For as old a tooling as they are, I really enjoy how free rolling they are, especially the ones upgraded with metal wheels. Thanks for posting this, as I can't resist buying rakes of them if they're being sold for a low enough price online. I have quite a few now, so whenever I feel like renumbering the duplicates, I can also apply your tips to give them a more realistic finish on them too!
A nice job of work👍😊 I believe that Tony Wright still uses and adapts these coaches. The newer (posher) ones were a near miss by Hornby and not perfect, but more costly (this was a number of years ago, not sure if they updated the tooling?). Also werent some of the, later, prototypes, steel with an ersatz finish? Yours are crying out for light weathering 🤔🤞👍😊💜
Thanks! I try not to think too much about the accuracy of these as there were so many versions and I get a headache 😂. I must admit I’ve been tempted to start weathering my stock recently so we’ll see…
@@ceruleanmodelling It's a fine line that I tread, with detail and accuracy, between therapeutic endeavour and headache. I model 7mm so have to draw the line at diminishing returns. Also RULE No. 1 applies, it's your railway. Weathering? Start on a spare or broken wagon, get some photographs of the real thing and paint what you see in the photo on your model. I've been weathering models since 1972 when doing such was seen as heretical!🤫😉🤭😀😀👍💜
Oh really? Apologies, no idea what that’s about. I happen to be deaf on my left side so no wonder I didn’t notice. I’ll look into it, thanks for the tip off!
I did something similar to this with the hornby br mk1 coaches- its worth 3d printing replacement bogies and going nuts with detail, gaugeone3d has some really nice underframe details for free whitch are worth scaling down and adding too.
This is something that I have been wanting to do. Now after watching this I feel more confident to do it. Thank you
Great to hear, good luck with yours!
Very good. Dirt on the underframe and a lightly weathered roof and they’re perfect
Thanks! I must admit I’m tempted to start weathering these things…
For as old a tooling as they are, I really enjoy how free rolling they are, especially the ones upgraded with metal wheels. Thanks for posting this, as I can't resist buying rakes of them if they're being sold for a low enough price online. I have quite a few now, so whenever I feel like renumbering the duplicates, I can also apply your tips to give them a more realistic finish on them too!
Lovely to hear it’s been of help! They do roll very smooth, I was surprised when I first got them. Good luck with yours!
I've always thought these old things were such a disservice to the spectacular vibrance and shimmer real teak coaches have
I’m with you, they’ve always been a bit below the beauty of the real things. Still lovely though!
A nice job of work👍😊
I believe that Tony Wright still uses and adapts these coaches. The newer (posher) ones were a near miss by Hornby and not perfect, but more costly (this was a number of years ago, not sure if they updated the tooling?). Also werent some of the, later, prototypes, steel with an ersatz finish?
Yours are crying out for light weathering 🤔🤞👍😊💜
Thanks! I try not to think too much about the accuracy of these as there were so many versions and I get a headache 😂. I must admit I’ve been tempted to start weathering my stock recently so we’ll see…
@@ceruleanmodelling It's a fine line that I tread, with detail and accuracy, between therapeutic endeavour and headache. I model 7mm so have to draw the line at diminishing returns. Also RULE No. 1 applies, it's your railway. Weathering? Start on a spare or broken wagon, get some photographs of the real thing and paint what you see in the photo on your model. I've been weathering models since 1972 when doing such was seen as heretical!🤫😉🤭😀😀👍💜
Hi there, which brand of white pen did you use for your whee l trims? I've found the qualities of the different pens to be fairly variable.
Looked like a Posca to me, hope that helps😊👍
Confirming what was previously said- it’s a Posca. They’re very nice, I recommend them!
Something was done to the audio where when wearing headphones it can only be heard coming from the right side.
Oh really? Apologies, no idea what that’s about. I happen to be deaf on my left side so no wonder I didn’t notice. I’ll look into it, thanks for the tip off!
How do the replacement couplings work?
Nothing too complex- the coaches have little loops and I'll put hook-ended chains or a simple drawbar in between.
@ceruleanmodelling ah, very clever!
@@SoupaDoupa Thank you!
I did something similar to this with the hornby br mk1 coaches- its worth 3d printing replacement bogies and going nuts with detail, gaugeone3d has some really nice underframe details for free whitch are worth scaling down and adding too.
@@marcpurkiss3233 Ooh, sounds neat! I might do that in future, thanks!
Thank you so much for this video 😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅
So glad you liked it!
I'm told that yaught varnish works well but haven't tried it yet. Has anyone else tried it?
Varnish would be good for finish but I’m not sure it would do the trick for colour. Haven’t tried though so I’m not sure.