Very nicely done. 

I've been tackling my first loco kit of any kind. It's kept me busy for most evening in the last couple of weeks, taking the work stage-by-stage, and waiting overnight for things to dry (and not fall off, which has certainly not been a given!).





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http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=18771

Peter

Here are a couple of pics of my latest piece of kit built stock

Its the NGS Gresley full brake





Thanks for looking



dave 

Quote from: lil chris on November 24, 2013, 11:47:00 PM
HI Alan, If you can make them the same size has Pete33's  ie 25mm x 15mm that will be great. No rush when you can fit them in, I am ballasting at the present time and for some foreseeable time.....

Took a while but I have a few sets here now that slotted into gaps on the latest artwork

Quote from: EtchedPixels on February 21, 2014, 07:39:02 PM

Quote from: lil chris on November 24, 2013, 11:47:00 PM
HI Alan, If you can make them the same size has Pete33's  ie 25mm x 15mm that will be great. No rush when you can fit them in, I am ballasting at the present time and for some foreseeable time.....

Took a while but I have a few sets here now that slotted into gaps on the latest artwork

That's perfect timing. I'm just about finishing off my Parkwood Models resin loco and am thinking about adding tender pick-ups to the 4F in question and digging out the moulded coal at the same time.

Quote from: davieb on February 06, 2014, 10:13:02 PM
Here are a couple of pics of my latest piece of kit built stock

Its the NGS Gresley full brake







Thanks for looking



dave 

Having now had the couplings bow upwards and disengage from the guide on two of my three, with no method of retrieveing them, did you put a false floor into yours?

Certainly if doing any more I would.  There is no route into mine to reassemble the mechanisms.

All the very best
Les

After a dig through my box of stuff I found a part finished Peco tippler wagon kit, so the only real solution was another wagon for my engineers train.
Had to do a bit of carving to get the second coupling in place.
Paints are Humbrol Acrylic 401, 417 and 413 on the outside, and Revell Acrylic 91 and Railmatch Acrylic 2235 on the inside for a sort of rusty metallic effect.

Hi Les 

No I Haven't put a false floor in 

But I have left the roof just held by the clips and not glued on 

dave 

Not quite complete - the High Speed Track Recording Coach (HSTRC).

And a conflat from the peco kit. Humbrol RC401 dirty black acrylic for the chassis, Railmatch 2235 freight bauxite for the body and Revell 78 Tank Grey for the roof.
Some of the bumps along the side refused to take paint, but it mostly came out ok.

Quote from: captainelectra on February 23, 2014, 05:05:35 PM
Not quite complete - the High Speed Track Recording Coach (HSTRC).

It's always good to record there's some track under the wheels

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Quote from: Luke Piewalker on February 23, 2014, 09:11:08 PM

And a conflat from the peco kit. Humbrol RC401 dirty black acrylic for the chassis, Railmatch 2235 freight bauxite for the body and Revell 78 Tank Grey for the roof.
Some of the bumps along the side refused to take paint, but it mostly came out ok.

The bumps are very blurry from here, but aren't they the hooking points for the chains? The body probably needed a soapy clean before you painted it, but you could probably still get some enamel steel colour on there.

I gave it a good primering beforehand.
I only do acrylics I'm afraid, bit I might try some steel highlights anyhoo as I have some here... 

Built my first kit, the Peco 10ft Butterley wagon.

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I had been running a POA wagon at the head of my 16t minerals (fitted and unfitted) train for the NEM pocket on the end to have a easi shunt there but it didn't look right. I also wanted to try out Dapol's NEM pocket conversion kit which had been bought for me for Christmas so I thought a £3 wagon would be the place to start. As it happened, one of the 16t MCV minerals I was weathering lost a coupling so buoyed by the success of this conversion, got stuck in and gave that an NEM. So I was left with a redundant Peco wagon, in the wrong colours with an Elsie at one end and an NEM at the other. It's part of the rake still but it's pretty crappy compared to the proper Farish one with decals and all!!