Fairlie easy...

The single Fairlie arrives in the 'paint shop'

it came apart nice and easy, just two screws and a nut & bolt.

The window frames on the front of the cab were nearly falling off, so I removed them and re-glued them into position.

There were no window frames on the rear of the cab, so I made up some from strips of plasticard...

There was one other bit missing, a Salter style safety valve...a bit of brass wire, plastic tube and plasticard was used to make one up....

The final paint scheme is a dark grey roof, maroon sides, boiler top and cylinder covers; black for the footplate, smokebox and water tank tops; plus two coats of gloss varnish. Out on the garage layout .....

At work on a passenger service.....

Paint shop progress....

Out of the paint shop... 

The Playmobil Diesel, which thankfully went back together fairly easily (after taking it to bits paint the loco body). Out on the garage layout in its new colour of olive green ....

I did a quick run round to check the sound and lights work properly ....

Next into the paint shop....

The single Fairlie, it looks rather dull in black so it is going to get a new look (also I'll add a missing safety valve as well).

Yellow Diesel off to the paint shop.....

I decided I wanted to paint up my yellow Playmobil diesel loco; so I thought nice and easy job to take the loco body off .... Not so easy as I thought - it took me 20 minutes 😡... I broke some of the tab clips off and finally got it all in bits ....

The chassis replaced and electrics reconnected - it still works  ! 😀. 

now to decided on a colour scheme...... it won't be yellow...

Sunny Sunday (16) ....a selection of 'brown' wagons...

After a spot of leaf wrangling around the garden; time to run a train ... today a selection of brown rolling stock. The tram loco pulls a Plateway Models van, with the new completed bogey open wagon (GRS kit) and the bogey van (also a GRS kit)....

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (4)...ready for service...

 The bogey goods wagon has been through the paint shop; transfers for the lettering arrived yesterday and I put them on the wagon today.

Sunny Sunday (15) .... Parcels Train

A sunny Sunday,  however before any trains it was time to get the leaf sucker-upper out and clear away leaves around the garden and on the track.

Gardening chore done,  getting a bit cloudy though but I had time to run a battery powered R/C loco pulling a parcels train...

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (3)...the fiddly bits

 The build continues.... more exact measuring required, holes to be drilled and metal rod to be bent...

Under frame bits added with some wire to provide bracing....

The ends done, bracing and part of the tarpaulin cover support mechanism

The main tricky bit was bending the metal rod for the tarpaulin cover support, the hoops to support it were then added..

The door detail, hinges and bracing, I was short of some bracing bar strip (there were a couple of bits missing from the kit ), so I made up some from plasticard.....

Door handles added, these were made from brass rod ( took about 7 attempts to bend 2 suitable handles)

Carefully marked up the position of the diagonal side braces....

cut strips provided to size and added.them ..

Onto the couplings ....a extension made for the bogey 'crafted' out of plasticard  ...

All done, quite satisfying to complete the build of the kit...

A quick test that I've got the couplings with sufficient clearance around the curve was satisfactory...

Now its off to the paint shop.... plus I'll need to get some transfers for the lettering etc.

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (2)... the easy bits ?

The build continues....

Some kits are a bit like jigsaw puzzles, this one is a bit light on the instructions, needing my the little grey cells to work harder...... hopefully there aren't any missing pieces (I expect so, at least I can make up some replacements).

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After carefully marking up the sides, the side bracing pieces were added, one side has the brake handle holder.

Moving on to the underframe, the holders for the bogies have to be fitted. The instructions say something like 'the holders may have to be adjusted in height as needed'. I couldn't cut the thick plastic they were made of, so I resorted to removing part of the support...

and using some plasticard spacers...

looks fine with the bogey positioned (bodge covered up ! 😀)

Out to the garage layout, the wagon runs round the Radius 1 curves OK...

the bogey open next to its future pal the bogey van...

Time for a break in the build, read the instructions again 😇..... and then get on with the fiddly bits

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (1)... getting started

 Picked up a cheap GRS kit off Ebay... an L&B open bogey wagon

Today I built the main body of the wagon....

On inspection I found I'd put the sides on inside out  😡 (even though I'd read the instructions !); fortunately the glue hadn't set and I recovered my mistake. I put the whole thing away for another day.... I didn't want to make any more mistakes 😁

New diesel loco enters service.....

On the garage layout today testing my new freelance diesel loco, made from the remnants of a defunct LGB track cleaning loco.

Wagon Works - Open Wagon (2)... painted...

 The open wagon shown in the last post has been through the paint shop and now ready for service.....

Wagon Works - Open Wagon...

 New purchased item from Ebay, finds its way into the wagon works. Today it will get some replacement Accucraft couplings....

couplings replaced and a short tryout on the garage layout .....

the wagon will need to go to the paint shop next..

Sunny Sunday (14) - a works train....

 Nice to have some sunshine after all that rain.. so an opportunity to run a train this afternoon....on the last day of Summer...

LocoWorks: A new diesel (3) - final assembly finished

Today I stuck in place all the pieces of the loco, all the gaps and holes have been suitably filled..

I've lost one of the centre buffers....(so I've had to order one)