that is "original" in the way that a responibility-shirking politician might claim to have meant it?
Actually (and I'm open to correction here) what I had in mind was that it was the first of the conversions which has spawned all these resin based and increasingly ugly variants.
Welcome to page 200.
Only available on the limited edition, de-luxe, leather-bound, boxed, executive set version of this website.
It looked at one point as if that Peterborough North chappie over on "HW"Web might get to 200 first*, but I've benefitted from a renewed surge of enthusiasm whilst he seems to have lost momentum on 193. He does a lovely job of video commentary though.......
* I know he has more individual entries on his pages than I have on mine, and half as many "views" again as these pages have had, but he does have exposure to a far bigger audience.
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Some footage from Little Bytham. Featuring my 2550 and 4901, Atlantics....Atlantic C1, Jwealleans B1.....plus one LNER forum member appearing out of the baseboards! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIOwIzj6u9A
Tom Foster Modelling the North Eastern Area of the LNER - 1935-1939
A modest start on the Howldenization of an old Hornby Gresley composite body. I didn't time myself, but I suspect this represents around three-quarters of an hour's work with a razor saw and files. I began by splitting the roof into three portions, then separated the roof edges from the coach sides at the top of the gutters, finally cutting through the outer parts of the roof laterally just within the dummy inner ends of the coach. I then filed the exposed parts of the top of each end to a new profile ready to receive new side pieces of roof at a lower level, working to an end-elevation drawing of a typical Howlden coach.
Having now located a drawing of a GN semi-corridor first in my collection, I now have some evidence for the location of battery boxes on an electrically lit Howlden coach on an underframe of approx 58' 6" length - not too dissimilar to this Margate toy 57 footer.
Most subjects, models and techniques covered in this thread are now listed in various categories on page1
Dec. 2018: Almost all images that disappeared from my own thread following loss of free remote hosting are now restored.
I was wondering how you'd form the clerestory to the roof; not considering that you might lower the two sides and leave the bit on the middle... clever!
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