Today on the WGLR

Looking good, Mel. Does make a tidy coach; think a camping coach would heave been a bit of a waste of as nice body. Was the new end overlay to cover those odd Gothic style end windows? Can't see them in the "red" picture, so think you must have done.
 
Now that's a nice looking coach!

I guess though, it'll be looking a little more run down and decrepid very shortly....
 
C&S said:
Looking good, Mel. Does make a tidy coach; think a camping coach would heave been a bit of a waste of as nice body. Was the new end overlay to cover those odd Gothic style end windows? Can't see them in the "red" picture, so think you must have done.
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Yes Giles, covers the oversized windows and the fact that that end had been broken when it had been dropped. The end seen in the "red" pic is the new one - a dead easy job for anyone who just wants to hide the windows.

I'm planning to get one of Steve's interior kits from Back2Bay6.
 
The recent stock additions are top-notch as ever, Mel. The coach has a nice light railway, "Victorian era relic" feel to it.
Colonel Stephens would be proud of you....
 
Cheers John.

Annie was also missing her roof, so I'm using the one from Clarabel (her body was left over from the recent standard gauge parcels van build and is now in use as a grounded body for the Wetton Valley Farmer's Co-Operative in the goods yard alongside the livestock market), so I scratch built a new roof for Clarabel and added the LGB celestory that I had in the spares box.

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Annie's roof is removable ready for the B2B6 to be fitted.
 
Great stuff, as we now expect as the norm from you Mel. :)
I've a challenge for your weathering techniques. The old grounded coaches I recall that were still in railway use as stores or the like weren't clean like yours! You're very good at making locos and rolling stock look like they need cleaning, but how about giving the old coach body the peeling paint look, maybe even down to bare timber in places?
 
Neil Robinson said:
Great stuff, as we now expect as the norm from you Mel. :)
I've a challenge for your weathering techniques. The old grounded coaches I recall that were still in railway use as stores or the like weren't clean like yours! You're very good at making locos and rolling stock look like they need cleaning, but how about giving the old coach body the peeling paint look, maybe even down to bare timber in places?
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All in the list of jobs to do Neil - must leave something for the Winter months ;). Plus a few animal feed signs.
 
As well as the broken Annie, Ian also kindly gave me a couple of battered Playmobil wagons. One of them was a Shell tanker, the body of which has found a home outside the (dog food?) factory opposite the end of Gooey station. It's been made less ....... errrrrrrrr ........ colourful by a few wafts with a rattle can.

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Imagine the look of delight on Alison's face when I showed her the latest addition to the garden was a manky old oil tank :bigsmile:. Reminds me of the late, great Peter Jones - he wasn't content with the odd manky oil tank. His garden contained huge smelting works and coking plants that featured flame effects and disco smoke machines belching out clouds of clag. He said he caught his wife looking out of the kitchen window one day and a tear was appearing in her eye. Awwww, bless :bigsmile:.

These chassis have appeared in the goods yard too. Nobody (including me) appears to know what they were or what they might be used for, but it's the sort of thing you see on preserved railways all the time. When everyone else is looking out of the carriage window at the rolling hills, river, fields etc., I'm quite often looking the other way at all the skanky stuff rusting in a siding.

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Apparently, the wife sometimes worries that I might be a weirdo????? :confused::confused:
 
yb281 said:
., I'm quite often looking the other way at all the skanky stuff rusting in a siding.

Apparently, the wife sometimes worries that I might be a weirdo????? :confused::confused:
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that .:thumbup:
 
love what you have done with the tank.... not sure about the chassis though especially with the red buffers i think they need some work to be worthy of the WGLR, even in a siding. i am away with work but need to post you a pic of the building. have the vids on my laptop so may be able to edit them up tonight!
 
CoggesRailway said:
love what you have done with the tank.... not sure about the chassis though especially with the red buffers i think they need some work to be worthy of the WGLR, even in a siding. i am away with work but need to post you a pic of the building. have the vids on my laptop so may be able to edit them up tonight!
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Yes please mate. :thumbup:
 
I-Spy a what looks like a Dinky Supertoy elevator conveyor. Had one of those with my O gauge clockwork trains - never thought it would look equally good in G scale surroundings.
 
C&S said:
I-Spy a what looks like a Dinky Supertoy elevator conveyor. Had one of those with my O gauge clockwork trains - never thought it would look equally good in G scale surroundings.
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Correct :thumbup:. I saw that in a second hand shop in Bridgnorth a couple of years ago, but they wanted 30 odd quid for it, so it wasn't for me to stick out in the garden. Long story short, I got it about 6 months ago for 8 quid. :bigsmile: It's had a meeting with the same rattle can as the oil tank. When I went to meet Peter Jones' daughter Kes at Towyn in May I found that he'd done exactly the same thing - hardly anything he used for his industrial works was actually made for our scales - or even for garden railways come to that.

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I spy Scalextric pits and control tower. Also bits of those cheapo tower cranes.

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An old favourite re-entered service today - Spreewald. The old girl (1988 on the base plate) has done a few miles with at least three of us off this and the previous forum and the last time I ran her on track power, she was showing some signs of needing improvement in the pick-up department. So I decided I'd convert her to battery RC power.

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Eventually I want to fit her with her own, self contained battery and Cliff Barker RC set up, but for now she's running with a battery wagon. Jump leads front and back have been provided so that she can run bunker first occasionaly ......... as a tank loco should. The conversion was a 40 minute job and Spreewald now runs as smooth as silk again. 10 axles is a pretty big load on the WGLR.
 
Mmmm. Nice! Good to see the old girl back in harness. Somehow looks right for The Narrows. :thumbup:
 
"The conversion was a 40 minute job and Spreewald now runs as smooth as silk again....."

I reckon cleaning the track would have taken about as long!!!
 
Nice one Mel:thumbup::thumbup:
 
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