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  1. In addition to the trio of wagons shown a post or two above, I’ve also progressed with a couple of Comet Models carriages – a LMS D1901/1923 Restaurant Third: And a Comet Models LMS D1903 Composite Open which will be the restaurant carriage’s additional dining space. I’m not normally in a rush to build or finish anything, part of the pleasure of modelling is enjoying it as you go, although I can get frustrated if things ‘hang around’ for too long. So I will often prepare models for assembly sometimes long before I ever intend to put them together, as is the case with this pair. While I’m lucky enough to have a modelling bench in another room of our home, I will normally do this preparatory work, on a tray, on the dining table or in the living room so as to be near the family. I also find then that the initial assembly at least, is quite quick. In the week, I soldered in the droplights, door hinges and door stops and built up the basics of the bogies. And then yesterday I put the main body pieces together. I will try and do the carriage chassis’ this week, I always do these after the body is put together as they sit inside the body base and there’s not much margin for error. Kind regards, Iain
  2. This week I’ve managed to finish off a few background projects I’ve had on the go for a while. Early in the year I dug out of deep storage some plastic wagon kits I had made many years ago. The aim was to try and strip/breakdown and rebuild them through this year. While I knew it was always a stretch target, I have now completed eight of them. On the left is a Ratio (Kit 572) LMS 12T box van and on the right a Parkside Dundas (PC08A) BR 12T box van, that I think was based on a former GWR style body with corrugated ends. They have both been improved with Alan Gibson sprung buffers, Lanarkshire Models buffer housings, screw/instanter couplings and brake safety loops (Bill Bedford) and various bits of undergubbins detail added. When I stripped the paint off them, I was surprised to find that the Ratio one had pre-printed sides for Harvey’s Bristol Cream. Both have been painted in BR bauxite and finished with Custom Cambridge Transfers and homemade ones. I realised after I varnished them that I could have got away with using transfers from the CCT sheet for Parkside PC08 on the Ratio van! Typical! I have weathered them slightly. Also, earlier in the year I started building an ancient WSM brass open wagon kit. Its based on the RCH 10/12T wooden underframe PO wagon (from about 1906/1907?) I wasn’t sure how to finish it as I thought it unlikely many of these would be in revenue earning service in the 1950s (my era of interest) and it was Headstock (Andrew) who suggested finishing it as a departmental wagon; so I have. Its finished in plain black, unsure of the numbering I just made something up but I think its semi-plausible. I added 3 link couplings and I scribed and painted some very thin plastic card and then stuck it to the inside (its seems rougher in the image than real) to represent old tired planking. From not being particularly happy with it when I built it, I’m now quite satisfied. It’ll probably live at the end of siding somewhere one day. Kind regards, Iain
  3. Thanks MJI. I’ll give it some thought. To me, its not about followers, I show what I do because I think it may encourage others to have a go and show their work. If it gets appreciated or commented on, that’s a bonus. Kind regards, Iain
  4. Thanks Steve. No I don’t have a thread on the coaches I make. To be honest, I didn’t think many other people/modellers would be particularly interested in what I make and so I’ve only ever shown them here on Wright Writes. I’m not sure either that my model making is prolific enough to warrant a workbench type thread. There is a thread on ‘Special interests – UK prototype’ of LMS coaching stock which has a mix of prototype and model making and I have thought to show them there, once complete, if that makes sense. Kind regards, Iain
  5. This week I was able to complete the build on a couple carriages I have had on the go for a while now. First up is this Comet Models LMS D1720A Brake Composite. These were originally ‘Period II’ vehicles that had their sides replaced in the fashion of the ‘Period III’ carriages; they retained their original roofs, ends and underframes. This is pretty much as it came in the kit other than adding curtains and making my own scissor gangways. I’m quite pleased at how it has turned out. I did have problems with lining it. When I built it, I had soldered door stops on the centre black line of the lining below the windows and couldn’t get the lining pen to go neatly above or below the door stops. I stripped it, reprimed it and repainted