Airfix OO/HO Class 9F 2-10-0 Steam Locomotive No. 92250. 'Abandoned, but not forgotten'.

[skinflint]

Tim, thanks for the correction and superb photograph.

[spanner570]

Nice chat, boys. Keep it coming.

Tim - I had intended to include the pug in with 92250, but I reasoned it would all look a bit crowded and might start to take the eye off the rusty 9F a bit too much.

Tony - Your observations are the same as mine when I first saw the church model. Both the ridge and gable cappings are way too big. I've seen Tim's church picture before - Plenty of scope for weathering and alterations. Incidentally, the Dapol Factory is now at Chirk, N. Wales, which is about 10 miles from my place.

Ralph - :tongue-out3: !

Neil - I agree, but good to know for future reference.

Andrew - Thanks for the excellent comments....just got up? :sleeping: jeez man it's 11.00am!

Cheers chaps.
Ron

[Tim Marlow]

I don’t think a pug would work with a 9F either. It would be a bit little and large...

[Jim R]

Dapol Factory is now at Chirk,

Well that is only 10minutes from me. We walk the canal towpath at Chirk a lot but never knew Dapol was there.
Jim

[adt70hk]

Nice chat, boys. Keep it coming.

Tim - I had intended to include the pug in with 92250, but I reasoned it would all look a bit crowded and might start to take the eye off the rusty 9F a bit too much.

Tony - Your observations are the same as mine when I first saw the church model. Both the ridge and gable cappings are way too big. I've seen Tim's church picture before - Plenty of scope for weathering and alterations. Incidentally, the Dapol Factory is now at Chirk, N. Wales, which is about 10 miles from my place.

Ralph - :tongue-out3: !

Neil - I agree.

Andrew - Thanks for the excellent comments....just got up? :sleeping: jeez man it's 11.00am!

Cheers chaps.
Ron

#@£!?*"^¥$$ autocorrect. I meant caught up........ Have been up since just after 7 and working since 8:30...

[spanner570]

Well that is only 10minutes from me. We walk the canal towpath at Chirk a lot but never knew Dapol was there.
Jim

Jim. You will know where the big Morton Garden Centre is, well, there is a small Industrial Park opposite the entrance. Dapol is in there. Quite small, so small you might miss it!

When things get back to normal. we will have to meet up in the 'Poachers'.... :thumb2:

[spanner570]

Update....

I've made some rudimentary buffer stops - More cocktail stick remnants. I doubt the scrap yard would bother with anything 'Posh'. If anything at all! (At least they fixed the thing level!) I might yet alter it.








I have started to add some junk to 'Busy it up a bit' and also added some clumps of grass - Bl**dy drones!


Cheers.
Ron

[Guest]

Looking brilliant Ron,it is almost the end of the line :smiling3:.

[Gern]

I don't think there's any 'almost' about this being the end of the line Ralph. The buffer Ron made gave me a clue! :smiling:

I know you said adding your Pug to this would detract from the main loco Ron, but aren't these scrapyards usually full to the brim with old locos and rolling stock? Seems a waste of your extra bit of track if there's nothing on it. Even a scrap bogie or a wagon chassis would look good if you don't want to draw the eye away from the main loco.

You know I'm only askin' 'cos I'd like to see what you could come up with!

[spanner570]

I see your point Dave and thanks for the input.

Yes, indeed they are usually full of old locos, but I'm trying to convey a feeling of a kind of mechanical desolation of a once proud workhorse, cast away in a corner and left to rot.
Being in a siding, perhaps it's the last one waiting to be broken up.....

I also think that anything else added to the empty track might hide the wheels / conrods detail of 92250.

As you mention to Ralph in reply to his most appalling attempt at a 'funny' (Again), there probably isn't an "Almost end of the line". Not yet anyway. So who knows what might happen. I certainly don't... :upside:

I shall bear your wise writings in mind, and might even have a dry run with your most excellent of suggestion and see wot's wot.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking really nice Ron. The only addition I would make to the empty track could be a rusty steel mineral wagon on the right hand side with scrap in it to show what happens next!

[stillp]

Ron, if you need any inspiration there's a Facebook group called "Old Barry in pictures" which has quite a few pictures of Woodham's scrapyard. Here's a few to be going on with.

Pete

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting, different engines of the same class, Collett 2-8-0, with different degrees of deterioration. All those different rust shades..... They were the principal heavy freight engine on the Western region and were built in the early 1940’s. They were supposed to be displaced by the 9Fs, but ended up being scrapped alongside them.

[stillp]

All those different rust shades.....

The middle pic is from '73, there wasn't a date for the lowest pic. The first one is from '83, by which time they'd sold a lot of the locos and were starting to clear the site.
Pete

[Defiant911]

Great chat. Thanks boys.

As I've never rusted a loco before, it was yet another leap into the unknown.....so I decided to 'Get my eye in' on the tender.

After applying the decals (which, despite the yellowing backing paper) were still in excellent condition. Mind you, because I wasn't modelling 'Evening Star' I dispensed with the very thin, posh, red line decals which run along the length of the tender sides of that loco.

Here is the tender. Apart from cutting out the coal on the top, I also cut out the cab coal access chute thingy. You can just make out the bits of coal resting on it in the first photo. I then brushed on the first coat of Vallejo Air 'Rust', and laid it off.
vertically.

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Here's the above mentioned coal thingy cut out. Yes, I forgot about it 'till after I'd painted the rust on... :upside:
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Cheers.
Ron

Love the rust effect, is that several rust colours to get that effect.?