leewhitty Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Hi Just thought id upload a few pics of some of my weathered/converted locos. Comments Welcome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkkeeper Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 super, 2 well used loco's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Great work. I have a load of photo's and books showing those Q6/Q7 and 9F's slogging their way past places like Annfield Plain - some of the most evocative steam shots ever taken Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feifeitim Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Fantastic! You seldom see models of the J39 so weather-beaten, but contemporary photos show them just so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Very nice builds. I love the used and dirty look! I almost wish some steam railways would let there locos get dirty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewE Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Great weathering. I have a few engines to do myself and I hope they turn out looking as good. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave41184 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Where did you get the decals for the 9F? Were they from the kit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orance Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Hi Love the two weathered locos at the top of this thread, have wanted to build a British loco for some time, can anyone tell me where to obtain a kit from (injection molded) Any help appreciated. Cheers Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulj Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Great to see weathered locos, not in to railway modelling myself, but they look interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Great stuff, would have loved to see them in action. I have some Transacord albums with these monsters at full thrash in full stereo. Sound great with the volume turned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjhm Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Hi Love the two weathered locos at the top of this thread, have wanted to build a British loco for some time, can anyone tell me where to obtain a kit from (injection molded) Any help appreciated. Cheers Jeff. Dapol have a lot of the ex-Airfix\Kitmaster locos (among other stuff), they are good fun builds even though they are based on 50 odd year old moulds Quick search on eBay or Dapol website should get you started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orance Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Hi cjhm Thanks for the reply, will look into Dapol. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Very nicely done. You've reproduced the characteristic white stains down from the top feed and I like the way the upper surfaces of the tender seem to have captured more of the sooty fallout from a hard-worked engine than the lower sides. I never saw a 9F in BR service (so feel free to disregard entirely!) but based on my memories of the run-down steam locomotives I did see, I'd just offer two observations: a. the brownish tinge around the smokebox and cylinders doesn't quite ring true for me for in-use locos: it's suggestive of surface rust. b. I would have expected the cab windows, like aircraft canopies, to be kept pretty clean (though of course the driver is on the other side from that shown), regardless of the external condition of the loco. But well done for trying to reproduce the appalling condition of locos in the last days of BR steam. Incidentally one of the nice touches in the film Shadowlands (Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger) that I've never seen commented on is that the Castle-class loco in one of the shots is not resplendent in shining paintwork and gleaming brass but noticeably grubby. I think I heard that only the part of the loco that came into shot was so treated! If preservationists are really after authenticity, maybe a few locos should be retained in BR dirty grey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousAA72 Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 (edited) Very nicely done. You've reproduced the characteristic white stains down from the top feed and I like the way the upper surfaces of the tender seem to have captured more of the sooty fallout from a hard-worked engine than the lower sides. I never saw a 9F in BR service (so feel free to disregard entirely!) but based on my memories of the run-down steam locomotives I did see, I'd just offer two observations: a. the brownish tinge around the smokebox and cylinders doesn't quite ring true for me for in-use locos: it's suggestive of surface rust. b. I would have expected the cab windows, like aircraft canopies, to be kept pretty clean (though of course the driver is on the other side from that shown), regardless of the external condition of the loco. But well done for trying to reproduce the appalling condition of locos in the last days of BR steam. Incidentally one of the nice touches in the film Shadowlands (Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger) that I've never seen commented on is that the Castle-class loco in one of the shots is not resplendent in shining paintwork and gleaming brass but noticeably grubby. I think I heard that only the part of the loco that came into shot was so treated! If preservationists are really after authenticity, maybe a few locos should be retained in BR dirty grey! I dunno - there were plenty of rusty coloured engines in 1967-8! Incidentally, some preserved lines actually are weathering their loco's - with poster paint(!) to replicate the last few years of BR-Steam! I read recently that 'trainspotters' (a sadly disrespected breed for some reason!) actually wiped the cab numbers clean - when at a station, to allow spotters down the line to 'clock' that loco in their Ian Allen book! The loco crew seemed to be happy enough to let them get on with it! Edited November 20, 2012 by Bill Clark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete610 Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 The window at the front cabside was rarely used for driving purposes as it was too near the footplate and firehole etc. and the rearmost cab windows were invariably left open for the footplateman to hang out of to view signals and during shunting. the windows in the cab front were kept immaculately for sighting purposes. Many of the 9Fs left at the end were grouped (including 92203) at Birkenhead - over 70 at one point - and many had rusty motion as whilst the docks were still busy there was not enough work to intensively diagram all the locos - so rusty motion was not uncommon - try treating a so-called low maintenance - diesel like that - unused for weeks then put onto a 1200 ton unbraked iron ore train down Storeton Bank and on to Shotton Steelworks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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