it and had a second go; but that wasn’t any better. So I stripped it again, but before painting it again, I re-drilled and soldered new doorstops about 1mm below where the lining needed to go. Much neater. I’m not 100% sure the running number is in the correct place at the brake end. That said, there seems no ‘right’ way as in many of the pictures I have access to, the number could have been where I’ve put it or under the grey panel. There seems little rhyme or reason to the placement of the grey panels either, it could have been where I put it or on the guard’s doors. I’ve yet to add a screw coupling. And I completed this Comet Models LMS D1791 Corridor Composite. Done as the BCK above, with home-made scissor gangways and curtains from ribbon and thread around a small plastic frame. Windows are cut from microscope slip glass. The Stones Ventilators are from Rumney Models. It should also have Stones Ventilator over the lavatory windows but the aperture in the coach side was too big, or the ventilator too small, so I just ignored it. With these now done, I have started a couple more carriages: an LMS Restaurant Third and LMS Composite Open as its dining carriage. If I make much progress, I’ll maybe show them next week. Kind regards, Iain
  6. After having had a couple of pretty busy weeks at work, I’ve been able to sit down this weekend and get the carriages I have under construction to the painting stage. All the bits are good to go other than adding rain strips to the roofs from tape; I’ll do that after the last clean tonight. The compartments will have their final seats added after the interiors are secured to the chassis, utilising the bogie fixing bolts. I’ll only use a smidgeon of glue in case they need to come out at some point in the future. The Comet Models D1704A Corridor Brake Composite: And at the final check to ensure it’ll all still go together: And likewise, the Comet Models D1791 Period II Corridor Composite: I’m fortunate to have this Monday and Tuesday off, so I should be able to at least get them primered (Tamiya Oxide Red Fine Surface Primer) on Monday and the maroon (Tamiya Maroon TS-11) on, on Tuesday. Might even get the roofs and chassis’ painted too. Anyway household jobs beckon….. Kind regards, Iain
  7. Many thanks, they look good. I'll employ that method on a batch of LMS 50ft parcels vans. Kind regards, Iain
  8. Do you have any pictures / drawings of what you've done?. I think I need about another 10 or so pairs (having done about 25 so far), any ideas on something simpler would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Iain
  9. I’ve managed a reasonable amount of modelling time over the last few weeks, although the progress on a couple of Comet Models LMS carriages still seems glacial to me. The main work has focussed on making the scissor gangways / corridor connectors. Below are the main pieces for one set: plates (three of, one for the carriage and two for scissors to attach to, the ‘scissors’ (1mm x .5mm brass strip 27mm long, .5mm hole drilled at one end), .45mm NS wire for the scissors to be threaded on to.) The curly brass is really thin brass shim to make the cowling for the coach plate and the scissor plate. Hopefully the picture below illustrates better than my poor explanation of parts above…. The cowling is formed around some coffee stirrers and lollipop sticks; the one cowl sits inside the other and will be joined with a piece of neoprene rubber cut from an old super soft mouse mat. The ‘scissors’ slide in a soft brass strip ‘U’, bent round the end of a small screwdriver for consistency. The bellows are cut from quality black paper and interwoven. The scissors are secured on the bottom pin by a wrap of single copper wire (taken from a mains cable off cut) and soldered. The right-hand corridor connector is soldered up solid, as it will be the one attached to the end of the brake carriage. A thin plastic closing door cover will be done. For such a surprisingly simple task, these connectors have taken a disproportionate amount of time in relation to the other bits of this build. For both carriages, I have prepared most of the inside detail. I decided to paint the panel detail of the compartment sliding doors. Photographs I have seen of the interior (which I looked at after I'd painted them!) seem to indicate that the wood was actually all one colour / type but I think it looks quite nice so they'll stay as they are! I had to file away some parts of the etch to clear my roof securing cross beams and I’ve also done the first-class seats blue with antimacassars, again I’m not sure if this is right, but it’s done now. The roofs are yet to be fitted with rain strips or end hand rails. The D1791 Period II Corridor Composite: The D1720A Corridor Brake Composite: This week I’ll look to put the interiors together and paint them and carry on making detailing parts including couplings, brake pipes, curtains (another chore) and handrails. And maybe paint a few passengers. Kind regards, Iain
