millerhillboy

Lovely job Duncan and you've been rewarded with an unusual and interesting model, entirely prototypical as well. Something to be proud of for sure.

Yes the glazing in the cab

Anyone know if the spare parts operation is uo and running at EFE yet? Or will it just be Bachmann spares I wonder

Hi Pixie Not your fault but more a word of warning, my glazing was heavily glued and did not come out smoothly at all. Mines was a small warning panel green example so wondering if it was a different person from a different part of the line. I don't regret it but I now need to hope the EFE parts dept is up and running already

You'll have been pleased with the somewhat surprising appearance of the clayton model for this layout!!

Hi pixie Great work on the clayton, always enjoy seeing someone improve RTR stuff like your clayton mods, many people are happy to accept things as they come and that's fair enough but I love seeing modifications. Can I ask a few things on your Clayton mods if you don't mind. Do you take the glazing out to paint the edges? I can see that the interior shelf is an easy candidate for painting but did you do all sides of all glazing. Yours looks much better to my eye and I'd love to replicate your steps. Secondly on the spring mod, I saw it mentioned earlier and i think I can see the remnants of the vertical pickup on the bogie side. Do you just trim this down to a level below where the springs will reach? It looks like the pictures includes whats left but just obviously blacked out by the looks. As I say great work, much appreciated. Thanks in advance MHB

Great work Steve, you really are at the top of your game with projects like this.

And I thought maroon mk1s were off the scale in terms of price!!

It'd be odd to see carriages at Eastfield anyway, so I think your thinking is most probably correct.

gaps in hedge looking spot on IMHO

Great pictures, thanks for sharing

The steps and the details around about the buffer beam area are quite remarkable really. As you say a coat of paint on that and it'll be more or less perfect. Great work folks.

Great step by step Duncan, sure that'll be useful to someone.

difficult to totally see but that textured paint looks like it creates lovely rough bark like surfaces

cracking work as always Graeme, its always interesting to see what your next detailing step will be. These little bits of work add so much to the overall picture.

The duff is truly duff then

Dave Would me rude of me not to like the work you've done to the hedge, but like you say I think it works well. Certainly reminds me of that area. Thanks also as I just picked up on the Flickr photo album you linked to a few posts back, Jim Nisbet I think the chaps name was. Lots of incredible pictures of the Edinburgh area from when I were a lad!! Lots of my trainspotting haunts included. Just incredible album actually.

Lovely Iain, I really like the variation in tones and colours across all the below footplate level. Often a single colour is used and whilst that does look OK its much better to my eye to have distinct variation both in colour and finish. Cracking model that as well.

Iain Smashing work, and impressive power outputs as well. Load 13 willdo you will it not Regarding the fox lining, would I be correct in saying the loco is still in the gloss required to apply decals? Do you tend to seal your locos after applying decals and before weathering? I'd suggest a coat of something, I use a satin finish before weathering to seal the decals and take the tone down a notch. That's before even considering whatever weathering is to be applied. FWIW I use games workshop citadel munitorum aerosol, used to be called purity seal I think. Not matt but not gloss either, just a nice sheen IMO.

Always interested in Scottish projects. Don't know if you've seen this forum before https://urbanglasgow.co.uk/queen-street-station-t2757.html Some great pictures in that thread, but there's some incredible pictures elsewhere in the forum for all Glasgow's major stations of the past, St Enochs, Buchanan St etc regards MHB

Cracking work Graeme, quite a remarkable amount of patience and enthuisiasm for a big task not to mention talent.

That's exactly the one Dave, that's the gap I recall but there were other ones to the right, maybe another one gap or so. I think the other gaps would have meant you were closer to being right above the locos as they sat which is what I recall. The gap in the picture gives you a better view overall station. Wouldn't be me, by the time the 47/7s were in Scotrail livery I'd be allowed to the station myself and I'd be on the end of the Dundee service platform book in hand. As I say the gap in the hedge was a well worn spot with people watching the trains. I think you can see its well used from that picture as the rest of the hedge was pretty thick.

Is the track plan prototypical on that north side, more so where the 26 is parked in your pictures just above? I don't remember a siding there but could easily be wrong. My recollection thinking about it was a deltic coming in from the south, coming off the train and sitting underneath the wall for a bit before disappearing through the mound tunnel off to haymarket. If someone can remember that operation pattern I'd be interested just to see if my childhood recollections were accurate.

Think you're right Dave, it could look a bit odd no matter how prototypical it was. Sometimes modelling the real thing is like that. FWIW There was one area in particular which was well worn, possibly 6-10ft wide, with a worn path up to it from the official pathways through Princess St Gardens. As you say quite distinctive.

Dave As always just absolutely perfect work. If you are at all interested I have a recollection from the mid-80s that the hedge you have just installed had various gaps where interested youngsters (i.e me) were known to stand and 'watch the trains'. In those days you could come right up to the fence atop the wall. Nowadays there's a second fence stopping you get anywhere near it. I have strong recollections of the sheer presence, noise, heat and vibration froms Deltics that were coming off trains from down south and often sat roughly where you have the 26 positioned in your pictures (I can't quite remember the trackplan in that area TBH), so basically as young boy looking down on a hard worked deltic roof was quite an experience for a young lad. Unfortuantely that'd be right at the end of the deltics careers and by the time I was old enough to fully experience it they were gone. I'm not suggesting go ahead and cut holes in your lovely hedge but for sure there were certainly decent sized gaps for watching the trains. regards MHB