RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted July 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2022 Much better than the original loco..... are you taking orders? I feel I now need an open cab 0-6-0PT.... Can you despatch one to Spain please 🤣🤣 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2022 It was a fun project - I'd certainly recommend it. And not too difficult either; if I can manage it then I'm sure pretty much anyone could... And of course there are lots of those old Hornby panniers on a certain auction site, I'd imagine. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted July 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2022 28 minutes ago, Graham T said: It was a fun project - I'd certainly recommend it. And not too difficult either; if I can manage it then I'm sure pretty much anyone could... And of course there are lots of those old Hornby panniers on a certain auction site, I'd imagine. With all the other 1/2 finished projects I have.... maybe one day! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2022 I know that feeling! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 2732 put some of her jewellery on this morning 🙂 I added some fire irons, and also a short shovel on top of the bunker, and also some Modelu lamps. I thought I would be clever and put a dot of red paint into the recess for the lens, to make a tail lamp, but the lenses have an opaque back to them unfortunately. So I sploshed a bit of red paint onto the front of one instead. The Modelu system for fitting the lamps onto the irons is rather ingenious (but simple - which is always good). But as @Harlequin pointed out earlier, the lamp irons I've fitted are a bit too well-fed to slot lamps onto. To be honest, I'm not too bothered about having had to glue them in place. I can't see me ever changing the lamp codes whenever I changed trains! Here's a few views of the loco now. The green doesn't look quite right on the screen, it's a touch too blue I think, but it looks better to the naked eye so I'm sticking with it. Next up is gloss spots and then transfers, followed by a matt varnish coat, and then some light weathering. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 And of course I need to add a crew, who are getting painted today. And the brake rodding, whenever the bits arrive from that sceptred isle... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 Looking very good Graham, but a pet hate of mine is glaring white lamps, they need a good weathering to tone them down - some may even be black, not white. Al. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 Thanks Al - the lamps will be getting suitably toned down! But I think I'll weather the whole loco when I've done the transfers, so that it all blends (hopefully...) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 I'm going to start fitting three-links to some of my wagons too, so that I can actually have something for 2732 to trundle around with. So, I need to fashion a coupling/uncoupling tool. I've seen something on RMweb, but can't for the life of me remember where. Any ideas please? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 34 minutes ago, Graham T said: Thanks Al - the lamps will be getting suitably toned down! But I think I'll weather the whole loco when I've done the transfers, so that it all blends (hopefully...) IIRC, pre 1937, GWR lamps were painted red. Afterwards were painted white, but I imagine that it took a few years to swap them all. The black bodied lamps in both periods were side lamps on brake vans. I once had one with a removable red glass screen that could be slotted in behind the main lens which was clear. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 In 12 inch to the foot scale, rather than 1:76, I'm guessing Mr W? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 One especially for @Alister_G 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 Excellent! much better, I can sleep easy now... 🙂 Al. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2022 One aims to please, don't you know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Graham T said: In 12 inch to the foot scale, rather than 1:76, I'm guessing Mr W? Very much so. Though I imagine that someone has at least tried. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 So, the shirt buttons are on! Am now "girding my loins" before tackling the buffer beam numbers. Must check the balance in the profanity bank before I start... I also had a go at painting the crew, but must confess that I'm not entirely happy with them yet. Perhaps a bit more work on the faces, and I might also make the driver's jacket a lighter blue. Any thoughts out there in the interwebs? 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 I think I might try black tack for positioning the crew... And yes, I'm still avoiding the buffer beam numbers! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted July 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2022 The loco looks great in its finished state. Don’t beat yourself up about the crew, they also look very good. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 Thanks Neal. Time for a spot of lunch now, and then I must take the bull by the horns and do those buffer beam numbers! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Just think Maximum Effort. 😎 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 Just got the first ones on Mr W. Minimal impact on the profanity bank, although I seem to recall that there was one judicious use of a particularly nasty word beginning with "mother"... But I think the numbers are probably too small! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 Correction - they're definitely too small. Off they come then! Bu**er... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 Just ordered some from Fox Transfers. So, time to play with test 2732 a bit, and see if she still works. Here we see her collecting coal, and then reversing away for her next duty 🙂 I must remember to add the brake rodding and buffer beam numbers, once all the required bits have found their way through the postal system. In the meantime, I'll give the waterslides a little while to harden and then apply a mist of matt varnish. Then some weathering. I also really need to get the cottages finished - I've got the guttering now - and then start thinking about the landscaping to bed them in. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 3, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2022 The varnish went on very nicely in one side of the loco - and then milky on the other side! I've no idea why... So, I let it dry, then went over the poor areas (very gently!) with a fibreglass pencil, before re-applying the green. Let's see how it looks tomorrow; hopefully some gentle weathering will tie everything back together. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 4, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2022 Here's the speckling I mentioned. I've repainted the green, but still need to do the chimney, smokebox, and footplate. No idea why this happened. I sprayed the LH side of the loco, then moved round and sprayed this side. So, same varnish, same conditions, etc etc. I am far from gruntled ☹️ Flummoxed of Chuffnell Regis 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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