Popular Post brylonscamel Posted April 19 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 19 (edited) Edited April 19 by brylonscamel 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 (edited) One too many My trips to see Dad and contribute to the layout are mostly made by train. This limits the amount of stuff I can bring. I weathered the locomotive time but the box was just a bit too big for my rucksack! It'll be good to add it to the growing fleet of 'BR Blue' but on another trip. Edited April 22 by brylonscamel 15 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted April 24 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 24 "Sunset mistaken for a dawn" A long view of the quayside on the harbour at Braeside .. 15 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 (edited) The sunshine coast! Edited April 24 by brylonscamel Image update 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 Before-and-after I recently found a photo of 'distillery corner' in 2020, with just basic groundwork and track. It's a surprising transformation! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted April 24 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 24 More recent photos illustrate the changes 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevel Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 9 hours ago, brylonscamel said: "Sunset mistaken for a dawn" A long view of the quayside on the harbour at Braeside .. Love the moody sky. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 On 24/04/2024 at 19:54, stevel said: Love the moody sky. Thanks - there is something brewing in those clouds! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 Although I'm most at-home with my buildings, I'm happy to fiddle with locomotives and stock, minor alterations, detailing, renumbering and weathering. Sometimes I make a mess of things, usually when I plough on with something before I've checked my method. Thanks to the helpful people at Accurascale, I was able to recover from a recent blunder ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 A class 37 arrived recently, adding to our rosta of 'blue-era diesels that remain a fixation of mine (schoolboy spotting/bashing nostalgia) The model has removable panel doors, so you can swap out the headcode blinds. It's all well documented in the instructions and at no point did it suggest the need to glue the doors afterwards. Of course, our resident nitwit-in-chief decided that such a thing was needed and dabbed each door with butanone. The result was ugly ... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 It was possible to remove the panel doors - with anxiety-inducing use of a fine blade. But our 37 was still looking rather awful, so I threw myself on the mercy of Accurscale. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 I was delighted to find spare doors were available as a spare and they duly arrived the following week. 37001 is now sporting a domino headcode panel at No.1 end. She looks very fine and I'm less inclined to be so cavalier with sophisticated models! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 (edited) Other locos that have recently been added to the 'blue era' collection include this 27 with her tablet-catcher recess and 1970s pre-TOPS number . Here she is, lurking on the servicing road at the Braeside shed .. Edited May 5 by brylonscamel test style 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 (edited) Another pre-TOPS acquisition is this Derby Sulzer - an interloper from the midland region. It was a disastrous early repaint of mine from some years ago. A cheap eBay body was found and she's been fettled back into use with my splosh-it-on and wipe-it-off weathering technique. Edited May 5 by brylonscamel text-style 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemonkey presents.... Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 13 hours ago, brylonscamel said: I was delighted to find spare doors were available as a spare and they duly arrived the following week. 37001 is now sporting a domino headcode panel at No.1 end. She looks very fine and I'm less inclined to be so cavalier with sophisticated models! Great recovery and superb weathering, as with all you modelling absolutely beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 It appears that summer has arrived on the coast .. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 (edited) Before and after - the ridge with the farm steading .. the tatty card embankment and the cork stone-effect cutting were soon to be ripped out! Edited May 14 by brylonscamel 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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