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GWR 70' Post Office Sorting Van - Step 5. The Underframe.

Mick Bonwick

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The panels and the rest of the sides are now completed, and it's time to attend to the underframe. The shade of black used to paint the underparts represents a fairly worn state, so the only work required is to add something to break up the evenness of colour. Once again, AK Interactive Dark Earth pigment is used for this in the main, but some small amounts of MIG Productions Russian Earth were used as well. When looking at the carriage through a camera lens the difference is barely noticeable, and the photographs don't give any hint of it at all, so I don't know why I bothered. :P

 

You may be able to see that the pigment has been tucked into corners of doorways and the recess for the nets.

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Mick

Looks great but I feel that the net should be a bit "less black" / used.

Not sure how you would do this.....

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Tony,

 

I agree entirely. I couldn't work out how to do it, so i didn't! I couldn't get anything behind it to protect the cream paintwork, so left it as it was. A tan colour would have done the job, but it would need to be able to soak in, which would have meant removing it. Not possible.

 

 

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Maybe a very carefully applied dry brush with a tan and or grey colour just to add some highlights and take the edge off the black???

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