At last the exec liveried power cars have been released. Really good to have two HSTs running on the layout. Also served for a good excuse to get all the power cars and coaches weathered.
Great effort as ever. You brought back memories of both Finsbury Park and Old Oak Common 31/4s all washed out flat matt pale blue due to their allocation on ECS hauled stock. The powercar drop light you refer to as a guard's window, maybe to assist drivers using the secndary controls that were originally fitted to the first HSTs for depot / shunt moves. I'm always impressed by your timing of real train overdubs on your vids too.
One thing I truly do appreciate from your videos is the attention to detail... Whether it be a numbering issue, to photorealistic weathering you always do a stand up job on it. Great video and glad to be a subscriber!
Excellent video, 125 is a excellent train. looking forward to you altering the couplings to reduce the gap between the coaches, hope you find a easy way to do and share with us all,
They look brilliant running together. Twin dragons! I've always admired your fearless attempts (and success!) at fixing mistakes that most modelers would not even notice. I've just got myself a Dapol HST set in IC/S livery, along with three more coaches. Then realised the coaches are loco hauled and have buffers. I didn't even notice when looking at them for the first time out of the box, and later realised Dapol clearly display it on their product descriptions. WHOOPS! Looks like a 47 is about to join my fleet... Now I've got to wait for them to release some more HST-hauled MK3's in IC/S.
Very nice video. the new hst are looking nice and the detail does look good. Also your layout is looking really nice, looking forward to more of your video's soon
Great video! They look fantastic together in the countryside section. Makes me want to complete my HST set but it is nearly impossible to do so in Virgin colours. TGS is impossible to track down. Looking forward to your next layout update as always! Cheers, Joe.
You've weathered those HSTs superb Richard liked seeing them running round the layout looked at home there. Great video as usual mate with the use of angles around the layout. Kev
Once again a great video. Just love the HSTs, so much so I now have 3 different sets. Will have to get up a bit more confidence in airbrushing though before I start weathering them. Would really be interested in your solution for closer coupling when you get around to it and hope you do a video on the conversion. Thanks again.\ Robin
Two excellent HSTs I like the way you have them in good length, 2+7 also you run them nicely rather than just hammering them round the layout, to me that adds so much, the way in which trains are operated
Your layout is a real inspiration for my own and this was the livery of my era of train interest. I'm glad I managed to get a pair of these (despite the silver decals) before they go out of stock. But it was rarely seen on a complete set. I certainly never saw one out of St. Pancras or Paddington during the 80's. They were all mixed with blue/grey coaches/power cars. That's how I'm planning on running mine. Just need to get a rake of Blue/grey coaches now! :)
Kingswood Junction Thanks for the comment. My layout in is set 1989 and by this time in Paddington and the south west it was rare to see blue grey mk3s. Was common to see the exec and swallow power cars and coaches mixed up though.
Really excellent video as always.I wanted a Lima Swallow HST as a child, but I was into model railways just as privatisation was coming in and I never found a full set of Lima Swallow Mk3s! As an adult when I got back into the hobby one of the first things I bought was the Hornby Swallow HST (they'd been released long before I got into it so it was a hell of a job tracking them down). I went for Lima Mk3s though as they were generally easier to find and more accurate in terms of details than the Hornby ones. I''ve got an Exec HST on order as well, but I'll be running that with blue/grey Mk3s as per a photo I've seen of a WR XC set in 1989. I just wish I had somewhere to run them!! Your layout is honestly the kind of thing I dream to have one day.
sub39h Thanks, blue grey coaches in 1989 did appear in HST sets but it was becoming a rare thing. Most were in exec or swallow by then so I went for an exec set. I would like some blue grey mk3s but I don't have the space for a third rake.
Great video as always. I'd recommend the KEEN System for close coupling your Mk3s. Really easy to fit and does improve the look and running of the stock too. Can't wait to see what you do next
It's great to see your layout coming on its a shame mine is only portable so is the standard loops, I've just relayed half the track and I'm just trying to add character now as I'm aiming at modelling something like a preserved railway
they look great. i have the FGW HST had it about 3 or 4 years and finally it will run with 8 coach set for the first time this week coz hornby have just re realest the coaches. iv been trying the get the TGS and Buffet car for years. they were like £150 each on ebay but now there £28 new
Fantastic weathering, just like I remember them. You could mix them up too, I remember the change over period of liveries. Blue power cars with Executive coaches, 50/50 split, one swift with 1 Exec power car etc. I Wish I had the room to run a HST set.
