irishthump

Damn near perfect weathering.

Nice work. Personally I'd put a heavy layer of track/brake dust on the bogies an underframe, but it still looks great.

Well if the hat fits...

Nice work! Can I give you a little tip for the road surface? I always find black is a little harsh for tarmac, try rubbing down the road surface with a very fine sandpaper. It gives a lovely worn appearance.

On a whim I bought some of the Hornby magnetic couplings last week and I’ve been experimenting with them. I already fitted them to a rake of the cheap MK1 coaches that came with the My Model Railway Village magazine a few years ago. They’re a little too short for those coaches and need to be glued in part way on the NEM pockets. But one fitted they work fine. I then tried them on the IRM ferts and they seem fine. The coupling bar that IRM provide with the wagons works fine, but I wanted to be able to break the rake down easily for storage. The 17mm Hornby couplers are the perfect size.

Recently picked up a second BR blue class 20 and weathered it over the weekend. I made this into a dummy unit by removing the the drive shafts as my other Class 20 has DCC sound and I’m not buying another sound decoder just yet! The last pic shows the two locos double-heading.

Very sorry to hear this. Thoughts and prayers to his family.

Finished the other two Prestwin kits and all three are now weathered. Also weathered the 20t mineral wagons.

Yeah as I said my only issue was that the part numbers on the sprue were illegible which resulted in some guesswork and a couple of parts being glued arse about face! The actual quality of the kit is quite good.

Yeah I think I bought them for the chassis too! But in the end I thought it was a waste to hack them up, they are a nice little model and I run BR stuff on my layout all the time so these will fit in.

More Dapol kit madness…. This time a Prestwin cement wagon. I have a few of these kits so I decided to build one to get the feel for it. Effing nightmare! Instructions were useless as the part numbers on the sprue were unreadable! Looks ok when finished though and I’ll build the rest when I get the chance.

Nice way to spend a bank holiday Sunday! Assembled and painted a couple of Dapol mineral wagon kits that I had lying around. Weathering to follow.

A bit of a longshot, but one of my 141's had a wire that was hanging down and rubbing on the motor flywheels. Not saying it's the same thing but it made a similar noise, especially at higher speeds. Might be worth taking the body off and having a look.

Got 2 more of my ferts weathered today, so that’s half the rake of 8 done. Also did some containers. Took these pics outside rather than on the layout as the lighting in my attic isn’t the best.

They are for the 2 different engine types. Both the 141's and 121's originally had the 567 while the 181's were fitted with the 645. Many of the 141's and 121's were later re-engined with 645's taken from the withdrawn C Class locos.