Taking a bog standard pre-owned carriage and then upgrading it to a better standard shows you what can be done and how it's done. Just love it. Thank you for sharing on how to do it.
Nice job, Sir! I too love parcels and mail vans. Recall seeing many interesting varieties back in my spotting days. Sadly missed nowadays. Keep up the good work!
I remember a couple of old LMS units like this that were departmental at Stewarts Lane, previously at the old Nine Elms facility. There was an episode of the Professional's which the two were protecting a source and hid out in a GUV and there was a couple ancient and hoary coaches in the shots there too. I loved departmental, the SR sandite units were awesome esp the 2BIL one, one of the APT's test cars was a SR Hastings buffet coach converted for the test trains and Caroline the inspection car was another out of service Hastings buffet car. Its cool how BR reused surplus stuff. Caroline was built using the slim Hastings stock so it could be used to inspect that one tunnel that plagued the whole line, that line also put constraints on SR parcel and other wagons that needed to travel through that tunnel which until Beeching could have been avoided but he decimated the area's railways including the one he lived next to.
Great episode, just waiting for your next “new” episode, thought I would backtrack your earlier postings, and this is especially interesting. Love the historical talk over while you are moving forward on the bench. Okay, back to 2024
Well done on another outstanding upgrade. I wish there were more of this type of video on RUclips. Convincing but not rivet countingly detailed. You seem to get the balance just right. Given it must take many hours to complete you foreshorten some of the time consuming processes, but include all of the modifications you carry out and include details of the prototype, which encourages the viewer to 'have a go'. I also like how you include the challenges you come across. It would have been great to see how you fixed the bogie mountings in the end - as the resulting bogie/buffer right seems just right. Am I right in thinking you use 45 thou brass wire for the hand rails?
Glad I found a gap in the market!! 😎 I know I'm not the best, and that doesn't bother me, much! So long as I can keep to a reasonably decent standard I'm happy, it wold appear you and others are happy with my work and content, which is surprising heartfelt and humbling! I'll carry on...... Can't remember what the size of brass rod was? as was the last few bits in the packet which went in the the bin!! Sounds about right though... Thanks👍
Really good result 👍🏻 BR blue a fantastic era for my train spotting days around Manchester Victoria and red bank sidings. I’ve got one of these so I think it’ll be my first go after watching your video. Thanks Stevie.
Thank you for posting this video, very interesting and informative. I have one in LMS livery, which I bought new many years ago, and until I watched your video, I hadn't given much thought to the bogies, hadnt realised they were incorrect (shame on me, as I model the LMS in the mid -'30's), but now I will certainly be looking to change them. Thanks also for the very useful information (such as where to get the parts). Much appreciated, thanks again, M.S.
Nice episode, always valuable. Three years on - roof vents, and the battery boxes, any thoughts, I have acquired four, and I’m in part basing my upgrade on this episode
Great channel! Very much 'my era' as well, the seventies and eighties! There is a lot of choice of stock to model. Is there ANY parcels stock still around these days? Thanks for posting.
@Wallsrail Love the work! Sorry to ask what is probably a dumb question, but why do you not paint the handrails before attaching them to the carriage? I've noticed military modellers doing the same as you and it seems weird to me to not to prepaint them. Is there a strong reason, or is it just personal choice?
For the same reason you'd see a welder cleaning the two surfaces to be bonded together. Glue sticks to a bare surface a lot better than a painted surface. Paint forms a thin film that sort of insulates against the glue. Not to say that it is possible to glue painted surfaces together, but its a lot stronger to join clean surfaces. That's how I was taught, others may have differing views.... Thanks NW
Taking a bog standard pre-owned carriage and then upgrading it to a better standard shows you what can be done and how it's done. Just love it. Thank you for sharing on how to do it.
Nice job, Sir!
I too love parcels and mail vans. Recall seeing many interesting varieties back in my spotting days.
Sadly missed nowadays.
Keep up the good work!
Fantastic makeover 🤩 great tutorial 👍
I am genuinely impressed by your skills. You make this look so easy and yet I don't think I could do any of this yet! Thanks for sharing!