Brockwell Lane T.M.D I'll certainly be mixing and matching the powers cars as that was very common in 89. No blue grey powers car left by then though. The last blue power car got repainted in 1987. Thanks
Well done on the HST there and thanks for taking me on a trip back to my childhood days as well :). I remember when these HST's gave me sore eardrums when I was a kid as they sounded very much like a DC-10 powering up. Still, I am enjoying the VP185's in my area as East Midlands Trains use them in their HST's over the MTU which is very quiet in comparison. I am grateful that the HST is still with us and didn't get scrapped in place of those horrible Voyagers and Meridian units which are just glorified buses on rails :). Here is a like from me for the epic video. Ash.
***** Thanks, my local line is all Meridians with some HSTs. Its great when I can actually get an HST somewhere. A Mk3 coach is a very pleasant place to sit.
love the weathering they both look so realistic. Purchased a couple of hornbys new western region hst R3138 which have disk brakes to the power and dummy cars did yours or did the weathering cover them up. Have purchased some colin craig disks for the mk3 coaches they do look good. With regard to coupling the mk 3 have been testing various couplings and so far have achived the best results with kadee # 18 medium shank fitted to a hornby nem pocket.
Those IC125s look so realistic, very well done with the weathering. I wondered why you named your channel Everard Junction, I guess it may be your family name.
Lovely job of the weathering, very realistic. In my view the old HST's are still the best on the rails today. Been on a few of the newer intercity type trains, cramped seating, noisy air conditioning. I much prefer the hst mk3 coach. Damned annoying you had to mess about and change the Inter City decal, very surprised that slipped through quality control.
Nice video. I could watch those run round for hours. What a pity the HST never carried the Scotrail blue stripe livery. I bet that would have suited it well.
fnp90rd It would certainly have been interesting to see them with a blue stripe. Guess it was because they were used over the entire network and Scotrail was a specific colour for certain Scottish services.
Andy Hudson Thanks Andy. I'm not going to worry about gangways for now as the close coupling should eliminate the need for them like my other coaches. Gangways can also cause issues on the tight curves I use on the helix.
Hi Richard ordered mine from Hornby now should arrive next week at some point. I have a question for you, was talking to guy from Warley MRC last night and he suggested I needed a bus wire rated at 13 amp for running 4 trains at the same time, is this a bit excessive any advice will be appreciated as I've used 4 amp in the past many thanks Andy
Andy Hudson That is quite a bit but no harm in doing it. A oo gauge train will draw an absolute max of 1 amp while running. Most decoders max output is 1 amp and some are quite a bit less. I used 2 core house wire for my bus as it was cheap. Take off the white insulation and inside are two solid core wires you can use. That stuff will take well over 13 amps.
Hiya lovely sets and nice weathering. Just wondered if you've noticed another factory fault on the second of your 1st Class executive coaches. The "whites" in the Toilet Windows at each end are fitted upside down! looks rather odd. It has appeared on my models too in FGW livery. I had to buy another one to correct it. Stuart
Great video mate. Love the HST especially its sound.What is you personal favourite loco on the market as I am considering buying another loco for my fleet. Is the Hornby class 50 in 50 015 livery with sound worth purchasing? Keep up the great work and I loved the wagons project But the BR ad reenactment was superb! Will
Great video, really show cases the new HST really well! I'm wondering how do you find its best to remove the transfers? I'm looking at renumbering and adding some artwork on to one of the Virgin HST for 43100.
The HST looks good! Especially that weathering! I had a question for you, and I didn't really know where to ask it, so I'm asking here. I've just bought a coach and the railway it represents has multiple versions of the model I've bought. The newer coaches have different window layouts and the model I have has an older window layout; one that isn't as accurate. I can make my model look like a newer coach by blocking out some of the windows in certain areas. I was wondering if you had any methods or tips that I could use if I wanted to cover up/remove them?(i.e.fill in etc.)
