Its been a few months since I have done any weathering, here are some Coaches and a Loco, quite a variable batch!
Titfield Thunderbolt Buffet Coach – Medium Weathering
BR Stove R – Heavy Weathering
Ex LMS (BR) G2A 0-8-0 – Medium Weathering
Today I said farewell to my beloved O Gauge Layout Little Sefton. I have sold it to a member of our small group, Graham Minshull. Graham will take over the two booked Exhibitions for the layout this year at Bury St Eds and Long Melford. He will also be looking for more Exhibitions in 2025 when he has prepared some of his own stock, until then he will use mine.
I do not intend to replace Little Sefton with a like for like, but concentrate on my O Gauge 17′ Station Layout that I started in 2017 !!!! It has a decent size goods yard that will take my Ex Sefton Stock.
Graham and Shaun with Little Sefton a few year ago.
Here are three Diesels I have just numbered, lettered and named. All will be weathered when I catch up. The nameplates are Protoneo and the transfers are Railtec. The NR Class 31 is so bright, I may just let that one jump the weathering queue or get some tinted glasses!!!!
I have recently weathered a railway vehicle for my friend Graham M. It looks like a flat wagon with an added cab and internal combustion engine. It was purchased off Ebay for curiosity value. It is unpowered but Graham intends to motorise it. Its origins seem to be European, but we are lead to believe that a few were imported to the UK. I believe they cost about £30-35, and it is solidly built apart from the wheels which are awful and would benefit from replacement, motorising or not. I could see a motorised loco (wagon) on a nice little O Gauge shunting plank. Another mate has already invested in one.
Another part of my recent weathering batch was a pair for my friend Ross. Again sadly I have had them for nearly six months – I hope he likes them after all this time. Both the Class 14 and Class 17 are medium weathered.
After many months without doing weathering, I have returned to doing a little weathering for a couple of my friends. I have had these locos for over four months and I do hope my friend Mike thinks the wait was worth it. These are all Locos that visited Cambridge during the early fifties.
I have had this Loco for quite some time and its turn to be numbered etc has come. It is Crewe (CD) based coal sector loco 31312. This loco was used on Nuclear Flask trains and was seen throughout the country. Weathering will again take place much later. Transfers are Railtec and etches are Protoneo.
Here are two Class 47’s that were related to Stratford Depot (SF). The first is a pure SF mid 80’s Loco, 47596 Aldeburgh Festival. The second is a loco that inherited the Benjamin Gimbert GC nameplates after the original Loco moved away. 47574 then in Parcels livery was the lucky Loco.
Here are my recent purchases from Heljans new Class 73 range. So far this was only a detailing, numbering and naming exercise. They now join the long list of stock to be weathered.
Transfers are Railtec and the nameplates are from Protoneo.
Doing the last few Locos that need naming and/or numbering. The first one is Deltic number 55003 MELD in its final working condition. The nameplates are Fox and the transfers are Railtec. I need to source another set of windscreen wipers as this loco had two per window. I last saw this Loco at KX on the day John Lennon was killed.
Will be weathered in future – but it is at the back of a rather large queue.
