popeye

Looks great. 

This is going to be a big job and you will need to make a lot of changes. 

I can help with the metalwork/soldering, if you need any help let me know.

Good luck.  

36 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

It’s the nearest thing available to a GSWR bogie of the type still very common into the mid 1960s. (If I post pictures of it often enough, IRM will bring out a model!).

Its origin is a LMS clerestorey corridor which I think was in a train set - I got it second hand. It just needs its waistline lining, numbers and weathering.

Its a nice little thing - might get another and put a more authentic ordinary roof on it, and maybe the older dark green with double lining for variety.

That’s the compartment side.

Your building up the stock nicely. 

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

Genuinely, that IS what will happen - it actually HAS to be what happens. And 50% as a bare minimum, I'm afraid, possibly added to by 50% of the planet becoming uninhabitable, through either being too hot and dry, too stormy, or submerged. In such a scenario, a 50% reduction in numbers would solve nothing - it would have to be a very great deal more.

Gloomy and apocalypic as it sounds......... that's what nature does.

Also, if Putin decides to start World War 3 then this will wipe out most of the population. 

I must remember that, USE REAL CEMENT. 

Beautiful weathering, better than the real thing. 

They look soo good and the colour is just right. 

They all look great and will look the part. 

Some more bits and pieces.

These are either hand made or bought as kits and painted.

First is the IRM 20 ft CIE container.

2. Owen O'Neill's 3d printed containers.

3. steps 3d printed by Bulkscene for the small ones which are great and the big one is from

10 commandments which is brass but very fragile.

4. Shelves 3d printed by Westhill Wagon Works.

5. Concrete sleepers x 96 by Peco IL- 121 It took a lot of work to get them looking like this.

6. Ifor Williams trailer hand made from plastic.

7. AWS Relay boxes 3d printed from collectorshotbed on eBay

8. Wooden sleepers hand made from balsa wood and painted, they are as light as a feather.

9. Small Dozer Komatsu 1:87.

10. Atlas Hydrema 1:76 with rail wheels added from the Oxford BR Land rover.

On 9/9/2022 at 7:18 PM, Darius43 said:

Light roof weathering applied.

Cheers

Darius

Give it a bit more, don't be afraid of it  especially around the exhausts.

3 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Additional painting, details and weathering to complete the NVA (apart from couplings).

Cheers

Darius

What was this wagon for?

Would you not weather the roof a bit? it would usually have a bit of exhaust dirt.

Nice loco, did you buy it like that or did you repaint it?

No box ? must be a cheap one off eBay. 

On 30/8/2022 at 10:44 AM, Broithe said:

Energy, ancient and modern.

I think the way things are going we will all be back on the turf and coal.

They are a bloody eyesore in the landscape and we seem to be getting more and more of

them but the way fuel prices are going I might need one in the back garden. 

Beautiful scenes and great realism. The sound in the videos makes it seem real. 

1 hour ago, Mike 84C said:

First class build and paint job, beautifully observed model. I very much like the GN ballast hoppers on your diorama. Scratch built or kit, please?

Thanks, The top hopper parts were hand made.

4 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

Brilliant work in every way, I had asked Mike Edge if he would consider a brass kit but reply was well down his list. This is sublime modelling and I wish I was half as good ! 

thanks for showing!  Would you consider doing a second one ?     

I wouldn't do a second one because of the time involved and I need to move on with the very long

list of projects in front of me.

Have a go and you might surprise yourself. 

It looks like anything over 2MB it will not upload.

I reduced the MB down and it worked ok.

NIR ENGLISH ELECTRIC 060 SHUNTER N01.

This is my build of the NIR shunter No1.

I first had to get the motor chassis from a 04 shunter and then build the body to fit around that.

Thanks to Kirley for his help with measurements and photo's.

Can't upload photo's, Normal size 2 MB it says 200 error. 

That's an unusual signal or is it a windmill? 

You can always re-engine with a GM unit. 

I managed to get all the 45s on my wish list, so I'm sorted for now.