Not so silver bullets and a personalised 08
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Hope everyone's had a nice Christmas, having worked loads in the run up and over Boxing Day, yesterday and today have provided a much needed break, and put me in the mood to do some modelling. So, after being inspired by Pugsley's silver bullet work here on the 4mm version, today I sat down and did the first of my fleet.
It started out as a standard weathered model, and the techniques I played with will be used not only to customise my other three weathered wagons, but also to dirty up my shiny ones.
The first thing I did was to adjust the base shade of the wagon, as to my eyes the Dapol brown is a bit too orange and rusty looking. Once Games Workshop acrylic Graveyard Earth (a muddy brown) was applied roughly to "brown up" the underframe, a wash of this shade mixed with Vermin Brown and Chaos Black was applied all over the barrel and chassis to bring the two together. This has given the tank a much duller brown shade, and removed the almost satin finish of the factory weathering. The photo above compares the shades
This shows both sides of the wagon, the prototype of which can be seen here on Martyn Read's Fotopic site. The wagon appears to have had a bit of an overfill, and I think my model is best described as based on, rather than a copy of, but I'm happy with it. Once the brown mix was removed where needed from the ECC logo with a cocktail stick soaked in screenwash, various white GW acrylic washes were applied around the barrel. Various drybrushing and stippling effects followed, with several thicknesses of wash applied in between. Once I was happy with the overall look, and a couple of big streaks added, I moved onto the smaller streaks. These were applied with gouache, which I first tried properly here. Small dots were applied with a cocktail stick where I wanted the streak to start. Then, with a barely damp brush - I lick my finger, then gently run a brush through it, so very little moisture makes it to the brush - downward movements were made over the spot to drag it into a streak. The effect is variable, so can have a denser start point (like a rust spot) or be blended into the streak or surrounding area, like with spills.
Here's another photo, I tried to take it from a similar angle to the one of Martyn's linked above
I was also in the mood to do some more to 08947, in this case adding the transfers and starting painting the underframe with a wash or two of Graveyard Earth. There's still a long way to go with this 'un, but it's getting there bit by bit. The variation in shade on the blue is where I have used Klear to give a nice shiny base for the transfers.
So far work done includes:
- Remove unwanted marker lights and trunking
- Renumber and name using custom transfers
- Fitted new post 98 OHL flashes, rusted old ones where needed
- Replace whistle with air horn
- Fit detailing air pipes
- Detail painting (rusty silencer, cantrail stripe for example)
- Replace cab end buffers with Oleos
Still to be done
- Fit driver and refit glazing
- Fit new handrails
- Fade, weather and varnish the body
- Weather underframe
Although I've modelled it beacause of the time it spent at Westbury, I'll be using it on Baby Laira until I get round to doing an FGW 08 or two
More in the new year!
jo
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