[ebaykal]

Thanks Brian & Richard for the encouragement.

Our Gützold Br56 is one of the spoils of Dortmund. I had an eye on it for quite sometime.
What would you get if you squeeze a Br58 ( Rivarossi 58) from both sides? the answer is a 56.

This machine, actually a KPEV G8.2 was used extensively by the TCDD and anybody interested in its history can find more at:

http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/Steam/45001

Here she is :

Its fitted with a loksound decoder and runs very smoothly.

The plate numbers 45035 was done by herr Kuswa at:

http://www.kuswa.de/

I have met him personally at Dortmund and have to say he has made a lot of Turkish railroad modellers very happy indeed with his craftmanship on the plates.

This is my first ever steam loco weathering. I would really like to know your honest opinions. Here we go:

cheers

Baykal

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (ebaykal @ 4 May 2008, 15:47) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is my first ever steam loco weathering. I would really like to know your honest opinions.

Baykal

What can I say - it makes an excellent model even better & gives it real charactor. Superb job & those plates are just the job.

 

[goedel]

QUOTE (ebaykal @ 4 May 2008, 14:47) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That Baykal, is superb! It really looks like it's been doing some serious work!

I think you have done it with great delicacy and so can vary the amount for different locomotives/amounts of dirt. Well done on being brave enough to tackle such a good (and not exactly China cheap!!) model. I would be quite scared from doing it unless I had practised on every wagon in my haberdashery before tackling a locomotive. But then N scale is half the size so all weathering attempts looks twice as clumsy in it. What did you use, an airbrush or rub on a fine powder and spray with clear varnish?

Will you be weathering all your other locomotives? I suppose they will look too new next to this one at the roundhouse!

P.S. Any luck finding models of those TCDD hoppers?

 

[neil_s_wood]

Very nice Baykal.

 

[ebaykal]

QUOTE (goedel @ 4 May 2008, 16:45) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What did you use, an airbrush or rub on a fine powder and spray with clear varnish?

Will you be weathering all your other locomotives? I suppose they will look too new next to this one at the roundhouse!

P.S. Any luck finding models of those TCDD hoppers?

Thanks guys for the encouragement.

I had to start from somewhere.

Believe me it wasn't easy. Your brain says , " hey this is a 300 odd euro loco that you are about to mess with" and every stroke of the brush you kinda dwell with this notion.

Anyway I'm glad you liked it.

Goedel,

I have used the set called " Traincolor" from Vallejo. All water based acrylic colors . Its the one at the bottom of the page

http://snmstuff.co.uk/VallejoSets.aspx

plus pastel powders. I highly recommend this Vallejo range of colors.

The TCDD hoppers? No luck at all guess its only confined to TCDD.

Yes, I am planning to weather them all, next in the line is the Roco Br 44.

cheers

Baykal

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (ebaykal @ 5 May 2008, 07:22) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>.

Yes, I am planning to weather them all,

cheers

Baykal

When you have finished can I send some of mine over please ?

 

[7113]

Nicely done Baykal, not too dirty, but enough to look used.

BTW Brian - when I've practised a bit more I'll attack one of yours!

Regards