Hi. I do love the HST's! I just tracked down a HST in Swallow livery this week as I was sick fed up waiting on Hornby to re-release it....BNIB on ebay (cost me an arm and a leg!). However I notice the intercity Beige on the lower side of the last release of the inter-city125 coaches is a slightly different shade than the HST Swallow power car (example is 8.43 in the video). The power cars are a bit more creamy/yellowy compared to the newer inter-city 125 releases. I see a slight difference on your ones too. The new shade is certainly more scale accurate. Still hope Hornby will get a Swallow HST and coaches in the 2018 catalogue....I am frankly tired of asking them lol. Cheers. Dave
Cheers Dave. I'm remember buying my swallow HST in about 2011. Cost me £105 and was the very last one in stock at hattons. Getting the coaches for it was far more difficult at the time. The intericity livery like NSE changed over the years and I know there are at least two versions of the grey/black. Could possibly be the same case for the beige too.
Yeah I seem to remember this with the black and grey....even as a boy I remember Hornby's 'shorties' MK3 varying in colours. However I suspect the beige was 'corrected' in around 2013 as Hornby had been getting comments that it was too 'custard yellow'. I recall comments such as these in the magazines! Even so, the Swallow HST will do me for now...running with a mixed rake, as was seen during the mid to late 80's! I just hope Hornby re-release this livery, inc a full rake of coaches before the price of the HST pack goes north of £400!!!...at this rate, that's about 2 years! Worrying! Lets just say I paid 'almost' three times what you paid for your HST in 2011! ouch.
Mine arrived other day i didn't even notice the writing was silver at first its also the same on the eastern region set thats just arrived in br blue, the handrails are better now the handrails are in white
I love the HST....you cant beat it. I take it the blue grey livery is too early for your period on the layout? I now have two blue grey (western and eastern power cars) and the exec, albeit with the silver text lol. You've done a convincing job of the weathering...Ijust wish I had the balls to take my airbrush to mine....but at £200 a pop I don't want to feck it up lol. You never know, Hornby might release another exec power car with correct colour text in the future...I am sure they will as these particular ones have sold like hot cakes! I just hop Hornby do another release of the swallow cars next year...they are due again!....that would complete my fleet of HST's and just make my year! lol Good job Richard. Good job indeed. Dave
DaveClass47 Hi Dave. Blue grey coaches were still about in 1989 but not in great numbers. I think that last blue grey power cars were gone in 1987 (they went straight to swallow). I wouldn't mind a blue grey set of Mk3s but can't justify a third rake of them. I'll be mixing and matching my power cars over time as per BR. Weathering them isn't too bad. I find most weathering jobs quite easy now. You just need some practice, freight stock is the best place to start. Cheers
Really nice to see the power-cars in that livery and your weathering really captures the look of the real thing in everyday action. One thing though, from some images I've seen shouldn't the buffet carriage in that set be the other way around so that the seating section is part of standard class? As the seating area does not yet have the yellow stripe above it denoting first class.
Benjy Hamilton Yes the buffet should be the other way round. At the time I'd only just put everything back on the rails after painting so was in a bit of a rush.
I do miss the awesome Paxman Valenta sound that luckily they recorded for the DCC BEFORE the awful ‘screaming winger’ MTU units! You got the exhaust soot spot on, when these things clag THEY CLAG! NICE JOB 👍🏻 not a criticism just a comment i notice you dont go for ‘track weathering’ on underframes etc. The classic pinky brown scalpings colour that coats most rolling stock undersides?
Really lovely Richard, my airbrush twitches every time I walk past my Grand Central HST, I haven't the heart to weather it but I may just do the underframes to give it a bit of realism, I think I'll run it a few more times before I do though! lol. ...........Graham
Graham Foulston Might be worth checking some reference photos. I'm sure Grand Central keep their HSTs cleaner than BR did. You may just need to do the underframe and a bit of exhaust dirt.
