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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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?