[Oxford Diecast JCB C3X 1980s - Step 3. A Light Coloured Pigment.]

Aha!  That had not occurred to me, I’ll try that.  I browsed your other work last night, I’d seen the other JCB.  I also liked the Ferguson Land Rover, very taken with the delicate effect.

 

Owain

[Oxford Diecast JCB C3X 1980s - Step 3. A Light Coloured Pigment.]

Hi Mick,

 

Cheers for that, that’ll teach me to read from the beginning!  I’m rather taken with the effect of the pigment on the tyres, looks just right for aged rubber to me.  Most of what I’ve tried had either no effect or overwhelmed.  

[Oxford Diecast JCB C3X 1980s - Step 3. A Light Coloured Pigment.]

Watching with great interest, I attacked one of these a few months back.  I went from more of a ‘rustbucket’ look, aiming for a machine that’s been exposed to the Cumbrian weather and suffered accordingly.  One thing I would suggest is that if you’re planning on posing this with the back actor in the folded position, there’s too much metal in the top pivot for it to fold up correctly.  I scalped some out with a burr in a dremel, to allow the boom to fold up a little further.

Before

After

Incidentally, where are you getting that pigment from?  Fancy having a play with that.

 

Keep up the excellent work, looking good!

 

Owain

[Kaydees in the UK]

Never had a Bachman class 47, I’m a Heljan man. Have you tried stuffing a shim of microstrip (say 5 thou thick, ~1/8” long into the pocket under the coupling? I’ve had this on Bachman 08’s and their wagons, the shim usually cure this droop. Also (having never seen one of their 47’s) can’t say if this is the case, but check that where the pocket pushes into that vertical dovetail dodad that it’s all the way home.