Hornby Dublo restoration project

[Tim Marlow]

Dinky toys were made from the same material.....it’s a lot more robust than white metal and has no lead content.

[JR]

Thanks Tim, can see the appeal for toys makers with the no lead .

James its progressing well .

[Ancientmariner]

Carried out a bit more work today.

Finally striped the Coronation class bodies and primed one white, not done the other yet.
the Jinty has has the wires added and been coated with three primed, satin varnish and top Matt black, which I intend to satin varnish and then mask for the spraying of buffer beams and the BR green boiler, water tanks and rear section of the cab (except the roof).

Have decided the Coronation class is going to be George VI in wartime unlined black as I have just got hold of a tender for £8 off eBay.

Something good I have found that I intend to use for rails on the Duchesses is.pole float wore. It is 0.5, 0.6 or 0.8mm and comes straight in 15cm lengths and costs about 2.50 for 40 pieces. Think it will be better than what I have used on the Jinty as the 1mm is a bit think.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Does anyone know the most accurate mix for BR green from Vallejo paints?

three Vallejo colours are approx correct , 969 park green flat , 970 deep green , 980 black green HOWEVER , they are matt , so would need ??? a gloss varnish

[Ancientmariner]

Hi Gary, thanks for that, I will give it a go at mixing tonight

[Tim Marlow]

Hi James
looking good mate. Nice finish on the tank engine.
I would go with 0.5 wire as your maximum for handrails....that is still two inches thick in real life...anything thicker stands out too much, especially under paint.
By the way, as I’m sure you know, the tank loco is an LNER Gresley N2 0-6-2 suburban tank, not a Jinty

[Ancientmariner]

Oh dear, I wasn't aware of this, kind of traumatised my paint scheme in that case, though I have found a photo of a BR one, all be it black and white. I wanted to do it BR green and black so have to have a think learn something new ever day though!
Have also ordered 0.5mm wore. Not quite sure why I didn't just do the maths and work out the required thickness, laziness on my part I think

[Tim Marlow]

9522 wore LNER Apple green if you are so inclined! Otherwise all over black in both LNER and BR days I think....
LNER details here.....

https://www.lner.info/article/liveries/livery.php

As to the maths,I scratchbuilt loads in this scale back in the day and used to use 0.35 mm wire for handrails....1/76.2 (this scale) is 4 mm to the foot, so 1 mm is three inches. I used to think of plastic card as 3/4”, 1 1/2” and 3” for 10, 20, and 40 thou....it just became a way of thinking really....

[Ancientmariner]

Well I have finally got round to continuing these bodies.
As for this one popped on some silvertay brass smoke deflectors and redid the rails with 0.4mmwire (closest I had to 0.35mm).
Looks ok now it's primed. This one is to be City of Birmingham in Brunswick green BR livery.

Thanks for looking.

[Graeme C.]

Looks good James, nice to see someone restoring these old locomotives.

[boatman]

YEA John same here I had several wrenn trains on my layout as bein metal an the motor fitted in the train body they were a very powerfull loco a lot better than Hornby s tender drive trains
chris

[Ancientmariner]

So since last time two of three are moving along and have had first coats of BR green and shop grey (Tamiya medium grey).
Sprayed over black under coat so probably do three coats as they look dark.

[Ancientmariner]

I am thinking the green one will be city of Birmingham and grey will be King George V.

[Graeme C.]

:thumb2:Looking good with top coat on James.

[JR]

Very nice James .