More of this sort of thing in planning stage!!
Thanks 👍
Luv a GUV. Great weathering, looks just how I remember back in the day at Worcester, Shrub hill.
I remember a couple of old LMS units like this that were departmental at Stewarts Lane, previously at the old Nine Elms facility. There was an episode of the Professional's which the two were protecting a source and hid out in a GUV and there was a couple ancient and hoary coaches in the shots there too. I loved departmental, the SR sandite units were awesome esp the 2BIL one, one of the APT's test cars was a SR Hastings buffet coach converted for the test trains and Caroline the inspection car was another out of service Hastings buffet car. Its cool how BR reused surplus stuff. Caroline was built using the slim Hastings stock so it could be used to inspect that one tunnel that plagued the whole line, that line also put constraints on SR parcel and other wagons that needed to travel through that tunnel which until Beeching could have been avoided but he decimated the area's railways including the one he lived next to.
Great episode, just waiting for your next “new” episode, thought I would backtrack your earlier postings, and this is especially interesting.
Love the historical talk over while you are moving forward on the bench.
Okay, back to 2024
New stuff soon.....
Great job and looks great 👍
Well done on another outstanding upgrade. I wish there were more of this type of video on RUclips. Convincing but not rivet countingly detailed. You seem to get the balance just right. Given it must take many hours to complete you foreshorten some of the time consuming processes, but include all of the modifications you carry out and include details of the prototype, which encourages the viewer to 'have a go'. I also like how you include the challenges you come across. It would have been great to see how you fixed the bogie mountings in the end - as the resulting bogie/buffer right seems just right. Am I right in thinking you use 45 thou brass wire for the hand rails?
Glad I found a gap in the market!! 😎
I know I'm not the best, and that doesn't bother me, much! So long as I can keep to a reasonably decent standard I'm happy, it wold appear you and others are happy with my work and content, which is surprising heartfelt and humbling! I'll carry on......
Can't remember what the size of brass rod was? as was the last few bits in the packet which went in the the bin!! Sounds about right though...
Thanks👍
Really good result 👍🏻 BR blue a fantastic era for my train spotting days around Manchester Victoria and red bank sidings. I’ve got one of these so I think it’ll be my first go after watching your video. Thanks Stevie.
Nice result. Massive improvement on the original. Cheers.
Thank you for posting this video, very interesting and informative. I have one in LMS livery, which I bought new many years ago, and until I watched your video, I hadn't given much thought to the bogies, hadnt realised they were incorrect (shame on me, as I model the LMS in the mid -'30's), but now I will certainly be looking to change them. Thanks also for the very useful information (such as where to get the parts). Much appreciated, thanks again, M.S.
You're welcome
Thanks
Fantastic job
I am thinking of getting this model and turning it into a refrigerated fish van.
Turned out lovely 👍
Very nice work thanks for sharing
Super
Great stuff
End result looks good but i think for most people's eyes just the weathering would have done the job well enough.
Nice episode, always valuable.
Three years on - roof vents, and the battery boxes, any thoughts, I have acquired four, and I’m in part basing my upgrade on this episode
Great channel! Very much 'my era' as well, the seventies and eighties! There is a lot of choice of stock to model. Is there ANY parcels stock still around these days? Thanks for posting.
Loads of preserved parcels stock about, and one or two vans in departmental use if you know where to look for them!
@Wallsrail Love the work! Sorry to ask what is probably a dumb question, but why do you not paint the handrails before attaching them to the carriage? I've noticed military modellers doing the same as you and it seems weird to me to not to prepaint them. Is there a strong reason, or is it just personal choice?
For the same reason you'd see a welder cleaning the two surfaces to be bonded together.
Glue sticks to a bare surface a lot better than a painted surface.
Paint forms a thin film that sort of insulates against the glue.
Not to say that it is possible to glue painted surfaces together, but its a lot stronger to join clean surfaces.
That's how I was taught, others may have differing views....
Thanks
NW
@@Wallsrail That does make very good sense. Thanks for your answer!