight when you have to start selling trains to pay the rent... Not fun.
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Just lost the last M transfer for a 4mm wagon number. Painting it by hand with a very fine brush and a shaky hand...
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What is the world coming to? On mentioning that I am a railway modeller, been asked for a "modelling date" where we'll both sit and build things...
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Wow, I need to get some more of these Ratio wagon kits. That's an open wagon unpacked and completely built in the time it's taken SWMBO to go into town to go shopping...
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The GBL body is unlikely to be a straight swap, as the running plate of the GBL model has six slots for the wheels, but no space for the motor to pass through into the boiler. The livery on the GBL model is also highly simplified from the Bachmann SECR-liveried model, so to be honest, if you've got the Bachmann model, I'd suggest keeping it in one piece!
