Been a long time since I added anything to the blog on weathering so here is a recent commission - A blue Western Region Class 47 - Amazon.

The Heljan 47 is big and very heavy. Weathering something this size needs good reference colour photos - and I have a number of these but not of this loco.

First up Three Quarter side on view...

As usual - top down - water and black ink, then bottom up brown ink and water mix as a base coat followed by powders once the ink is dry to the touch.

Side on view

interestingly enough the other side came out slightly differently... the photo editor seems to have decided to lighten the colours on this shot

The worst part of the process was the roof - Heljan have given nice clean grey panels which took a bit to weather down - there is added texture on these and around exhausts etc using weathering powder added to wet ink

hope these are of interest