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by Dad-1
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
Topic: Souther Railway Non Passenger Coaching Stock
Replies: 7
Views: 89

Re: Souther Railway Non Passenger Coaching Stock

Getting the right decals can sometimes be impossible. You also have to be prepared to mix all sorts of decals. I have used HMRS LNER numbers on a GWR in BR service build. Often a case of using the nearest you can find, even using white when straw is needed - life 'aint perfect. Then apart from yours...
by Dad-1
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:54 am
Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
Topic: Wykeham - Somewhere in the South.
Replies: 306
Views: 51344

Re: Wykeham - Somewhere in the South.

Access the bugbear of a built in layout.
From that I gather you're putting new track back rather than that lifted.
In my opinion the ideal option that as near as possible promises perfect track.

Geoff T.
by Dad-1
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
Topic: Wykeham - Somewhere in the South.
Replies: 306
Views: 51344

Re: Wykeham - Somewhere in the South.

I like that.
Can't add much more as I don't do Southern, or run large Locos !!

Geoff T.
by Dad-1
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Fisherman's Tales, or tall stories !! My damned knee is giving trouble again - Thought it was O.K yesterday and probably over did it. The most comfortable place is sitting at the kitchen table, the very place where I do my wagon work. There is this Mainline GWR Match Truck sitting on Chalkhill by a ...
by Dad-1
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
Topic: Gorilla Glue
Replies: 7
Views: 121

Re: Gorilla Glue

Like FatController I keep to what I know & understand.
No intention to use Gorilla, you see it everywhere because of
commercial considerations, Not because it's particularly good !!

The cynical old grump
Geoff T.
by Dad-1
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

For Anyone who doubts that a dab of varnish will hold on
well enough. Here are a couple of notices fixed to a noticeboard
on the back of a weigh-bridge office.

Image

Still secure after 5 years in a shed - fiddly, but try it.

Geoff T.
by Dad-1
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Ahh Bigmet, home printers, no, can't be doing with that now.. Certainly I keep to faded, obliterated, only there was never anything there ! I have thought about a gentle pencil with a super-fine point. Anyway here are 4 labels stuck down with satin varnish, looks like I need to buy another Humbrol m...
by Dad-1
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
Topic: Lurker, but with a username
Replies: 13
Views: 471

Re: Lurker, but with a username

Bigmet, Can't disagree with any of those, although I have and do live with the occasional 'tyre'. For me the regular use is the most significant factor in reliable track work. IF and when I used to run the garage layout almost every day it never seemed to need attention. This last winter it's been l...
by Dad-1
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

O.K I need another wagon like a hole in the head - I have a hole in the head it's supposed to have a brain in it !!!! I started a Parkside Fruit D, and now have to find a suitable colour for a BR steam period version. Coach Crimson, or coach Maroon ????? Perhaps even just good old BR Bauxite, either...
by Dad-1
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Bigmet, I'm about to try a single ply of quality toilet paper, stuck in place by a dab of enamel Humbrol varnish, it'll yellow and be partially translucent. Hoping that even without any printing it'll look like an old destination instructions/marker. I tried the idea a few years back on a notice boa...
by Dad-1
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Hi phred, I've been a bit slow in getting to try & answer your question. One reason is the complexity of decals, there is no solution fixes all. Decals can be either waterslide, and that general type has differences where carrier films are of different components. Then you have pressfix, methfix...
by Dad-1
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
Topic: Chalkhill
Replies: 140
Views: 10327

Re: Chalkhill

I made it to the shed. Time to have a little play time. I need to raid the loft soon to get more stock down for Kadee conversion. The odd new wagon build and some updating being checked. https://i.ibb.co/FVcGH9p/IMG-5031.jpg All sorts, Triang, Cambrian, Dapol, Ratio, Mainline, Lima, Parkside, even a...
by Dad-1
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Ahh the Calf Box with decals, but needing weathering to take away
the over powering white lettering. All the lettering is slightly over
size, but I have to use what's available.

Image

Geoff T.
by Dad-1
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:52 pm
Forum: The Workbench
Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
Replies: 1421
Views: 209837

Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works

Still not finished the Calf Box, but just weathering left to do now. In the meantime I decided to build a LNER 'Loco Coal' 21 ton wagon in it's final guise as a general coal wagon. A Very easy to make Parkside kit. https://i.ibb.co/J2HQ3Zy/IMG-5032.jpg https://i.ibb.co/tmfv589/IMG-5033.jpg Now I wan...
by Dad-1
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Real World Railways
Topic: BR Gauge Wagon
Replies: 7
Views: 83

Re: BR Gauge Wagon

Again thanks stuartp, It would be such an easy wagon to add that I'm tempted to make one. I just wish I had some idea of what may have been done inside the wagon. I would assume most equipment would be removed for safe storage when not in use. It would make an interesting wagon parked up on my small...