Keyhaven

Looks good. I might try this method myself, might save an evening of foul language trying to get transfers to sit properly on bufferbeams (it took at least 3 attempts to get waspy transfes to lay flat on one end of my Coles Crane).

If it is of any consolation, wasp stripes............ I hate 'em to peices! Masking over radiators and other detail has never been a fun job and it aint got any easier. I brush Mascol into awkward bits of the masking tape where it will not press down over fine detail (coach door handles for instance).

 

When I saw your heading, I thought you'de found a large wasp in the living room, as I did this morning!

Larry

...When I saw your heading, I thought you'de found a large wasp in the living room, as I did this morning!

Me, too, on both counts, although mine was in the bathroom

 

Nick

 

ps. you've certainly made a nice job of those stripes

Looks like nice neat work Andy. I've done a few of these stripy finishes now and have always used a variation on this approach, as each manufacturer of industrial locos had their own way of doing it, and being particular, I like to at least try to get it right!

 

The variation is to get the registration correct - I use more strips of the correct width to register the neighbouring stripes and then, once happy, remove it. Trying to do it by eye is a pig of a job...

 

Adam

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Hi Andy, great to see you being able to finally spend some time doing nice things like modeling rather than the constant fighting with software and sever hosts.

 

Although doing wasp stripes might have be just as much hard work looks good though.

 

Paul