Border Miniatures-by Pete Armstrong
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Population for gauge 0 model railway layouts ; crews for locomotives, guards and workmen for the permanent way gang. http://petesnewworkshop.blogspot.co.uk Border Miniatures are created by Pete Armstrong in 1:43 scale to provide a wide variety of crews for gauge 0 locomotives of all types The range is expanding to include passengers, guards, workmen and other characters to enhance the gauge 0 scene. Pete builds locos and rolling stock too and will regularly feature his models on the page alongside his figures. Locomotives featured are mostly scratch-built and appropriate crews are sculpted by Pete to complement them.
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I've been working on the master pattern for this figure all week, it's a difficult pose because the hands and shovel need to be sculpted and cast separately. Despite the frosty weather today I managed to cast a few figures in the workshop this afternoon. The figures are undercoated in grey and two of them are mounted on small bases though, as the left hand example demonstrates, they do stand on their own feet.
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Despite the cold weather I managed a little light weathering to this Parkside Dundas NBR wagon in the outside workshop this morning. Some improvements were made to the brake gear. I airbrushed the underframe then hand painted the rest, transfers are HMRS and the wood load is from Skytrex, painted and roped on with waxed model ship rigging .
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Pete added a couple of final flourishes of detail to the front of the HR Loch tender. A coal breaker sits on the tool-box top and working buffers now add interest to the buffer beam . You can see how they work in the upside-down picture of the tender.
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Highland Railway Loch an Dorb...construction complete now. The engine is scratch built with some slight assistance from a Lochgorm Kits aid to scratch building body etch and with the help of a good number of commercially available lost-wax castings. More details on... http://petesnewworkshop.blogspot.co.uk
HR Loch and Dorb
HR 4-4-0 Loch an Dorb in action today on the clun layout in carlisle on which she performed impeccably on her first test under club conditions. There's a little more detail to be added to the loco before she goes to the paint shop when the weather warms up!
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HR Loch an Dorb, work in progress. LGM castings provide detail on the scratch built backhead.
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Pete's current project is a Highland Railway Loch class engine which is seen here in my studio on the test track.
HR Loch class.
HR Loch class engine under construction running on Pete's test track in the studio.
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Stroudley designed HR57 0-6-0T Lochgorm in the station on the Carlisle club layout recently. Engine built by Pete without the aid of a kit.
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NBR Covered van built from a Parkside Dundas kit with improvements to the brake gear and an inkjet printed wagon plate.
HR53 0-4-4T "Lybster" running through the station on the scenic section at CDOGG recently with a short train consisting of a d.4 outside framed van and a four wheeled brake van built to LMS d.14. The engine was scratch built, the wagons were built from Lochgorm Kits' etches which are "aids to scratch building" rather than kits.
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HR d.5 Coal Wagon built from a Lochgorm Kits "Aid to scratchbuilding" with modifications, additions and improvements. Painted by hand with some air brushed weathering, much dry brushing and scrubbing; transfers from HMRS, wagon plate from my own artwork and printed on the inkjet.
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