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[Dave]

Greame, I see your fame continues in the current MRJ (part the deux), which I read in Smith's.

[Atlantic 3279]

which I read in Smith's.

Financial prudence is alive and well in Yorkshire I see

[S.A.C. Martin]

Yes, picked up my copy too. Excellent stuff as always Graeme. The O gauge Llanberis layout is fascinating too, as is the "Made in Korea" article.

The P2 conversion has a lot going for it. I've kept back lots of parts for just such a possibility. I even have a correct length streamlined P2 resin chimney casting now as well! The question for me is how I use Hornby A4 bits and the relevant Nu-cast bits to bring together the correct front end shape...

[Atlantic 3279]

Thanks to an obliging local printing firm I was able today to collect a fair attempt at making the kind of LNER nerd-shirt that I had in mind. The quality of the full colour printing is in my view very good. The selection of available plain green T-shirts on which to base the print has been a bit of a problem, and I'm yet to see one that strikes me as being extremely suitable. Many are promising when the printed colour chips in catalogues are seen, but vastly too lurid, too limey, too blue-ish, too plain DARK or just too much of a powdery pastel shade when the fabric is seen. This one is supposedly army green and therefore a little too dark and mossy by my reckoning, but like me, it may not be good but it's the best in the price range.....

If any of you spot supplies of convincingly LNER-green plain T-shirts then please speak up.

[Tom F]

I like!

Wouldn't mind one with 2750 on the back! (my new name change, might aswell have it here as I have it on Modellers United.)

[Atso]

Great T-shirt Mr K! Just need the loco to go with it now!

Can I get one with 4470 on the back please?

Haven't seen the latest MRJ yet but part one was really useful! Thanks for taking the time to write the article!

[manna]

G'Day Gents

Do you export !!!!! I'll have 4470 as well.

Tom, do you realize that all or nearly all footplate staff called class 47's ...2750's, it was there HP, that gave them that nickname.

manna

[earlswood nob]

Evenin' all
I don't have any green tee-shirts, but an old style Irish rugby shirt was (when new) close to LNER apple green, and an Antigua golf shirt is even closer. I think they are called grass green.
I also have a green custom golf shirt, but that's more bottle green.
Earlswood nob

[Tom F]

G'Day Gents

Do you export !!!!! I'll have 4470 as well.

Tom, do you realize that all or nearly all footplate staff called class 47's ...2750's, it was there HP, that gave them that nickname.

manna

There is only one 2750 in my eyes....
Just finished reading Legend of a Locomotive. Cracking good read!

[manna]

G'day Gents

Tom, I couldn't agree more, but I will always think of you as a 'Papyrus Brush'

manna

(Apologies to Graeme)

[Atlantic 3279]

I'm happy to get more shirts done if they are wanted. I'd have to tidy up some surreptitiously sourced artwork for the full range of numbers, having only done the four figures that I needed initially, but having worked out how to do those it won't be too hard to do the rest. It may make sense to wait and see if a really good T-shirt colour can be sourced first. That will give time to check costs as well. Very rough guesswork at present might point to something like £22 plus postage, but that could alter. There may well be a way to get one to Aus, but if the cost for that is unrealistic there's possibly another way round the problem........

[manna]

G'Day Gents

Re. T shirt, my lads coming out in November, so it'll only be local postage.

manna

PS, I suppose, Garter Blue, could be a later edition

[Atlantic 3279]

Local postage - very handy!

That's two calls for garter blue already. The reason for producing the green shirt may therefore be of interest. Months ago I saw advertisements for an outfit called "Traintees" and found that they produced all sorts of railway T-shirts, including LMS / GWR ones and loads of BR stuff including horrible "paraffin burning box-on-wheels" designs, but their only LNER offering appeared to be a blue shirt with the latter-day cigar shaped LNER symbol - totally useless by my reckoning as a representation of the old traditions of the company. It might be of use to garter blue fans of course, so it may be worth having a look at the Traintees website. That doesn't rule out a later design of mine in blue and silver if that is preferred, although I'd have to find out what the printers can achieve in terms of "silver" first.

Another option for a fairly convincing "Doncaster Green" T-shirt (definitely better than my army green prototype) has now emerged by experimentation. White cotton can be dyed to a very pleasing shade using one of the Dylon wash-in fabric dyes, although I'll have to do some further trials as the concentration of the dye solution and the temperature during the dye-wash do seem (predictably) to have the potential for greatly influencing the final strength of fabric colour.

[Tom F]

If I'm honest, I'd probably have an apple green, silver and garter blue shirt..... good even do black with red lining... now I'm just being silly;)

[Atlantic 3279]

I played around with the colour rendition so that in the picture of the T-shirt above to try to get the correct appearance when seen on my monitor.

If you look at the new pictures below, taken in daylight and colours not manipulated in any way, the questions of just what IS the correct shade of Doncaster Green, and of what is the best shade for a shirt, can be pondered.