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The kit and its assembly:
In a wake of model-building masochism I decided to build another small 1:700 warship - as a distraction from many recent jet fighter builds. Naturally, it would be whiffed, though. The subject a simple Matchbox Fletcher Class destroyer in its recent Revell re-boxing. When I did some background legwork I fpund out that the type had not been operated by the Royal Navy, so there was the opportunity to create a fictional Lend-Lease ship (with a fancy Western Approaches paint scheme), and real experiments with anh aircraft catapult on three American ships provided me with further ideas for hardware conversions.
Adding a catapult, an aircraft (even if it was only a small one) and a bigger crane to handle it to the compact Fletcher turned out to be a challenge. As in real life, turret #3 and the second torpedo mount had to go, but I also sacrificed turret #4 and moved the rear AA superstructure backwards, too, so that the "flight deck" would not look too cramped. However, the catapult (taken from a Japanese Navy 1:700 aftermarket set, whichz also provided two AA twin guns that pose as Bofors guns now) had to be shortened, and the Curtiss SC-1 comes from a Trumpeter set with these aircraft - the RN SeaHawk that was tested there in my fictional background will certainly appear in 1:72, too.
Other mods include the crane (scratched from a small gun turret and a leftover modern crane arm) and some other/additional searchlights. Turrets #1 and #5 were replaced witrh slightly bigger twin gun models. The lifeboats had to be moved back a little.
Painting and markings:
I wanted something stylish, and the WWII Royal Navy ships offer a wide range of sytles and options. I eventually settled upon a scheme inspired by HMS Scylla from 1942, which carried a rather disruptive Admirality scheme instead of the pale Western Approaches scheme in white, blue and green.
The pattern was faithfully adopted for the Fletcher class destroyer, even though the superstructures are quite different, so that the upper areas above the deck line were a bit improvised. The real colors would probably have been 507c (Pale Grey), WA Blue, 1941 Blue and B15 (Blue Black). For the paints, I rather went for a dramatic effect, and used Humbrol 196, 47, 144 and 112, respectively. According to the information concerning HMS Scylla, the deck became RAF Blue (Humbrol 96), even though I guess that a dark grey would have been more realistic? A personal modification is the addition of two small light grey panels at the rear onto the WA Blue, in order to create an impression of speed. A black waterline was added with the help of thin decal strips (TL Modellbau).
The model was built and painted in separate segments, this made applying the complex paint scheme easier.
For a used look and to work out some details I gave the model a light black ink wash and added some rust stains to the hull. The pennant number was created with single 3mm letters in black and white (also from TL Modellbau). Finally, everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish from the rattle can.
BREL (York) Class 315 Standard Mk.II 25k v ac overhead inner-suburban 4-car emu No.315 820 of ONE passing Hackney Downs on its way to Liverpool St., 08/07. Scanned slide taken with a Nikon F65D.
bit of a mystry this one,i know the line was shut between banbury and leamington for a few weekends necessitating diversions via,charlbury,swindon,and some went west coast watford way.so i think this is moreton in marsh and that open door is waiting for me to get back on :)
Amanda is a senior that I am doing last minute, but she is so pretty and takes amazing pictures so I couldn't say no lol
66559 crosses the Hundred Foot Washes near Pymoor, with the 0851 Leeds F.L.T. to Felixstowe North F.L.T. - 30/07/2020.
28-6-93 Monk Fryston
58033 approaches Milford Jct on a loaded MGR train from the Ferrybridge direction
Agfa CT100
53 year old British Rail Class 86 25kV Bo-Bo electric locomotive 86639 as operated by Freightliner stabled at the refuelling yard and sidings at Ipswich Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Suffolk (UK).
86639 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service as British Rail Class AL6 E3153 on May 7th 1966.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_86
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
37 090 at Lincoln Central on the 0210 Manchester Picc-Cleethorpes. Vacuum only 090 had been transferred to Eastfield at this point in time, but clearly only on paper.
Denison graduates gather on the hill for sunrise
the morning of commencement
05/14//2022
Photo by Jo McCulty
BREL (Derby) Class 159/1 Standard Mk.III "Sprinter Express" 3-car dmu No.159 104 (ex-158 805) of South West Trains at Basingstoke on a Salisbury - Waterloo service 07/07.
BREL (York) Class 319/4 Standard Mk.III 25k v ac overhead/750v dc 3rd rail 4-car emu No.319 446 of First Capital Connect on a Luton - Sevenoacks service enters Blackfriars station, 11/09. Scanned slide taken with a Nikon F65D.
BR Class 43 HST 2,250 hp (MTU) Bo-Bo No.43 097 Environment Agency in First Great Western's very bland plain purple-blue livery approaching Keynsham with a Weston super Mare - Paddington service 28/08/10.
BREL (York) Class 321/3 Standard Mk.III 25k v ac overhead 4-car emu No.321 363 of National Express East Anglia ("One") but in First Great Eastern livery speeding past Bethnal Green on a Clacton - Liverpool St. service, 08/07. Scanned slide taken with a Nikon F65D.
OBB Class 1116 "Taurus" 15 k v ac/25 k v ac, 8,575 hp Bo-Bo No.9180 6182 523-1 in a livery commemorating Austrian Emperor Franz Yosef at Leipzig Hbf., 12 October 2021. 400 Class 1016 & 1116 were built by Siemens, an Austrian version of the DB Class 182. Similar locos are in use in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.
British Rail Class 60 Co-Co diesel locomotive 60008 as operated by Colas Rail heads over the Victoria Viaduct near Carlisle Citadel Station with a rake of tank wagons.
60026 was built at Brush Traction Loughborough in 1990.
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
A class 121 "bubble car" DMU waits in the bay platform at Greenford, awaiting departure to Ealing Broadway. 5th January 1985. Photographed from the Concrete Cow railtour.
The friends of the 502 group have a "steel appeal" to raise funds for the restoration of the preserved unit www.class502.org.uk/donate/
GWR Class 165 No.165125 arrives at Appleford,with the 13:04 Banbury to Didcot Parkway service,on the 29th of August 2024.
Soon to be replaced by class 717 electric trains no. 313 047 stops at Watton At Stone Station on 2nd October 2018.
Class 47 47354 unusually stabled in platform 4 of Leamington station one Sunday in the summer of 1988, presumably related to engineering work in the area