While Graham, Les and John were at The Great Electric Train Show at Milton Keynes with two layouts, Peter was at the East Anglian Railway Museum’s Exhibition for ‘small layouts’ with Botterill Street Yard on Sunday. Here are some photos taken by Peter of the layout at the Exhibition.
Very busy weekend for our Group.
Here are four items I finished over the weekend, The steam locos have had a medium weathering and the diesel loco and the railcar have had light to medium levels applied. The Jinty and the Class 05 were numbered before weathering. I also ‘coaled’ the Jinty and added more coal to the Sentinal.
HMRS transfers used with Railmatch and Humbrol paints.
BR Jinty 0-6-0T 47306
Class 05 Shunter D2576
Dapol Railbus W79977
Dapol Sentinal 68164
This is a Hornby J15 that I have re-worked as an earlier variety. It has now got the ‘British Railways’ logo and has been renumbered. The Loco has then received a medium weathering consisting of a dusting of grime by airbrush and then some dry brushing to highlight various details.
HMRS Transfers, Railmatch and Humbrol paints used.
Here are some photos of the WW1 layout before the crowds arrive.
Photos by Les and John
Here are a few photos of Grub Lane before the Crowds come in.
Photos by Les and John.
On Sunday we attended the Stowmarket Swap-Meet and Mini Exhibition at Needham Market Community Centre. We took our Dark Lane O Gauge Layout and had a great day meeting up with old friends and having chats with the visitors. Below are a few shots taken by my wife.
Here are seven wagons that I have just weathered – all my usual methods were used, starting with a wash and wipe and ending with four colour spraying and dry brushes.
Yesterday we attended the O Gauge ‘get together’ at Bury St Edmunds. We took our DCC London Underground Layout ‘Dark Lane’. It was its debut Show and performed very well considering none of the operators had any training.
I have also included a few photo’s of a couple of other layouts that I had done some weathering of stock for the owners.
The photos are not up to my wifes normal standard due to the hall being dull.
Dark Lane
Margarets Mill
Botterill Street Yard
Although I made this layout about two years ago, it had been dormant during this time due to Covid and lock downs. Well today I have cleaned it down and my son John helped me add the DCC controller. We are now ready for its first Exhibition on Sunday 18th October at the GOG ‘get together’ at the Bury St Eds Sugar Beet Factories Social Club. The Layout represents a small London Transport Depot in the mid 60’s, just before steam ended. All the Ex GW Locos are sound fitted by Coastal DCC of Ipswich.
Below are some photos I took during the day:-
I have now weathered the 03 for the Cement Pad Layout. Weathering an industrial Loco is nothing like doing a mainline example and the Industrials weathering is more related to the products they handle. Being used for cement loading both bulk and bagged it is likely that a ‘dusting’ would happen primarily but with a little exhaust and brake dust.
