Two BR(S) Ballasts
A pair of vehicles from the backlog. A Cambrian SECR 2 plank ballast open and an ex-traffic LMS Medfit (Ratio) in use with the engineers per now no longer available Paul Bartlett picture. All the lettering is by hand using Humbrol enamel and a 000 size brush. This is definitely the hard way, but provided a good match for the lettering in the photo.
The majority of weathering is with fairly thin washes of Humbrol 62, 64, 100, matt white and metalcote gunmetal for some of the oily bits with much of the mixing being done on the model with the paint wet. the later washes worked back into this and were spread out with a soft, dry (i.e. no paint) brush. The effect was built up a little bit at a time with another couple of wagons in the same batch for efficient use of paint.
The Bluebell Railway, incidentally, are building a re-production of the SECR type, rebuilt from an ex-SECR 7 plank. This has now [01/2012] been more or less completed:
http://www.flickr.co...tream/lightbox/
This pair will break up the various Chivers kits in the rake very nicely and will be running - rather incongrously, it's a BR(M) layout - on YMRG's 'South Junction' at the Fleet Air Arm Museum show in June.
Adam
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