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CR Diagram 3 wagon build. Painted and in service.


Dave John

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I had access to good pictures of both wagons as built, but I wanted to have a go at giving them a slightly weathered in service look. Nothing as drastic as some stock, but the appearance of a few years of doing a job.

Base coat is just rattle can. There are few sets of transfers for the CR, so I make my own with “crafty” transfer paper. It works, but tends to be difficult to blend into the side without leaving a bit of a ridge. I just use powders for weathering, easy to adjust if I get over enthusiastic.

Anyway, harshly side on.

 


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Painting is not my top skill, so these have come out to a reasonable look. Like most of my attempts they look better from a distance……

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  • RMweb Gold

 Beautiful vans, Dave! The paintjob and weathering looks very convincing to me. Interesting to see that you have used the crafty dry transfers. If you hadn't mentioned it I would not have noticed any edges at all, and the only place I can see it is around the writing on the right hand side. Would microsol help?

 

I do like that livery, colourful but in a toned down and sophisticated kind of way. 

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Cheers Mikkel and YS

 

It might Mikkel, but the crafty white waterslide tends to show an edge of white where it is cut from the sheet, so it needs a spot of the rattle can paint just to blend it in. 

 

I should revisit the dry ones and see if I can get better with them. 

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  • RMweb Gold

Yes that would fix it, although as I said I only noticed because you pointed it out.

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Lovely work. Could you explain your crafty transfers for the slow on the uptake, please? Graham

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