Re: On the naughty step (don't mention the GC!)
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:15 pm
I think it's time we cuffed this thread firmly around the ear and brought it back onto modelling before it disappears up its' own fundament in an ever decreasing spiral of self-referential in jokes....
From a modelling point of view there is matchboarding above and below the ducket which I don't have on the model and might not have wanted to try to scribe on even if it had come to me in the flat (which it didn't). So I'm sticking with the wooden duckets. It's been through a first coat of paint; I've decided to do this one early BR for use on the Ely layouts.
Another little job which came across the bench last night; we who spend all our time building kits tend to forget sometimes how good RTR stock is these days. This caught my eye at (I think) Nottingham. In about half an hour it's had the moulded end handrail replaced with wire and painted, the couplings replaced with 3 link and the roof painted with my grey-and-talc mix. A waft of matt varnish and subsequent weathering and it won't look out of place at all.
I have seen a picture of the wagon on which this is based - can't remember where, of course - but I'm pretty sure Salt wagons weren't pooled in WW 2 and weren't nationalised so this can be run into the earlier part of the BR era. I expect someone will put me right if that's mistaken. If anyone can point me to the picture, the jury's still out on those buffers as well.
Graeme, I had that thought rattling around the recesses of my mind and I have located why; there's a picture on Page 61 of David Larkin's Pre-Nationalisation Freight stock on British Railways showing just that. Larkin says that the wooden ducket version mainly ran in Scotland and the pressed steel one was used in England. I have no idea of his sources and it will be interesting to see whether Tatlow 4B casts any further light.could those blank areas above and below the pressed ducket have represented plain panelled-over sections on a Toad B latterly modernised by the fitting of new duckets? I have a VERY vague idea that such things happened in certain cases.
From a modelling point of view there is matchboarding above and below the ducket which I don't have on the model and might not have wanted to try to scribe on even if it had come to me in the flat (which it didn't). So I'm sticking with the wooden duckets. It's been through a first coat of paint; I've decided to do this one early BR for use on the Ely layouts.
Another little job which came across the bench last night; we who spend all our time building kits tend to forget sometimes how good RTR stock is these days. This caught my eye at (I think) Nottingham. In about half an hour it's had the moulded end handrail replaced with wire and painted, the couplings replaced with 3 link and the roof painted with my grey-and-talc mix. A waft of matt varnish and subsequent weathering and it won't look out of place at all.
I have seen a picture of the wagon on which this is based - can't remember where, of course - but I'm pretty sure Salt wagons weren't pooled in WW 2 and weren't nationalised so this can be run into the earlier part of the BR era. I expect someone will put me right if that's mistaken. If anyone can point me to the picture, the jury's still out on those buffers as well.