P4 New Street

[mickoo]

Ah, OK. ...it certainly looks the part. I thought it was on!

Fooled me too Those puddles look good, as does the second method which gives a very good feel of the water leeching away from the puddles as it does on tarmac and soil surfaces, theres always a little greying at the edges as it blends into the surrounding surface, the more absorbant the surface the larger the feathering effect and the second photo looks spot on for a drying surface. A combination of the two would give a perfect effect for a shower that has just passed, the high gloss shine from the puddles and the dull sheen from the feathering.

Either way, very impressive

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Jim,

with regards to 'puddles' etc, I have used Johnson's Klear built up in layers for tender 'overspill' and it seems to work ok especially if left a good while between coats.


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great photos by the way.

cheers

Mike

 

[40126]

Hi Jim,

I would love to see a pic from further away, so to see all of the 'part coach' with the 31.

Steve

 

[Jim S-W]

Hi all

I've designed my first laser cut baseboards for my little side project (now called Brettell Road after a few name 'tweaks') and the other week I spent a few days over at Tims getting them cut out and assembled.



I've started a workbench section for this on my website for those who might want to follow along.

http://www.p4newstreet.com/category/brettell-road

Cheers

Jim

 

[40126]

Interesting, Jim

Keeps us in the loop on here

Steve

 

[Pugsley]

I'm impressed. I can't even summon up enough motivation to work on one layout project, let alone two of them!

 

[Jim S-W]

I think I'll start a new thread for this one.

Cheers

Jim

 

[Jim S-W]

Those who have been following my efforts for a while now will know I really like class 45's. However the model ones seem a bit lacking in performance especially when it comes to road-holding. The problem is usually down to the pony trucks which are really just along for the ride in a flopping about kind of way. I wonder if RTR steam loco's have the same problem? The problem is to my mind two-fold. 1 - staying on the track, they are just too light and while there's some rudimentary springing its more of a token effort than a real attempt at a solution. 2 - no side control, a pony truck should lead the bogie into curves and without some sort of side control thats just not going to happen.

The solution? These rather natty sprung pony trucks from Rumney Models. They also provide side control and a handy ballast box to get some much-needed weight in there. For more details see http://www.rumneymodels.co.uk

 

[Jim S-W]

One of the first kit wagons I built was the Cambrian Turbot. Back then it had super fragile bogies but was, and still is, a decent kit. The current version comes with one piece bogies so they don't tend to disintegrate as soon as you look at them anymore.

A while ago Justin Newett of Rumney models produced an upgrade kit for the Lima bogie bolster E and since that where the Turbots came from it seemed sensible to use one of these to update my ancient and small fleet of Turbots. (Kind of the reverse of what BR did.)


Above is a comparison of the new underframe and the old. Because of the good design of the kit its dead easy to build although I did have to cut the baseplate in half as my solebars were closer together than the Lima model's.


The view no one will ever see! These are the newer type of one piece bogie which Cambrian do as a spare.

Cheers

Jim

 

[Jim smith-wright]

One of my early class 47s featured a Lima body on an Athearn PA1 chassis as below.



This was done before I settled on the windscreen modification for the Lima 47 (I don't think Shawplan actually had done them at the time) so I wanted to revisit it to make the face match the others on the layout. Along the way I had been collecting cheap ViTrains 47s so while it was in for an overhaul I swapped the chassis too. The results can be seen below.

 

[Stoke5D]

I really like the weathering on 47433 - looks right.


Andrew

 

[Jim smith-wright]

As coach building continues for New Street, much of it is more of the same and to some extent so is this

Another Bachmann mk1, fitted with replica bogies and the usual details. Like the rest of my Bachmann based NSE liveried stock I repainted the blue to something lighter which I feel better matches the early vehicles so painted. The IC liveried coach behind was completed at the same time.

 

[dj_crisp]

Your NSE mk1 looks great!

I'm just doing a few myself and will admit to being a bit lost on what is supposed to go on the underframe...! seems a bit of a mine field.

Cheers
Will

 

[Dog Star]

I'm just doing a few myself and will admit to being a bit lost on what is supposed to go on the underframe...

So just ask... there are at least three Mk.1 devotees on here. What style of coach? When built? What bogies? What period?

 

[Jim smith-wright]

Does this help Will?

Improving the Bachmann Mk1s – Part 1, Brakes

 

[dj_crisp]

Hi Jim

Many thanks - that's a great help!

I won't hijack your thread with my questions so I'll start one on here soon!

Cheers
Will

 

[Jim smith-wright]

A few years ago I was working on a fleet of grampuses (yes that is the plural before anyone asks) for New Street but the project stalled when I decided i wanted to etch new baskets, door bangers and steps for them. This has been on my to do list for a long time but things have changed in that time and when Justin at Rumney models said he was thinking of looking at the same I dropped my plans in favour of just waiting for his. I don't see a lot of point in duplication in this hobby (although some of the RTR chaps seems a little obsessed with it at the moment) especially when I'm just doing bits I want and someone else is doing bits as part of their business. I'm more than happy to let the guys doing this for a job get on with it basically.


Justin has kindly sent me a test etch to try out and the results of which can be seen above. There is, of course more detail to add but a this point if what you see is plastic it's from Parkside. If its metal then its from Rumney models.


The wagon the right way up (I've straightened the bent door banger). Justin is hoping to have these ready for September so keep checking his website. I'm going to need a fair few of these!

 

[mth]

The wagon the right way up (I've straightened the bent door banger).

Pity, to me the bent hanger looks more realistic.

 

[Meld9003]

Did you ever get anywhere with your window frames for the MetCam 101?

 

[Jim smith-wright]

Did you ever get anywhere with your window frames for the MetCam 101?

Not as yet. I will need them at some point though.

Cheers

Jim