Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Following Rick's lead I'd thought I'd post a slightly different WIP, which is destined for an N gauge layout that I am building. So here's the obligatory shot of box and sprues. It even comes with PE for the canopy valencing and notice boards! Take note Hasegawa! So not a lot to this as a build, seeing as after an hour I had this. And a shot of that lovely PE. Now to let that lot harden off overnight before I break out the airbrush tomorrow for a coat of primer. Just need to see if I've got some dark and light stone paints in the stash. Karl 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 We've created a monster! Watching with interest. Rick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 It's a very small monster in this case. All of about about 5cm for the shelter itself! Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Heath Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Why do you need primer - its already coloured for you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Nigel those are Southern colours and I'm a Great Western man! (Strops off insulted) Karl 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Nigel those are Southern colours and I'm a Great Western man! (Strops off insulted) GWR = Grotty, Wet and Rotten. Now how insulted do you feel?!?!? LMS through and through. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Heath Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 I still can't help feeling that a bit of weathering and a coat of matt varnish would have seen you right. I have to say that I like LMS, I can just remember their locos running past my house as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 To you both, where did Stanier learn his trade? It certainly wasn't at Derby or Crewe. Karl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Heath Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Well it seems to be mostly have been in Swindon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 I rest my case. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Heath Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 And do I get a prize? I love prizes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Give yourself a gold star. Karl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 To you both, where did Stanier learn his trade? True. He learned from Mr Churchward. You can definitely see the GWR influence in the taper boilers of Black Fives, rebuit Royal Scots etc. There was a lot of cross-pollination between the railway companies. Henry Ivatt was CME of the Great Northern Railway. His son became the CME of the LMS and his daughter married Oliver Bulleid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 You've started something now Karl! I've now found a few other buildings in "00" I didn't know I had and a couple in "N" that my F-I-L passed on. Right, get the tools out, this is war! Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertross Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 I believe a number of articles have been written that the majority of Stanier Loco design was completed with out much technical input from Stanier. Tommy Coleman an ex-North Staffs Railway designer should be credited for much of the work. As you would expect as a CME for a large company he knew what he wanted and had people to make it happen. Tin Hat Time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete610 Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Someone once said - that the Stanier Duchess class pacific - was the endpoint in the development of the GWR 4-cylinder locos !!!! and that the GWR wouldn't have developed it that far - as they were too set in their ways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Someone once said - that the Stanier Duchess class pacific - was the endpoint in the development of the GWR 4-cylinder locos !!!! and that the GWR wouldn't have developed it that far - as they were too set in their ways. I don't think that the GWR was set in their ways. They didn't need to develop the concept further. The Kings were perfectly capable of taking anything that was thrown at them. The Duchesses were built for an entirely different role, that of high speed and long distance on some very steep gradients. That sort of environment didn't exist on any of the GW routes. However, just after the formation of British Railways, there was a major exchange programme which tested the express locos of each region on all the other regions. The Kings acquitted themselves very well indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 27, 2014 Author Share Posted September 27, 2014 I think the GWR has always been seen as very tradionalist in its ways, however this was the company that introduced a 7 foot track gauge, and paid a heavy financial price for that decision. Churchward always claimed that he wasn't an innovator, but a collector of ideas however I think this undersells his work on standardisation in locomotive design and construction that lead to the GWR having such a versatile and long lived loco fleet. I think Collet added to that legacy, however I'm not convinced that the Kings really advanced anything they were just a bigger, less reliable Castle. Rick, game on, I've got an entire layout to build. Karl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Problem is, I don't have a layout! Plus, mine are in different scales.......... I'll dig em out. Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 OO at the front, N at the back for a forced perspective look. I've seen that son on quite a few layouts use that technique. I've managed to get some primer on the platform shelter today but haven't taken any pics yet. Karl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Looking forward to seeing this. It has reawakened my interest in railway stuff so I have ordered a few Parkside Dundas wagon kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 Enzo I keep coming back go model railways, this time I intend to actually complete a layout though! Finally managed to take some pics,here are the window frame in their white. And here's the bicycle shed, showing just how small it is. And the main shelter itself. Not a lot bigger. Both buildings have since received a coat of dirty cream as benefits a decrepit wayside station on a backwater branch line on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire border. I'll let that harden overnight, then I'll mask up for the dark stone woodwork. Karl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 There was a lot of cross-pollination between the railway companies. Henry Ivatt was CME of the Great Northern Railway. His son became the CME of the LMS and his daughter married Oliver Bulleid. Were their children Bulleid at school? Looking forward to seeing this. It has reawakened my interest in railway stuff so I have ordered a few Parkside Dundas wagon kits. More toy trains? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 Toy trains!!!!!! Gordon wash your mouth out, these are scale miniatures! Choo! Choo! Karl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 I'm just waiting for Enzo's response... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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