EverardJunction I saw one pull into York the other month and it looked immaculate and vey shiny but I must admit that I was so taken with it that I didn't even note what state the underarm was but I will look at some photos before toughing it - if I do! .............Graham
Hi their , does weathering a new loco have any adverse affect on the manufactures warranty ? Have always enjoyed watching your videos of a fab layout and great rolling stock . Cheers......Peter.
Peter Shaw I have no idea to be honest. Guess it depends on the manufacturer. I've never had to send anything away for repairs as I've always repaired stuff myself.
Hi EJ. About 30 years too late for me but I can see the attraction. Do they have sound or is the general layout "rumble" enough? I recall these power cars being a bit whistly and windy on departure.
just to keep you up to date, 43172 is now named harry patch and has the war poem written arcross the side, in memory of harry patch himself, and still runs with gwr from padd to bristol and penzance. nice vid, love the hst's, just one question, when are you gunna make a 8 car set instead of 7? just thought i would ask
I think I may have seen that one a couple of times in our depot in seansea. They're replacing all the hst's with iet's and sending the hst up to Scotland with a new tarten interior. Shame really, the hst r far better than the new trains.
Humbolt136 The wage rises for factory workers in china has caused all the models to go up significantly in price. The days of buying a loco for £60 are over. I paid £188 for this HST and £105 for the other one in 2011. It took them 2 years to release this new one so I had plenty of time to save up.
Another reason was that when the train got to a terminus station and had to go back the other way, you didn't have to do a run around move with the loco, which would also have to be turned so that the pointy end with the driving cab was facing forwards😐😉
I've always wondered... Why have you given sound a dodge? You've got a lot of stock and have featured most other gadgets. But I've never seen you dabble with sound decoders. Not your cup of tea?
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Very nice. You must be really chuffed. No pun intended. Loved the station night time shot. Enjoy.
Great effort as ever. You brought back memories of both Finsbury Park and Old Oak Common 31/4s all washed out flat matt pale blue due to their allocation on ECS hauled stock. The powercar drop light you refer to as a guard's window, maybe to assist drivers using the secndary controls that were originally fitted to the first HSTs for depot / shunt moves.
I'm always impressed by your timing of real train overdubs on your vids too.
Excellent as always, you have a great eye for detail
Al
I get endless hours of enjoyment watching your videos, I love to see the reserch you put in to make everything so realistic which so few modellers do.
One thing I truly do appreciate from your videos is the attention to detail... Whether it be a numbering issue, to photorealistic weathering you always do a stand up job on it. Great video and glad to be a subscriber!
Excellent video, 125 is a excellent train. looking forward to you altering the couplings to reduce the gap between the coaches, hope you find a easy way to do and share with us all,
I rode my first set in 1983- Kings Cross to York. You have really captured them in style on your well done layout.
Nice video Richard with great attention to detail as always.
Thanks, Colin
Great additions and the weathering job look good.
Scott
They look brilliant running together. Twin dragons!
I've always admired your fearless attempts (and success!) at fixing mistakes that most modelers would not even notice.
I've just got myself a Dapol HST set in IC/S livery, along with three more coaches. Then realised the coaches are loco hauled and have buffers. I didn't even notice when looking at them for the first time out of the box, and later realised Dapol clearly display it on their product descriptions. WHOOPS! Looks like a 47 is about to join my fleet...
Now I've got to wait for them to release some more HST-hauled MK3's in IC/S.
Fantastic video once again.
The two HSTs really look great running around the layout.
Very nice video. the new hst are looking nice and the detail does look good. Also your layout is looking really nice, looking forward to more of your video's soon
Awesome weathering! Really cool video! Please keep it up.
superb nice running session at realistic speeds as well, loved the end shot from the aloptment
Love the HSTs, I have the FGW one and the new GWR one. Hopefully getting 'Harry Patch' for Christmas too! You've done some good weathering on yours.
Great video! They look fantastic together in the countryside section. Makes me want to complete my HST set but it is nearly impossible to do so in Virgin colours. TGS is impossible to track down. Looking forward to your next layout update as always! Cheers, Joe.
You've weathered those HSTs superb Richard liked seeing them running round the layout looked at home there.
Great video as usual mate with the use of angles around the layout.