  10. Mine arrived today! Along with my Pines Express 306: The Bulletin of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust. Hopefully I'll get some quality reading time this weekend. Kind regards, Iain
  11. Hi John, Nice looking vehicle! I think your thought process for tidying it up are sound, well, they’re what I’d be doing and have done similar in the past! I haven’t done a Blacksmith model either, but there is a pedigree link to Roxey Coaches of today (I had a long phone conversation with Dave Hammersley on it a while back when he was helping me document some other carriages I had) and I’ve done a fair few Roxey's and encountered, to some degree, most of what you mention. For this this type of roof I would consider a single bolt fixing pulling down from the centre of the vehicle. Something like this (apologies for the crude image, it was done a while ago, long before I ever considered showing work on RMWeb – I can do fresh if it helps): It’s a short length of tube with a 10BA or a 12BA nut (can't remember exactly) soldered to one end. I made a plastic card base from a few layers of material, drilled a hole to take the tube and then filed a taper in the open end of the hole closest to the roof. I made a few score/cut marks on the plain end of the tube with a file and epoxied it in, lining it all up with the roof in place before the glue hardened. The taper and the scores prevent the tube being pulled out of the plastic base, when under tension. Another method I have used is similar to the Triang one, where instead of a nut I’ve soldered in an off-cut of a bolt thread into the tube which passes through the carriage floor and a washer and nut under the floor do the fixing. This works but I found it harder to line everything up (This is an Ian Kirk carriage rebuild). Securing the tube to the roof is the same method as above. To pull sides in / push out, I have done this – a small loop soldered to each side of the coach and a piece of wire bent to the required length, the wire is removable so the interior can be fitted/removed as necessary. I appreciate you might not want to do this as you’ll not want to damage your paint finish, but to stop yours bending in, you could glue a piece of plastic with a hole drilled in it, to each side, and insert the wire. With everything in compression, friction will hold the wire in place. Don't forget the First Class logos on the windows - have fun lining all those up!! Kind regards, Iain
  12. I have managed to progress a couple of carriage kits along the workbench; a Comet Models LMS D1791 Corridor Composite and a D1720A Brake Corridor Composite. I think they’re looking okay, the bodies, underframes and bogies all went together easily and the roofs have been cut to length. I’ve started scratch building the working scissor gangways (a real chore for me) that these carriages had and I’ve yet to start fitting my preferred roof fixing method, I need to buy some brass strip but won't be able to do that until the weekend and then I’ll start the interior. Kind regards, Iain
  13. Seeing the few posts relating to Hornby Black 5’s caused me to pull out the box on an old model of mine. It’s one of the much-maligned Hornby tender drive versions from the mid 1980s; I bought it from Beatties in Banbury in the summer of 1986 for £40.99 (with one of my first pay packets!) It was in LMS livery, as that was all that was available, but was quickly painted in BR lined black as in the photo below. The image portrays much evidence in the way of my inexperience at the time. In the early 1990s I replaced the loco chassis with a Comet Models version, it was at that point I found out the Hornby model was under length, and the tender drive replaced with a simple Comet chassis frame. From memory it ran reasonably well, although the D13 motor driving the rear axle runs better in reverse than forward! Something to do with the way thrust acts on the bearings, I believe. I did do some work on the loco body – I took out the ‘skirt’ below the boiler, and detailed it with things like sprung buffers. The front step on the offside has been lost along the way. So why show it, given I have two Hornby models from the 2005-2010 era and a Gibson one in the kit pile? Because I’m fond of it and it was part of a modelling journey and, in keeping with the budget theme, I have acquired many bits and bobs with the idea on mind of upgrading it. I did purchase most of the parts needed to detail and improve it. This included a replacement Hornby body for it – before the better Hornby ones came out – with the intention of really seeing what I could do with it, but then someone gave me one of those plastic display models of a Black 5 as a gift. As kind as it was of them, they’re not really my thing and I saw the potential in using that as the basis of upgrading my old runner! I haven’t checked the plastic display model for dimensional accuracy, the tender doesn’t seem quite right but the loco body on face value seems to ‘look’ okay. If it ever gets done, I appreciate, it’ll be more of a ‘Trigger’s broom’ than an upgrade of a mid 80s Black 5! Kind regards, Iain
