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As a follow on to the last post - more every-day wagons have rolled off the workbench.  This time it's a quartet of shock wagons. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/diagram-1-040-shock-open.jpg Starting with the basics - Diagram 1/040 shock open from the Parkside kit.  Built pretty much as s...

End2end wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:00 am On the sides for the D2103 12t van, how did you manage / what did you use to remove the horizontal bars please Jim?
They are unnoticeable on the finished model.
Thanks
End2end

Nothing cleverer than a small modellers chisel and some fine sanding sticks.

Neat selection of very commonplace vehicles, really like the variations you have applied. How about a few rusty dents on the all steel hopper, around the batter plates where the Teemer has wielded his hammer to release a frozen in load? Interesting - do you have an example of this as its not someth...

Just one of those every day, run of the mill style posts this time but with a few little tweaks to appease the wagon buffs. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/LNER-21t-hopper.jpg Starting with the Parkside kit for the LNER 21t riveted coal hopper.  Built pretty much as instructed but I did c...

The subject this time is this... https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/CRW_1751.jpg ... the good old Mainline LMS BG.  A great model for its time but not without room for a little bit of TLC.   There is an error here that once you see it you cant un-see and that is that the underframe is too wi...

Perhaps not exhibition layouts but definitely privately owned layouts. Thanks End2end Really? Even a 500ft hill (which is absolutely tiny) would be 6 and a half feet in 4mm scale and assuming its 1 in 3 (which is very steep) the summit would be nearly 20ft away from the base. Who on earth has devot...

Have you seen any exhibition layouts with hills even remotely big enough to have them though?

While at Scaleforum with Cades Green it was mentioned that Iain had a Lesney Weatherill Loader that he intended to do something with for the layout.  Given my fascination with doing stuff with things from the toy-box this was pretty much an irresistible project to have a look at. Weatherill Hydrauli...

While the somewhat uninteresting work behind the scenes for taking Brettell Road out was going on I did distract myself from it with a few road vehicles to maintain a semblance of sanity. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/leyland-beaver-milk-tank.jpg The Leyland Beaver milk tank I've featur...

So back to business as usual then. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/LMS-traction-truck-final.jpg This is an ex LMS 12 ton traction truck which has recently been released by 247 Developments. The kit is a 3d print which is supplied as a body with solebars, W irons, brake gear and white meta...

Thanks Bigmet

My friend Tim has put together a short video of the layout from Saturday. It was late ish in the day and being in front of a window the layout was back lit so didn't really get the full effect I was after. (Note to exhibitions managers - I actually want the dark bit of the hall no one else does!!) H...

https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/BR-at-cradley-show-2023.jpg Yesterday Brettell Road made its return to the exhibition scene in its extended form.  The show went very well I thought and we all enjoyed ourselves. Theres a snagging list for me to work through, of course, but nothing major. ...

Bit of a blatant plug. This time next week Brettell Road will make its exhibition debut* in its extended from at the Cradley Heath exhibition https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/375070188_630735842563766_1460105232541341133_n.jpeg If you come along please do say hi. Jim *is debut the right wo...

Bigmet wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:01 pm Is it too early to ask what livery is intended for the finished model?

Green. I always decide on the loco and it's date in service/condition before I start so that you are working to references of the real thing. There's always detail differences and quirks