Kev
percomotion Thanks Kev
More nostalgia ☺️ rode on 125s when they were new! Nice to see these models. Also nice to see a layout not heaving with steam engines.
I absolutely love your content , great video
A very descriptive and informative look over the new HST,,,, many thanks a good watch ,,,, cheers Alan
***** Thanks Alan
Once again a great video. Just love the HSTs, so much so I now have 3 different sets. Will have to get up a bit more confidence in airbrushing though before I start weathering them. Would really be interested in your solution for closer coupling when you get around to it and hope you do a video on the conversion.
Thanks again.\
Robin
Very nice job. Excellent video.
I love how you added the real life sound in the beginning, it matches absolutely 100% perfectly.
Nice new additions looking good weathered up cheers Kevin
Great video. The new HST fists in nicely.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Two excellent HSTs I like the way you have them in good length, 2+7 also you run them nicely rather than just hammering them round the layout, to me that adds so much, the way in which trains are operated
Moss235 Thanks
Your layout is a real inspiration for my own and this was the livery of my era of train interest.
I'm glad I managed to get a pair of these (despite the silver decals) before they go out of stock. But it was rarely seen on a complete set. I certainly never saw one out of St. Pancras or Paddington during the 80's. They were all mixed with blue/grey coaches/power cars. That's how I'm planning on running mine. Just need to get a rake of Blue/grey coaches now! :)
Kingswood Junction Thanks for the comment. My layout in is set 1989 and by this time in Paddington and the south west it was rare to see blue grey mk3s. Was common to see the exec and swallow power cars and coaches mixed up though.
Really excellent video as always.I wanted a Lima Swallow HST as a child, but I was into model railways just as privatisation was coming in and I never found a full set of Lima Swallow Mk3s!
As an adult when I got back into the hobby one of the first things I bought was the Hornby Swallow HST (they'd been released long before I got into it so it was a hell of a job tracking them down). I went for Lima Mk3s though as they were generally easier to find and more accurate in terms of details than the Hornby ones. I''ve got an Exec HST on order as well, but I'll be running that with blue/grey Mk3s as per a photo I've seen of a WR XC set in 1989.
I just wish I had somewhere to run them!! Your layout is honestly the kind of thing I dream to have one day.
sub39h Thanks, blue grey coaches in 1989 did appear in HST sets but it was becoming a rare thing. Most were in exec or swallow by then so I went for an exec set. I would like some blue grey mk3s but I don't have the space for a third rake.
Really enjoyed this video. Thanks
HST love them.... loving the intro 😊
education and worth the watch, extremely informative
Wow, they look great. I wish I had enough space to run a full HST rake convincingly! :)
Greatly entertaining video of the iconic sets.
STEVIE B.
Yes, stunning. Sublime perfection.
They look very good! Nice with some background history..
They look great
Great video as always.
I'd recommend the KEEN System for close coupling your Mk3s. Really easy to fit and does improve the look and running of the stock too.
Can't wait to see what you do next
***** Thanks, I've been looking at KEEN for some time and it look like its worth going for.
Both trains look very cool. I really like the HST.
Really smart. Good job. Sound would really finish them off. Nick
It's great to see your layout coming on its a shame mine is only portable so is the standard loops, I've just relayed half the track and I'm just trying to add character now as I'm aiming at modelling something like a preserved railway
Fantastic update - love the weathering to the rails! A video on 'how to' would be great!
***** Thanks. For weathering the track check out episode 7 of my how to series.
Superb!
they look great. i have the FGW HST had it about 3 or 4 years and finally it will run with 8 coach set for the first time this week coz hornby have just re realest the coaches. iv been trying the get the TGS and Buffet car for years. they were like £150 each on ebay but now there £28 new
Fantastic weathering, just like I remember them. You could mix them up too, I remember the change over period of liveries. Blue power cars with Executive coaches, 50/50 split, one swift with 1 Exec power car etc. I Wish I had the room to run a HST set.
