Watchit
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Small station on the Devan & Summersett
Dirty red - Humbrol #153 Insignia Red - Matt - dullcoated which helps to hide the paper number, etc joins on plastic ( camera close ups don't hide faults though), then some black & rust weathering powder fingered on.4 wheelers require a bit of weight & good track - bogie vehicles are more tolerant of iffy track.
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I'm also having some trouble getting weathering powders locally. Where you you source yours?
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'Petermac
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one lot from USA
http://www.bragdonent.com/weather.htm
another lot available in Melbourne
http://www.brunelhobbies.com.au/AIM/AIM.htm
or from Perth
http://www.dccconcepts.com/index_files/DCCflocks.htm
Petermac- they are Bachmann Conflats
pic courtesy of KMRC
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Weight is half a blade sharpening block, gives weight & looks like a concrete block & to hold it in place, I made some steel frames ( .75mm styrene)
glued to shapes
Painted, glued in & dirtied
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no doubt in time, they will get weathered more.
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A useful and interesting addition to an operating session.
Do they live in a siding near the gravel plant or do they travel around with the train?
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Brian
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I notice the buffers are gone, is that for operating reasons or have I missed something?
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Nice work.
Max
Port Elderley
Port Elderley
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Mike
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first answer for Marty:- they will live where I have spotted them for the photo - part of the gravel loading area. All my wagon numbers are bigger so we can see which ones get dropped off/picked up but in this case, they will stay at Watchit.
second answer for HP - the weight - actually less than I normally use, eg, my vans are 60gm/ 2 oz whereas Barrier 3904 is 50gm/1.75 oz & 3905 ( the block) is 45 gm/1.5 oz. I needed more weight than just a plain conflat as they will be pushing 4 bogie hoppers that will weigh in total over 8 ozs.
third answer for ddolfelin :- buffers removed as my rail empire is going to all air brakes & knuckles couplers, so buffers are redundant ( slowly). It saves about 4-5mm per coupled pair of stock so over a 20 wagon train, saves 40-50 mm. The models stil;l have to have axle box rods installed. In fact the South Australian Railways did that many many years ago when they changed from chain & hooks to knuckle couplings. I had mentioned this on my layout thread http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=5948&forum_id=21&page=2
and this photo
Plus this http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=5533&forum_id=52
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I knew I'd missed something.
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'Petermac
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Started life as a Cooper craft Mink Van of the GWR
Building the kit is relatively easy - the main hiccup is placing the axle box Assembly in as per instructions, does not really give much slop in the wheels to give free running. I had to angle the axle boxes out wards. ( The next kit, they will be altered slightly). The roof was covered with canvas as per the original vans so I used masking tape. Looks OK I think!
The colour scheme is blue roof, & white/cream sides & ends. This pic shows the roof colour & a base coat on the sides.
As per D&S railway rules- knuckle couplings & no buffers are the flavour of the month.
Sides now coated with white paint- Owner panel added & running number- Dullcoated giving a slightly worn look. I think may need to obtain a new can of white paint.
I have one more to build then the fleet will be extended using white Bachmann vans.
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Max
Port Elderley
Port Elderley
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:doublethumb:cool:
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Craig SR
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with a photo showing some of the some of the trackage
Since that was done, there was an additional siding between the platform & engine shed lines ( photo below has it going to the right next to the Container) but recent Op sessons showed that the loops available mainly on the secondary line was too small so I altered in the last two days by shifting the crossover a further 11" (280mm) closer to the camera.
Bit messy but it shows the extensions to the tracks - not fully sleepered. Point rodding had to be moved as well. What also made it interesting is that the crossover is a complete unit of the two points so both moved at the same time.
Finally got it tidied up. The platform is what I had built for an earlier version of Barnstable - slight modification & it will do for Watchit
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