Show your Latest GB Loco and Rolling Stock Purchase.

Started by longbridge, June 30, 2012, 09:05:24 AM

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Bealman

it looks brilliant in that livery.

But you have remain true to your chosen time in history.

What does SE & C R stand for anyway?  ;)
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.


JayM481

#4472
I'm looking forward to the C Class.

I'm faithful to my chosen time and place in history, which is roughly 1900-1960, rougly between Land's End and Calais, and the Isle of Wight and Inverness, unless something pre- or post-period takes my fancy, like the FGW HST I have, or the Kato Eurostar, or the GWR broad-gauge project that's been bubbling away in my noggin for years....

Oh, and then there's my HO Canadian stuff, but that's another story...


Roy L S

Latest addition to my Roster is Farish B1 61090 which I found on eBay at a very reasonable price, brand new and un run split from the recently released North Eastern Freight set.

As Dr Al mentioned recently it is fitted with white nylon gears and runs very sweetly indeed. The livery and weathering are very similar to the planned solo release 61045 which officially got "pulled" I think because bodies had been erroneously fitted with nameplate blanks. I was lucky enough to find one of these brand new on the Bachmann "seconds" stand at TINGS. Took five mins to sort out the nameplate issue and mine is now sound fitted.

So I now have two early crest weathered B1s.....lovely stuff!


Roy

Roy


TalyllynJon

#4475


So I've been slowly collecting stock for my planned layout, set in mid-Wales. Well that's the theory anyway. In practice I keep going 'off script'!

Of course now I'm going to need a train for it to pull, which could be a challenge. Best bet is probably to look out for old Grafar 4 wheel coaches in S&D livery - but they seem to go for silly money (what were they made out of - solid gold?)

Railwaygun

the Other  4 wheeler farish coaches are cheaper - get a can of

SDJR blue = Rover midnight blue

and paint away - the gold lining was invisible under the dirt!

a thread here:

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=17538.msg174752#msg174752
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TalyllynJon

Good idea - I'll try to pick up a couple of cheap old Farish coaches, spray them blue and then add a hefty dose of weathering. Normally I like to have most of my models in pristine condition (I'm only interested in pre-WWII, when locos and carriages were usually looked after much better than in the '50s & '60s|). But the S&D's nickname was the 'Slow & Dirty', so a couple of grimy coaches might be justified!

RailGooner


TalyllynJon

no I couldn't bring myself to weather the loco - it's far too pretty!

Bealman

The S&D blue livery has been a favourite of mine. I wouldn't weather it either.  :thumbsup:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

RailGooner

Quote from: TalyllynJon on July 05, 2019, 08:27:16 AM
no I couldn't bring myself to weather the loco - it's far too pretty!

Phew! It is quite beautiful. :beers:

Railwaygun

#4482
Quote from: TalyllynJon on July 04, 2019, 10:29:36 PM
Good idea - I'll try to pick up a couple of cheap old Farish coaches, spray them blue and then add a hefty dose of weathering. Normally I like to have most of my models in pristine condition (I'm only interested in pre-WWII, when locos and carriages were usually looked after much better than in the '50s & '60s|). But the S&D's nickname was the 'Slow & Dirty', so a couple of grimy coaches might be justified!

a good thread here

the weetabix coaches are usually very cheap and easily repainted into generic blue four wheelers., and you can add staple connectors

Halfords Balliol / Oxford blue is an alternative colour.

An NGF search on SDJR coaches will turn up a lot of extra info.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
Ecclesiastes 2:11

This has been a public service announcement
It may contain alternative facts

Caveat lector

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https://groups.io/g/railwaygun/topics

NGF Military threads

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?board=146.0

My Military Rail Pinterest area
https://uk.pinterest.com/NDRobotnik/

10mm / N armour Threads
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Motto: Semper ubi, sub ubi

grumbeast

Quote from: TalyllynJon on July 04, 2019, 04:55:30 PM


So I've been slowly collecting stock for my planned layout, set in mid-Wales. Well that's the theory anyway. In practice I keep going 'off script'!

Of course now I'm going to need a train for it to pull, which could be a challenge. Best bet is probably to look out for old Grafar 4 wheel coaches in S&D livery - but they seem to go for silly money (what were they made out of - solid gold?)

Oh my gosh this is so so pretty! 

TalyllynJon

So I've been spending again (might be time to lock the credit card away for a bit!). I've been after one of these for a while though - so I grabbed it as soon as I saw it. Question is - what is it? Yes I know it's Flying Scotsman! According to the box Dapol claim it is an A1. But it has the square cover plates on either side of the smokebox which was one of the distinguishing features of the 220psi A3 boiler. It also has the pipe down the left hand side of the boiler showing it was left hand drive - I believe it was converted from right hand drive at the same time it was rebuilt as an A3. So that makes it an A3 right? Well no, because by the time Scotsman was rebuilt as an A3, in 1947, it had been renumbered as no. 103, so it can't be an A3. Unless somebody knows something I don't (quite probably - I'm far from an expert at spotting the difference between the A1s and A3s) it looks to me as if Dapol have just stuck a round dome onto their A3 model - right dome on the wrong boiler! (I know some A3s had round domes, but I believe Flying Scotsman only had a banjo dome after rebuilding). Maybe I should stop being pedantic and just admire it for the thing of beauty that it is!


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