Fairy Wood Light Railway

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:59 am

Got my health a bit more under control, so I am back hopefully to the line. Not done too much though, apart from buying this,

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It does have a little solar powered LED inside and the blades do rotate, pretty fast at time’s.

Not much I know but I have got the shed to sort out first, then it’s back to doing more. :thumbright:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:01 am

If you paint the blades on the windmill I reckon that's a convincing looking mill.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:51 am

Great idea Tom thank you… :thumbright:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:47 am

Had two of the grandkids round on Sunday and the Grandson George ran “Patricia Anne” for the 1st time, he did a brilliant job and drove her sat down looking so cool. My Granddaughter Beatrice did have ago along the straight by my garage with my help of course. She loved it, the look on her face…



The chip of paint on the dome was my fault after I tried to take it off while it was very hot, has you can imagine some appropriate words were said and it fell on to the flags from a great height. :oops:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:54 am

This is George doing some Airbrushing on the sails for the Windmill, it was the 1st time he had done anything like that before, he is a natural…


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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:41 pm

Hi Rod,

You have the gas up too much on your loco the safety should not be blowing off all the time.

For the paint chip strip it all off and have it brass.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by IanC » Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:16 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:41 pm Hi Rod,

You have the gas up too much on your loco the safety should not be blowing off all the time.

For the paint chip strip it all off and have it brass.
The other alternative as you have an airbrush is to respray it. I'm currently doing some touching in on my Lady Anne.

Tom_tom_go, Rod did say in a separate post in the video section that he knew the gas was too high but didn't want to stop his grandson from enjoying running the loco.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by steamer68 » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:40 pm

Hi Rod its nice to see the younger generation getting involved and your grandson is managing rea!my well running your loco. :thumbright:
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:59 am

tom_tom_go wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:41 pm Hi Rod,

You have the gas up too much on your loco the safety should not be blowing off all the time.

For the paint chip strip it all off and have it brass.
Hi Tom,

IanC is correct, I did say on another thread “VIDEOS” that I did have the gas regulator up to high and I didn’t want to stop George from enjoying himself. In hindsight I should of turned it down, only takes a few seconds, also I should of mentioned it on this thread :oops:

For the dome, I might well have it all brass, would it be easy enough to strip it Tom ?

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:04 am

Thanks Ian for your comment and suggestion, need to get some paint and may well touch it up. I think it’s RA004, I could be very wrong with that though :lol: :lol:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:09 am

Thanks Kevin, he really did enjoy himself, just a few more turns at driving it and he can come with me to some local steam ups. I have a family 16mm association membership, so the insurance side of it is taken care of. :thumbright:

Just wish there was some local steam ups near to me in Preston. :(

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by IanC » Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:40 am

FWLR wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:04 am Thanks Ian for your comment and suggestion, need to get some paint and may well touch it up. I think it’s RA004, I could be very wrong with that though :lol: :lol:
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Yes touching up is possible. I've just done it on my maroon Lady Anne and also painted some replacement tank filler lids. which came in brass. Depending on the chip, my preference would be to repaint the whole dome rather than touching up. Any damage will be less obvious. Paint matching is not easy as Roundhouse moved from using automotive paint descriptions to RAL colours and BS codes. There is a list of them on their web site. Maroon is RAL3004 available in tinlets from Phoenix Precision Paints.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:26 am

Hi Ian,

Just this minute ordered some RAL3004 from Phoenix, so will have ago at repainting the dome.

Do you know how to remove the old paint and would I need a primer for the new paint.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:43 am

You could heat and scrape the paint off the dome or get some paint stripper and leave it on for a few hours.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by IanC » Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:18 pm

FWLR wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:26 am Hi Ian,

Just this minute ordered some RAL3004 from Phoenix, so will have ago at repainting the dome.

Do you know how to remove the old paint and would I need a primer for the new paint.
I've just painted two new tank fillers. Yes definately use primer. Etch primer is preferred. I used black primer, but the RAL3004 is too dark now so I'm going to strip them back to bare metal and use grey primer.

If the paint is enamel there are a number of methods to remove it. Personally I wouldn't resort to scraping with anything too hard for fear of scratching or scoring the surface and spoiling the final finish.

A paint stripper from a DIY store may remove the paint. Super Strip also from Phoenix is also very good, albeit expensive. Some people have reported using IPA (Iso Propyl Alcohol not Inda Pale Ale) Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner, Dot 4 brake fluid and even Dettol athough I haven't tried any of them. I've also used, outdoors, Caustic soda.

I'm also about to paint a dome in body colour. Depending on progress I'll post pictures here if you like, or on another thread.

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:21 pm

Hi Ian

I do have IPA, so when I get the paint I will try some of it.

Put your photos on if you like, it’s no problem.

Thanks again for your information. :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway (Update Some Rolling Stock)

Post by FWLR » Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:19 am

Did a few kits while I was poorly these last couple of months, not brilliant but Anne is happy with them. I like the Brake van, with the lights I fitted, you can’t see the red colour of the lamp, think it’s a camera thing, but they do improve the van.The roof is plasti-card with kitchen roll laid on with neat PVA, it goes all crinkle like tar as been laid on it. The body lifts off to get too the battery, not to happy with the paint work, I had to brush it, because Anne was insistent that I wasn’t to go to the shed while I had that flipping virus.

Anyway here they are.
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The first two are Anne’s slate wagons that she wants to use has a static scene for her little slate mine, I do have a small flat wagon that I intend to convert to a little engine, that will have no working motor.
But that is a few weeks off yet, got others things to do, like sort the shed out with the damp issue when it gets a bit drier and do some more on the line, lots of little jobs that keep on coming…..lol. Oh and get some people, then the youngest Granddaughter will be happy there are some in the coaches and wagons…..

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:34 am

By the way this was going onto the line that was xmas present off one of the kids, but is mysteriously ended up here on Anne’s Fairy Garden :scratch: :scratch:
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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway (Another Update)

Post by FWLR » Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:00 am

Read on the forum about a company's quick posting, well I ordered this from Phoenix Paints, Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:26 am and I got it Thursday at 10.18am, hows that for quick.
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Brilliant I think. :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: Fairy Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:00 pm

Tidy builds there Rod and nice to see a consistent colour scheme.

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