Hi Scott, I find it invaluable. This morning I soldered some substantial lost wax tank fillers onto a model. Small bead of solder, drop of flux, few seconds...
Hi there, Hmmm, must be another english-english translation problem. To me, Brunswick Green is the color the Pennsylvania railroad painted their engines,...
Brunswick Green is the colour chosen by BR to paint its Mainline Steam Locos. There are those who claim that this is the same as GWR Green(as in use ...
Hi Mike, Attached photo of a 7mm GWR 45XX I have built and delivered just this week, to a customer in Arizona, and finished in GWR 1945 Brunswick Green, which...
Hi there, Ah, photos of the prototype. That helps a lot. As for the width of the duckets (took me a few messages to figure out what those were!), the...
Mike . Brunswick green was GWR green, and the colour generally used for the locos painted green in BR days. I have to be careful here , no doubt the...
HI all, According to an old chap I met once at an exhibition who had been a Swindon works loco painter, they used the same paint to do BR green locos as the...
Hi Gavin I would strongly suggest you get John Armstrong's book "Track Planning for Realistic Operation". In the US, John was known as the "dean of custom...
We shall be there with stand, look forward to meeting many exisiting customers who have indicated they are going-cannot face the crush and expense of the...
Peter, The Pennsylvania Railroad also used Brunswick Green, which in their case was described as one quart of green and one 55 gallon drum of black! Scott Maze...
... Looking forward to seeing you there Bob. I'll be there with FourTrack Models, just across the aisle from your empire. Cheers for now, John from FourTrack...
... Or on the Caledonian "Perth Blue" and "St Rollox Blue" although at that period where the pigment was measured in handfulls I suspect it may have varied...
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While in advert mode - The Plastic Surgeon can be found on stand E1 - same place for the last five years - LIMA coach conversions and plastic freight vehicles...
Green, as a colour, whatever you may call it, like all other colours, is what you as an individual perceive it to be. As has been said, once a little oil,...
Green, as a colour, whatever you may call it, like all other colours, is what you as an individual perceive it to be. As has been said, once a little oil,...
Green, as a colour, whatever you may call it, like all other colours, is what you as an individual perceive it to be. As has been said, once a little oil,...
Just remembered an oft used expression that we used in the local model engineering society. We had a couple of genuine ex GW drivers (now past on). Needless to...
Hi, Barry and I had a close friend (now deceased) who was a driver on the Western region in steam days , he was also a fantastic model engineer, and made medal...
Reference the recent emails in respect of LMS brake vans and the pdf file from the Essery book showing head codes. Is my memory failing me after 50 years?...
Ted, ECS (certainly in BR days.) is indeed lamped middle and over righthand buffer, that's ref from the footplate. Most enthusiasts look from the front and...
Jeff, Amen to that comment on experts! Even so, is it possible the color looked different inside, under incandescent or flourescent lighting, than outside, ...
Hi All a little while ago I had a cataract removed from one eye - I could not believe the difference in the white from the "new" eye and the Yellowish white of...
Hi Scott, Maybe you are right, but pehaps "experts" should have been aware of such things. I recently stood next to the impressive A4 pacific " Union of...
I was always told that the correct derivation of expert can be found in the pronunciation 'ex - spurt' where 'ex' is a has been and 'spurt' is a drip under...
Having spent most of my working life involved with colours in the plastics industry, I can tell you that a trained colour matcher cannot look at a colour...
