Mr Tiger Viking - G1 1/32nd Modelling Workshop

[Mr Tiger Viking]

Very good weathering . It's the ability to achieve the heavier? weathering and damage where it's likely to occur i.e. the ends, leaving the bodysides cleaner.

The warning panels are too clean - where's the squashed entomology collection........ or didn't they go that fast? This was obviously more prevalent on the WCML - a selective enlargement from one of my photographs. Stafford in the early 80's . Okay - so it's blue and electric...... Off to the back of the class now.
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Hi Dave
What a great observation & question, 'Where's the squashed entomology collection'? I cannot recall seeing any model weathered which has captured the kamikaze insect nation on the yellow front ends of locomotives, I must admit to not even considering it, however I would think it would take some explaining that its entomology detail weathering and not some poor application with the air brush. I do recall seeing Western's at Swindon in the summer months with their front ends looking like your class 86.
Cheers
Mr TV

 

[Dan Randall]

Hi Dave
What a great observation & question, 'Where's the squashed entomology collection'? I cannot recall seeing any model weathered which has captured the kamikaze insect nation on the yellow front ends of locomotives, I must admit to not even considering it, however I would think it would take some explaining that its entomology detail weathering and not some poor application with the air brush. I do recall seeing Western's at Swindon in the summer months with their front ends looking like your class 86.
Cheers
Mr TV

I can remember standing on Burnham (Bucks), station with my parents in about 1972 waiting for an excursion to Barry Island* (which turned out to be a 12 car set of Pressed Steel Class 117 DMUs, rather than the expected engine and coaches!). Anyway, before the arrival of our train, another 6 car 117 DMU stopped in the platform, on a timetabled service. I was standing right where the trailing cab and leading cab of each set came to a stand and recall looking down and being fascinated by how the sets were coupled and how complicated it all looked (a fascination I've never lost, even after all this time). The screw couplings, vacuum pipes and assorted multiple-working cables, were all covered in varying degrees of filth and grease, but in complete contrast, the stainless steel rams of the OLEO buffers, were impossibly clean and shiny!

There were also hundreds, if not thousands, of dead insects plastering the fronts of both cabs, the rather sickly shade of all over yellow providing a stark background to this tapestry of death. The windcreens were not exempt obviously and the windscreen wipers, when used, had done nothing to improve the driver's forward vision! It's funny what stays in your mind after so many years and I wonder if the buffer-less, auto-coupled fleets of 2nd generation DMUs will provoke the thoughts of today's youngsters in the same way, in 40 or so years time? I can't see it myself.

*As the train had already made several stops before Burnham, getting the coveted view behind the driver in the leading unit was never going to happen, but we managed to blag the same seat in one of the intermediate sets. It was funny to be rattling along at 75mph, watching the motion of the opposing driving cab (also covered in dead insects!), but funnier still, was that in the same set of behind-the-driver seats, were our neighbours from 9 doors along, who'd obviously got on at Slough!

As an added bonus, we passed the scrapyard at Barry, a place I never knew existed and as I found out in later years, probably contained well in excess of 150 withdrawn steam locos at the time! Ahh, happy days.

Regards

Dan

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

I can remember standing on Burnham (Bucks), station with my parents in about 1972 waiting for an excursion to Barry Island

Were these the BR 'Merrymaker' excursions? I remember going on several of these in the mid 70's from Aylesbury to York both loco hauled and a 9 car DMU set. It was a cheap way to visit my grandparents at the time.

 

[Dan Randall]

Were these the BR 'Merrymaker' excursions? I remember going on several of these in the mid 70's from Aylesbury to York both loco hauled and a 9 car DMU set. It was a cheap way to visit my grandparents at the time.

Yes, they were either "Merrymakers" or "Pied Piper Specials", on which, I believe, children travelled for free, when accompanied by an adult. Having parents that didn't drive was a distinct advantage to a train-mad child. It also meant I got to travel on the fantastic buses of the era, the RTs, RFs, Routemasters and Bristol Lodekkas.


Regards

Dan

 

[oldravendale]

I wonder if the buffer-less, auto-coupled fleets of 2nd generation DMUs will provoke the thoughts of today's youngsters in the same way, in 40 or so years time? I can't see it myself.

I thought exactly that about blue diesels........

B

 

[Clarky100]

Tiger looks absolutely fantastic!

Would you be so kind as to take a close up photo of the data panel on the cabside please!

I want to get Class 43 data panels made for one of mine, but I can't find a photo where I can read the details.

It would be a great help!

Ta!

 

[Ian G]

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[Clarky100]

Thanks Ian

I always use Precision Decals, but you have to tell them the data to put on the panel, I think.

Its the actual Class 43 details that I'm missing.

The only close up photos of a Class 43 that I can read has Class 42 data panels.

The 43s were slightly different in weight etc.

G

 

[Mr Tiger Viking]

Tiger looks absolutely fantastic!

Would you be so kind as to take a close up photo of the data panel on the cabside please!

I want to get Class 43 data panels made for one of mine, but I can't find a photo where I can read the details.

It would be a great help!

Ta!

Apologies for the delay to your request, I was given by a Gentleman I met who had been chief engineer at Laira in the late 60's early 70's the last remaining data panel from a class 42 Warship that was left in the Laira stores, obviously its not a NBL class 43 Warship however all that would change would be class/weight.
Cheers
Mr TV

 

[Clarky100]

That's absolutely excellent Mr TV.

Thank you very much indeed

My only concern is that page 97 of "The Book of the Warships" suggests that both Classes 42 and 43 were shown as being 79 tons weight, rather than any differentiation between the 42s and the heavier 43s.

As if 79 tons represented an average for both Class 42s "rounded up" and Class 43s "rounded down!"

G