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British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:18:13 GMT
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Lonely shapes sit in my box of train-specific parts.
What to do with the train yellow nose and black cab parts from set 4559?
They've sat so lonely for years. Well, still they sit unused, for this
model is merely CAD-form for now.
Now, for nothing completely different.
British Rail HST InterCity 125 set:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=15998
Here's a link to more photos of the real-life IC125 at The European Railway
Picture Gallery:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/gb/diesel/HST/BR/pix.html
Obviously, the train-specific nose and cab window don't model the IC125's
unique nose very well, but I thought the look was close enough for a try. My
moc-up doesn't have that sharpness of edge at the change of slope just below
the driving/tail lights. Nor does my moc-up have the steeper inverse slope.
In fact, I don't think my model models it very well. I've gone cross-eyed.
Oh, well.... Still searching for a really good use of the train nose and cab...
If you view the European Railway Picture Gallery of the IC125, you may
notice that there are several (slight?) variations on the color scheme.
Some with dark blue (or black?) at the level of the windows, others with
white at window level. Some have full yellow nose with trailing yellow.
Others have a trailing white with only a patch of yellow on the front-face.
Some have a red stripe, others don't. etc... Are all of these color schemes
still Brit-Rail "Blue Era"? Perhaps some were left-overs during the
transition to privatized rail companies?
I recall one of you fellows in The UK built a red/black Virgin-badged HST IC
125 some years ago. I also remember that you sculpted the lower inverse
slope of the cab very nicely. If you read this, I'd love to take another
look at it.
later,
James Mathis
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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| "James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:Gv1F2D.6H9@lugnet.com... (...) pictures of it. My cab uses techniques learned while replicating your APT cab. (...) Railway (...) front-face. (...) schemes (...) If memory serves, the first (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish (sarcasm warning!)
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| (...) Hi James maybe somebody around is willing to buy them? But those parts are in fact "quite" useless and you are for sure not the only one to have too much of them.... (...) of mine... (...) is the rounded waggon base. I think one can't do that (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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| (...) I think your excellent APT nose profile would work better on the 125. Did you try it? (...) The picture of the 125 at Reading you have is curious. If I didn't know better, I'd say the loco is "between" paint jobs, as the livery is a bit weird. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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| I put two of the yellow noses to good use. My "Lightning Bug" is super-fast, and a popular favorite at PNLTC shows. I even managed to get it lit in both the front and back, and since it travels at full speed, the lights are always nice and bright. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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