This is a first for me, and very nice it is too. This is another Loco for my Wyke Street OO layout and it is finished in a medium plus weathering.
Accurascale OO -J68
OO Gauge
Wyke Street – further work
A general tidy up, point repair and then a quick photo session. It has been at least a year since I even run this layout, it has been stored behind two of my Sons layouts while he moved house. His layouts have now been retrieved and I have the space to put the layout up again!
This layout has never been exhibited, but I am hopeful for couple next year. The only thing I want to do is add a Gaugemaster electric track cleaner before I arrange any shows.
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Heljan OO 47’s
Saying goodbye to some of my Heljan original 47’s on Sunday. Below are the ones already sold, but I will be at the Stowmarket Railway Modelling Club’s Swap-Meet at Needham Market this Sunday (1st) selling about 20 more, Super Detailed Hornby Class 86’s, about 10. Also some Hornby and Bachmann Steam Locos. all mint and never used. My move to O Gauge continues.
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OO Gauge BR(E) C12
This little loco has a had a slow start to its life. After buying the kit etc, Mike asked his friend Ian Hammond to do the White Metal kit for him, sadly during the making of the loco, Ian passed away. After a few months another friend Barry took over the making and painting of the C12. It was passed to me for weathering a couple of weeks ago and I have just finished it.
This was a Cambridge Loco at the time and photographed by a work colleague in 1950 – what a memory!
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Memory Lane – Electrics
Below are some of my detailed OO Hornby and Lima Electrics that were done during the period 1980 – 2000. These were the best models you could buy then and if you wanted to improve them, then you had to do if yourself.
Most are repainted, re-wheeled, detailed, replacement pantographs and weathered. These certainly do not match their modern replacements in any way, but with extra weight they performed on several of my old layouts, Autumn Lane being best suited.
As I have moved to O gauge now, these have become surplus to requirements and I have a couple of people interested in taking them off my hands – below is about half my stock.
Great memories of improving quite basic models into the then Exhibition standards – no out of the box running then !!!
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Hornby ‘Potters’ Sentinel’
Here we have the Sentinel that was based at ‘Potters’ of Ely for shunting their yard. The Loco has been weathered to the condition it was in just before withdrawal.
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Wyke St – Locos weathered
I have today finished weathering six steam Locos for my new OO layout. I have posed them on the layout to show how its all being pulled together. I still have a few items to paint and weather, three more locos and lots of sundry bits like wheelbarrows and shovels, point levers and more people. I have also got to add three link couplings to the wagons so that they can be shunted around the layout. I guess Hornby no longer do dummy screw coupling with their locos, as only one had them in the ‘add on’ pack. I have ordered some ‘Smiths Couplings’ which I will add.
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Wyke St – Wagons weathered
Wyke Street only needs a couple of wagons, one for coal to restock the coaling stage, and the other is to take away the ash from the pits. These were both purchased cheaply and amended to my requirements, both received loads and were weathered. Both went very well, so may buy a cheap van for stores deliveries!
I have purchased some three link couplings – they arrived after I took these photos!!!
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Wyke St – posed locos.
The layout is all but finished, cars have been added along with a few workers and ballast bins. Only a few more people and the point levers have not arrived yet!
Being freezing cold in the garage and work virtually impossible, I put on multiple layers of pullovers and went for a photo session! There are a couple of weathered Locos, but most await a weathering session. The factory weathered D16/3 needs special attention I think!
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Wyke St. – Update (20)
Well, 99% finished, just three cars, point levers, people and ballast bins to follow. Everything else has arrived and has been planted. I feel the overall blending has gone well, but I will revisit at a later date. On the downside, one of the points seems very unreliable and I may replace it before its first Exhibition.
