Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 10:22:24 PMThanks, Alex.
It does, however, bear more than a passing resemblance to the factory weathering on my Farish J39 - i.e. matt it down and dirty it up to cab number level

I agree Mick. however, having prepared a loco for a railtour one morning, It returned in the evening looking a bit like that, and remember that until the mid 60's some locos were still regularly cleaned, especially those rostered for passenger duty. it really depended on who was running the shed (I seem to remember that Gateshead locos were usually covered in S*%t).

Regards,

Alex

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Thanks, Alex.
It does, however, bear more than a passing resemblance to the factory weathering on my Farish J39 - i.e. matt it down and dirty it up to cab number level

To answer both @Newportnobby and @Ensign Elliott my V2 was ordered with Rails' advanced weathering. the only additions that I have made are a crew, the cab side doors and real coal in the tender as per below



Not bad for £30 really.

Regards,

Alex

Quote from: Hailstone on Yesterday at 12:44:46 AMI ordered a black V2 60845 weathered by Rails and it arrived yesterday. my first impression was that it is light years ahead of its rather dissapointing predecessor

Thanks for the pics. Interesting to compare it to its predecessor. I'm looking forward to getting a lined green one.

Out of interest, is that the Rail of Sheffield £29.95 "Advanced Weathering" option you've had on your V2 Alex?

I must admit that I did originally back in the late '70s when I started in N, I ran BR steam but by the '90s I was shifting back in time when along came Union Mills with a T9, 700 and 0395, Peco provided a B4 dock tank kit; Dapol did the M7 - I'd already done a hack job on a P Drummond Highland tank kit, I scratch built ex LSWR A12 "Jubilee" 0-4-2 and K10 4-4-0 from brass and using Union Mills tender drives, also hacked BHE N15 and Langley S15 SR 4-6-0 kits to make later versions of the classes, continuing the hacks 2 Scots became a Nelsons. The more recent Schools and Mogul were welcome additions
So it's not impossible to model grouping Southern.

This might be a bit too late to help you, but there is a way of producing an original SSA using the Chivers kit. What I did was to buy a spare kit and chop down the side pieces to create the correct ends. I've detailed the process on RMweb.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/192939-modelling-n-scale-ssa-blackadder-scrap-wagons/page/2/

Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 04:51:00 AM@Hailstone
Any chance of a close up so I can see the weathering better please, Alex?

I will take a close up asap Mick

Regards,

Alex

My layout is based on 1958 to 66 or thereabouts. I have slightly more steam than diesel but not by much.
I also rather like modern image so have a growing fleet of new stuff.

My new tool V2 has been running with a 10 coach train for a number of hours, and unlike it's predecessor, pulling that kind of load is effortless, it would take a fair few more I reckon.

Mine now has a Zimo MS591 sound chip fitted with a YouChoos sound file, which captures the syncopated exhaust beat very well, I just need to get round to turning the volume up slightly as it is a bit quiet as delivered.

I hadn't pulled out any of my old V2s to make a comparison, but fair to say that in pretty much every respect this new version trounces the earlier model, but then arguably it should given advances in technology over the last 20 years we have seen.

The weathering does look good and really brings out the detail, I may well elect to get one of my two BR Green ones done when they arrive.

I think we are quick to criticise, but aside from a couple of tiny niggles for me this loco is bang on the money, and all credit to Bachmann, not a cheap loco, but when you see the model you understand why and it is (in my opinion) well worth the money.

Roy