Northolt Model Railway Club   At Northolt Village Community Centre. Passenger carrying live steam to O, OO and N scale modelling.

This project came about via a photo of a scratch built GWR compressor van in OO built for Alices Wonderful Railway which is on Facebook. I contacted her for permission to copy and use her photo as a reference piece, which she duly granted.

The chassis is of the self Peco RO-8 Br 9ft chassis – steel type as it is basically the same as in the photo.

The body is made from plasticard cut to the length and width of the chassis and all other parts are made from bits from the spares box.

To get the height right I measured a Peco 8ton banana van, It is painted in GWR freight grey with HMRS transfers.

Chairman congratulating Dave with winning picture of Bradley Manor taken at Bridgenorth on the Servern Valley.

Chairman congratulating Bob on his winning locomotive pictured below.

Alan Worthington being congratulated by Robin club chairman for his winning rake of coaches.

Chairman congratulating Colin for winning the scenic section with his diorama of models shown below

Most of us that like trains and railways have heard of Caroline, the inspection saloon, pushed/pulled by a class 37

Here is my version and tribute to this vehicle named Linda pushed/pulled by my class 33.

It started life as a Lima O Gauge MK1 in blood and custard and had all the steps, handrails removed and took a junior hack saw to the corridor connectors. Next was a lot of sanding and filing to produce a relatively flat and smooth surface, then it was a case of studying photos of Caroline and measuring 3 windows equally spaced across the carriage end. I marked out the windows and drilled out the between the pencil marks and with a rough file squared and smoothed out the window frames. The window glass is old curtain pole packaging cut to size and glued in place and held with clothes pegs. The light boxes on each end of the saloon are made from scraps of plasticard with round white discs of white plasticard (supplied by Bob Joy) acting as lights and painted accordingly to represent lights.

The horns on the roof at each end are spares from my 2H project. The jump lead boxes are made from square sprue left over from Easy Build bogie kits and the jump leads are lengths of black wire glued into very small holes drilled into the afore mentioned boxes. The ends were painted yellow (took 5 days to dry) and the coach was painted in Pheonix Colours BR(SR) Green, Jump Lead boxes are orange.

The coach numbers are made up from spare Fox Transfers and the name plates are made by Diane Carney, painted by me.

All in all, a successful build and can be seen when there is a track night, or I exhibit my O gauge layout, Never Doit.

Dusted off an old Lima tank wagon and spruced it up a bit.

Re-modelled the tank cradles and removed the signage.

The wagon had embossed writing in the recess on both sides and was filled in with a strip of plasticard

and painted.

The tank was re-painted in Humbrol RAF Barley Grey as this was a light grey, the red lettering on the tank

and the white signage on the wagon were taken from a HMRS GWR sheet of transfers.

A tlc opportunity when covid strikes.

Just a bit of graphics required on the second wagon.

A great time at the show displaying Never Do It in O gauge. As you can see it included my new 2 coach Hampshire unit having its first outing. The layout worked better than the operators running it and I think well received by all who saw it.

Many questions were asked by those viewing and hopefully answered to their satisfaction.

The bus and cop cars on the bridge are perhaps a bit of overkill for a fare dodger.

Alan

We should have managed a few more pictures.