My girlfriend has such strange & creative titles titles for my engines.

Anyway, I shall keep this short and sweet as you pretty much know how I weather my engines. Unfortuantly, my pcitures are terrible

I have finally finished my WD which was once a limited edition K&WVR 90733 and is now an even more limited edition "51E" 90155.

I have some some slightly different weather technique to this engine to see how they would work (hoping they would anyway!)

The first is dry brushing some humbrol rust into the wheel recesses of most the driving wheels. I left one out to add a little bit of diveristy as if the engine has had a recent wheel replacement. The second was dry brushing some humbrol metal cote along the cab side, I think I could have done it to the tender too.

In addition to that you may notice one of the buffers is still a vibrant red compared to the rest of the buffer beam. Again this was intentional as I remember a picture from a Dub-Dee (possibly from about a year ago) showing a dirty buffer beam with a bright red buffer shank which interested me.

Finally I painted up the coupling rods the usual way with humbrol gloss brown and matt black but on the occasional linkage I dry brushed some leather and painted up the joints, slide valves and spome of the link with metal cote. These areas where finished with a smearing of gloss varnoish (making sure it is carefully applied as to not fowl the running gear) to make sure, I oiled the back of the working to free them.

Finally the crew and coal. The coal is as per WD usual mostly awful and dusty with the driver looking back to the rear of the loco and the fireman having a craft ciggie between stoking.

The ciggie was made from some 5amp fuse wire and painted with acrylics. Unfortunatly the close up shot was great and it looks better from a distance.

Anyway, time to go, christmases to attend and things to not care about.

Toodles