Erudhalion

6 hours ago, MikeOxon said:

Noting that you "have been building stock appropriate for the Forest of Dean in the early '20s.", I am interest to see that the use of larger wagons persisted in the area from much earlier Broad Gauge (BG) Days.

Unfortunately I don't have my copies of the S&W books by Ian Pope et al. at hand, only the scans I made of the wagon photos, mainly from vol.1 and 2. Luckily, many are dated GRC&W works pics, most from about 1890 to the mid 1910s, so presumably the 10t and 12t wagons were the newer kind being produced. There must have been many older, smaller wagons in use at the time, as the photos of Lydney yard in (I think) 1908 at the beginning of vol. 5 show what appear to me mostly 8t mineral wagons.

As for the length of the trains, I don't really know. The mainstays of the S&W joint lines from the turn of the century to nationalization were GWR 2021s, which are not very powerful engines, but the loaded trains were heading downhill for most of the way from the collieries to Lydney docks, so maybe they could handle longer trains.

1 hour ago, sb67 said:

 

Thank's I'll give it a go. Does it help to break surface tension at all. I havent yet found a way of recreating the properties of an enamel was using acrylics. 

I don't really have much experience with enamels, so I can't really say. The medium does help a lot with the surface tension, the results are similar to using a normal acrylic wash.

Thanks!

That is going to be really useful.

Is that photo in one of the S&W books?

2 hours ago, sb67 said:

I'm interested in the use of the glaze medium, I've got some of that but never used it. Have you used it for weathering before? 

I've only started using it fairly recently. I usually do around 50/50 water and medium if I want a thin wash, I find it avoids "tide marks" as the paint is drying. That is what I used for overall grime wash on the crane from the previous couple of posts. 

For the light gray on the wagon I put a drop of medium and mixed it with the gray on my wet palette to thin it a bit.

11 hours ago, 5&9Models said:

Looking forward to seeing the next wagon completed.

You've jinxed it now, I've spent the evening scrabbling around the floor failing to find one of the match truck's buffer collars 

And I've just noticed the chassis wobbles...

On 15/03/2021 at 07:09, Mikkel said:

Am still trying to work out the best strategy.

For the time being, I don't really have any alternatives to ordering online and paying up.

Once travel to the UK is a possibility again, I'll hopefully be able to go to an actual shop.

Thanks for the tips. I live in Italy, so I'll have to see if I can get some model strip sent over. For the time being I'll go with the cleaner, I should have time to get it tomorrow.

I'm afraid it is electrical solder. Is there any particular solder you recommend? I'm a complete novice when it comes to this stuff.