SOS Junction. If anything happens would someone wake me up please..

[145 Squadron]

Oh ti#s. That is very nice and reminds me I should probably have just one of those. However it ain't a Tavern but I do thank you from the heart of my bottom.

That be a D2660 RKS/U and tended to work on the Southampton and Bournemouth routes. Very handsome coach and reminds us all that MK1s were very much based on Bulleids (and somewhat the later LMS and LNER steel framed designs) but with steel frames of course.

Now, I wonder which kit/sides they are; long gone Southern Pride maybe; Bill Bedford (Mousa) sides? Great paint job too.

S.Tockbook

 

Sorry about that; hopefully this is the right one! From the pictures I managed to find the underframes were very similar after conversion to propane (perhaps not surprisingly). Like you I had initially made up a long gas tank, then had to change it when I realised it didn't fit with my running period. I have two Tavern Car sets as well as the Bournemouth set (which were 247 Developments sides, sadly no longer available). Propane boxes and other undergubbins are butchered from spares and plasticard using the photos.

 

Sides on the Tavern Car are Comet modified as we had previously discussed, with a Mk1 shell and Bachmann bogies. Interiors are scratch built from plasticard - the restaurant trailer is a nightmare as it is nearly all windows.

 

Love the progress on the layout - keep it up!

 

Tony

[Mallard60022]

Sorry about that; hopefully this is the right one! From the pictures I managed to find the underframes were very similar after conversion to propane (perhaps not surprisingly). Like you I had initially made up a long gas tank, then had to change it when I realised it didn't fit with my running period. I have two Tavern Car sets as well as the Bournemouth set (which were 247 Developments sides, sadly no longer available). Propane boxes and other undergubbins are butchered from spares and plasticard using the photos.

 

Sides on the Tavern Car are Comet modified as we had previously discussed, with a Mk1 shell and Bachmann bogies. Interiors are scratch built from plasticard - the restaurant trailer is a nightmare as it is nearly all windows.DSCF1749a.jpg

 

Love the progress on the layout - keep it up!

 

Tony

Excellent thank you. Your version sounds like a damn good mix to me. That underframe array looks a damn site more organised than mine. Might get another couple of pairs of  Comet sides and try something like that. I do have another full, Comet Kit to do as well but I could actually do with 4 of these Taverns anyway. Were we talking Mainline Mk 1s as good donors? I know someone was. I feel a winter of this, content (see what I did there?) to hack coaches activity. 

Can you remind me what paint finish you use; apologies if you have already told me.

Phil

Edited November 22, 2017 by Mallard60022

[Tim Dubya]

 

75009 and 53810 leaving Bath on Devonshire Bank with a Cleethorpes-Exmouth train in 1962.

 

Photo by B. Grant

Edited November 22, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[bigwordsmith]

No, it was Fred from Jim's Models.

 

 

`Iv've never met Fred, but always found I got on well with John from Jim's models - were they related?

[Tim Dubya]

Edited November 22, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[Mallard60022]

Devonshire Bank Bath 1962.jpg

 

75009 and 53810 leaving Bath on Devonshire Bank with a Cleethorpes-Exmouth train in 1962.

 

Photo by B. Grant

Yo Tim. Nice one. That must be eleven coaches as it is DH. Looks like the SR set too (not the ER mish mash).

Thanks.

P 

[Mallard60022]

C_S Timetable2.jpg

First time I've seen that particular sheet.

XLNT

P

[Tim Dubya]

Found them on the Farceboosch

 

Somerset & Dorset Railway group

 

I fink, 10 minutes was a long time ago.

[colin penfold]

[The Stationmaster]

I'm 1973... getting worried I'll get banned for being too young!

 

Bloomin' kids getting everywhere nowadays.  The place was far better when the old King was still on the throne (although his daughter's Coronation was a fun day and I won a prize in a fancy dress competition - oh and my gran who'd had the electric put in that year had got a telly so we watched the Coronation on it).

[unravelled]

1950, and my first dateable memory is being woken up, dressed in my siren suit, and taken to see the Coronation night fireworks on Port Meadow.

 

Dave

[LNER4479]

2017-11-22_14.28.33.jpg

Ask the family?

