Foster Street - One thing leads to another - Ivatt Class 2 (2-6-0)
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Is it just me, or does this happen to other people too? I set out to do one thing, and ended up doing something different.
I had intended to build some new storage trays for the stock I admit to owning (the stuff the Domestic Overlord has seen) and to be fair I set out to create 9 and I have its just I got fed up of fitting foam in them after the sixth one was finished.
Anyway while I was doing this I looked at servicing and cleaning the locomotives I tend to use from the collection on Foster Street, all was progressing well, with only one casualty requiring parts to be ordered. Things were progressing well and I was in severe danger of actually completing a job I had started, and I was left with just a few to service.
I have always liked the Ivatt Mogul, and a new Bachmann example had joined the collection several months back, shortly after one of my old Minitrix examples exploded (actually just threw its valve gear on one side). The problem is the newer loco just looked far too clean so I thought it was time it got a coat of grime.
So out came the old paintbrushes and the paints, and I set to work making a dirty girl out of her, don't worry no airbrushes where damaged in this process.
As these locomotives appeared relatively late in the life of the GREAT LMS, I thought a light weathering would be in order, to portray a working engine (even though some locomotives were in a terrible external state in LMS days).
The only problem is that I have not got one of the new models, I actually have two, so now I have another job to complete, renumbering and weathering the other one.
So as ever until the next time Happy Modelling 
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