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4mm Black Hawthorn Pt. 3

Entry posted by Ruston November 17, 2017

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I have jumped forward massively and have finished it. 5050 pressed the wheels on for me on Wednesday (thanks, Paul). I was going to post a photo of the chassis but flat batteries on my camera, and RMweb being down on Wedneday meant that I didn't and just got on with it.

I have finished it with minmal weathering - just some metalcote and a bit of rust weathering powders on the cab steps and some coal dust on the footplate and around the coal bunkers. The buffing faces have been weathered the most as no matter how clean a crew otherwise kept a locomotive they couldn't help but have the buffer faces, which would have been iron plates, with worn paint, dirt, rust and grease. Of course you can't see that in the photo but this is all I could manage with the lighting in the shed. I'll get some more photos in daylight conditions, tomorrow.