Industrial Steam
I'm doing this as part of my Diddington blog, though it might be the precursor of a new blog in the future, or even a layout thread.
I've aleays like the idea of insdusrial railways. They've got a lot going for them as they are ideal for small space modelling however, I've always been distracted by some of the larger stuff.
There's an industrial/light railway spur at Diddington, and I've had a number of ideas for developiing it over the years. Sor far it's got as far as a few items of rolling stock and an engine, and a hole in the backscene. The idea was that beyond DIddington there was an agricultural tramway running into the fens. Inspiration came from the Wissington line in Norfolk, and the Ironstone lines of the East Midlands. An early idea was called East Midlands Sand and Gravel.
Her's a picture of the train for the agricultural tramway running on Diddington.
The terrier is a Hornby one, detailed.. I was inspired by the Edge Hill terrier in Tim Shackleton's "Plastic Bodied Locos", but I've kept the Hornby chassis. I felt that one oof the shortcomings of the Hornby model was the bulk of the chassis compared with the prototype, and spent some time removing superfluous bits from it to make it look a bit less substantial. Finishing was a happy accident. I sprayed the body with grey primer, and then sprayed the livery with Humbrol acrylic railway colour (LNER green). The mix was a bit thin, with the result that the undercoat showed through, giving a faded effect which I kept..
Just before Christmas, 46444 came round, and brought his J94 and Sentinel, which can be seen on his Juniper Hill layout thread. Here's a couple of pictures of their visit to Diddington. I paticularly like the oily paintwork effect on the J94, whch I understand is the result of overspaying Tamiya matt green with Johnsons Klear.
Which brings us to the reason for all this. Eyesight problems suggest that 4mm modelling may bi a bit too much of a strain, so I've been investigating 7mm, and the Wissington railway has reared its head again. There's some nice video of it on Youtube, in a film called "Industral Steam", and the engine "Wissington" is preserved on the North Norfolk Railway I think. Anyway, its a Hudswell Clark, which looks rater like the Ixion one, so here's my interpretation.
Weathering is a wash of Indian ink, followed by weathering powders. I'm going to add abit of rust using the Modelmates product, and simulate worn off pant on the handrails and steps by rubbing with a soft pencil. Looking at the photographs I think a bit more dirt is needed on the footplate and round the buffer beams. The distribution of dirt follows the pictures of the real Wissington engine. So now I'm off to make a bit more track (perhaps a turnout!) and a couple more wagons. Also, I keep looking at the Dapol thread to see when their Terrier is coming out....
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