  14. Hi David, Thanks for your kind words. I did fit the D shape commode handles, they're from Roxey Mouldings Part No 4A120. Kind regards, Iain
  15. A few pages back there were discussions on ‘budget’ modelling (well, I think so, but its been a long day, so who knows!) of which I’m a great fan. In my boxes of things to do are many relics and wrecks, some are from my childhood; others are things I’ve taken pity on and thought ‘I can do something with that’ and so purchased it. As I’m not in a rush to build anything for any particular reason, other than my enjoyment, I can then spend time getting the bits together so that come the time I want to rebuild it, I’ve pretty much everything to hand. In the early 90s I built, quite poorly, a fair few plastic carriage and wagon kits which I have since broken down as best I can to their component parts, cleaned up and rebuilt to a much higher standard. The cost of the bits to rebuild or upgrade the kits hasn’t been significant, so I consider this the ‘budget’ bit given the original outlay was so long ago. Below are a couple of Ian Kirk carriages – now running on MJT bogies, with new roof vents, underframe trussing from brass strip, Comet BR buffers and Comet T door handles and commode handles from .5mm wire or etched Roxey ones and a better paint job. And this week I completed the rebuild a couple of old Parkside Dundas vans – a LNER 12T Van (PC06A) and a BR 10T Meat Van (PC09). All I have upgraded are the buffer shanks (Lanarkshire Models), sprung buffer heads (Gibson), couplings (Smiths or Roxey), brake safety loops (Bill Bedford) and transfers (Cambridge Custom Transfers). I added a few details such as lamp irons, brake hoses and brake gear from staples and wire. The monetary cost would be about £5-6 per wagon. I'm not a 100% sure about the instanter couplings on the meat van, but I think that's what I can make out in the photo I used for reference. I made a conscious effort to ensure that I glued things square, minimised the gaps (or used filler if necessary) and attached things robustly. My weathering skills are improving but there’s still a lot of room for improvement. Kind regards, Iain
  16. Over the last few days, I’ve been able to do a little more on a couple of Comet Models coaches I’m doing. The sides were prepared with door hinges (T door handles) and door stops (.45mm wire) and I’ve made a start on the bogies and wheels, on which I check the back to backs and then paint the front and back faces prior to assembly. For the top windows on the sides of compartment side of the Period II CK, I’ve used Rumney Models etches for the Stones Ventilators. They’re very fine and required some careful soldering. I then soldered up the main body parts. These still need to have the lower halves of the sides soldered to the ends and I only like to do that once I’m happy the underframe fits neatly inside the body. If time allows, I’ll make a start on the chassis’ tomorrow. The discussion a few pages back about stresses and ripples showing on loco sides and tenders caused me to look back through some of my images. To be honest I’ve never been particularly attracted to eastern region locos, other than A4s…I know, dangerous and fighting talk on a thread like this…but I’ve always thought they looked old before their time! In 1993 I lived in Scotland and Union of South Africa operated quite a few times and I made all the effort I could to see her/it. The weather wasn’t always conducive to photography but I did manage a few half decent images. On 30 October, I caught the loco here at the bottom of Gleneagles bank on the way back to Perth with the last of the days sun catching the side. The body work has some subtle cockling and rippling but nothing untoward or eye-catching; I also liked the fact the loco wasn’t immaculate but more just clean and tidy. Kind regards, Iain
