Yes, do not adjust your monitors, I have added the transfers to the china clay wagons.
OK, so its a departure from my normal 1950's/60's stuff but I do have a plan for these. It might work or not but the idea currently is to rub most of the GW stuff off and re-livery them to suit something a little more appropriate. It then will hopefully just a case of comming up with an excuse why they ended up in deepest Hampshire.
The other thing worth mentioning is on Saturday I had the pleasure of popping down to the Mid Hants Railway with my railway friend Andy once again. It was the Autumn Steam Gala and a thoroughly enjoyable day regardless of the weather. The highlight for me was definitely having a mooch around the various new (and old) workshops at Ropley, I haven't been around them before and I was seriously impressed by them.
Julia :o)
STOP PRESS.
Got these through the post today, some castings for 6mm driving wheels and I am impressed with the results so far.
J.
A very nice collection of ferro-exotica, looks like a great line. I had to check online when I saw this, as the Mid-Hants always seems to get past my radar, and I see they do have a great set-up. I didn't expect the 9F. The wheel castings look rather fine, too.
ReplyDeleteThank you Iain.
DeleteI would recommend the railway. The facilities they are accumulating is quite impressive and what they are now doing there towards the restoration of this 'ferro-exotica' is nothing short of amazing. It now seems quite normal to chop the end off an engine frame and weld a new bit on certainty shows how technology has moved on these days. A visit to the machining and boiler shops is a must if you are the slightest bit interested.
J.
Those wheel castings look good! I shall look forward to further developments.
ReplyDeleteDid you have them cast from a printed master?
Thanks Paul.
DeleteYes, these were produced from 3D printed masters. I used the same process for the City of Truro wheels and they turned out fine. I cannot see any reason why these should be any different.
J.
The wagons look really good Julia.
ReplyDeleteAre the wheels for your little Peckett loco?
Hi Andy.
DeleteThank you. I got the wheels produced for the Peckett but I cannot see any reason why they cannot be used on similar industrial engines. The only difference between these and standard 2mm wheels is the throw of the crank for the coupling rods has been reduced to 1mm instead of the standard 1.5mm. I don't know if there is any demand for 6mm diameter spoked driving wheels or not?
J.
Glad you enjoyed the gala Julia...I was down to drive on Saturday but gave it away in favour of a date with 'Britannia' out on the main line.
ReplyDeleteThe wagons look good (as does all of your stuff)...I would have thought that 6mm is a tad on the large side for you judging by some of your other efforts!
Phil Harding
Hello Phil.
DeleteI did look out for you and even asked some young guy if you were around but assumed you were off gallivanting around the country behind a steam engine. Oh well, maybe next time. The day has a big thumbs up from me so please pass it on when you are next there.
To me, there isn't much difference in the size of things I deal with, each bit has its own challenges. You just have to look past the physical size of the component, if you get hung up on that then the job becomes so much harder.
J :o)
Hello Julia,
ReplyDeletethose wagons look really good, and will be most effective when most of the lettering is weathered off. Wheels look great too.
Thanks Alex, that's a bit reassuring to hear. It was a bit of a faff putting all those transfers on so to now have to rub it off is a bit depressing. When things settle down here a bit I will give it a go.
DeleteI hope you are well?
J.
Very well thanks, workshop finished and modelling again. I've attacked a few preprinted wagons with a fibreglass pen and although it is galling to lose all that work, the "ghost" lettering left looks really effective just showing through the added dirt.
DeleteAlex.
That's good to hear Alex. I look forward to seeing some more fantastic models being produced by you in the near future.
DeleteI have seen some really nice results done by using a fibre pen to age wagons but its always been on pre-printed stuff and never on painted and transferred things so I am a bit apprehensive of the results. I am guessing the secret will be to rub away small amounts lightly.
J.
Hi Julia the wagons really are quite nice the wheels look rather good
ReplyDeleteRegards
John
Thank you John.
DeleteHopefully that 2mmSA has some stock of the 6mm wheel rims now as last time I tried to order some they were TOS. Once I get some then I will have a go at machining them to finish them off.
J.
Guys.
ReplyDeleteThe bodies for the China Clay wagons are available from Shapeways http://shpws.me/IZAa
Thanks for that I'll have a look
ReplyDeleteIf 'City of Truro' could find it's way to the Newbury line, I don't see why a few GW wagons couldn't as well :)
ReplyDeleteHi Mike.
DeleteAt least its a well known fact that CoT was a regular on the line and there are plenty of photos to prove it. I now need to find that exclusive photo of china clay wagons on the line now!
J.