Owd Bob Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 Thanks! Yes i will use it CME! I have just one small packet of static stuff at the mo' as it's not cheap, and getting hold of it around here is hard, it seems to sell out very quickly! Choosing the right colours is the hardest thing to do and I've never used or done any landscape modeling before so please bare with me as i build up the layers, and try and copy off what others have done. I'm trying to get it all done whilst we still have the lovely bright natural Summer light and not under any artificial lighting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 (edited) Hi Bob, Its fun to use from a puffer bottle, or best value is FMR applicator. With scenery it's a case of, for photos, for lighting and/or for MK1 eyeball. If it still looks too bright tone down with an airbrush, I understand that Pendon use LNER Apple Green! Its all looking rather fine so far mate! ATVB CME Edited June 22, 2018 by CME and Bottlewasher Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 Tried a bit of moss effect by sticking some scatter stuff on the stone effect walling and some water running leaking through the mortar. it's OK up to now but needs a lot more detailing yet...some ferns would be nice and long grasses. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 It's more than just OK. It's brilliant mate. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 Well a bit more progress has been made over the past few weeks, and i got the last of the ballast PVA glued down last eve' and i hand brushed as much loose stuff off as i could this morning when dry, there's still a lot of ballast to pick off and to 'Hoover' up yet before swmbo see's the mess I made a small line side hut of card and brick paper, and i also made a low brick wall and put it along the front and on top of a small embankment i made from layers of foam board off-cuts which i then smothered in a layer of crack filler. A few plants have been stuck about but nothing is finished or in its final place yet, but it all gives me ideas and the look of how it might finally be. The last two pics' now show clearly the stepped differences in heights of the three tracks.. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Great progress. I hadn't realised the tracks were on different levels. One tip I learned about vacuuming up ballast is to put a nylon stocking over the nozzle to catch the ballast. It can then be emptied into a container to be re-used. Are you going to add graffiti to the wall? Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Are you going to add graffiti to the wall? Ian Is there any graffiti at Bury i can copy off Ian? The excess ballast was thrown onto the garden line, it'll soon get washed away 'cos and i have no use for anymore...this is enough to be messing about for now with thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Is there any graffiti at Bury i can copy off Ian? The excess ballast was thrown onto the garden line, it'll soon get washed away 'cos and i have no use for anymore...this is enough to be messing about for now with thanks! Come to think of it I don't think there is! It does seem to be everywhere though. We do have it on coaches, but I don't recall seeing any on walls or bridges etc. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 I sprayed some areas of the track bed the other eve' whilst 'She' was out and with all the windows fully open! I used a pound shop can of Matt Black and it came out ok and it's slowly getting to look better and slowly i'm building it up a layer at a time. After some recent wheelin' and deelin' i've just bought another Dapol 08, my grand total of 08's being two It will be another locally known loco' to me and will be done as the White wheeled and Red Buffered 08 129 from Newton Heath depot, which was later transferred to 'Springs branch' it's another weathering job that can wait for the darker, colder nights. I've put my name down at a certain shop in Blackpool for a 25/3 and a 47, both are not due out yet so it gives me enough time to save up or sell summat! I've also ordered a brake van and one MGR wagon, all is plenty enough for my little display and to keep me busy learning to use an air brush and how to weather them all up properly one day. A view (having climbed over over the wall ) of the fueling point and shed that i'm trying to replicate from the real Springs Branch Depot at Cecil st. Lower Ince, Wigan.. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Cheap camera and bad light so bad pics i'm afraid, the recent purchase 08129 joins 08130. Numbers and double arrows made by Railtec Models, then given just a light wash with a 50/50 mixture of matt Black and Humbrol Chocolate Brown No.98. It will suffice until i master an air brush. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice to see the two 08s. Mastering an airbrush will add to your options, but I rarely use just an airbrush for weathering. My techniques include dry brushing and powders to name two along with others. The Art of Weathering by Martin Welch is my bible for all things weathering related. Airbrushing for modellers by George Dent is my reference for airbrushing. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 Nothing more has been done as yet on this layout as i'm saving it as a Winter project, but i did get to buy a new Dapol HAA coal wagon and weather it up, i made a fake load using plastic card and some real coal was smashed up into dust and stuck on by using clear thick nail varnish.. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 That looks great Bob, I like the marks along the side of the wagon would they be from unloading through a conveyor? Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 I asked the very same question on the Dapol products topic pages the other day Steve, it seems the wagons were fed through by using rubber tyred wheels rubbing on both wagon sides, some used Tranny van tyres from what i read and there is a very good pic' of them posted up there that explains a lot to me i did'nt know as well. I might have been around back then but i never saw any being filled or emptied until years later but that was a different method...so i only ever saw the side view of them whilst travelling past me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Thanks for that Bob. I'll have a look at the topic. Steve. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted October 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 20, 2018 Only just found this - great modelling and techniques in the thread. Staying tuned Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Only just found this - great modelling and techniques in the thread. Staying tuned Thanks Pete' i'm not as quick or prolific as a lot of modelers are on here and i'm still learning a lot, but the Winter is coming and the dark nights mean more modeling time. I recently did my best on hand weathering these two wagons, one is the new Dapol brake van and the other is a Parkside kit built 16t coal wagon, i'll finish them off proper when i've finally had a chance to practice and mastered the air brush. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thanks Pete' i'm not as quick or prolific as a lot of modelers are on here and i'm still learning a lot, but the Winter is coming and the dark nights mean more modeling time. I recently did my best on hand weathering these two wagons, one is the new Dapol brake van and the other is a Parkside kit built 16t coal wagon, i'll finish them off proper when i've finally had a chance to practice and mastered the air brush. You're being too modest Bob. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 They look fine Bob, really like the brake van. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Looks great to me Bob, get the airbrush out too.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Thanks Lads! Especially to you CME I copied the weathering and rusty effect on the 16.t. coal wagon from a superb article you did for the garden rail mag' in 2013, a mag' i had just been given only a few weeks ago. I will need a lot of practice before i can get to your standards though, and i'm hoping to get the air brush set up soon and start practicing very hard. The new 25/3 is due to arrive tomorrow, i hope i can get up enough courage up to tackle its weathering... I'm hoping to number it as this one seen in my old fading pic' 25 095 seen passing near Eccles 28-6-'83. with TDB999503 in tow. I was working at a place called Lee Electric Lighting at the time and would sneak around the back whenever i heard owt coming down the line Would be nice to model this coach, so if anybody knows what it actually did and if there's a kit available? i'd love to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Bob, The coach is an LMS inspection saloon. Usually used for all sorts of purposes such as by engineers for inspections, and route learning. There's a thread on here which might help. https://www.flickr.com/photos/131767300@N05/albums/72157702713569445 It's been done in O gauge too, see this thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/100802-ex-lms-diag-d2046-inspection-saloon/ Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 Thanks Ian some great info and links there, what a lovely model coach that is. My new 25/3 arrived this week, its early days but i've done a slight bit of basic weathering on it, i sprayed the roof with pound shop matt Black and it's surprising how different doing just that makes it look, next i did the underframes with my own made up shade of Humbrol matt enamels of various rusty and mucky Browns, after experimenting and mixing for a while i was happy with the final shade for the base coat which can be built upon and detailed up later, a driver was fitted from a cut down Slaters figure but will need to be a lot less glossy....thanks Humbrol!.... matt Black my ar$£, The plastic brightness of the cab was toned down with some of the underframes thinned down mucky Brown. Other than that i've left it as is for now. I'll now number it as 25 302 (From Railtec) just as the real thing can be seen in my old pic' from 26th Dec' 1981 God! is it really so long ago! It was a SP loco for a few years at least. Wigan Springs Branch Dec' 1981. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
44690 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 That's a smart looking job so far. I use humbrol matt black and leather for underframe dirt. I like the 25's and 24's. They're loco's with character. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Thanks Lads! Especially to you CME I copied the weathering and rusty effect on the 16.t. coal wagon from a superb article you did for the garden rail mag' in 2013, a mag' i had just been given only a few weeks ago. I will need a lot of practice before i can get to your standards though, and i'm hoping to get the air brush set up soon and start practicing very hard. The new 25/3 is due to arrive tomorrow, i hope i can get up enough courage up to tackle its weathering... I'm hoping to number it as this one seen in my old fading pic' 25 095 seen passing near Eccles 28-6-'83. with TDB999503 in tow. I was working at a place called Lee Electric Lighting at the time and would sneak around the back whenever i heard owt coming down the line Would be nice to model this coach, so if anybody knows what it actually did and if there's a kit available? i'd love to know. 2011-08-10 20.15.29.jpg Cracking photos! Thanks for the kind words too, I'm so happy to hear that an old article of mine has helped you get more enjoyment from this wonderful hobby of ours. Kindest regards, CME Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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