Thread: GNR Stirling Locomotive

How hot is hot over there Bruce ?

Regards

Keith

Colder and wetter than yesterday Crowie

Worked on the rails today. Again used the "Bluescope Ironstone" as my base colour of the rail. Gave the rails a few more coats of the red oxide wash to look like rust exposed sides of the rail.
I masked off the sides of the rail and then spray painted the top in "Pewter" to give the appearance of wear on the top of the rail where the locomotive wheels contact along the rail.

Onto the sleepers and then the main support base.

Regards

Keith

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So the heater was to help the paint dry.....

Originally Posted by crowie

So the heater was to help the paint dry.....

Spot on

Snow in Lorne yesterday

Photo from today's paper showing snow in region and it's SPRING

Regards

Keith

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The same happens here Keith when we get snow it tends to be in spring and moving away from winter.

Hi Keith, more lampology from the blog...

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Apparently the the one with the side window is so that "the signalman can see from the side when the train has passed" and the ones with the curved handle were to allow the lamp to "hang from the coupling hook if there weren't any brackets".
I will now officially stop talking to people about lamps!
fletty

fletty
Great post will help when and if I get around to making mine.

Alan,

Thanks for the top photos. Very interesting regarding how they changed from white light to red light.

By the way - I love your blog. fantastic photos of the planes that both your dad and mine flew in WW2. Amazing the amount of different planes they practiced their flying skills in. My old man reckoned the worst plane was the "Fairey Battle" - any of them around ?

Any way Thanks again and enjoy your time over there.

Regards

Keith

Originally Posted by Keith_1

Alan,

By the way - I love your blog. fantastic photos of the planes that both your dad and mine flew in WW2. Amazing the amount of different planes they practiced their flying skills in. My old man reckoned the worst plane was the "Fairey Battle" - any of them around ?

Regards

Keith

Thanks Keith. The poor old Fairey Battle gets a lot of bad press. It was designed to a specification that meant it would be a sitting duck as a bomber when/if War started and its poor, brave crews were simply shot out of the sky when they attacked the advancing German forces in daylight in France in 1940. As the RAF had hundreds of them, but could no longer use them in action, they became gunnery trainers and something like 300 of them were sent to Australia for that purpose. My Dad did his gunnery training in Battles in South Australia and I wouldn't be surprised if your Dad did too? The RAF Museum in London has one but I'm not going to London this trip but I believe there is also one being restored IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA! The Blenheim that I photographed at Duxford was a contemporary of the Battle but it at least was spawned by a more realistic specification.
fletty

Thanks Alan,

Really appreciate your comments and the photos on your blog.

Continue to enjoy your time over there mate.

All the Best

Keith

Hi All,

Haven't posted for a while - 5 days not in the shed - hurt my back and haven't been able to work.

But able to watch the World Series Surfing at Trestles in the USA - so a bit of compensation.

Anyway prior to injury - I cut my sleepers (21 of them) and used a wire brush on my angle grinder to dig in along the grain to simulate weathering of the timber. Pine is great because of the hard and soft grain structure to allow the brush to dig in. You must wear gloves, Safety glasses, face shield and respirator in this method of weathering.

Today - I made up a paint wash of mission brown and black to give the colour I wanted for the sleeper. The pine colour still comes through from underneath.

I now have my rails, clamps and sleepers done - so onto the base board, although still taking it easy and off to the physio in an hour.

Regards

Keith

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Have a speedy recovery
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Regards

Sorry to hear you're feeling poorly mate. Excellent work on your sleepers though!

Get well soon. Don't overdo it.

You can't keep a good man down for long