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Hi All
Added a few more piccies to my site - heres a taster.
quite like this angle - must try it again with something else.
Cheers
Jim
Added a few more piccies to my site - heres a taster.
quite like this angle - must try it again with something else.
Cheers
Jim
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Look excellent - also really like (my old english teacher would be turning in her grave !! using this as a descriptive) the different colouration on the recently relaid ballasted track / rails....
Randall
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Thanks Randall
Hi All
I have had a couple of projects that need to be batch built recently. One of them is a batch of 31/4s (with a railfreight /0 thrown in) but for now I am going to make a start on a small (3 or 4) batch of class 86/2s
The near one (glenfidditch) was done eons ago so I am adding it to the batch to bring it up to date. I hope I can blend the new blue bits in and just repaint the yellow ends. In the pic you can see I have added my etches and filled the bodyside holes. Interestingly Glenfidditch had lost one of its lower handrails at this end only so I removed the wire one I had already added and filled the holes.
I plan to do another etch for the rest of the fleet that will correct the under height body side grills.
Cheers
Jim
Hi All
I have had a couple of projects that need to be batch built recently. One of them is a batch of 31/4s (with a railfreight /0 thrown in) but for now I am going to make a start on a small (3 or 4) batch of class 86/2s
The near one (glenfidditch) was done eons ago so I am adding it to the batch to bring it up to date. I hope I can blend the new blue bits in and just repaint the yellow ends. In the pic you can see I have added my etches and filled the bodyside holes. Interestingly Glenfidditch had lost one of its lower handrails at this end only so I removed the wire one I had already added and filled the holes.
I plan to do another etch for the rest of the fleet that will correct the under height body side grills.
Cheers
Jim
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Looking good, Jim, but you might wanna run a spillchucker before etching the nameplates
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Yeah - sorry about that - Nameplates were from Jackson Evans I think
Added a few more piccies to my website - heres a preview
Cheers
Jim
Added a few more piccies to my website - heres a preview
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
A line up of electric traction - these are all the classes that will appear on the layout
My 81 started out as a trix model - there must be at least 50 years between these two!
Cheers
Jim
A line up of electric traction - these are all the classes that will appear on the layout
My 81 started out as a trix model - there must be at least 50 years between these two!
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
The urge to do some track weathering has set in quite badly. Its not finished yet but while I had all the boards unpacked I have done my own google earth!
I have added some more images to my site - below are a few tasters
Cheers
Jim
The urge to do some track weathering has set in quite badly. Its not finished yet but while I had all the boards unpacked I have done my own google earth!
I have added some more images to my site - below are a few tasters
Cheers
Jim
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Thanks Mark
Been doing a spot of weathering on my track.
The sidings outside of the signal box - I use a base dusting of humbrol 29 (dark earth) and then a mix of gunmetal and black for the oily bits. The non running rails are chemically blackened with gun blue.
close up of one of the double slips
While I had the gunmetal/black mix in the airbrush I used a simple card mask and sprayed the fishplates as these are usually greasy.
Cheers
Jim
Been doing a spot of weathering on my track.
The sidings outside of the signal box - I use a base dusting of humbrol 29 (dark earth) and then a mix of gunmetal and black for the oily bits. The non running rails are chemically blackened with gun blue.
close up of one of the double slips
While I had the gunmetal/black mix in the airbrush I used a simple card mask and sprayed the fishplates as these are usually greasy.
Cheers
Jim
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Very nice track weathering Jim. Is the gunmetal in your mix the Humbrol Metalcote stuff or standard #53?
Cheers....Morgan
Cheers....Morgan
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Hi Morgan
It's the metalcote stuff. I tend to use the same colours for weathering stock, perhaps it's the illustrator in me that likes a limited pallet?
Cheers
Jim
It's the metalcote stuff. I tend to use the same colours for weathering stock, perhaps it's the illustrator in me that likes a limited pallet?
Cheers
Jim
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Re: New Street progress
Inspirational work as always Jim!
As an aside, the Bachmann Stone-Faiveley. Would you run it under newstreet wires? Possibly with some modifications?
Regards
Matt
As an aside, the Bachmann Stone-Faiveley. Would you run it under newstreet wires? Possibly with some modifications?
Regards
Matt
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Hi Matt
Once the head is fixed (it tilts the wrong way) then yes, it's nice and light
Cheers
Jim
Once the head is fixed (it tilts the wrong way) then yes, it's nice and light
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
The arrival of the Bachy 85 has brought with it the realisation of just how small the Sommerfeldt Stone Faiverly pantograph is. So I have had a look at improving one and below is the result
Working from the base, I have added a new frame around the old one (using carrs brown lable flux to solder them together) with Colin Craig insulators. The lower arm has been cut in half and extended 5mm with a piece of plastic tube. This helps to bulk it up too. A new control arm was made from 0.4mm wire. The upper arms were straightened at the ends and re-bent to make them 5mm longer. A new frame was made and soldered into place and a new control arm. The head has been thinned down, new horns added and a new mount for the control arm in the center where it should be.
