Howbi Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 What's the B17 got to do with football?............ 😆/media/tinymce_upload/e469bc530d8cbdd8dfb2326f8679d422.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 That's not fair, once I start on acft I won't stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblinwheel Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I hope they will produce the red Coronation in SHINY paint. Just like the photos. Just like the real thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 That's not fair, once I start on acft I won't stop. Don't worry WTD Howbiman is only try to be a 'smarty pants'. Someone should tell him that no-one likes a clever clogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I hope they will produce the red Coronation in SHINY paint. Just like the photos. Just like the real thing...I'm not bothered about being shiney. More important is the correct shade of RED. My 'City of Lancaster' is certainly wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjb1961 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I am also hoping it will be in a shiny red finish ,I'm definitely putting my name down for the sir William a stander and the TTS model ,I personally think a lot more models should be produced in the gloss finnish,the locomotion f /Scotsman in BR green gloss is a beauty,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblinwheel Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I agree 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblinwheel Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Talkin' about the possibility of being the "wrong shade of red"? A lot of times the "dullness" of the finish can make the "right" shade look WRONG! Often appearing lighter and "faded". "Fading" and weathering should be left up to the individual owner. It's awful easy to do...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 The correct shade of red is green! 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblinwheel Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I recently bought Hornby's A4 "Golden Eagle", supposedly painted in the same color as the current Sir Nigel Gresley. Due to the dull finish of the model, it's not even close. Looks very "toy-like" to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 My 'City of Lancaster' is certainly too dark As for LCDR - Book yourself a colour-blindness test!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 No need - I passed it on BR with flying colours every three years. 46255 in glorious green once took me on holiday and I would not have had her painted in any other colour. The red ones always appeared far too gaudy./media/tinymce_upload/aa90245dcd84cd2185159649c0cb02e4.jpg I wish I had had a colour film when I took this of 46231../media/tinymce_upload/6542ef6d14fac0884c400ab8a89373ee.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 No need - I passed it on BR with flying colours every three years. ../media/tinymce_upload/6542ef6d14fac0884c400ab8a89373ee.jpg If only we'd had todays cameras etc. then !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 No need - I passed it on BR with flying colours every three years. 46255 in glorious green once took me on holiday and I would not have had her painted in any other colour. The red ones always appeared far too gaudy./media/tinymce_upload/aa90245dcd84cd2185159649c0cb02e4.jpg I wish I had had a colour film when I took this of 46231../media/tinymce_upload/6542ef6d14fac0884c400ab8a89373ee.jpg If only we'd had todays cameras etc. back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Hi LCDRIf only we had todays cameras back then. I tried to reply to your photos, while ommitting the big one, but with that comment, but it went all wrong!! Interesting thought - If you thought a maroon Duchess was too gaudy what did you think of the 'Daily Mirror' Compound?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobblinwheel Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Personally, I don't really care for a red or maroon steam engine. Being from the US, Garter Blue was a big enough stretch for me! Edit: I have to mention that I live and model the East coast railroads. Nearly all dirty, rusty black freight engines. The Norfolk and Western and New York Central did keep some shiny, streamlined passenger equipment, and the Southern RR had some beautiful GREEN steamers! The red, orange, and silver Southern Pacific "Daylight" was strictly West Coast. A lot of weirdness in that neck of the woods...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Hi LCDRIf only we had todays cameras back then. I tried to reply to your photos, while ommitting the big one, but with that comment, but it went all wrong!! Interesting thought - If you thought a maroon Duchess was too gaudy what did you think of the 'Daily Mirror' Compound??If you mean the Andy Capp Special, scrapping the Compound afterwards was the kindest thing they could have done!! No engine should have suffered such ignomony. And no doubt you will remember the wallpapered black 5. it lives in my nightmares! