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Weathered Wagons - Experiments

Adam

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A few recently completed wagons. Two of the 21 ton VBs are now done in contrasting styles, one fairly tidy and the other contrastingly scruffy. I've been experimenting with tinted varnishes (Humbrol Mattcote with Humbrol matt 100 or leather (62) blended with Metalcote Gunmetal and a touch of matt white in this case), applied with a brush rather than an airbrush since I don't have one to hand. This is built up in thin, transluscent layers with varying amouts of tin to get the colour balance I was after - dark first into the nooks and crannies, then a rustier layer and then a greyer layer, all left overnight between coats - Acrylics woould be much quicker! Maybe next time.

 

Anyway, this is the 1/119:

 

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This is the 1/120. It's strange to think that the last of these - an essentially Edwardian design concept - were being turned out at the same time as the first of the HOP AB MGR hoppers:

 

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These big coal wagons tended to weather to a dark grey with a hint of brown as an even coating, leavened with rust and brakedust, but with the markings - notably the end door stripe - peeking through. While the cleanish one is an effect I know I can achieve by other means, and I'm perfectly content with it I'm particularly pleased with the scruffier effort, what does everyone else think?

 

Adam

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Pugsley

I'm not familiar with the prototype, but they both look the part to me B) I prefer the scruffier one as well.

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Fat Controller

I remember the originals being introduced in South Wales, just before the 16xx panniers stopped running past my primary school! You've done a lovely job there, Adam. 'Sound'

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pete_mcfarlane

Looking good. Where did you get the transfers for the "To work within South Wales and Monmouthshire" lettering from? I'm just about to start painting a couple of these myself.

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Adam

Thanks chaps, there's another one on the way sometime, and perhaps another couple when I'm in the mood. The transfers came from Modelmaster (4608), via Parkside Pete. You get two pairs on the sheet, but none of the other* brandings these carried. If you manage to get all four onto the side of a wagon you'll do better than I - the peelable varnish coat peeled rather too soon! I think Cambridge Custom Transfers will do these as well, and this is probably a better bet.

 

Adam

 

*Surprisingly varied

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Dr Al

Very nice weathering there. One thing that may be worth noting though - I've seen issues with thinned Matt Cote before - specifically it wearing off with time. Not sure if this could be a problem in the future when mixed with enamels as you've done, but may be worth considering giving the models a final finishing varnish coat of something more durable, such as Testors Dullcote.

 

Fortunately for me the model in question was a kitbuilt 4MT which lost some of the varnish from its dome - recoating in dullcote saved it :) - otherwise a full re-repaint would have been necessary....:(

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Guest Phil

Great stuff Adam, the scruffier being my fave too.

The safety loops are a very nice touch and are really effective. Presume some fine wire ?

 

I have a stash to build for my Stourport power station traffic.

 

Thanks for posting

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Adam

Great stuff Adam, the scruffier being my fave too.

The safety loops are a very nice touch and are really effective. Presume some fine wire ?

 

I have a stash to build for my Stourport power station traffic.

 

Thanks for posting

 

Yep, 0.3 Nickel Silver from Eileen's Emporium. There are some earlier blog entries showing them without paint - I mounted them to the floor on some bits of 40 thou' with small holes drilled 13mm apart.

 

Very nice weathering there. One thing that may be worth noting though - I've seen issues with thinned Matt Cote before - specifically it wearing off with time. Not sure if this could be a problem in the future when mixed with enamels as you've done, but may be worth considering giving the models a final finishing varnish coat of something more durable, such as Testors Dullcote.

 

I'm ahead of you there, I'd observed something similar... ;)

 

Adam

 

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26power

I'm not familiar with the prototype but they look very nice.  Maybe helped by the underlying model and modelling.

 

A step by step for the weathering when you do some more might be worth considering.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Cheers,

 

26power

 

 

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pete_mcfarlane

Thanks chaps, there's another one on the way sometime, and perhaps another couple when I'm in the mood. The transfers came from Modelmaster (4608), via Parkside Pete. You get two pairs on the sheet, but none of the other* brandings these carried. If you manage to get all four onto the side of a wagon you'll do better than I - the peelable varnish coat peeled rather too soon! I think Cambridge Custom Transfers will do these as well, and this is probably a better bet.

 

Adam

 

*Surprisingly varied

Thanks. I've noticed that problem with Modelmaster transfers, normally with ones that I've had for a while.

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Adam

I'm not familiar with the prototype but they look very nice.  Maybe helped by the underlying model and modelling.

 

A step by step for the weathering when you do some more might be worth considering.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Cheers,

 

26power

 

Now that I know it works as a technique, I'll see what I can do but it might be a wee while - I'm going from a painting phase into a building phase just at the moment, but thanks again.

 

Adam

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