I expect the photo has made the handrail look much more 'wobbly' than it actually appears - photos do that!  On the other hand, your hand-done lining looks splendid

Mike

Thanks!

The handrail is a little wobbly, though nowhere near as bad as the photo looks (it'll look better once painted, I hope). 

I am getting better with the hand-drawn lining- the paint pens are a really useful tool (and fairly cheap too from art shops). 

Very impressed with the hand drawn lining!

May I suggest that you invest a few quid in proper brass wire for handrails and such? Your excellent modelling deserves it.

Regards,

Stefan

Thank you!

I painted the handrails on the mogul this afternoon and luckily the kinks in them don't stand out quite so much now.  I've placed an order for some 0.45mm brass wire from Eileens Emporium to try next time so we'll see how I get on with that on the D9. 

Speaking of which, I was hoping to do some more on it this weekend but I decided to concentrate on the mogul instead (because if I don't compllete it before getting too much into the D9, it will never be finished- there are a couple of Airfix kits on the build shelf that are testimony to that!)

Where did you get the pens from? I can see they would be very useful?

A few of them I bought via ebay, however I have found it cheaper to go to a local art shop (my current red, black and white pens came from Spectrum in Birmingham).  

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNI-POSCA-MARKER-PC-1M-PAINT-GLASS-PEN-BULLET-TIP-1-0mm-/310330443388?pt=UK_Crafts_DrawingSupplies_EH&var=&hash=item484122c67c  (this is just the first ebay link I came to)

A word of caution however- although closer to scale, I wouldn't recommend going for the extra fine pens.  Because the paint flows through a fabric wick via capillary action, the smaller the pen the easier it clogs (I found this out by unhappy experience).  Once clogged the temptation is to press harder to clear the blockage- which merely results in paint going everywhere.  Hence I go for the 'fine' thickness rather than 'extra fine'.  This produces a line of around 1mm in thickness.  Perfectly good for LNER red lining, the white/black and white/black/white lining is a little more effort but if I phase the work I can overlap the lines to get a decent approximation of thinner lining.  

Thanks for the link, James!

Regards,

Stefan