7mm Yorky D's LT - The Brill Collection....

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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
For the lighting looms I made up two PCB boards to hold the resistors and sub-miniature plugs. They are stuck to the false roof with double sided foam tape - the type used to mount car rear view mirrors to the windsrceen.

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PCB board used for the current collection and motor connection sockets (rear) and lighting connections (front). Met 93.jpg

Lighting sockets from Decoder PCB. Met 94.jpg

Lighting sockets connected. Met 94a.jpg

Speaker connections - the socket is from the decoder and the plug from the speaker. I always wire up my decoder plug and socket connections like this i.e. decoder wires have the sockets to prevent any accidental shorting and damage to the decoder.Met 95.jpg
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The speaker Met 97.jpg

And finally the louvres - these are cast resin and require cleaning up. I have painted them grey to reveal any small air bubbles from the casting process which require filling - and there are a handful.

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oldravendale

Western Thunderer
Speaker connections - the socket is from the decoder and the plug from the speaker. I always wire up my decoder plug and socket connections like this i.e. decoder wires have the sockets to prevent any accidental shorting and damage to the decoder.

Been there, done that, T short worn etc.....:oops:

Brian
 
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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
A trip into the paint shop for Sir Ralph Verney...

....all Vallejo acrylics and the body colour was a mixture of dark red and mahogany. I also cheated with the lining and used yellow lining decals - which took one day to apply in several stages!

Now awaiting number and lettering decals before glazing, final details, assembly and light weathering.

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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Just printed off some destination boards I've either photographed, found on the LT Museum collection website or from t'interweb.

They have been re-scaled but a test reveals further resizing is required.

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There are obvious omissions from the list on the left for which I have not yet found suitable photographs and they are - WATFORD, HARROW, LIVERPOOL ST., BAKER ST. and WEMBLEY PARK.

The ones I did not know existed are on the upper right and was surprised to see GREAT MISSENDEN ! Of course the one on the lower right is before LT ceased running trains to Verney Junction.

Another missing destination board is EDGWARE ROAD which I only found out from the RAYNERS LANE board. It appears some of the destination boards are double sided and the RAYNERS LANE board has small lettering running up outer ends and on this face they read RL - ER (Edgware Road). As can be seen below MOORGATE has M - WM P (Wembley Park) on this side.

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NEASDEN shows N - BK (Baker Street); BAKER STREET shows STAN (Stanmore) - BK and UXBRIDGE shows UX - H H (Harrow on the Hill). I would assume from the destinations it appears these boards were interchangeable with T stock which would imply there are other destination boards yet to be located. Some of the boards are Met in origin e.g. Baker Street/Stanmore, Verney Junction.

And being tested... A end (from photos I've seen the A end always faces London).
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D endMet 102.jpg

Still waiting for the decals :(.....
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Looks very good Warren - you can spot the City of London and the county emblems of Buckinghamshire (swan), Middlesex (three scimitars) and Hertfordshire (hart).

Any chance of a pic of the entire loco?
 

Engineer

Western Thunderer
To help with scaling and sizing, Metropolitan Railway destination plates are, I believe, 2' 9" overall length including brass mountings, and height 4".

For plates made in the LT era, the character set definitely changed, also the pairing of destinations, and the plate height may have changed. For example, I believe Edgware Road and Addison Road were paired in the set of destination plates for H&C trains - in Metropolitan times. By the end of loco-hauled trains, plates were a mix of LT and Met styles.
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Thanks Engineer - very useful measurements. I'll resize the destination plates to 2.5 x 20mm. 20mm which fits within the brackets.

I did notice the typeface of the AYLESBURY plate is P22 Johnston whereas the remainder are I suspect original Met.
 

P A D

Western Thunderer
I also cheated with the lining and used yellow lining decals - which took one day to apply in several stages!

Not cheating Dave, just an alternative to using a ruling pen or spring bow pen! I've got dozens of both instruments in my collection but wouldn't dream of using them for lining, as I know I can get a better result with transfers.

Lovely model and very nicely painted and weathered.

Cheers,
Peter
 
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