Today's modelling has been focused on painting and weathering.

I started off trying to get my A3's new wheelsets painted (with the intention of getting that re-wheeled once the Merchant Navy is finished). After painting the first coat of green, I realised that the wheels are missing the ballance weights, so are going to have to be painted again once I manage to find some. Must say I'm a little dissapointed that the wheels didnt come with any, wouldnt exactly have cost much more to put a small etch in the packet!

The other job was a bit more enjoyable, making a start on weathering 37235 starting with the roof. I've mixed up a roof dirt type colour from the few shades of powders I have and some hairspray, which was then applied to the roof with a flat brush.

To be honest Im not really very pleased with it, much too streaky and dosnt look very prototypical. In the flesh it dosnt look as bad as the photos (my crap photography will make anything look pretty bad!) but its very streaky and a bit patchy and on the whole just not good enough!

Still need to do the body sides and the ends once I have some browns etc

Would be interested to hear where improvements can be made, more importantly how to fix it. I suppose the first step is going to be stripping it back off with some more hairspray, then buying some decent powders before starting again.....

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Edit: I have now added some more work on the roof. again the photos look pretty awful but the model looks a bit better. Still not happy with it though

This was done through applying the hairspray directly to the model, then loading a brush with powder and applying to the wet surface