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 'Red' steam engines go with the 'red' mk 1 coaches! Alas poor Yorick - Two TTS decoders or one proper full sound decoder, that is the question! (to thoroughly mangle that Shakespeare guy!) For dismals, the TTS is fine, but for a steam loco, the sound and the vision don't match! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Hi LCDRIf only we had todays cameras back then. I tried to reply to your photos, while ommitting the big one, but with that comment, but it went all wrong!! Interesting thought - If you thought a maroon Duchess was too gaudy what did you think of the 'Daily Mirror' Compound??If you mean the Andy Capp Special, scrapping the Compound afterwards was the kindest thing they could have done!! No engine should have suffered such ignomony. And no doubt you will remember the wallpapered black 5. it lives in my nightmares!I was indeed refering to the Andy Capp special. I reckon the guy who authorised it should have been shot.!Re the Black 5. It was only an advert - I doubt it ever went on the main line. I don't even know whether it was BR owned or already in preservation.''The POLICE livery class 37 was quite amusing when they came to wash off the 'washaway' paint and it wouldn't come off. I should think there were a few choice words in Gateshead depot. Couldn't understand why they sent it all the way to Stratford for the repaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I find the Hornby City of Lancaster. about right in Hugh. I think half the problem is when you see the real thing. if it's a sunny day when you see Sutherland. the model is to dark. when I saw it, it was a cold very very wet November day. so the colour seemed darker. the model seems to catch it perfect. Saying that, T Cut the model will in prove the look. but don't over do it otherwise someone may find them selfs learning how to line a loco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Wallpapered Black5 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Wallpapered Black5 ? Some company made a washable (?) wallpaper and to prove it would stick/washable they wallpapered a Black 5, I think on the Keighley line. I can't remember too much about it - no doubt LC&DR will have all the gen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Ok, poor Black5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 45212 on the K&WVR was covered in red and cream flowery wallpaper in 1969 for a Solvite advertisment. This picture from the Railway Magazine by J. Glover shows her wallpapered but then wrapped in plastic to keep clean before the filming. http://kwvr.co.uk/trains-and-the-railway/tv-film/ mentions the event but gives no details./media/tinymce_upload/c845fb0a5de399c108aaffede692f06b.jpgI was working in Newcastle when the 'Police'; advertisment was made, We were sworn to secrecy at the time. The loco was run light on the West Line with a camera helicopter chasing it. A large blue dome on the roof had a flashing light, but as this was out of gauge it had to be fitted out on the site. A repeat was made some years later using a similarly adorned class 47. Another 'stunt' I got involved in was a demonstration of safety at level crossings. We placed a bright red Ford XR2i on Yafforth level crossing on the Redmire branch. We then propelled two cars of a 4TC set with a class 47 at it. Just before the crossing a slip coupling detached the two carriages which carried on while the locomotive stopped short. A reducing valve in the coaches progressivly applied the air brake so the vehicles would have stopped anyway, but not before ploughing into the car, at about 40 mph. Near the crossing a grandstand for invited spectators was erected and all the local and national media were invited to attend. The crash was filmed and used in a TV advert afterwards. /media/tinymce_upload/7007d7363fcc65ed8b919fd4bd0c6c63.jpgThe 'body' in the car was a member of Railtrack's publicity team who bravely climbed in to the car after the crash dummy which was removed. His accident make up was very realistic and not a little gruesome. The fire service had made the car safe before the crash, but it was a runner and filming had already taken place of the car travelling towards the crossing driven by that same person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 That was taken on one of those plastic Kodak 127 cameras that took 8 shots. The oval shaped ones, cheap and cheerful. Shame my pocket money didn't run to anything better, that and a model railway and a Meccano set to support! My other major item of weekly expenditure was a red bus rover 1/3d in Saturdays, to go round London spotting locos and buses. A Jubbly and an individual fruit pie, and some cheese & pickle sandwiches in a brown paper bag, all packed into a Army Surplus shoulder bag. Dress code, short grey trousers (knee length) , grey school jumper, long socks (knee length) , school cap, and on wet days a navy blue raincoat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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