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    Kind of Blue

    By Mad McCann,

    One of my favourite eras in the mid-late 1980s.
    At that time, it seemed that there was a bit of a resurgence of pride on the Railway in Scotland at least with the emergence of the Eastfield ‘dug’ and Inverness ‘Stag for example.
    New variations of the corporate livery started to emerge including the famous Large Logo blue, depicted here again in well-worn late decade form.
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    Having decided that life is far too short be be spending it all on converting RTR stock to EM, I’ve reverted to ‘narrow’ gauge and have experienced an immediate mojo surge!
    This has meant tackling lots of projects waiting in the queue for up to seven years!
     
    Anyway, I have a dismembered Hornby Britannia that has been hanging around the workshop in a forlorn state since 2012, having donated its tender to a backdated Duke of Gloucester in earlier times. I’ve spent a couple of days giving the loco some overdue TLC and some replacement parts. The most glaring fault on Hornby’s otherwise superb representation is the absolutely rotten chimney so I’ve replaced this with a 247 Developments casting.
    Additionally, the model is receiving LMS cast buffers, a new Comet tender body and Jackson Evans smoke deflectors.
    Ultimately, the model is set to become 70049 Solway Firth as in her latter, Kingmoor-based days.
    It should make for an interesting weathering project.
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    Launching Mauritania

    By Mad McCann,

    One of a number of RTR projects that had been on hold for years pending gauge conversion.
    Since that’s no longer going to happen, I got enthusiastically into turning it into a replica of the machine during its period of being a top link west coast engine in 1961.
    There are others but they need further final attention before I let them out into the wild!
     
    D4
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    Introductions

    By Mad McCann,

    For many years now (and under different guise) I've been developing paint and effects skills on models. Ever since my mid teens I'd always looked at models and found them to be little more than nice toys until they'd received some creative touches that brought them to life. Ever since then I've been on that quest to try and create a finished model that actually looks like a full-size piece of equipment hewn from metal or wood. Weathering is an over-used and not always fully understood term and I personally prefer to speak in terms of 'effects'. Various forces begin to play upon a locomotive or indeed any piece of heavy equipment once it leaves the factory and begins its working life. Yes, the weather plays a part; so does the immediate environment. Think steam age loco shed, ironworks or pithead for example. Lubricants, sand and the passage of crew and maintenance staff across the accessible parts all leave their mark. Cargos and the stresses and impacts of rarely gentle use in traffic all take their toll on the finish of goods rolling stock too. Over and above that it's desirable to create the effect of light and shade in order to generate the illusion of depth on what may otherwise be a fairly two-dimensional looking model.
    With that in mind, I'll let the following images do the talking...
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