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37672 Weathering


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Another day, another weathering project, although this one took somewhat longer than the previous two locos given the number of applications needed.  Another Bachmann model hitting the bench almost as it arrived from the shop, With 37672 being a  Cornish machine (and not an easy one to renumber due to the cantrail grills) it stayed as 672.  The model has so far been fitted with Dingham couplings (and P4 wheels) and was one of the better performers when Wheal Imogen was at last years SWAG members day.  It still needs to be fitted with the buffer beam details, which as with 521 will be fitted in the next few weeks before getting a weathering top up to blend them in. 

 

Again I have worked from photos taken in 1998, which showed a few interesting features: The white streaks on the ends from china clay, a few rust spots on the side (including around the edge of a patch repair), a random dirty patch on one side and a dirty area on the cantrail above the big T.  In addition the roof weathering was quite different to the previous two locos, with a much smaller sooty area.  

 

The process followed that of the others, applying various mixes of paint then wiping off with kitchen towel.

Nose: One layer of a mix of white and sand applied to the areas where clay dust had built up, followed by a brown mix focusing around the bottom lip and the sandbox fillers.

Roof: 2 shades of a dirty grey brown mix building up dirt against raised detail, before adding the black/gunmetal mix to add the exhaust deposits

Sides: 3 mixes of a brown / grey / black building up the dirt on the tumblehome.  Dirt applied to the grills (and streaked down)  Various small rust spots added (along with the dirty rectangular patch to one side). 

Chassis: The same mixes as the lower sides were used on bogies, while an oily black mix was used on the fuel tanks (blending in the edges with the brown mix)

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Next up will be some improvements to the weathering on a Bachmann 37670, which will just leave 667 in the queue of complete 37s awaiting treatment (and I need to resolve painting the filled in hole in the side where I had modelled the sandite port when I had modelled it in 2000s condition)

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