Thursday night saw the bodies of the wagons fitted and Friday evening was spent fitting weight and Alex Jackson couplings. Still need to fit the dropper wires for the coupling.
I realized that having removed the toy hinges for the side doors I needed to replace them with something more to scale. A few pieces of plasticard from the scrap box were enough to fabricate something suitable. Painting was by brush with Humbrol acrylics.
Transfers from the Modelmaster range were applied this afternoon, the only concern I had was that the white diagonal line on the transfer sheet looked incredibly wide. I reduced the thickness to about a scale 4 inches. I put a bit of Railmatch matt varnish over the transfers to avoid them coming off later.
Finally I've started the weathering with various washes of dilute dark rust and black, still a little way to go to even out some of the lines which look a bit too defined. A final spray with some frame dirt will be next.
Not bad for a 30 year old kit.
David
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