Playing with Photshop

 I like playing with Photoshop. On some occasions a good photo location is spoilt by the background.

This is the original photo.

After Photshopping.

Keith

Hadarford Scooter Club

 The Hadarford scooter club has doubled in size. 🛵🛵🛵🛵

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Steam Railcar and Observation Coach passing Hadarford Wharf. 😊

 

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Delivery of apples

Delivery of apples for the apple sauce, to go with the roast pork on Boxing Day. 🍏🍎🐖

This is a new wagon which arrived this morning. 😊

Keith

Preparing for Winter

Getting salt and grit supplies in ready. ❄️

Keith

Christmas Special

 

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Christmas is on it's way. 🎅🎄🎁

 

Keith

New Bogie Box Van

 Thursday this Roco bogie box van arrived, an eBay purchase. Today some transfers arrived to convert it into a Royal Mail van, along with a few other transfers 😊

Original box van as purchased

With new transfers fitted

It goes well with the 2 mail wagons I already have

Keith

New Fueling Point part 3

 My equivalent of bunding strip/upstand at the ends of the drainage channel, all 3 pieces glued in place, this now completes this task. 😊

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New Fueling Point part 2

This afternoon and early evening I have filled in the gap between the rail and the concrete apron of the new fueling point with brickwork and a drainage channel (many thanks to David Burleigh for suggesting the drainage channel). I have also filled in the surrounding ground cover which got damaged whilst removing the ground cover to site the fueling point. It looks darker in comparison until the glue dries completely. 😊

Keith 

New Fueling Point

One thing that Hadarford was missing was a fueling point for diesel locos. I had built a diesel tank, but didn't have a means of getting the diesel from the tank into the locos.

This week I was successful in purchasing this fueling point, and today I removed ballast etc. from it's new location, and glued it in place. I also added a downpipe to the fuel tank, and valve wheel (the yellow wheel in the 2nd photo) to isolate the fueling point from the tank. I also refitted the water standpipe, which once stood where the new fueling point now resides. I have fitted it to one of the legs of the canopy.

I just need to reballast and fit new ground gravel to complete, once the glue has dried 😊

Keith

Remembrance Sunday

 

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Upgrading to Coreless Motors

 Should keep me busy and out of the rain today, 10 locos to upgrade to coreless motors from Tramfabriek. 😊

I managed to upgrade the 1st 5 locos with coreless motors today, they took longer than I had thought.

The 1st video is of 1 of the 3 Roco diesels before upgrading, very noisy it was too.

The 2nd video is after the upgrade

This video is my oldest Bemo diesel I upgraded today.

This video is my newest Bemo diesel I upgraded today.

Keith

Lest We Forget 🌺

 

Keith

Sentinel Loco part 2

 Today I applied some transfers to the new Sentinel steam loco. 😊

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Sentinel Loco

 17 days ago I made a slow start on this 3D printed model of a narrow gauge version of a Sentinel steam engine. 😊

Fitted to a Kato chassis, just needs transfers adding to complete

3 body parts and 2 crew primered

3 body parts sprayed satin black

2 crew painted

Liquid lead added inside the body

2 parts of the footplate, and cab interior fixed together and crew added

2 parts of the footplate, and cab interior fixed together and crew added

Outer body fitted

Outer body fitted

Keith

Repair Work

 Having used my box static grass applicator yesterday to re-leaf some trees, this morning, before packing it away, I gave this tree some new leafage, as it was looking very sorry for itself.

Now looking much better 🌳.

Whilst I had the box with all my static grass gear open, I used my precision micro applicator to hide the crack that appeared in the towpath walling when the resin in the canal cracked 2 years ago. 😊

With the glue having had time to set, the tree I added foliage to earlier this morning, is now back in it's place. 😊

Keith

🎆🎇✨🧨💣🔥

 Of course, it is November 5th. 🎆🎇✨🧨💣🔥

Keith

Improving the Cheap Trees I bought in 2016

 Some of cheap trees from China I first bought in 2016 for Hadarford at the start of the build. For some reason they had little silver specks in the leafage, weird 🤔.

Being a rainy day today, I set about adding new leafs to them to improve their look using my WWS Pro Grass Box Static Grass Applicator, which I recently bought to put woolly coats on my sheep.

No more glaring silver specks. This was the last group of 3 batches I treated today.

They were part of 100 trees for £12.89 post free! The 1st of 550 trees on the layout. 🌳🌳🌳

Before treatment, you may just about be able to see the offending silver specks in them.

After the new leafage has been applied, and no more silver specks.

The refurbished trees refitted back on the layout, they look so much better without the silver bits glistening away, and mixed in with all the other trees.

 

Keith

Quarryman's Coaches part 4

 Railway staff fitted inside the quarryman's coaches, their leg amputations went well. 😊

The now completed coaches in service behind 0-4-0 quarry Hunslet 'Nesta' passing Hadarford wood. 

Keith

Quarryman's Coaches part 3

 3 sets of Greenwich couplings assembled.

Then glued to the underside of the 3 quarryman's coaches. 😊 

Keith

Quarryman's Coaches part 2

 0-4-0's 'Chloe' and 'Leo' posing the 3 new quarryman's coaches (with the original whitemetal one at the rear of the train) alongside Hadarford lock, freshly painted and glazed this morning, but awaiting couplings, in the post, to complete. 😊

Keith

Quarryman's Coaches

 This afternoon I have assembled these 3 Dundas Models quarryman's coaches, ready for painting. 😊

Now with a coat of primer, and on the roofs. 😁

Keith