Brockwell Lane T.M.D I'll certainly be mixing and matching the powers cars as that was very common in 89. No blue grey powers car left by then though. The last blue power car got repainted in 1987. Thanks
Great Vid Richard :)
Well done on the HST there and thanks for taking me on a trip back to my childhood days as well :). I remember when these HST's gave me sore eardrums when I was a kid as they sounded very much like a DC-10 powering up. Still, I am enjoying the VP185's in my area as East Midlands Trains use them in their HST's over the MTU which is very quiet in comparison. I am grateful that the HST is still with us and didn't get scrapped in place of those horrible Voyagers and Meridian units which are just glorified buses on rails :). Here is a like from me for the epic video.
Ash.
***** Thanks, my local line is all Meridians with some HSTs. Its great when I can actually get an HST somewhere. A Mk3 coach is a very pleasant place to sit.
EverardJunction
I agree with you there mate. Nothing can beat a Mk3 for comfort :).
love the intro
love the weathering they both look so realistic.
Purchased a couple of hornbys new western region hst R3138 which have disk brakes to the power and dummy cars did yours or did the weathering cover them up.
Have purchased some colin craig disks for the mk3 coaches they do look good.
With regard to coupling the mk 3 have been testing various couplings and so far have achived the best results with kadee # 18 medium shank fitted to a hornby nem pocket.
richies quest Mine do have brake disks but hornby didn't paint them silver so they are just black. I haven't got round to painting them yet.
Fantastic. ......
Those IC125s look so realistic, very well done with the weathering.
I wondered why you named your channel Everard Junction, I guess it may be your family name.
Very good
Intercity we're getting there
Lovely job of the weathering, very realistic. In my view the old HST's are still the best on the rails today. Been on a few of the newer intercity type trains, cramped seating, noisy air conditioning. I much prefer the hst mk3 coach. Damned annoying you had to mess about and change the Inter City decal, very surprised that slipped through quality control.
Nice video. I could watch those run round for hours. What a pity the HST never carried the Scotrail blue stripe livery. I bet that would have suited it well.
fnp90rd It would certainly have been interesting to see them with a blue stripe. Guess it was because they were used over the entire network and Scotrail was a specific colour for certain Scottish services.
Nice opening of the video whit the sound of real intercity,s i think-----Gr Fred
love it
looks good Richard great job with the weathering, hoping I can still get my hands on the powers cars waiting on pay day :-) Andy
Andy Hudson also if you r going to add closer couplings will you do anything about the gangway doors between the coaches
Andy Hudson Thanks Andy. I'm not going to worry about gangways for now as the close coupling should eliminate the need for them like my other coaches. Gangways can also cause issues on the tight curves I use on the helix.
Hi Richard ordered mine from Hornby now should arrive next week at some point. I have a question for you, was talking to guy from Warley MRC last night and he suggested I needed a bus wire rated at 13 amp for running 4 trains at the same time, is this a bit excessive any advice will be appreciated as I've used 4 amp in the past many thanks Andy
Andy Hudson That is quite a bit but no harm in doing it. A oo gauge train will draw an absolute max of 1 amp while running. Most decoders max output is 1 amp and some are quite a bit less. I used 2 core house wire for my bus as it was cheap. Take off the white insulation and inside are two solid core wires you can use. That stuff will take well over 13 amps.
Hiya lovely sets and nice weathering. Just wondered if you've noticed another factory fault on the second of your 1st Class executive coaches. The "whites" in the Toilet Windows at each end are fitted upside down! looks rather odd. It has appeared on my models too in FGW livery. I had to buy another one to correct it. Stuart
Great video mate. Love the HST especially its sound.What is you personal favourite loco on the market as I am considering buying another loco for my fleet. Is the Hornby class 50 in 50 015 livery with sound worth purchasing?
Keep up the great work and I loved the wagons project But the BR ad reenactment was superb!
Will
Great video, really show cases the new HST really well! I'm wondering how do you find its best to remove the transfers? I'm looking at renumbering and adding some artwork on to one of the Virgin HST for 43100.
+vsnyc I use T-Cut to remove numbers. It takes time and you have to be careful but it works. Episode 18 of my howto series shows you the process.
