James' workbench- ex-GC locos and stock in OO

[James Harrison]

That's ingenious!

[James Harrison]

Well, we're getting there. Still a few bits to add (most of them sitting in the spares box) and the boiler bands to do. Cabside lining looks better 'in the flesh', so to speak, than in the photograph. It would be so much easier if HMRS did their white-black-white lining in some curves as well as just straight runs!

[James Harrison]

Lord Faringdon, finished save for the reversing lever (which I still need to build and fit).



I'm very happy with how it's turned out!- far better than my first attempt at rebuilding it, and, I think, much closer to the prototype than when I first bought it a few years ago.

[James Harrison]

After a few weeks building a couple of pre-1923 private owner wagons, I decided to have a crack at improving a couple of Graham Farish OO mainline carriages.

They're fairly generic in design and I have read that they seem to be a sort of hybrid LMS/ Southern design, or else are Maunsells. To my eye they look very close to later Robinson stock; particularly the layout of windows and doors on the corridor side.

The only real alterations I plan on making to them are in the paint department; I have painted the interior (which made an immediate improvement) and then set to work on a new teak finish on the exterior. GCR teak being darker then GNR/ LNER I used an orange/flesh-coloured undercoat, and then two scumbled coats of mid-brown, which results in a finish close to the colour I've seen in paintings and tinted prints of GCR express trains.

Other than fitting my usual Kadee couplers that's about it!

[James Harrison]

Nearly finished. I think, this time, I shall see what sort of effect I get using a pencil to line in the matchboarding. The usual pen effect looks a little too heavy in retrospect.

[James Harrison]

The brake third, as finished.



I'm very happy with this result; a second carriage (a corridor third) is nearly finished and I anticipate completing that tomorrow.

After that; I'm just waiting on some thin plastic sheet and I'll be using a silhouette cutter (think like a computer printer fitted with a scalpel blade) to produce some GCR clerestory sides...

[Atlantic 3279]

Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Abuse of the English Language.

Waiting on = dealing with the requirements of diners (paying customers, toffs, or what have you).

Waiting FOR = anticipating, with hope, dread or ambivalence.

Please don't adopt dumbed-down, incorrect turns of phrase used by the ignorant just because they appear on fashionable TV soap operas for the brain dead.....

[nzpaul]

Right then James, 100 lines before lunch. I was waiting on a table. I was waiting for the bus.
I reckon you could probably abbreviate that to.....I was waiting on a table for the bus. I think the meaning of which is...a bus was a customer at the table that you were looking after....hang on, that might be a bit of a muddle. It'll save on ink regardless, good luck.

Good night.

[earlswood nob]

Good morning all

It's sad how television programs are corrupting the English Language.

It becomes so easy to slip into bad phraseology.

My grammar was recently corrected, on Facebook, by a cheeky, young member of my house at school. I haven't met him for over fifty years, but he obviously remembered our English tuition.

However, please keep posting details of your modelling James. I am sure that the modelling content is the most important.

Earlswood nob
(The name of a Victorian signalbox, which was possibly a misspelling of knob)

[S.A.C. Martin]

Whilst I too appreciate the frustration of seeing grammar abused, perhaps we could also remember that the main aim here is to showcase one's modelling.

Which by the way is a couple of very nice GCR coaches. Good effort James, I rather like the corridor 3rd.

[James Harrison]

Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Abuse of the English Language.

Waiting on = dealing with the requirements of diners (paying customers, toffs, or what have you).

Waiting FOR = anticipating, with hope, dread or ambivalence.

Please don't adopt dumbed-down, incorrect turns of phrase used by the ignorant just because they appear on fashionable TV soap operas for the brain dead.....

Right then James, 100 lines before lunch. I was waiting on a table. I was waiting for the bus.
I reckon you could probably abbreviate that to.....I was waiting on a table for the bus. I think the meaning of which is...a bus was a customer at the table that you were looking after....hang on, that might be a bit of a muddle. It'll save on ink regardless, good luck.

Good night.

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. I went and stood in the schoolyard and took a whipping for that offence today.

Whilst I too appreciate the frustration of seeing grammar abused, perhaps we could also remember that the main aim here is to showcase one's modelling.

Which by the way is a couple of very nice GCR coaches. Good effort James, I rather like the corridor 3rd.

Thank you! Certainly the finish of the two I have already completed, or near-as, makes me impatient to see the full rake done.

Good morning all

It's sad how television programs are corrupting the English Language.

It becomes so easy to slip into bad phraseology.

My grammar was recently corrected, on Facebook, by a cheeky, young member of my house at school. I haven't met him for over fifty years, but he obviously remembered our English tuition.

However, please keep posting details of your modelling James. I am sure that the modelling content is the most important.

Earlswood nob
(The name of a Victorian signalbox, which was possibly a misspelling of knob)

I shall be sure to keep chronicling my efforts; arriving home from work this evening I saw the postman had delivered the prophesied 10 thou plastic; so at least part of tonight's modelling session will see another attempt at cutting new carriage sides. I'm rather looking forward to seeing how these come out, and also it struck me earlier that a useful tool such as the cutter would find use for such fiddly parts as cab side sheets and spectacle plates, and potentially even (if used with paper) the finer, more finicky elements of loco lining. I shall experiment on this latter idea and report back in due course.

[Atlantic 3279]

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. I went and stood in the schoolyard and took a whipping for that offence today.

Transportation for life for a second offence.

[jwealleans]

To Grimsby?

[Atlantic 3279]

Certainly, if Judge Jeffreys is sitting.

[James Harrison]

Exile to Grimsby doesn't sound too bad, compared to where I live at the moment

I've been experimenting with a silhouette cutter since the weekend, and as of last night I have something that I think is worth showing.



It is very difficult to photograph something that is white plastic on white plastic, so I fiddled with the settings on my camera to get a slightly darker image and bring the detail out. Essentially, this is one side of a Great Central compartment 3rd clerestory carriage, from a drawing in volume 3 of George Dow's Great Central Trilogy.

I drew this up using the cutter's own drafting software and it took probably two hours to draw, three quarters of an hour to cut and then half an hour to finish off the components and glue them together. Now I think that this is an outstanding result, all things considered, and certainly far, far better than my efforts of building panelling and beading one piece at a time out of plastic strip. My intention with this is to fabricate a set of carriage sides (compartment 3rd, lavatory composite and lavatory brake 3rd) that can used as overlays on Hornby clerestory stock.