Ray M Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Should have left it on. it looks like a bird strike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covkid Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Rake of coal wagons Dogfish now more complete Just looked through this thread and I am quite impressed with your wagons. Can I respectfully suggest you take a look at wagon buffers because they aren't all shiny silver hydraulic types. I am no expert on buffers but many Dogfish and many more mineral wagons had sprung buffers without silver shinyness. Your silver has gone on well though. Great work 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Why not post a pic or two anyway, then if you do respray it we can see the difference A few pics of how the Dapol 73 stands now. (A non fluffy version) I didn't think weathering would work rectifying the colour but wanted to give it a try. The front is not too bad. With a wash of Humbrol Matt 62 and weathering powders the lemon yellow is far less lemon and far warmer. However when placed next another loco it still looks more lemony. But quite happy with it The Blue. Well I did not want to weather it too much, as 73s were often quite cleanish. So worked all the dirt into the nooks and cranies. I knocked back the blue with a lighter powder and I experimented with a green as well to see if I could knock back the blue and get it closer to rail blue....but it did not work too well. As a stand alone loco - I am quite happy with it. Placed next to others it shows quite how wrong the blue is, too noticeable for me. So in my book it needs a respray, which is what I thought it would need but quite happy I spent time mucking about with it to see what I could do. Next to a weathered 50 for comparison Cheers Steve Edited February 17, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Hmmm! I see what you mean. Respray it is then, I reckon too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I've just found this thread. Lovely work. Takes me back to living and working outside Cirencester in the 80s and 90s. Westbury , Didcot and Swindon were my main locations. Your model of 'Truro made me dig my photos of it taken when bunking Westbury shed in the 80s. Spot on weathering! Chris. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) I've just found this thread. Lovely work. Takes me back to living and working outside Cirencester in the 80s and 90s. Westbury , Didcot and Swindon were my main locations. Your model of 'Truro made me dig my photos of it taken when bunking Westbury shed in the 80s. Spot on weathering! Chris. Thanks Chris. I only have camera phone so the pictures do not really show the details. Hopefully this thread inspires a few rather like many threads of other peoples work on RM web inspires me. When I was young in the early 80s I lived in Kent and the furthest place I could afford to get to for not much money was Reading. So I spent many a summers day on Reading station and had a real soft spot for western region 47 namers as they also used to turn up on the one working into East Kent during the day that was not 73 or 33 hauled to Dover Town Yard. One of the first 47s I ever saw was 47077 North Star. So I guess that is my favourite - at some point I am going to model here and have her sat next 076. Cheers Steve I made handrails for her, put etched plates on and made the domino headcodes Edited February 17, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Looks ok to me, there were many variations of BR blue so maybe even dapols version has a place . The 73 looks a bit ex works blue , but not too bad Edited February 17, 2018 by rob D2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Just looked through this thread and I am quite impressed with your wagons. Can I respectfully suggest you take a look at wagon buffers because they aren't all shiny silver hydraulic types. I am no expert on buffers but many Dogfish and many more mineral wagons had sprung buffers without silver shinyness. Your silver has gone on well though. Great work Yes I totally agree. I went a bit over the top with the silver. I have just zipped through Paul Bartlett´s site to have a look. The main ones I need to change and make mucky again I feel are the BGs and some of the mineral wagons. Edited February 17, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Just looked through this thread and I am quite impressed with your wagons. Can I respectfully suggest you take a look at wagon buffers because they aren't all shiny silver hydraulic types. I am no expert on buffers but many Dogfish and many more mineral wagons had sprung buffers without silver shinyness. Your silver has gone on well though. Great work The weathering of the minerals is excellent. I'd agree with Covkid about the buffers; as far as I'm aware, the only buffers with 'silver' shafts (they're actually chromed to reduce wear) are the Oleo family, seen on a lot of wagons built unfitted and then fitted with vacuum brakes in the 1960s, also on a lot of BR-built vac fitted stock and most, possibly all, air-brake stock. Otherwise, buffers are usually finished in '50 shades of grease'. One thing that used to be quite common on Oleos that were 'retro-fitted' to older wagons was a light grey-green finish (I believe it was some sort of primer); I used something described as 'NATO Cockpit Green' for this. As usual, Paul Bartlett's excellent site has loads of photos; for some reason, I can't link to individual photos, but 5 minutes on there should produce some examples. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Funny, I used to go to reading as well. About 1981, lost interest in 85 when the air cadets took over as my passion. I blame my occasional tinnitus on reading station and ‘ 125s’ with their screaming engines ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Funny, I used to go to reading as well. About 1981, lost interest in 85 when the air cadets took over as my passion. I blame my occasional tinnitus on reading station and ‘ 125s’ with their screaming engines ! I was there at the same time Rob. Perhaps we walked past each other...you never know! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBAGE Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Funny, I used to go to reading as well. About 1981, lost interest in 85 when the air cadets took over as my passion. I blame my occasional tinnitus on reading station and ‘ 125s’ with their screaming engines ! I wonder if my tinnitus was caused by Deltics in the 60's and 70's. It'll have been that or Deep Purple. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I was there at the same time Rob. Perhaps we walked past each other...you never know! Could well have done ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 First pass on 40012. More work to be done. The pictures I find really help as they highlight the bits that need work. Cheers Steve 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Hello Steve; done 'owt wi that '73' yet? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 Hello Steve; done 'owt wi that '73' yet? Hello Andy. Funny you should post that, as I have just sent off the body shell for a respray. She will be renumbered as 73120 and I will re-weather her. Will post pictures up when all is finished. Lots more work done on 40012 now as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 I have 37284 to weather and 37034 needs a few tweaks - so I hope to post pictures up of the two together. A few more pictures of them in situ, weathered 31s on vans, a lightly weathered 47285 and two HEAs. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne 37901 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Just come across this, some nice work on here. Look forward to more. Cheers Wayne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) Thanks Wayne 47010 47324 Work in progress is - 40012 - very happy with the front ends now but the sides need work. I found it difficult to remove the factory weathering on this with out removing the blue paint, so I am having to work around that. Lots more work to be done on this. 37284 - In new out of the box. I am not convinced on the rail blue colour on this so might be heavily weathered as they were in south wales 45036 - Needs a flush front conversion, renumbering and weathering so a slow burn project 25201 - Still not too happy with it. Might clean what I can off and start again. 73124 - Is having a full respray by a fellow RMwebber, being renumbered into 73120 and I will do a light weathering job on her as they were quite clean as a rule (I might start a separate thread on that with a combination of our pictures) Before As she stands now HEA in Bauxite is mid way through weathering as well. I will probably tweak the two rail freight ones as well and picture them as a set Cheers Steve Edited July 31, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Today I finished 37034. Here she is on my photo plank. My weathering area. Half the dining room table. My wife is away so I have a free reign to make a mess with weathering powder and clean it up and she will never know 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne 37901 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Nice work. Nice to see another modeller using the dining table, here's my effort... http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/88129-waynes-workbench-wagon-bashing-locos-and-other-stuff/?p=2718893 It's since been cleaned up a little since the photo as unfinished projects are slowly ticked off the list. Cheers Wayne 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 (edited) Class 40012 Second Pass Still needs a few tweaks Edited August 4, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 The class 40 looks great Steve, love the track as well especially in the first pic, great stuff. Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 (edited) A few pictures I took today of weathered wagons and one of my 31s. I am trying a new technique to me on a 37 as well I am painting the roof a matt mucky black brown with paint. I then paint the whole loco in grimy weathering power. I leave it to dry and then with a stiff brush work it into the rood and grills and on the sides wipe off with kitchen paper and cotton buds.... So work in progress here Edited November 29, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Have you used the powder 'dry'? The body has a wet look in places. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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