Cool layout. I did have to watch the end part in x2 speed though
Nice Train, but those coaches are more like bananas :(
The HST looks good! Especially that weathering! I had a question for you, and I didn't really know where to ask it, so I'm asking here. I've just bought a coach and the railway it represents has multiple versions of the model I've bought. The newer coaches have different window layouts and the model I have has an older window layout; one that isn't as accurate. I can make my model look like a newer coach by blocking out some of the windows in certain areas. I was wondering if you had any methods or tips that I could use if I wanted to cover up/remove them?(i.e.fill in etc.)
could this be a museum? i guess i would crazy here :D
Hi Richard, great video! I was wondering if you’d had a look at the new Hornby HST at all? Cheers
Hi. I do love the HST's! I just tracked down a HST in Swallow livery this week as I was sick fed up waiting on Hornby to re-release it....BNIB on ebay (cost me an arm and a leg!). However I notice the intercity Beige on the lower side of the last release of the inter-city125 coaches is a slightly different shade than the HST Swallow power car (example is 8.43 in the video). The power cars are a bit more creamy/yellowy compared to the newer inter-city 125 releases. I see a slight difference on your ones too. The new shade is certainly more scale accurate. Still hope Hornby will get a Swallow HST and coaches in the 2018 catalogue....I am frankly tired of asking them lol. Cheers. Dave
Cheers Dave. I'm remember buying my swallow HST in about 2011. Cost me £105 and was the very last one in stock at hattons. Getting the coaches for it was far more difficult at the time. The intericity livery like NSE changed over the years and I know there are at least two versions of the grey/black. Could possibly be the same case for the beige too.
Yeah I seem to remember this with the black and grey....even as a boy I remember Hornby's 'shorties' MK3 varying in colours. However I suspect the beige was 'corrected' in around 2013 as Hornby had been getting comments that it was too 'custard yellow'. I recall comments such as these in the magazines! Even so, the Swallow HST will do me for now...running with a mixed rake, as was seen during the mid to late 80's! I just hope Hornby re-release this livery, inc a full rake of coaches before the price of the HST pack goes north of £400!!!...at this rate, that's about 2 years! Worrying! Lets just say I paid 'almost' three times what you paid for your HST in 2011! ouch.
Mine arrived other day i didn't even notice the writing was silver at first its also the same on the eastern region set thats just arrived in br blue, the handrails are better now the handrails are in white
Have a Ringfield motor era one of there and the swallow variant too
Does anyone make a sound decoder for the Paxman Valenta engine? These models look great, sound would really add something.
+faulcon1 . Cheers. Be good to see/hear one in action.
I love the HST....you cant beat it. I take it the blue grey livery is too early for your period on the layout? I now have two blue grey (western and eastern power cars) and the exec, albeit with the silver text lol.
You've done a convincing job of the weathering...Ijust wish I had the balls to take my airbrush to mine....but at £200 a pop I don't want to feck it up lol.
You never know, Hornby might release another exec power car with correct colour text in the future...I am sure they will as these particular ones have sold like hot cakes! I just hop Hornby do another release of the swallow cars next year...they are due again!....that would complete my fleet of HST's and just make my year! lol
Good job Richard. Good job indeed.
Dave
DaveClass47 Hi Dave. Blue grey coaches were still about in 1989 but not in great numbers. I think that last blue grey power cars were gone in 1987 (they went straight to swallow). I wouldn't mind a blue grey set of Mk3s but can't justify a third rake of them. I'll be mixing and matching my power cars over time as per BR. Weathering them isn't too bad. I find most weathering jobs quite easy now. You just need some practice, freight stock is the best place to start. Cheers
DaveClass47 if you put a clear varnish coat on and then use acrylics, if it goes FUBAR just clean off with water 😃
Really nice to see the power-cars in that livery and your weathering really captures the look of the real thing in everyday action. One thing though, from some images I've seen shouldn't the buffet carriage in that set be the other way around so that the seating section is part of standard class? As the seating area does not yet have the yellow stripe above it denoting first class.
Benjy Hamilton Yes the buffet should be the other way round. At the time I'd only just put everything back on the rails after painting so was in a bit of a rush.
what do i use toweather the yellow cab roof please on the hst
I do miss the awesome Paxman Valenta sound that luckily they recorded for the DCC BEFORE the awful ‘screaming winger’ MTU units! You got the exhaust soot spot on, when these things clag THEY CLAG! NICE JOB 👍🏻 not a criticism just a comment i notice you dont go for ‘track weathering’ on underframes etc. The classic pinky brown scalpings colour that coats most rolling stock undersides?
