Tuesday 15th - Lines to the fore, a hiccup and an unexpected rumble

A few more in today making Tuesday feel a little more like the old times, although with three buildings we were still scattered about with mega social distancing to say the least!

 

 

 

 

Beginning today in Upholstery with Dave attaching more canvas to another large seat cushion. That foot long needle is in use again.

 

 

 

Downstairs to the Paintshop with RMB 1808 and Richard beginning the black section of the yellow lining out that Alex did on Saturday. Initially the yellow tape is placed either side of the segment to be painted. It takes a lot of concentration and a good eye to get the tape as exactly on the segment edges as possible.

 

 

Returning later to find Richard has considerably progressed the black segment.

 

 

Job done! Richard very carefully removes the tape to reveal the sharp line. Always a hold-your-breath moment as occasionaly paint can "bleed" underneath the tape or the tape removes bits of either the cream or brown top coating. It is completely successful, an excellent job.

 

 

 

Much later and things are now looking the biz, with the missing black painting on the coach end now completed to meet up with the chocolate and cream side. When we paint the coaches the demarcation tape at the end is always set to enable the coach side to be completed first.

Meanwhile Richard had noticed a small crater in the yellow segment of the line. With some very careful filling and sanding this is soon rectified and the yellow touched up accordingly. 

 

 

Russ is back inside 1808 and completing the white painting inside the counter area. 

A lot of effort has gone into freshening up this part of the coach and the result will be a treat when it is completed.

 

 

At the south end of the Paintshop Alan completed the black painting on the new battery box and its "doors".

 

 

 

It was then on to completing the sanding down of the sliders from BSK 34929 that had previously been painted in cream. 

 

 

 

 

During the day we were suddenly aware of a distant rumbling. A train was approaching, but what was it? Something on test?

It turned out to be exactly that as two 47s sandwiching the Peak slowly came by and continued on to Cheltenham. The trio returned to Winchcombe and then went back again to Cheltenham before coming past for the final time much later on. 

You probably spotted in the first photo that the leading 47 is in the process of being repainted.

 

 

 

 

Moving to the Barn and Bob is back cleaning up and priming the roof of TSO 4867 where needed and what he can of course reach.

 

 

At the other end of the Barn, the inside of the north end vestibule of CK 16221, with the floor supports now bolted in and coated with preservative. 

 

 

 

During the day Derek continued his work in here, cutting out and preparing the new floor. The underside is being given a coat of preservative.

 

 

Finally into the Workshop and back to BSK 34929. 

With the Cotswold side window frames now undercoated, it was time to progress the painting a bit more, even though there are still some missing door frame capping strips and some sanding down of the mounted doors to do. 

Using Rod's excellent line positioning tool, Maurice begins marking out the top line at the south end.

 

 

 

Meanwhile on the Malvern side Roger began undercoating the two remaining window frames.

 

Back to the Cotswold side and by now Maurice had completed both the top and bottom line marking, added the tape, and was well into undercoating.

The eagle-eyed members of C&W may have already spotted our hiccup of the day.

 

 

 

Back to Roger who has completed his first window and started the final one.

 

 

 

Maurice completed the undercoating of his part of the bodyside and is now adding some filler on the tiny section between the guard's door and first passenger entrance. This bit will be "greyed-up" but no further painting will be done until the right hand capping strip has been reinstated.

Having completed his two windows, Roger has joined Maurice on the Cotswold side and, with the line positions marked out, is in the process of taping up.

The correct width tape is now being applied to the lower line. For maroon livery that bottom line is yellow-black-yellow, hence the wider tape.

Did you spot the hiccup in the other photo? 

It's not a problem that can't easily be corrected, and if I had been more alert it wouldn't have happened, but it just goes to show how long ago it was when we last painted a coach in maroon!