Easy and Inexpensive Hack to Improve Old OO Gauge Passenger Coaches Visual Appearance

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@larrysmith6603 2 ай бұрын

I enjoy buying vintage locos & rolling stock. In America Hornby is difficult to find ! My son and I went to estate sale & picked up six locomotives , rolling stock & accessories from Hornby Tri Ang ( made in England ) era. With research , work & patients we six beauties run like new. Great addition to our U.k. layout !

@bramelsheretan 2 ай бұрын

it's strange but to me the silver surround brings back memories of the era of my childhood, so I enjoy them on the models that have them. As I have a few, well a lot, I'll try respraying them.

@NeilPhillips-c7p Ай бұрын

Santa brought me a SO (Second Open) and BFK (Brake First Corridor) for Christmas 1968 when these mode!s were brand new, they had lighting and NO silver painted window frames - Hornby only started doing this in the 1970s (a decade when they seemed to insist on making their models look worse, e.g. gloss varnishing). Later on the B4 bogies were amended from rivetted on to clip-fit which added a top beam which isn't there on the real thing, so another backward step. My coaches are long gone now but just a few weeks ago I obtained a mint but unboxed 'Flying Scotsman' set of two SO and one BFK for £25, these helpfully have the white lining printed on but the main reason I bothered is because I have vacuum-formed South Eastern Finecast 'Flushglaze' kits for these three (which I've had for so long I've forgotten why I bought them in the first place!) - ref. SE-54 & SE-55, these may be still available direct. I'm looking forward to seeing how well these will look, but not to filing every single window opening to get them to fit! Intrigued at the black interior spraying idea. I also intend to replace the awful clip-fit B4 bogies with far superior Replica Railways items (£1.95/pair) - yours are rivetted on so look OK!

@musoseven8218 2 ай бұрын

Great video and hacks I often employ trompe-l'œil and false shading to models, it can loose thick mould edges etc. Modelling 7mm on a budget means using old Lima and Triang. The Lima MK1 coaches can be, with brass window frames, better bogies, and if one so wishes, better underframe details, made into nice models. I widen them too and use resin ends to do so,along with plastikard middle floor. Just depends on how far you're prepared to go. It requires canny buying etc, but it can be done. Also some of the OO models with higher detail from the early 2000s can also be had for decent money now too. Keep up the good work, and carry on enjoying it✌️👍💜

@ausfoodgarden Ай бұрын

I have a lot of old Hornby and Mainline rolling stock that I enjoy improving/correcting to a "good enough" state. I'm on a limited budget the same as most of us and I prefer to keep a lot of my budget to buy that "special" bit of stock. Cheers!

@railway187 2 ай бұрын

Big improvement indeed. The only thing that lets this model still down now is its size, especially the height on which the coach floor is sitting above the track. But yes, it does the job, a very affordable way of getting cheap rolling stock to look like quite good! Cheers 🙋‍♂️ Erik

@gppsoftware 2 ай бұрын

The problem is actually that its buffer beam isn't at the right height. The result is you match the buffers and it is too low. Match the top of the roof and the buffer are too high.

@railway187 2 ай бұрын

@@gppsoftware I use H0 bogies, wheelsets and this makes all rolling stock sit lower, so I can use it with my H0 rolling stock. It's still to wide though, but that's something I can live with 😊

@gppsoftware 2 ай бұрын

@@railway187 Mixing scales is a different ball game where you can't expect things to match!

@patricksmodels Ай бұрын

Interesting technique. I've had a go at making a flush glazing effect on some of my order EFE buses, by painting the window frames matt black. It works. I should try with some of my HO Lima coaches.

@brentleajunction Ай бұрын

Great video mate I buy airfix mk2 coaches got a few of them painted network rail northern belle colas and drs 👍👍

@krazytroutcatcher Ай бұрын

South Eastern Finecast used to do flush glazing kits for these, but if I remember correctly, the window apertures have a very slight taper to them, probably for releasing from the moulds, which meant a little fettling of the window surround to get the glaze in.

@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies Ай бұрын

Yes they never looked right. The taper was causes by vacuum forming I think.

@compostu Ай бұрын

I like this a lot, and think I will have a go at this. I was looking at mine and realized that the lavatory windows, that are white are not discussed or that side of the coach shown in the video. Whats recommended for that, I was wondering if it ought to be matt white for the sides of the window frames. Anyone?

@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies Ай бұрын

Ah! I had this issue too playing on my mind too. In the end I left them grey and lived with the compromise.

@ianker7143 2 ай бұрын

Why gloss black? I find matt black 'disappears' really well and I can't imagine gloss would be any less visible.

@tjfSIM 2 ай бұрын

Yeh I thought the same - matt black would seem the better option.

@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies 2 ай бұрын

The gloss sort of merges into the clear windows. I guess matt would be fine, but this worked great for me so I stayed with it.

@tjfSIM 2 ай бұрын

@@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies Fair enough :)

@gppsoftware 2 ай бұрын

Something I found with these coaches is that 'ModelStrip' actually strips the silver but leaves the grey intact. No need to paint at all. Interesting that yours has steel axles. Mine from the early 70's has plastic wheels/axles. Also an FYI: This coach is actually a BFK, not a composite. Good tip on disguising the deep set windows.

@jamesbeckwith3639 2 ай бұрын

Hiya... what do you mean by "Modelstrip"? The light grey paste type substance that used to come in the small tub, and you had to put it on with a knife making sure to get it into the nooks and crannies and then you'd have to put it into a dampened bag and leave it for a while then you had to wash it off in the sink with a toothbrush...

@ArcadiaJunctionHobbies 2 ай бұрын

great tip.

@gppsoftware 2 ай бұрын

@@jamesbeckwith3639 Yes, that's the stuff.

@compostu 2 ай бұрын

Try BSK 😀

@gppsoftware 2 ай бұрын

@@compostu That's what Hornby supplied it as but they missed off the yellow first class line. M14052 was an AB1Z(BFK) built at Derby under Lot 30756, completed in 10/9/1966. Withdrawn in 1990 and scrapped at Booths, Rotherham.