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Darius43

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  1. I ordered two and they are on my order along with six green ones. Cheers Darius
  2. No algal blooms here. Cheers Darius
  3. The flight path to Denver from Dublin took us due north so I was able to get a few snaps of places visited many years ago… Carlingford Lough. Lough Neagh foreground With Aldergrove Airport centre - just below the cloud. You can also see the former Langford Lodge airfield. North coast - Portstewart and Portrush. Cheers Darius
  4. I'm now in Dublin en route to Denver having cleared US immigration. In the lounge in time for lunch Cheers Darius
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  6. Back to the B Class locomotive. I fitted a resin Sulzer powerplant to remove the see through effect and squeezed in DCC sound courtesy of Roads and Rails. Cheers Darius
  7. Centre coach given the same treatment. Cheers Darius
  8. Improved another Limby Class 101 DMU… Cheers Darius
  9. Built over the past few days using the Silver Fox resin body and a cut down Hornby Railroad Class 55 chassis. Cheers Darius
  10. Wipers, cab ladders and light weathering to chassis. Cheers Darius
  11. I pre cut the curves on pieces of Tamiya masking tape and apply them to suit. Cheers Darius
  12. Window glazing fitted. All those side windows make the inside look rather empty so I have ordered a resin engine to fill the space. Cheers Darius
  13. I guess paint dries quicker down here on the south coast. Cheers Darius
  14. Decals applied and an overall Matt varnish coat sprayed on. Cheers Darius
  15. Primary painting completed. Cheers Darius
  16. Primer coat on body and tanks installed using plasticard. Cheers Darius
  17. Silver Fox models B Class started. Hornby Railroad Class 55 chassis (as recommended by Silver Fox) modified to fit. I had to thin* the inside faces of the Silver Fix resin body with a Dremel so that the chassis would actually fit. The tablet catcher recesses below the cabside windows were a bit shallow so I drilled out the lower parts and re-made them using plasticard sheet. I cut away the Deltic bogie sides and glued in place the Silver Fox replacements. I sanded* the rear faces of the replacement sides to provide a decent surface for glueing. I glued strips of plasticard to the inside faces of the resin body to act as chassis supports. Body fitted to chassis - it’s an interference fit at the moment. Next tasks are further cleaning of the body and scratch building the tanks that sit between the bogies - the Silver fox ones aren’t that good. Cheers Darius * I always wear a respirator when sanding resin and keep it on until all the resin dust has been cleaned up.
  18. Do the on train announcements say that “we are now arriving into” whatever the station is rather than “arriving at” the station. The former suggests to me that the train will be hitting part of the station. Cheers Darius
  19. Obtained an unboxed Hornby Class 101 centre coach from eBay in blue/grey livery. I detached the coach body from the chassis and removed the interior. The window glazing was carefully removed and the body masked for painting into Regional Railways livery. The first class logos were removed from the window glazing using the end of a cocktail stick dipped in white spirit. The wooden cocktail stick is abrasive enough to remove the painted on sign but soft enough not to scratch the clear plastic. Fox Transfers lining decals applied and glazing re-fitted. Coach interior upholstered and gangways fitted. Light weathering of chassis to finish. Cheers Darius
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  21. Buffer beam hosiery and light weathering to finish. Cheers Darius
  22. Funky Cheers Darius
  23. Pantograph and bus bar gibbons fitted to the roof. Cheers Darius
  24. Brass wire cab handrails installed. Cab and bodyside glazing fitted. I had wondered if the SE Finecast glazing panels for the Triang or Trix Class 81 or the Hornby Class 86 would fit but alas they don’t - apart from the Class 86 triangular quarterlights. Glazing panels were thus cut from clear acetate sheet, trimmed to fit and fixed in with a very small amount of superglue. The windscreen wipers are Bachmann Class 85 spares from Rainbow Railways. Cheers Darius
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