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*** Having had a few spare moments I've at last taken a couple of photo's of my brass kitbuilt MR 47 foot Clayton Push Pull composite Coach in Period 2 fully lined Livery.
This one was done completely by pen (a mixture of Bow pen and Pentel Gold pens + Superfine black "CD writing" pens in places.) Paint is my own mixture of Humbrol for the Crimson lake, and Scalecoat for the blacks.
The lining was a fair cow to get right and motivated me to create some fine transfer lettering for future Period 2 coaches... Hopefully I'll have several Ratio coaches done using this (as a test) soon, and if successful, it'll be used to line several of Comet large window LMS period 2 coaches which have been waiting for a burst of enthusiasm. If my own transfers don't work, then I will probably revert to Pressfix for much of their lining - I really don't enjoy the Bowpen except for simpler tasks.
I thought I'd also show some of my Loco's - All are brass / Nickel silver or WM kits, most fairly severely kitbashed - the exception is the Jinty which is a very much reworked Hornby, with daylighted boiler and a lot of new detail - I really like this little loc - it captures the "jinty look" if anything a wee bit better than the bachmann for some reason!.
The Boweb Cooke tender hidden partly behind the Jinty is a spare for my Claughton, which has been (for now) coupled to a ROD tender for use on the "water-trough-less" Midland Division.
The Jubilee is there for a reason - (Sorry I just shot it within the cabinet - if anyone is interest in a closer look at the lining I can photograph it properly). I included it as for this one I experimented with using Testors striping tape for the "stainless steel" look bands and lining - I think it worked OK, and its a nice easy way to get good looking lining without tearing out your hair. A little wasteful though, as I only used the narrowest of the linings and the others, all much wider, are still tucke in the drawer...
The 999 class is there just because I really like that loco - elegant and realy looks like a pedigree beast - perfect for my S&C layout, which is where they roamed mostly. The loco is pretty bog standard but Its one of Gibsons earlier kits - the outside brake gear was horribly over-etched and there wre no castings for the brake cylinders to that is all 100% scratch built as is much of the other detail. I have 3 more of them to build. Again if anyone would like I can photograph it properly out of the cabinet at a later date.
I keep the loco's in the cabinet at the office as I enjoy looking a them each day - They also get the odd day out on my test track when I'm bored with other things.... and anyway, it gives customers confidence that when I'm disassembling and working on their loco's for DCC etc, they are in safe hands.
Kind regards
Richard
This one was done completely by pen (a mixture of Bow pen and Pentel Gold pens + Superfine black "CD writing" pens in places.) Paint is my own mixture of Humbrol for the Crimson lake, and Scalecoat for the blacks.
The lining was a fair cow to get right and motivated me to create some fine transfer lettering for future Period 2 coaches... Hopefully I'll have several Ratio coaches done using this (as a test) soon, and if successful, it'll be used to line several of Comet large window LMS period 2 coaches which have been waiting for a burst of enthusiasm. If my own transfers don't work, then I will probably revert to Pressfix for much of their lining - I really don't enjoy the Bowpen except for simpler tasks.
I thought I'd also show some of my Loco's - All are brass / Nickel silver or WM kits, most fairly severely kitbashed - the exception is the Jinty which is a very much reworked Hornby, with daylighted boiler and a lot of new detail - I really like this little loc - it captures the "jinty look" if anything a wee bit better than the bachmann for some reason!.
The Boweb Cooke tender hidden partly behind the Jinty is a spare for my Claughton, which has been (for now) coupled to a ROD tender for use on the "water-trough-less" Midland Division.
The Jubilee is there for a reason - (Sorry I just shot it within the cabinet - if anyone is interest in a closer look at the lining I can photograph it properly). I included it as for this one I experimented with using Testors striping tape for the "stainless steel" look bands and lining - I think it worked OK, and its a nice easy way to get good looking lining without tearing out your hair. A little wasteful though, as I only used the narrowest of the linings and the others, all much wider, are still tucke in the drawer...
The 999 class is there just because I really like that loco - elegant and realy looks like a pedigree beast - perfect for my S&C layout, which is where they roamed mostly. The loco is pretty bog standard but Its one of Gibsons earlier kits - the outside brake gear was horribly over-etched and there wre no castings for the brake cylinders to that is all 100% scratch built as is much of the other detail. I have 3 more of them to build. Again if anyone would like I can photograph it properly out of the cabinet at a later date.
I keep the loco's in the cabinet at the office as I enjoy looking a them each day - They also get the odd day out on my test track when I'm bored with other things.... and anyway, it gives customers confidence that when I'm disassembling and working on their loco's for DCC etc, they are in safe hands.
Kind regards
Richard
Thanks for sharing them.
