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I have ordered four. Not sure my painting will do them justice.


I shall try following you tutorial and post the attempt later.
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Walkingthedog wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:53 pm I have ordered four. Not sure my painting will do them justice.
Don’t underestimate yourself. Steadyish hand and a fine paintbrush is all it takes.
On that subject, I buy all my brushes from the Range - packs of 10 for under £5. Look for packs that include size OO, works for me.
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Thanks Steve.
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Ditto with thanks for the insight. I will have a go with my next purchase of figures.

Additionally, looks as though I must try to get to our local Range store at some point.

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Two holiday purchases made it on to the layout today - Ivatt 2MT and B17.

Image20191010_185502 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr
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Nice loco's - what a difference crew make. I need an Ivatt 2MT - I'll add it to the list!
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bulleidboy wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:50 am Nice loco's - what a difference crew make. I need an Ivatt 2MT - I'll add it to the list!
They are on ‘special’ at TMC - this one, DCC fitted, was only £108. I need to think about renumbering it to match the one I had my footplate experience on at the MHR.
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My Hornby Club loco arrived recently but in its ‘natural state’ of yellow and grey plastic, it is a truly nasty model that is crying out for improvement - whether I have achieved that is open to debate.

Converted to DCC with a hard wired, 6 pin decoder and all the oil cleaned out of the body shell (it was swimming in it) and it was off to the paintshop.

Black chassis, green and grey body, wire handrails and lots of weathering and you end up with this.

Image20191013_155320 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

It’s actually not a bad runner, but it has thrown up an issue in that it seems to send other locos off running on their own (crosti 9F was rescued twice from the TT pit). Seems as though I will have to work through the fleet and disable DC running and clean the track as I believe sparks from dirty track can cause interference.
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Reads like you really need Bus Filters fitted? :D :D
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Brian wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:24 pm Reads like you really need Bus Filters fitted? :D :D
Two things spring to mind......

1) I thought I had already fitted them when it was an end to end layout. Or at least, I know I bought the bits, maybe I didn’t fit them.

2) are they needed (do they work) on a circular layout?
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