Takeover? Maybe not…

The unanimous opinion on G1 in Connex livery was “Bring back red”. Thank goodness for image manipulation.
Connex are changing their name to Veolia now, and Paul Smith of Widnes Road fame tells me they are gradually changing the corporate colours to red and white. Their German website is changing too. It seems they have [...]

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Takeover

I’m learning how to use “The Gimp” at the moment, and it occured to me that as Connex/Veolia Group run a lot of the local railways, with a bit of a different history they may well have taken over the KÖB, so I tried some image manipulation into their livery. What do you think? I [...]

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Buffer Zone.

I finally built up courage to rebuild the Buffers on G1. The old is gone, the new is attached and works as far as I can see… Aware of my lack of prowess with the hacksaw I did the ‘Non-stripey’ end first, worked out hoe I could make it work, and then made a worse [...]

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Buzz Buzz…

I finally painted stripes on one end of G1 using the old method of putting masking tape on glass and cutting it. This was an experiment: the buffer beam will probably need rebuilding for the DG couplings I’m going to try and install over the next few weeks, but I figure that if I can [...]

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Growler 1 update

Progress on Growler 1 is slow but steady. After considering my options (ie: putting it off) for a while I finished the radiators last night. They aren’t an exact copy of the real thing, and maybe when I’m building locos in brass I’ll redo it, but until then I’m satisfied with how it looks.

The model [...]

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A step at a time…

I’ve completed the frames on “Growler 1” at last. It took some time, as construction was squeezed between nappy changes and burping of littlest… For a comparison with the mock up look here. I’m in the early stages of building a Flickr gallery.
At the moment I think I’ll paint the under frame grey, and the [...]

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Building the frames, or How not to do things…

Today is a national holiday in Germany to commemorate the reunification in 1990, Being a public holiday it rained, but I was able to get some model building done.

I haven’t built in plasticard since about 11 years so I have an excuse for making almost every mistake in the book, and then some. I’d forgotten [...]

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Growler 1…

More indulgence. Here is the planned first locomotive, still in card mock-up form, but a better picture than I’ve had previously.
There are wheels under there somewhere: the model is running on a complete Bachmann 0-6-0 Plymouth. If you look closely you can see the Plymouth roof horn through the cab windows. I’d like a modern [...]

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