Recent content by Ted633

An air brush would be the best way. Coat of primer, apply the base colour and then carefully mask it up for the yellow etc. If you have little/no experience, I can recommend getting hold of some cheap wagons (or similar) to practice on. It’s quite a daunting task spraying a locomotive, but as...

Continued progress with the 4DD Painting & front end detailing complete Now onto the transfers

Traveled from Balcombe station in west Sussex this afternoon and the information board said that the platforms were extended to 12 coaches in the 1960’s. However, it said in 1985 there was an accident involving a freight train that wiped out some of the down platform, which to this day hasn’t...

Saturday at Duxford was the busiest I’ve seen it for many a year. I noticed the queue when I left and i’ve not seen it like that before (at that time anyway). Glad you escaped relatively easily and you enjoyed your day.

Jaffa would look good, but it's a bit too much masking up for me. Connex is a very simple livery, especially when you have transfers for the yellow.

Got it in one! Please don't send the men in white coats round for me...

Bought the what-if NSE liveried 4DD in the Rails of Sheffield flash sale a couple months back. Not bad for £170! The blue wasn’t correct (in typical KR fashion), so took the opportunity to carry out a full respray into another what-if livery. Havnig finally got started (kids gone back to...

My town has a couple of asylum hotels (and unfortunately the protests that go with them) Over the summer, a group of us play volleyball in the local park and fairly regularly a few of the ‘residents’ come along and join in. I wouldn’t say from my experience that the vast majority speak very...

Not personally used the shuttle bus for Duxford, but by what I've heard it is a very slick operation. Obviously getting out there is a queue, but it moves quickly. If you don't want to rely on the bus, you can get the train to Whittlesford Parkway and walk (just over a mile) from there. This is...

Wouldn’t say thats entirely true. I know plenty of people who have been to eastern destinations and have travelled via Dubai (or Doha, Abu Dhabi etc) without actually visiting. An extra few hours spent changing flights can be preferable if the flight cost is less. My parents flew back from Male...

You didn’t miss out on the NSE miniature trains (I assume you mean the 5 inch gauge ride on ones), they weren’t there on the Friday (Unless I was being incredibly blind!)

Probably something for someone to ask at the Bluebell today, but seeing as the rest of the unit has also moved south, is it possible that restoration will continue at the currently undisclosed private location? Seems a lot of effort to bring the DTC down to just send it straight back to where it...

Just realised I didn’t show my ticket at all yesterday! Turned up at HK about 9.15 and just walked straight through onto the platform.

31210 (in place of 50026) also had a paddy running round at Sheffield Park for the 12:20 service. Eventually departed about 15 late and was declared a failure at Horsted Keynes. The 60 and other 31 then took over. Hopefully the timetable can recover

The 50 has also unable to operate its first return trip! Looks like it may be fixed now though.