Hi Will that Gresley is brilliant. What have you done for the teak graining? The side picture bears an uncanny resemblance to the old Cav'n'dish sides - now under the Ultima/Etched Pixels brand as per your post.

I was keen to get some old 'Can'n'dish' style 'prints' for my pigeon van conversion to park the two together and see how they compared.

The process was:

-Paint the bare brass with grey etch primer. (the etches come with separate lower panels, useful if you want to go crimson and cream, though a bit of an extra task if you are doing plain teak or maroon!)

-Paint the whole thing with bright yellow paint. (more of this later) This was a Halfords spray can.

-Paint over the yellow with a light-beige shade of enamel paint.

-While the beige is still a bit tacky, dry brush over with darker reds/browns in a haphazard style to simulate the wood grain.

-This model is to be a freshly outshopped restored carriage (loosely modelled on '7960' on the SVR though the door position in the kitchen area is wrong... doh.. shouldn't have owned up to that, nobody would have noticed..) but if it was to represent a more work stained example, I'd have run a black/ brown wash all over it.

-Finally, sand the whole thing to expose the bright yellow on the raised beading between the panels, this really finishes it off nicely.

-Finally-finally, varnish the whole thing a bit too soon and enjoy the slightly crackled texture that bloomed on the right hand side of the picture. This sort of thing is hard to control, but gives the model (which is only an approximation anyway) the right kind of textural feel.

Thanks for the description, Will.