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Thanks Simon, the layout is called Docklands Sidings, very simple and with the ability to run a variety of stock. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/index.php?/topic/157858-docklands-sidings-opinions-sought/ Just looked and a lot of he photo's are not there, not sure how to replace them. I'll try and add some more pcs too.

That's a good point and very true! Same with black or olive-green engineers' wagons, it might be an idea to just add some texture when painting the rust and not worry too much about the difference in colours. I'm always wary of adding too much texture in 4mm scale though.

How did you get on with this @simon b? I've just found the thread, I used the same plan for my layout but extended the kickback siding into the fiddle yard and made it a run round loop. I found it gives me various ways of operating, either with the run round or just as the original was planned. It's a nice plan with a lot of operating potential.

I've taken a few more photo's of the Dogfish, although I always struggle to get decent pics. The rust, even in prototype photo's, isn't too different from the body colour so I still don't think it stands out too well in a photo but I like the way they look in a train. I cant get the underframe to look quite like the photo but I've added a few powders and next up a light spray of frame dirt over the underframe and that will be it.

That's up there as one of your best works, absolutely fantastic! The dirt on the bodyside is something I've only ever seen done with an airbrush, I like the way you've built it up with different layers. Any tips you can give me with wagon underframes, I'm struggling with them at the moment!

Nice to see some more photo's Stu, glad the show went well, Albert St looks great, look forward to seeing it sometime. What were your thoughts on the fiddle yard? I've got more or less the same plan on Docklands Sidings and use a sector pate at one end of the fiddle yard, to enable locos to run round. Might not be suitable for exhibition use though. I found a full length sector plate shortened the length of trains I could run round and for home use I only need one the length of the longest loco.

Glad the first outing went well, that's a fine looking layout you have got there 🙂 Have you any more shows planned with it?

Good luck at the Hospital Dave, look forward to seeing you back on here soon, take care.

I'll do that. Part of the difficulty is the rust colour being close to the body colour, I find it's worse on bauxite liveries as there's not much at all to distinguish rust from body colour. Thank you, I've been working from photo's and many look like there is no paint left at all!

I've been working on the Dogfish trying to get the rust to look right. Not too happy with it at the moment though, it's lacking something and doesn't look like the photo's I'm working from, maybe needs a bit of texture or the colours are not quite right. I much prefer the rust on the Seacow.

More fantastic work James, absolutely love 523! 👍

It's always disappointing when you look forward to something and it doesn't deliver. Not having Apple TV I wish I could watch it. I believe the majority of characters are based on real people and certainly real events, and think the series is based on a book by Harry H Crosby, On A Wing And A Prayer, which is well worth a read. It tells of Crosby almost stumbling into the role of lead navigator then his progression to group navigator, and the story of the 100BG. If you haven't seen it I'd recommend finding the documentary of the Memphis Belle, real footage of a mission, and conveys the bravery and professionalism of the bomber crews. Can't imagine what it must have been like up there!

Great stuff James, I love the subtle rust and marks on what, initially seem pretty clean locos. some fine work as always 👍

I've put the seacow down for a while and worked on the Tope, trying to copy a photo this is as far as I've got. I might leave it there, maybe just a light coating of track colour on the underframe.

Started work on the other side of the wagon using Enamel paints and washes this time.

Ok, ta Steve. 👍

Very nice Steve, how did you remove the lettering?

Added some rust to the one of the Seacows I varnished a couple of weeks ago. I made a paste of Matt varnish and rust powder and dabbed it on, then added a lighter rust colour on top and running in streaks downwards. Needs cleaning up a bit though looking at the photo!

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@The Fatadder @Daddyman Thanks guys, I couldn't find any photo's of my livery either. I like the idea of just painting a yellow stripe across the top so I recon I can apply rule 1 and do that and maybe leave another wagon in the original livery with the holes cut in the side. I'll have a look for some more photo's though.

Great stuff James, they certainly were big lumps of metal! They way you've weathered them brings that out, making them look very real 👍

Thanks James. Do you know anything about their early liveries, would they all have been painted Dutch immediately or just converted and carried the original livery for a while?

I've also got a couple of these Bachmann POA's. I'd like to turn them into Limpets, so is i just a case of removing the ladders on the left and making the holes in the side?

Thank you. It is indeed the Hornby model, I wish a had a few more of them! I get what you mean about the handrails, I made some a while back for some Hornby 21t coal hoppers and lot's of trial and error and patience required! I could leave the Tope in that condition really, as they wouldnt have been around too long in the time frame I usually model but I wanted to tray and replicate something like this, maybe I'll do that on one side only.

Also, in an attempt to id colours from photo's I made up this colour chart, not sure if it will help. I didn't realise how many 'rusty' paints I have!