As a lead in to building my Schoema, which is still languishing on my bench as a pile of plastic rectangles, I've started to build some rolling stock. I like this as a way to get a feel for the scale, although making locos is probably more fun because they go Anyway, I've built two (and a half) flat wagons as the base for a light HIAB-type work crane. The wagons are based on some tunnel construction stock used at the Neuer Distelrasentunnel in Germany - I found some detail pictures which I've s
Some pictures of the speaker install I talked about here. Sorry for the nasty digicam quality, it was too much work to go and find the tripod and the SLR. While I had the body off I took the opportunity to make a styrene bottom plate for the sound box to replace the blob of Blu-Tak which was filling that role in the Mk.1 version. It's still not a classy install, but it works and apart from cutting the hole is still reversible for when I find a better way.
Here are the main components. I've a
Just finished installing a Howes LokSound micro in my Christmas present - a Cotswold Rail 08 intended for duty as the Whitemarsh Yard pilot. It wasn't particularly fiddly, only a couple of hours' work really, although I underestimated the care required to cut out the body shell behind the front grille. I started off drilling the four corners and thought I could then cut through the edges with multiple passes of a knife - bad idea A slight slip left a mark on the warning stripes, but it isn't to
I've been thinking about making something in 1:35 for a while, since like Tanis's 1:48 this allows a wide range of good quality cheap figures, vehicles etc. from the military modelling community. A representation of 60cm gauge using OO/HO track and mechanisms isn't that far out of scale so it's relatively practical from the railway side too. So I went looking for modern narrow gauge industrial stock to build and found Schoema, a German manufacturer. I knew about their Feldbahn locos, but didn't
I thought I'd share a picture of my workspace on Saturday morning before the exhibition - I like working on the kitchen table, but I'm beginning to see why Mrs. V. might not be so keen.
There is yet more mess out of shot.
To be fair, after working until 2am two nights in a row to finish the layout and rolling stock, I did come home from day one of Railex and spend my evening tidying up. Perhaps that's why I'm not sleeping on the sofa?
I've been distracted recently by the re-release of Space Hulk (a boardgame idolised by many of my generation) hence the lack of updates since I've been painting monsters - and working to finish a contract. It's over a decade since I did any figure painting so I'm a bit rusty, but it's definitely good practice for brushwork and related skills. I just need to figure out how to get some of the crazy paint colours onto a railway-related project - Warlock Purple for graffiti maybe?
I've weat
I've had a go at the interiors, inspired by this picture...
http://ukrailrolling.../p57256754.html
...and it came out OK I think. It's quite hard to capture the almost salmon shade (rust plus dust/dried mud?) of the prototype picture but provided it looks believable I'm not too worried if it doesn't look identical
I've started another two and taken some pictures to accompany the process.
Step 1) I stippled on artist's acrylic (the stuff in tubes - the one I use is called P
This is a mixture of chipping at the dry mud, then streaking it as per Martin's suggestion:
and the other side (there's only one muddy wagon at the moment). Looking at these, It might be worth doing a little more to get the vertical stripes of thin mud (presumably waterborne) around the thick streaks.
I also fixed some underframe damage to one of the wagons and took a couple of new pictures of the first two since there was a bit of sun this lunchtime. You can see the effect of
I spent a fair while yesterday working on the MTA underframes with powders, plus painting a few details and doing a little drybrushing and black wash for fake shadows and highlights. I think the drybrushing may have helped to lessen the overly soft finish, since it sharpens up the edges and also puts a bit of fine flecked detail on the panels. I've also cleaned up the data panels/overhead flashes a bit more, painted the shiny grab handles, touched in the buffers again, and rusted the steps and g
I've added some more underframe dirt, but it's not quite right - I bought a pot of buff coloured powder to see if that makes a difference, and at some point I want to gently drybrush the underframe but I'm wary of overdoing it. It did help a great deal to realise that the triangular gussets below the ribs don't appear to be in body colour in any of the pictures, although it looks like I haven't fixed this on the first wagon - it's right on the others though. Still haven't really touched the step
Hi Folks,
I've been a bit busy with work and a new layout project (more later) but finally found time to start transferring my bits and bobs from the old RMWeb. Here's a synopsis of my wagon weathering thread: original page on Old RMweb
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I was inspired by Northern Maiden's thread (among others) to take the plunge and have a go at weathering a wagon. I've done a few buildings before with wash