[145 Squadron]

Excellent thank you. Your version sounds like a damn good mix to me. That underframe array looks a damn site more organised than mine. Might get another couple of pairs of  Comet sides and try something like that. I do have another full, Comet Kit to do as well but I could actually do with 4 of these Taverns anyway. Were we talking Mainline Mk 1s as good donors? I know someone was. I feel a winter of this, content (see what I did there?) to hack coaches activity. 

Can you remind me what paint finish you use; apologies if you have already told me.

Phil

 

Phil,

 

I used the Hachette Mk1 as they were similar to the Mainline Mk1, but quite a bit cheaper! I file off all the raised surface detail then add a strip of 5 thou plasticard at waist level as the Bulleid sides have a more rounded side profile. The brass sides are fixed onto the donor sides with Evo Stick which is great fun as it melts the plastic coach side - I have never had one come off yet!

 

The paint is from a local auto factor who made it up from a swatch I made from Precision Paint BR SR coach green (which I can then use to touch up). It costs a bit more than a Halfords can (£12 last time if I remember correctly) but I can specify what type of finish I require and a 400ml can will do about 6 coaches worth and they don't clog like some others. Unfortunately I am useless with an airbrush - no patience!

 

Like you I am just finishing off some Bulleids I started last November - I tried to do too many at once, got fed up and did some other modelling for a while but am now trying to get them finished before Christmas.

 

No doubt Hornby will then announce they are producing a super-detailed version! This happened with my M7's.

 

Look forward to seeing the result of your efforts.

 

Tony

[Mallard60022]

Now for some serious modelling.

Wot I made this afternoon. The weathering is good don't you think? It is P4. I think it could do with some lamps though.

I. Sight 

[Mallard60022]

Phil,

 

I used the Hachette Mk1 as they were similar to the Mainline Mk1, but quite a bit cheaper! I file off all the raised surface detail then add a strip of 5 thou plasticard at waist level as the Bulleid sides have a more rounded side profile. The brass sides are fixed onto the donor sides with Evo Stick which is great fun as it melts the plastic coach side - I have never had one come off yet!

 

The paint is from a local auto factor who made it up from a swatch I made from Precision Paint BR SR coach green (which I can then use to touch up). It costs a bit more than a Halfords can (£12 last time if I remember correctly) but I can specify what type of finish I require and a 400ml can will do about 6 coaches worth and they don't clog like some others. Unfortunately I am useless with an airbrush - no patience!

 

Like you I am just finishing off some Bulleids I started last November - I tried to do too many at once, got fed up and did some other modelling for a while but am now trying to get them finished before Christmas.

 

No doubt Hornby will then announce they are producing a super-detailed version! This happened with my M7's.

 

Look forward to seeing the result of your efforts.

 

Tony

Many thanks. Yes, I had forgotten the Hatchettes. Don't have any of those but I do have plenty of old Hornby Mk1s and a bunch of Mainline ones. I've got quite a few 'conversions' lined up so I think I'll get the equipment sorted for that and do them all at the same time.

I'll investigate if there is somewhere local to 36E that will do that paint mix.

Phil

[New Haven Neil]

'59 model here - so may not get banned.

 

The Bulleid's are reet nice jobs.

[Oldddudders]

I was afraid that once we got launched on age, someone would post the immortal line “I was in Baghdad before you were in yer dad’s bag!”

[New Haven Neil]

Worrying - I was almost born there!  Dad worked out there in oil.

[colin penfold]

Portraits or landscapes?

 

P. Casso

[Clive Mortimore]

Being a couple of weeks younger than BR's first modernisation plan loco, D8000, I can say I am a true child of the "modern image".

[Northroader]

Like Tim’s shot of the S&D double header. This stretch is now a foot / cycle path out of Bath, you can go through the tunnels (there’s lighting in the long one) then down the hill to end up in the pub in Midford.

[St Enodoc]

Hmm.. about the time Mrs4479 must have said to Mr4479 'I'm feeling a little randy, do you fancy an early night?'

 

Not sure how Randy felt about that...

Too much information Graham.

[St Enodoc]

Ask the family?

You are Robert Robinson and I claim my five pounds.

[Tim Dubya]

Like Tim’s shot of the S&D double header. This stretch is now a foot / cycle path out of Bath, you can go through the tunnels (there’s lighting in the long one) then down the hill to end up in the pub in Midford.

On to Wellow too.

 

http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/

[Mallard60022]

Portraits or landscapes?

 

P. Casso

No, Baby (Oil) ....... or so I am led to believe.