RMweb Premium M.I.B Posted July 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2019 I will try to when i get home - I'm out working in the sands........ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 (edited) Post removed. Question no longer needs answering!! Edited September 10, 2019 by Garethp8873 Found out what I needed to know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Thank you Kernow for helping me spend my funds on one of your GWR Stars. Another future GWR War Black project for the near future... GWR 4051 Princess Helena 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Keeping with the Wartime era liveries my latest... a GWR 28XX, 2866. Besides Maindy and 2259, once again my friend has done a very good job on 2866. Either looking at a GWR Star or Grange next but these will have to wait... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, Garethp8873 said: Keeping with the Wartime era liveries my latest.. For wartime, you could consider a weather sheet tucked under the cab roof. My grandfather used to tell the stories of his fireman getting the fire pricker stuck in the weather sheet, which had to be deployed on the small cab locos, at night so the Luftwaffe could not see the fire when the firehole door was open. Mike Wiltshire 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I seem to have a knack for finding pre and post war liveries!! How about a GWR ROD... in this case GWR 3017 on 174 of the GWR J Vol 91. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted April 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2020 On 18/07/2019 at 10:35, Garethp8873 said: Maindy Hall, repainted from lined Great Western green to wartime black, flack screens added from brass sheet embossed with fixings, etched plates from the Modelmaster range. Built Swindon:1929 Lot no 254 29/6/29 Repainted wartime black 18/6/43 Withdrawn 28/12/63, Converted at Didcot into 2999 Lady of Legend 2019 Quick question, would the Hall have retained its brass safety valve and copper capped chimney or would they have been painted over? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, OnTheBranchline said: Quick question, would the Hall have retained its brass safety valve and copper capped chimney or would they have been painted over? On gwr.org, I have "... and it seems that safety valve covers were painted over", on the basis that the two pics (a Star and a King) of wartime livery in the Nock book show painted over safety valves and chimney tops. These are both green-bodied locos, but it seemed to me that if shiny metal was painted over for green, it would certainly have been painted over for an all-black scheme. Photo evidence may indicate a more complex situation. particularly when liveries began to normalise after mid-1945. Edited April 7, 2020 by Miss Prism 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) Was the initial state of the cab windows of Modified Halls 6959-70 (lot 350 of 1944) cut out and plated, or not cut out? I wonder because contemporary Collett Goods lot 347 of 1944-5 were not initially plated over, they were never cut out in the first place. I was amazed to see 2239 still in such a state as late as 1959: Edited February 16 by Miss Prism image reinstated 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted April 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2020 38 minutes ago, Miss Prism said: On gwr.org, I have "... and it seems that safety valve covers were painted over", on the basis that the two pics (a Star and a King) of wartime livery in the Nock book show painted over safety valves and chimney tops. These are both green-bodied locos, but it seemed to me that if shiny metal was painted over for green, it would certainly have been painted over for an all-black scheme. Photo evidence may indicate a more complex situation. particularly when liveries began to normalise after mid-1945. Thank you, it's a bit confusing when there's a picture of a model that doesn't have the underlined features. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 36 minutes ago, OnTheBranchline said: Thank you, it's a bit confusing when there's a picture of a model that doesn't have the underlined features. I'm reluctant to be critical in such cases because some evidence is circumstantial and I think we all know that the GWR had changing and inconstistent attitudes towards its shiny metal bonnets. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 I would have expected the local ASLEF branch to insist that the shed painted over the brass/copper shiny bits even if they had emerged from Swindon shiny. Moving steam locomotives are obvious enough from the air without making Luftwaffe pilots' jobs even easier by having shiny bits reflecting the sun. Remember that it was being machine-gunned that worried the crews, it was a common occurrence during daylight raids, even if has been largely forgotten today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Another quick question. Did 4942 ever get a speedo? I have seen a few pictures taken in the 1950's and there is no speedo fitted and it did not have one at Barry (though it could have been liberated for another project). Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Another interesting post-war livery found a few days ago... this time of Kerr Stuart built GWR Pannier 7721 with the Grotesque lettering on her tanks. Certainly makes for something unique... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PHOTO-GWR-CLASS-57XX-LOCO-NO-7721-/192884488427 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Got a challenge for you all... has anyone ever heard of a GWR 1366 Pannier of having gone into Warblack livery at all? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) Who wants some more GWR War Black...? GWR 5600 and Dean Goods 2538 for your pleasure. My mate does some brilliant work for me Edited January 20, 2022 by Garethp8873 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp8873 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Time to re-activate this thread for post-war liveries! I've picked up tonight an interesting negative of GWR 1361 Class member 1361 at Bridgwater on the 6/9/48. My question is what is 1361's livery as only the letters G and W (rather than GWR) on the saddle tank. Any thoughts please? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Here's 1365 (at Swindon, 1 April 1949, after a smokebox and chassis renovation and repaint) also with just 'G W'. I've no idea why. ('G W R' with the W on one side of the middle rivet ring fitted ok, as on 1364.) Impossible to tell whether your 1361 is green or black. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 It is possible I suppose that the tank on 1361 is the same one, six months later, on 1365. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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