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  1. I rediscovered Warhammer paints (background - in my teens I built a bit of Warhammer, mostly imperium of man. I never really got into the gaming, I mostly made dioramas with the figures. University and someone offering (what I felt at the time) was a decent amount of money for them took care of that). Anyway, I rediscovered the paints and am really taken with the technical paints. Typhus corrosion and Ryza rust are brilliant for heavy corrosion, also a rust wash over a coat of Typhus can produce interesting results. The dry brushing colours are also worth exploring, Verminlord Hide produces a good worn effect on BR maroon and the blues (names escape me) do similar on BR blue. The textured mud colours are brilliant on tracks and chewed up ground, plus there’s one which cracks as it dries, which is brilliant for dried mud. The washes - Nuln oil over humbrol 121 is a brilliant quick and easy way of getting something that to my eyes looks like clean but aged wood, Arthonian Camoshade is good for algae and moss buildup. The tool they sell are also worth looking at, I’m very taken with their sprue cutters and their scenic products (particularly the weed ‘tufts’ are worth a go. I’d also rate their shops (or at least the ones I’ve been into) as among the most welcoming I’ve been into. Some of the results Mud around the figures is GW, also the track to LH. shading on the roof of the cl. 37. Also used in wheel marks to LH in ballast yard. Rust effects on skip are entirely GW. Also rust on 21t mineral behind. The bed of the conflat behind the yellow Ruston is Nuln oil over humbrol 121. Owain
  2. A few more, making sure it still all works when the bin-bag covers are removed. I’ve also got an experiment coming up, which features the combination of a wireless inspection camera and a bogie bolster wagon (probably the bobol-c visible in the first photo) to (hopefully) give a genuine drivers eye view. Just got to deal with a customer or three first…. Owain
  3. My ‘local’ before self employment lead to modelmaking time and money becoming scarce (plus spending most of my time on the other side of the country). Superb shop, spent a few quid in there over the years. Owain
  4. And a few more, the Ruston ventures into the yard to rearrange the vans and retrieve the seldom seen iron ore tippler wagon. Then the goods rake returns from its charter and as the DMU runs in is returned to the yard. Owain
  5. A few more, with the DMU and the standard mogul out on the goods rake. Spot the two ex-works vans. Also think the bright yellow presflow’s a very ‘preserved railway’ thing. A couple of vans have been left in the yard (mainly because the goods rake won’t fit in the northbound fiddleyard with them). Owain
  6. A couple more from today with the aftermath of a rather extensive shunting session The sentinel scuttles Cowan Bridge-wards with the shark. The bubble car runs in from Low Gill Owain
  7. And a few more. First up, found in the bargain bin of my local. My first Rapido model. It’s verra noice.. Progress on the bobol E, washes and careful use of a cotton wool bud. A lovely model, let down by the NEM pockets sticking so far out of the bogies. Owain
  8. Another update. First up, attacking this Hornby tank wagon. Now I know its the old ex Airfix, ex Dapol model, but there’s worse out there and when a PO wagon in a local livery is released, I tend to pick one up. My logic is it’s the sort of thing a preserved railway would do, repainting newer wagons in older, local (ish) liveries. So the couplers have been removed ready for Kaydees and with the aid of various Mig washes it’s been made to look a bit more weatherbeaten. Also the Dapol bogie bolster starts to loose the chocolate brown deck for something that looks a bit more like weathered wood (base coat of humbrol 121, washes to follow). Next up, the DMU’s go for another trundle whilst various small diesels do their stuff. Owain
  9. It’s now the turn of the 101 DMU (mainly because this and the bubble can run in and out without having to do anything in the fiddle yards. You can see why BR liked them). The sentinel also goes for a trundle, having picked up a dogfish from somewhere. Also got my eye back in, breathing on an ancient weathering job. Not there yet, but getting better. Owain
  10. And a few more… The Janus returns with the tree bashing train The rarely seen sentinel diesel makes several appearances 75024 appears with the ‘C’ set, consisting of the spare mk1’s, the suburban Mk1 and the LMS first normally seen in the diner rake, passing the bubble car And departs northwards Finally in the forlorn hope of a dry summer, the water tanker and pump van take up position in the yard headshunt. Owain
  11. Just to prove, it’s been a while, but it still lives. First up, one of the recent distractions, a repair to a hydraulic ram off a JCB quick hitch. The 20mmx1.5 thread in that socket had stripped, so machine it out and fit a new socket. Anway, back in the 4mm:1’ version of Sedbergh… A log and tree bashing train lurks in the PWay siding CCE Rick Davies and two of his lads have a natter with one of the station group, whilst Wally Davies shuts down the Ruston, having returned from a ‘bin run’ to Middleton. The attention of several spotters is grabbed by a visitor from the KWVR. Owain
  12. And a few more. The tree pruning train had been out and the pilchard had been shunted into the yard headshunt and it’s cargo of logs offloaded (according to a passing volunteer, the pilchard was used because being unbraked, it wasn’t likely to ‘disappear’ to Cowan bridge along with its cargo on a PWay ballast working..) The Ruston returned from the MPD with the tool van and ran in to the yard. Then the 56xx appeared with the crimson/cream rake and the DMU ran in from Low Gill. Owain
  13. And a few more, to tide you over until the weekend. The 37 delivers a woodchipper for a spot of tree pruning and the 4F comes out to play. Also got a bit further with the chassis of the 21t hopper (even if I did trim the wrong V hanger off and have to replace it with micro strip). Owain
  14. And a few more, with the end of a quiet day at Sedbergh. The 56xx propels it’s stock to Jackdaw siding to stable. Then the class 15 runs in with the last train, runs round and with the dolly released, runs to shed. The 37 rumbles into life, pulls the empties forward so they can be loaded, then rearranges it’s train and departs. Finally, the Ruston extracts the station group wagons and the turbot from the yard and pops them back into the ballast siding. I mean, you don’t want something like this on public display… Then reappears with two brake vans, which are also put where they belong. Owain
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