Below are a couple of before and after pics.
Cheers
Jim
The arrival of the Bachy 85 has brought with it the realisation of just how small the Sommerfeldt Stone Faiverly pantograph is. So I have had a look at improving one and below is the result
Working from the base, I have added a new frame around the old one (using carrs brown lable flux to solder them together) with Colin Craig insulators. The lower arm has been cut in half and extended 5mm with a piece of plastic tube. This helps to bulk it up too. A new control arm was made from 0.4mm wire. The upper arms were straightened at the ends and re-bent to make them 5mm longer. A new frame was made and soldered into place and a new control arm. The head has been thinned down, new horns added and a new mount for the control arm in the center where it should be.
Below are a couple of before and after pics.
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
A few more blue leccies have rolled off the workbench this week
Cheers
Jim
A few more blue leccies have rolled off the workbench this week
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
Its awkward photographing leccies on the layout when the overhead is years away but this one is not too bad
sometimes pics that would be throw away in real life look quite good on a model - Heres 08610 with her nose just under the roof.
I have updated my site with new pics too - some not posted on here
http://www.p4newstreet.com
Cheers
Jim
Its awkward photographing leccies on the layout when the overhead is years away but this one is not too bad
sometimes pics that would be throw away in real life look quite good on a model - Heres 08610 with her nose just under the roof.
I have updated my site with new pics too - some not posted on here
http://www.p4newstreet.com
Cheers
Jim
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Hi All
The other day I stumbled across this
Pic © midgpee and used with permission.
It was taken in 1987!
Actually this chap has uploaded loads of pictures of this sort of thing of various stations from the late 70's - the 90's and his Flickr account is well worth a look - see
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18578675@N02/with/6872327821/#photo_6872327821
Cheers
Jim
The other day I stumbled across this
Pic © midgpee and used with permission.
It was taken in 1987!
Actually this chap has uploaded loads of pictures of this sort of thing of various stations from the late 70's - the 90's and his Flickr account is well worth a look - see
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18578675@N02/with/6872327821/#photo_6872327821
Cheers
Jim
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I have been doing a bit more at platform level - its starting to get cluttered!
The esculators are the EFE ones.
Close up of one of the staircases
Cheers
Jim
The esculators are the EFE ones.
Close up of one of the staircases
Cheers
Jim
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Hi Jim,
Thank you for all your posts, they are inspirational. The last picture got me thinking, and so I went back to page one for a quick check but that made me think, that this is not where the story begins.
Is there an earlier thread which would tell us about your baseboard constuction and the reasons behind your choices, your track looks very level, something I think we all aim for.
Best regards,
Tony.
Thank you for all your posts, they are inspirational. The last picture got me thinking, and so I went back to page one for a quick check but that made me think, that this is not where the story begins.
Is there an earlier thread which would tell us about your baseboard constuction and the reasons behind your choices, your track looks very level, something I think we all aim for.
Best regards,
Tony.
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TonyMont wrote:Hi Jim,
Thank you for all your posts, they are inspirational. The last picture got me thinking, and so I went back to page one for a quick check but that made me think, that this is not where the story begins.
Is there an earlier thread which would tell us about your baseboard constuction and the reasons behind your choices, your track looks very level, something I think we all aim for.
Best regards,
Tony.
IIRC Jim covered the baseboard stuff on old RMWeb (or old old RMWeb), which Doesn't seem to exist anymore. But Likewise I'd like a refresh if possoble Jim, cause I was looking for the imformation myself a week or so ago.
Regards
Matt
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Hi both
There's a bit about baseboards here
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=77
Basically 6mm Scandinavian ply for the sides, sandwiched with 2x1 softwood. The tops are 9mm ply.
Hth
Jim
There's a bit about baseboards here
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=77
Basically 6mm Scandinavian ply for the sides, sandwiched with 2x1 softwood. The tops are 9mm ply.
Hth
Jim
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Looking great Jim. One thing I've been meaning to ask - is NS your first foray into P4 or have you built other layouts previously?
John
John
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I have been modelling in p4 for about 22 years and have helped exhibit several layouts over that time but this is my first layout
Cheers
Jim
Cheers
Jim
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Hi Jim,
Thanks that sounds chunky enough, I have seen sandwich constuction before, but always thought it was a bit flimsy.
Tony.
Thanks that sounds chunky enough, I have seen sandwich constuction before, but always thought it was a bit flimsy.
Tony.
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Hi All
Found a nice pic of a peak under the roof on Flickr and decided to recreate it in the shed!
While I was messing around with a bit of Hardboard as a temporary roof I quite liked the way this turned out
Cheers
Jim
Found a nice pic of a peak under the roof on Flickr and decided to recreate it in the shed!
While I was messing around with a bit of Hardboard as a temporary roof I quite liked the way this turned out
Cheers
Jim
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