Here are two Darstead/Ellis Clark Thompson Full Brakes – one in lined Crimson and one in lined maroon. These are very nice and robust coaches and weather very well. Highly recommended.
Must admit these coaches would go well with the Heljan Maroon CCT’s. See previous post.
Crimson
Maroon
This is one of very few O Gauge P.O wagons I have weathered – it is a Slaters or similar with pre-printed sides. The plank joins are not as deep as some other brands, but I managed to get some semblance of shadowing in the joins – sadly this model has no planking on the inside and it shows and looks flat! I was given this to weather many months ago, but slowly catching up. If this was my wagon, I would definitely give it a full coal load.
At last I have finished this Parkside O Gauge Kit – I purchased it nearly six months ago and it has been pushed back many times, it is now finished. It will be used on my O gauge steam layouts.
This is the last couple of wagons from my recent weathering work – just did the dry brushing over the weekend.
This was a re-numbering and weathering job from my Mate Mike. When they arrived the O1 was in LNER and the O4 was in ROD livery, both in OO. The O1 is weathered to a medium standard and the O4 was to a heavy standard including some large rust patches. The usual Airbrushing and dry-brushing was used.
This is a NIU Models OO Kit. It was made and painted by my friend Ian Hammond. His instruction to me for weathering was ‘very dirty and neglected’ as they spent long periods in sidings. My aim was to try and weather it so that it retained that very sturdy and bulky look.
Here are a few photos of recent weathering exercise – the Jinty is a medium application and the Sentinal is medium to heavy. Method used was airbrushing with a little dry brushing. Both Locos are in O Gauge.
This is the result of a complete repaint and a move in livery of about 20 years. This Loco lasted until November 1948 – so just lasted into the British Rail Era, But even although it was allocated a BR number, it did not receive this livery. This Loco was then in Scotland and they did some modifications to it, namely remove the Westinghouse Brake and Piping as well as the bunker extensions.
So there we have it a completely fictional Loco – the first time I have ever done this.
I purchased this ready made Connoisseur Loco recently, it is in LNER livery and numbered as a very early withdrawal – so no use to my BR(E) layout. I will need to re-livery and re-number as something more appropriate.
I spent about three hours researching the last two Locos of this class yesterday evening. They did make it to BR ownership, but not on the Eastern Region – they were on the Scottish region for nearly a year under BR at 65A. The Locos were allocated BR numbers but whether they where taken up is doubtful.
I now had a decision to make and after much thought I decided to change the livery to BR Black with the full ‘BRITISH RAILWAYS’ logo, and numbered 67093, one of the last two withdrawn. I can not ascertain whether this Loco actually appeared like this but using a little ‘modellers licence’ helps.
A few photos of today at the Poringland Exhibition. The layout is Little Sefton in O Gauge. Today we had Shaun with us operating for the first time since his stroke and it was really great that he was back with me and Graham.
