Many thanks chaps! I haven't quite gotten round to purchasing another old gresley coach to try your techniques out, however managed to repaint a Parkside Dundas Horsebox Van, which was in a crude dark teak, and varnished teak too, so it went even darker! The result now, is a light teak finish, vents fitted to the roof, side boards for the Groomes' compartment, painted solebars, and the wheels have even been done up with the centres being painted, and the tyres lined out in white - courtesy of a marker pen from work!
- The horsebox on display with a pigeon van and suburbans
Moving onto a new exciting project!
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LNER ex GNR 4-4-0 w/ GNR tender~~~
The aim of this conversion/ kitbash, is to produce a fairly realistic model of an ex Great Northern Rly 4-4-0 locomotive in LNER Apple Green, wil etched lamp irons, fitted hand rails, NEM couplings, along with a GNR profiled cab. The engine to be used will be a Bachmann Edward, with an Emily tender.
First of all, the smaller parts were purchased. The chimney and steps were purchased from Dean Sidings. The buffers were acquired from a spares box. These were Bachmann SR/ LNER sprung ones. Split pins (yet to be bought) will be used for the lamp irons, and new handrails will be fitted, either Hornby spares, or new brass ones. The whistle will be an NE one from the Markitts range. Paint will be from the Phoenix Precisions range, Doncaster green, and the transfers and lining from the HMRS Presfix range.
A new smokebox door will be acquired, most likely a spare from the Hornby 0-4-0 D class tank engine, and will have new handrails fitted to it, as well as possibly a new smokebox door dart. A lamp iron from the split pins will be fitted through a hole drilled into the top of the smokebox.
A new set of safety valves may be fitted, possibly in the form of one acquired from Dean Sidings, similar in style to GNR No.1 at the NRM, but might be too tall for the engine itself. The splashers will be reworked with Plasticard and filler to give it a more flush look, similar in appearance to GCR locomotives, and the GNR E1 2-4-0 class.
The cab will possibly be reworked, with brass wire simulating pipework, etc.
On the tender, it might be possible to fit springs to the top of the running plate, in a similar fashion to the SER O class tenders, but this may mean a lack of lining on the tender. On the chassis, an NEM pocket will be fitted. The original tender will be kept, and done up too, as a secondary tender for when the ex GNR one gets "scrapped" (which isn't going to happen, just gives me a use for the original still)
