There have been one or two models that have had an extended stay in the paint shop over the winter. Since we have the Epsom and Ewell show coming up later this month, I have knuckled down and managed to get everything out of their various paint boxes and back together into something resembling models. There are still a few finishing touches to do here and there, but here is the latest crop.
Just back together today is the second of the Stephen Harris 35T tank kits. A class A version this time in its original livery with the long company name. The weathering job tries to replicate the state of tanks shown at Fawley in an early 60s photo in Euslin Bruce's book 'Diesel Heyday' - plenty of road grime and the effects of spilled petrol but with the Esso ovals cleaned. Coincidentally the same photo also includes some very clean looking black tanks although these are bitumen tanks rather than the normal class B tanks. I can't imagine that they stayed clean for very long. Just four of these left in the gloat box now. I'm not too happy with the look of the ladder though - this was just chemically blackened so it needs a bit of work with the paint brush - maybe some dry brushing.
My oil train is still kinda short...
The latest Ultima Hawksworth - a brake third (or brake second if you prefer). The roof came out a bit shiny but it's removeable so it will get toned down next time the airbrush is fired up. Two of these kits still in the gloat box, plus one Hawksworth from the Higgs stable and a bunch of Colletts and Maunsells.
The Hymek (or Lowmek) received some toning down with the airbrush while weathering was underway on other items. The idea here was to reproduce the fairly clean example on the front of Hugh Dady's 'Heyday of the Hydraulics'. I think mine came out slightly muckier but not by too much - 'light touch' weathering is not as easy as it sounds. I'm quite quite pleased with the 'not quite black' of the chassis though - much better than the 'plastic black' that it had previously.
Finally the class 47 is back together with the body lowered as described in other threads on RMWeb and has been tested on St Ruth. It's definitely still 'on probation' so no work beyond the chassis surgery at the moment.
That's it for now. The remaining work before the show will be boring stuff like couplings and so on.
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