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Rumours of my demise...


Will Vale

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Relay boxes by Will Vale, on Flickr

 

...have been greatly exaggerated. I have been modelling in my spare time, just not railway modelling, so I'm doing better than last year at least...

 

But I have done something train-related today - I dug Whitemarsh out of the cupboard and finished painting all the cable trunking which had only had a base coat of cream paint until now. I'm trying to get the bridge end of the layout ready to take to the NZAMRC convention at the end of the week, so of course I left it until Tuesday to start. D'oh.

 

As you can see above, I made up a couple of Wills (my!) relay boxes and set them on a styrene plinth which has been painted to look like concrete. The paint job on the boxes was an experiment which I think sort of worked - they look nicely galvanised, but the paint looks gritty and coarse which isn't really in scale. I also added a pin wash around the details which looks quite stark in close-up but helps them "read" properly from a distance.

 

These are going to be planted at the back of the layout tomorrow to fill in a little gap which has been bothering me. I've cut a space but I need to fill in around them still.

 

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I'm quite pleased with the padlock, which is seriously small (under 1mm square, 0.6mm deep, with 0.3mm wire for the shackle) but annoyed that I got a glue blob on the surface while sticking it on!

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Great to see Whitemarsh again and just how well observed the ballast colouring is with it's gentle dies added. Lovely modelling Will - and the galvanised finish looks great to me - how did you do it?

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Thanks James, it was nice to get it out agan, not so nice cleaning the track but the scenery seems fine :)

 

The galvanised look is similar to what I did on the lamp posts, although those had bigger "flakes" (I ended up reading about how it works in reality last time - it's pretty interesting);

 

The boxes and base were sprayed with grey primer (Plastikote lacquer) and then I sort of scrubbed Tamiya flat aluminium into the surface with a stiff brush and cotton bud, using the goopy stuff from the bottom of the jar. Once that had dried I went over it with blotches of Citadel Boltgun Metal and a drybrush of neat white. The wash is an enamel from MIG, as recommended by Invercloy. It's great stuff.

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Welcome back to the blogs, Will :-)

 

I'm impressed by the relay boxes, but those seatbelts on Flickr... out of this world! I'm sure there are all sorts of (warning: management speak) cross-fertilization benefits from the various modelling disciplines you do. Good stuff.

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Good to see the layout again Will.

 

The detailing of and around the relay boxes looks fab.

 

Keep us posted on progress...

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Thanks again guys.

 

@Mikkel, I'm glad you liked the seatbelts, it was my first experience with them and they are pretty fiddly. I've found Tamiya's gel superglue to be really useful, I don't think I could have done it with any of the others I've used. The nice thing is that once together, it takes very little effort to weather them since the printing is a good base.

 

I'm sure you're right about the cross-fertilisation, and sometimes it's just that a break or a variation in what you do is good at keeping the motivation levels up. I admire your single-mindedness vis-a-vis Farthing though.

 

I think my favourite of the "ZOMG small!" pictures is still this one though:

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Hi Will, as had been said, it's been good following your photo entries on flickr, but it's really great to see you back here... especially with Whitemarsh which I'd hoped to see more of in the near future. The boxes do look good... I suppose the glue blob could just be an imperfection in the door surface - quite typical of an older box????

Looking good and welcome back

Jon

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