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My interest is of course in British Rail (Predominantly the London Midland Region, mainly the Carlisle area) cira 1974/5 (taking in from73 and 76 also). My reasoning in a few bullet points. The TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) system was in operation, and by 1973 most of BR's locomotives an...

random man wrote:Hi absolutely brilliant article but where do you get the HMRS transfers?

Models shops may stock them, failing that off the old HRMS transfers website.

http://www.hmrs.org.uk/

All great stuff dave, I look forward to a photo of the lit up shed.

Matt

I thought I'd nick this picture form Pennine50C on RMweb, as a bit of insparation for you Dave. http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/2589/3727037295botgdns16774em3.jpg 37270 and 37295, which later became 37409 and 37406, seen at Botanic Gardens on 16.7.74 after working the Baglan Bay - Saltend BP tank...

I guess these products are there for the beginners. i dunno if they are, the skaledale stuff i've seen always has some blurb about 'serious modellers only!' .. seems to me they are aimed at top end off the shelf customers. i guess thats the beauty of the hobby.. pennies to pounds, rtr to scratch bu...

Great stuff Dave, the Lima 47 makes a great base model.

Matt

retroman wrote:

Nice respray on those tractors dave, I see you've used the Shawplan etch to correct thos badly mis-shaped cab windows on the Lima model. What are you going to use to weather them?

Thanks Tim, I lived in the West Mids for a while, the 25s were everywhere on various frieghts great and small. I took 'Rats' for granted then, but really miss them now. Matt, I've 37238 and 038, both BACHMANN models. I will be building up a large stud of these, I view 37s the same way you view 40s!...

Lovely stuff Retro. Really looks the part mate! Dunno why, but I especially like the Brush 2 on light trip duty complete with with guards van just sitting there. So 1970s :) Reminds me very much of when I first came to live in the South from Yorkshire. I immediately loved Stratford and the huge num...

What tractors you got dave? they both centre box? or one of each?

Matt

No, I want to 'shoulder' the ballast against the crossing rather than lay the planking acoss the ballast: it impossible to get the planking straight and level otherwise. Crossing done, took me ages ... EXCELLENT! Will post more pics tomorrow. Ahhh, good point dave. I look forward to seeing the pic'...

... but back to Marshfield :) ... I meant to say that I intend to have working lamp posts on the platforms also, but that's a way off yet. Next job is to install barrow crossings at both platform ramps, and lay the ballast. Don't you want to do that the other way around, ballast the add the crossin...

'Spose I'd better, they were a permanent fixture in my day, now depleted in numbers due to lack of interest ... ... they were useful for gen in fairness ... All the exeter veg have turned into Bus Spotters, they came with us to warley... And yeah they were, back in the day they were always up on ge...

Great stuff Dave, will you be putting a Flock of Neds/ Veg on the plapform?

Matt

Cracking Stuff dave, about time I had someone joing me on the WB front. I look forward to seeing all these coming along :D Matt Cheers Matt, thought I should show the progress of my work rather than suddenly going here it is! Your work is far superior to mine, what with top detailling and moving to...