Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Update

Today, I’ve bought three Austrian locos from an uncle (two Lilliput 0-6-2 http://www.buccabury.co.uk/ltr/museum-no09.jpg and a 0-6-0 of an unknown maker) and four coaches one without wheels. I'm not yet sure on which livery to paint my locos and stock, either the ffestiniogs brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FR_Carriage8.jpg
maroon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ffestrail_coaches_at_Tanybwlch.jpg
green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FR_Carriage20.jpg
or mat black with lining... hmmm.
I didn’t like the colors they came in so I sprayed the two Lilliput locomotives a matt black color. I've also striped one of the coaches, (remove body, then all the windows) and sprayed it matt black too, this will give me a rough idea how the layout would look if some of the stock and locomotives where black.
Also he gave me a scratchbuilt (out of cardboard) Penrhyn mainline class 0-4-0 (Linda, Blanche or Charles as they where originally, no pony truck and no tender). This is in a bit of a ‘mangled’ state, I’ve got two ideas, one is to try to replace the broken bits, and eventually put it in the scrap line / being restored in a workshop OR make it look nice and shiny, then place it on a plinth. Either way, it probably will never run.

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