WEST ORTON

[Steve M]

New arrival - Great Central D11. A good offer from TMC, sound fitted with lots of little bits inc. etched nameplates to add tomorrow. The crew are currently in a mail sack in a corner of a Royal Mail sorting office (possibly).

2022-12-29_01-51-24 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[bulleidboy]

Very nice - adds a bit of colour (loco wise) to the layout.

[Steve M]

The 3D printed figures finally arrived. Finished painting this morning and added some real coal to the firemen’s shovels.

2023-01-05_10-01-25 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[bulleidboy]

A nice assortment of cab crew (Modelu or Hardys?). Good idea about coal on the shovel - obvious, but I've never seen it mentioned before.

[Walkingthedog]

I always model the shovel either before it has been loaded with coal or after it has dispensed with its load

[Steve M]

Barry, they are from Hardy’s - two of their multi-packs.
Brian is getting lazy in his dotage.

Did I mention that one driver has a moustache and two have tattoos on their arms.

[Walkingthedog]

One of them definitely needs to trim his nose hair.

I’ve never loaded the shovels with coal because it never occurred to me. Looks like I have to get busy. What a good idea Steve.

[Steve M]

Some more 3D printed bits arrived at the end of the week so some painting has been done ready to install on the layout.

20230108_163018 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20230108_170742 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

And I needed an oxyacetylene gear that go with the light effect in the shed.

20230108_163107 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Then there are the ground signals.

20230108_170945 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[Steve M]

Not something that I should often seen at West Orton - freight. Mainly because a mixture of couplings made them awkward to run. But I have finally got round to converting them all to Hunt couplings although the locos and lead wagon have Kadees.

2023-01-09_12-33-58 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[Carl L]

The shed scenes are simply superb, lovely attention to detail great painting/weathering. The cameo on the buffers looks just so natural. Great modelling to aspire to, again

Who’s 3D ‘shed clutter’ is it?