Time for a short brake or three!
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Evening,
Here's a few bits I've been up of late-namely a brake van marathon!
Here's the first one-a Parkside LMS brake finished with Valejo acrylics. I tried the pre-shading effect on this model as well as the Stanier Reverse Brake and the Cambrian SR Brake shown below following on techniques aquired from my aircraft modelling days. This technique has recently appeared in the latest version of Model Rail. Next to it is a Cooper Craft GWR cattle wagon finished in BR colours that appears in an earlier entry. The GWR version is also completed.
Here's the Stanier Reverse Brake which Alex (Wiggoforgold) gave me the idea for as he had already done a conversion. It's basically an Hornby model with modified veranders, wire handrails and NEM couplings added. It's not a true representation as the ends should be planked and the arch filled in below the roof but I can live with that! 
The Cambrian 25t SR Brake was originally built in Plymouth Freedom Fields Hospital Nurses Home in 1993 whilst doing my training. It was originally handpainted and had plastic strip handrails. It had been given to a good friend of mine who is a BR (SR) enthusiast and was returned to me in a poor state for renovation. This consisted of replacing the handrails, using staples for the foot board stays and lamp irons as well as the preshading and respray. As with all the above models they were finished with HMRS Pressfix decals and some MIG weathering powders.
Also, her's my namesake hard at work on Brian's layout on a Kettering to Cambridge train in the mid-50's.
Thanks,
Mark
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