Now that the warm weather is approaching, apparently, the modelling 'season' should be coming to an end. Hmmm, not likely! I've been tinkering with details for Scrayingham, my 009 layout, and decied it was about time to weather the buildings a bit.

First up is the water tower.

This is the standard Wills SS34 Stone Based Water Tower kit, built by Bexx, my better half! It has stood, unpainted for around a ear now, so I thought 'why not?'. With my layou being set just North of York, it needs mor of a North Eastern atmosphere, so investigations into colour schemes were launched. The water tower at Goathland was the inspiration, so I needed the nice reddy brown colour that the tank and woodwork are painted. The only reference I could find on't interweb was for Tamiya XF-64 Red Brown, this however was a ong way from the desired colour. Thanks to Paul Gallon (Wordesll forever) I was directed towards Humbrol 70 - Matt Brick Red, which with a dash of Humbrol 19 - Gloss Bright Red, gave a most pleasing hue.

The metal wrok and doors were duly painted, the hose given a coat of Xtracolour Tyre Black (to give it a rubbery hose-like appearance) and the stonework given a wash of Citdel Miniatures Badab Black, with a touch of Orc Flesh Wash under the pipe outlet to represent moss growing in a damp area.

A quick paint job really, but one, I think, which has done wonders for the structure

Before

After

Now I just need to paint the roof, possibly a dark woddy colour, but I haven't quite decided. Any suggestions gratefully considered!

Cheers

J