Rob's Painting and lining efforts

I made some real progress with the lime wagon over the weekend and it now just needs a little weathering to tone down the newness. The home made transfers have worked a treat.

Next passed the finish post is the GCR/LNER CCT.









And of course its only when you take the photos that you notice the buffer heads - they have been blackened but nothing further and they still seem a bit too shiny.

The final item that I completed in the last week is the Gladiator Beer van.

A recent discovery in the Vallejo Model Colour range was Dark Sea Grey and Leather Brown, which work very well as an acrylic substitute for the Tarmac and Matt Leather that seem to be favoured by many as weathering staples.

In between a visit to the NE Steam Gala at Locomotion and other bit's and pieces I had the paints out and got the NBR4 Plank weathered.





And lastly a couple of shots of the latest examples together.

Although I haven't managed any modelling while in Wakefield for what seems to be far too long I did manage a bit more painting and weathering over the weekend. Apart from couplings the NBR Dropside wagon is finished.

It's not clearly visible anymore but I have added a paint date of '19 in the crescent on the sides and weathered it based on photos of NBR 3 and 4 plank wagons in Tatlow.







Lastly I added it's load after playing around painting that with some 'wood' coloured paint....

QUOTE (Makemineadouble @ 13 Jul 2015, 23:23) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>inspirational Rob those wagon a class job.

Thanks MMaD.

Hopefully this will be in the same vein - While I had the paints out I also finished the weathering on the NBR Floor Cloth wagon that I built from a Majestic Models Kit (Now with Chris Basten at Dragon Models).





The 'floor cloth' rolls are made from coloured light card (file dividers). I just need to add a tarpaulin sheet now to finish it off.

Over the last few weekends in odd moments in between gardening I have put together and painted another Slaters Salt van.

In contrast to the one I built earlier which was depicted as faded and worn I wanted this one to be in a recently out shopped version of the livery so I started by giving the wagon a good coat of paint (as opposed to the deliberately patch finish on the first one).


Next I pondered on how to get over the fact that the transfers which are homemade and printed on clear decal paper have a tendency for the colour to wash out of the yellow when applied over a green base coat.



While it worked brilliantly for the faded livery it doesn't for a newly painted livery so I thought that I would have a go at over painting the yellow bit of the lettering by hand.

I used Vallejo Sunshine yellow but found that it took a few coats to get it to cover on the slippery surface of the transfers. In all it took six sessions over two weekends to do both sides it's far from perfect but I am happy with the results and I will use the technique again.







Finally a shot of them both together.

Hi Iarnrod,

Thanks, you are right about the yellow it probably wouldn't have blended in as much on a different base colour.

This might help you in terms of seeing the 'patchy' basecoat that I did on the original wagon.





After that it was just down the the translucent nature of the transfers and some weathering.

Following the wagon load theme, after someone pointed out that you wouldn't get terracotta pipes of the length depicted by the Skytrex wagon load (Post#40) I have repainted them black to suit iron pipes.

Finally for me on last weekend's endeavours, I also managed to get a bit more paint on the Salt wagon.





I do need to sort the couplings an then get a touch of weathering to tone down the newness..

very nice job ,it would be crime to weather the
fine work you have

The latest item to pass across the work bench is a Connoisseur Models, Brass/Whitemetal kit of a former GER Sand wagon. I have finished this as a BR example because it's destined for the small adds to raise funds for Telford. I do enjoy building Jim's kits and this is no exception giving about 23 hours of
pleasure to get it to this.








I couldn't resist picking out the eylets in weathered brass.

This weekend saw another shelf queen finally leave the bench.

The fitting of the buffers and some spare etched plates to the sole bars, finished it off

For the last couple of weeks modelling has taken a back seat to gardening, and no that doesn't mean anything further has been done on the Rhubarb Triangle. It's been gardening up North.

I did manage a bit of time at the bench though and those of you who look in the small adds may remember me advertising a couple of 3 Aitch wagon kits that I had bought from the Guild E&T lists?

There wasn't any interest in them as they were so I decided to build the second one and add some detail and decay to them to portray them as condemned wagons ready for breaking up.

The first one was the 5 plank version that I had already assembled. I added a false floor (made from some styrene planked sheet that came with my Dragon models Caledonian single Bolster kit - I must ask Chris Basten for the source of it because it's actually quite good stuff). Over that I added inner sides that were scribed and washer plates etc. added to. Finally after painting I found various bits and bobs of scrap junk to add a bit of interest inside.

Unfortunately we have had storms here today which have resulted in odd lighting that has enhanced the reds in the rust which are much more subtle in reality. - Apologies too for the photo overload, I was struggling with the light and liked them all.

Because I hadn't assembled the second wagon I had a bit more scope with what I could do with it and Chris suggested an opening door. Out with the Olfa cutter to add the planking detail inside and to remove one of the doors. A bit more hacking and assembly gave me this.