Executive IS swallow livery. The 125 (early)livery is known as early B.R. intercity blue, or simply 'early'.
No they are different.
Really lovely Richard, my airbrush twitches every time I walk past my Grand Central HST, I haven't the heart to weather it but I may just do the underframes to give it a bit of realism, I think I'll run it a few more times before I do though! lol. ...........Graham
Graham Foulston Might be worth checking some reference photos. I'm sure Grand Central keep their HSTs cleaner than BR did. You may just need to do the underframe and a bit of exhaust dirt.
EverardJunction I saw one pull into York the other month and it looked immaculate and vey shiny but I must admit that I was so taken with it that I didn't even note what state the underarm was but I will look at some photos before toughing it - if I do! .............Graham
Hi Richard ,if just go a 125 from rails of Sheffield hornby just released 1000 of them have you done a video on weathering the 125 ?
Have any pics of the new wiring inside?
Great rakes...although they look better with GNER on them! ;)
motormouser Blasphemy! ;)
How do you remove the decal without damaging the loco
Hi their , does weathering a new loco have any adverse affect on the manufactures warranty ? Have always enjoyed watching your videos of a fab layout and great rolling stock . Cheers......Peter.
Peter Shaw I have no idea to be honest. Guess it depends on the manufacturer. I've never had to send anything away for repairs as I've always repaired stuff myself.
Hi EJ. About 30 years too late for me but I can see the attraction. Do they have sound or is the general layout "rumble" enough? I recall these power cars being a bit whistly and windy on departure.
Ace :-D
43 172 is Now Harry Patch :)
just to keep you up to date, 43172 is now named harry patch and has the war poem written arcross the side, in memory of harry patch himself, and still runs with gwr from padd to bristol and penzance. nice vid, love the hst's, just one question, when are you gunna make a 8 car set instead of 7? just thought i would ask
I think I may have seen that one a couple of times in our depot in seansea. They're replacing all the hst's with iet's and sending the hst up to Scotland with a new tarten interior. Shame really, the hst r far better than the new trains.
How did you do the weathering??
Once you've painted the track, do you still have to clean it like you did when it wasn't painted?
Yep, clean it as normal.
Does that not scratch the paint off?
The trains wont run with any paint on top of the rails. Its removed when I weather the track. See my track weathering video.
Oh okay:)
I've seen Hornby advertising these for £210! Wouldn't mind having one but certainly not for such a price...
Humbolt136 The wage rises for factory workers in china has caused all the models to go up significantly in price. The days of buying a loco for £60 are over. I paid £188 for this HST and £105 for the other one in 2011. It took them 2 years to release this new one so I had plenty of time to save up.
EverardJunction Hmm I guess your right... Question is how long until its worth bringing production back to the UK?
Lovely layout , but the name everard instantly makes me think of the late Larry Grayson's fictional partner !😄
when HSTs first arrived on the Eastern -the coaches HAD to be in numerical order in the sets [honest]
Why did a 7-car train need a locomotive at both ends?
+Nathaniel Nifong To reduce journey times by going as fast a possible.
also having a streamlined end reduces drag as there is less turbulent air flow
To do 125 MPH
A single loco producing enough power would be very heavy & cause a lot of track damage, especially at 125mph.
Another reason was that when the train got to a terminus station and had to go back the other way, you didn't have to do a run around move with the loco, which would also have to be turned so that the pointy end with the driving cab was facing forwards😐😉
"HST"? More like "VST" (Very Slow Trains"! Come on mate, ramp 'em up!!!!!! Cheers anyway!!!
I've always wondered... Why have you given sound a dodge? You've got a lot of stock and have featured most other gadgets. But I've never seen you dabble with sound decoders. Not your cup of tea?
Hi love the hst check mine out
Old very old. The new 2008 intercity first great western trains are newer
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all it needs is a female voice saying "the train approaching platform 1 is not stopping here please stand back from the platform edge