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https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/lion-building.jpg This is my latest building for Brettell road and likely to be the last but one physical model building for the layout.  I have plenty more buildings to create yet but as those will be on the backscene they will need to be illustrated inst...

It was a very stylish exterior design, most unlike the various hydraulic uglies that had gone before... Yeah I know what you mean. The big warships were ok but kinda scruffy with all the bodyside grills. The westerns were neat on the sides but the cab ends looked like an afterthought and the produc...

For all of my lifetime, certainly my time aware of railways, mainline diesel locomotives have been powered by a diesel engine driving electric traction motors. However the Western region was never really one to follow what everyone else was doing and invested heavily in Diesel hydraulics. Of those t...

One aspect of making Brettell Road longer is that the original fiddleyards will need to be replaced. As such the opportunity will be taken to increase their length from four feet to five which means I can increase the cassettes from three feet long to four and a half.  Any bigger than that and casse...

After working my way through a lot of laser cut strips of tiles I can call my building(s) project effectively done. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/acorn-final.jpg There are several schools of thought when it comes to what to do with low relief buildings.  The easiest is to keep them para...

After working my way through a lot of laser cut strips of tiles I can call my building(s) project effectively done. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/acorn-final.jpg There are several schools of thought when it comes to what to do with low relief buildings.  The easiest is to keep them para...

Ive been busy painting.  Not a huge amount to say really so I will let the images do the talking. Next will be roofs and tiling.  Lots and lots of tiling! https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/acorn-steelworks-colour.jpg https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/acorn-steelworks-colour-2.jpg h...

In an attempt to keep some momentum going I've been doing more building work. This time for the right hand end of the new bit. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/central-good-building-raw.jpg This building is based roughly on the office building from Birmingham central goods. Same method as ...

Good stuff I'm kinda the opposite of you in that I fancied one of these for this sort of project but the large prairies were more notable in my area so I ended up with a mainline one instead. I believe that the Lima model is generally accurate except for the firebox which is a bit wierd and a tad to...

Inspirational work, so difficult to say it, but just what we've come to expect from a master scene builder. Always so special, that fencing never looks as convincing on any of my layouts !! Geoff T. Thanks. I've used quite a bit of it now but never without modification in some way. One tip is to ma...

https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/Acorn-building-gutters.jpg Work continues on my latest building.  Gutters are from Modelu.  When I last used Modelu guttering I found getting it stuck on was quite problematic however this time I tried Ultraglue from MIG (which I've mentioned here before) ...

Breaking away from the current building works for a moment a little wagon based diversion. As per normal mundane stuff with a few little bits of tweaking that most people will likely never notice. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/conflat-A.jpg Conflat A from the Parkside kit. As per the la...

Thanks chaps

Construction has started on the latest building for Brettell Road. I've tried to incorporate some lessons learned from the previous efforts. https://p4newstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/round-oak-construction.jpg The main lesson being to do something more robust with the corners as these have been sli...

bootneckbob wrote:
I didn't see any photos of swallow livery ones for the year (s) I'm doing, although I expect I could now!

Swallow livery first started to appear on HSTs in late summer/early autumn 1987

Jim