Thanks Ben Alder for the link its much appreciated, I've just had a scan at the 7mm BR orange lining pack and it looks very impressive. May I ask how you find the lining application process on your 4mm locos and do these water slides leave any obvious silvering effect ? cheers York Paul
Very straightforward to use and has no carrier film beyond the transfer itself. I put on with Microset and Microsol, which beds it down into the paint. He says that the film on the transfer can be lifted off after some time, but I have had mixed results doing this, so leave alone. The job is given a spray of varnish and weathering which blends everything in, but the Microsol does most of the work.
Thank you for that Ben Alder, I have Microsol and knowing the carrier film doesn't extend beyond the printed area is very appealing so I'm going to invest in lining. Thanks for the tip about not attempting to remove the carrier film... I can imagine its probably a big risk for a small return.
Absent, but not idle... upgrades to Thurso that were omitted in the original build for a number of reasons but have now been attended to. Couple of shots with more to follow. Sheds in the yard - two grain and animal feed stores ; an LMS pre war design and a SR provender store operated by Silcocks who acted as as a merchant for farmers to pick up sacks as needed.
Other catch up stuff has included siting the weighbridge in its proper position and doing several huts that the place seemed to grow like weeds - there were about a dozen around during my modelling period. The starter signal has acquired its pet - a redundant oil lamp the stood there till the mid sixties, long after all the others were removed during the war when electric lighting was put in, and a token amount of greenery has started to be applied - this I regard as one of the worst of modelling cliches, and is frequently over egged, IMO, but photos show that the yard was often more green than any thing else at times, but I am practicing restraint in this matter. The yard has also got a concrete pan beside the goods shed - this was installed in the late Fifties, no doubt to provide a stable base for heavy loads coming to Dounreay, and I did a scaled down version of this. A couple of shots to show what has been going on....
Superb Richard Really like this scene The huts, telegraph poles and lamp posts, just add those extra touches Paul
The raised van was in reality sited beside the goods shed sliding door at the throat end of the station, but it looked out of place there on my cramped set up, so was moved to the yard beside the sheds. It should be an ex LNWR type, but AFAIK, this is not available apart from a proposed Bill Bedford resin kit, and rather than wait probably years, and having decided against building it from scratch, I used a Small brook resin kit of a pre grouping road van, which I decided would be close enough for the time being....
No modelling oomph just now - December absorbs all available sentient hours, but I was trying out some camera settings tonight, and here are some of the results...
Stopping service from Helmsdale to Dornoch - based on a short lived HR wrking, but adds a bit more operational interest.
While waiting for some Evostik to set enough to give a grab join I spent the time trying out a different setting on the camera - TV - I usually have it on AV, but decided to see what turned out on this one for a change. Here is a passenger working arriving at Thurso....
More great pics Richard. You and the family have a wonderful Christmas and all the best for the New Year ! Cheers, Gary.
Update time, I guess.. I have been busy for months now breathing workable life in to various kit built locos I had acquired over the last five years or so - I eventually realised there was no chance of me making the several Jidenco ones I have had lying for decades now; their reputation and my indifference to working with brass that has to be shaped was not going to go away. White metal and plastic I am quite at ease with but I have never enjoyed what brass body work I have tried, so I started watching out for the ones I wanted popping up on ebay. I have now got those I wanted, more or less, and repainted and ran them, but it was obvious that very few of these had actually turned a wheel in anger, and their mechanisms and pick ups were very much of the era, so a large chunk of my modelling time was spent on getting them to a standard similar to my fleet based on commercial chassis. I'll take a look at these one by one, but will start off with a bit of relaxation therapy I did after battling with the brass ones - two RTR conversions to provide HR locos. First was a proposed 0-8-0 that didn't find favour with the board, so never was built beyond GA drawings. For ease I used a Bachmann G2 chassis and two GBL T9 loco bodies, plus HR and CR boiler fittings to put the beast together. Here it is at Helmsdale. The second is a Yankee tank - a failed export order the HR bought from the buildrs at a good price and used for a long time. I hace a kit for it but I realised the Radial could be hacked around to give a passable representation of it. Here it is on the bench nearly finished - a photo of the real thing is beside it - and a couple of it on the layout. More to follow..