  17. This morning I was able to take some images of a Comet Coaches LMS D1966 Articulated TO+TO pairing that I recently completed. I think they’ve gone together quite well and that the paint job is one of my better ones! Here are the main components before assembly; while I try quite hard to make the interiors as tidy as possible, they always seem quite scruffy – not that it really matters as no one really sees those bits when it’s altogether, but at least I know it’s okay. And the bodies and roofs: And altogether: Its built very much as the kit came, I connected the two vehicles together with an old 8BA(ish) sized bolt soldered to the top coupling plate but on tidying up the kit’s box and leftover fretwork, I found a rather nice shiny shouldered bolt and nut, I guess that was the one I was supposed to use! I used microscope slip cover glass for the windows rather than the supplied clear plastic sheet. It’s sprayed with Tamiya Maroon TS-11 and varnished with a couple of coats of Vallejo Mecha Satin. The roofs are Vallejo Model Air dark grey, varnished with MIG Ultra Matt Lucky Varnish. I'll paint up some passengers and drop them in at a later date. In the mean time I’ve done most of the preparation work on this Comet Coaches LMS D1720A Brake Corridor Composite: And this Comet Coaches LMS D1791 PII Corridor Composite: Both of these will be finished in BR maroon and will form the two vehicles for Liverpool section of a Pines Express set that I’m putting together. Kind regards, Iain
  18. It seems an age since I last showed any progress on an LMS D1966 Articulated TO+TO, that I started in early May; I’m not sure really why, although at times I have struggled to find the enthusiasm after a long day at work. And of course, like everyone else, there’s ‘normal’ life to do also. The first photo is from the other day showing the main chassis and interior parts, it’ll be a slow plod painting the tables! And then the main body and roof parts. On this build, although there’s nothing any more complex on this set than other LMS coaches, the alarm gear and filler pipes shown here are the best of multiple goes at bending wire, drilling flattened pin heads and creating securing tags. At times it seemed like my fingers wouldn’t work and the amount of stuff I dropped on the carpet, only to be found by the vacuum, is nobody’s business! But all together it seems to look okay. I have to work out a method of coupling the two carriages together. I was going to simply solder a bolt from the top of the upper coupling tab, down. But the tab hits the whitemetal casting of the adjacent carriage, before the bolt can enter the hole in the lower tab and then through hole in the bogie. Maybe something from the bogie, coming up, will work. I never cease to be amazed at the number of little bits and pieces I make as sub-assemblies, particularly on the ends. I will attach the electrical cables next…I forgot until seeing the photo…and clean the roof and add roof ribs from thin tape. I will try and get at least the primer on this week. Not much else will done until August as I’m away with work for three weeks, from next weekend, driving up to the very north east of Western Australia (flying back), about as far away from modelling trains as is possible! Kind regards, Iain
  19. I recently showed a few refurbished wagons and, in addition to those, I also completed this more recently purchased Peco Parkside former LNER 12 ton ‘Lowfit’. Like most things I make and model, I try to add something or improve them in such a way that individualises them – while I get that the success, accuracy or otherwise is often limited by my time, ability, mojo and access to information. Many moons ago there was an article in MRJ203 by Geoff Kent on ‘Little Boxes – The H-Type Container’ and I had always fancied trying to recreate something similar, so with the build of this wagon that’s what I have tried to do. The H-type container was generally used to carry bricks and such like (and was permitted to travel in Lowfits) – the MRJ article has some interesting background history to their service use – with up to four being carried in a wagon. For the wagon, first up I modified the deck fixing by replacing the moulded fasteners with chain loops, secured by fine brass wire; not really seen or needed but I thought it an easy improvement. And then I built five H-Type containers from 30 thou plastic sheet (if doing it again, I’d use thinner); I built five because I guessed no matter how carefully I measured, cut and glued the plastic card, if I’d have done four and put them together, they would have been either too long or too short, so five meant I could swap them around to get the best fit. The corners had angle plastic strip glued, which were further ‘thinned’ and I made the lifting rings from thin brass strip with a wire loop soldered to the end. I did try filing brass strip, as described by Geoff to make these, but I couldn’t get the consistency I wanted. Further reinforcing strip and the end opening metalwork was represented with 5 thou plastic strip. Rivet detail was added from Micro Crystal Klear applied with a cocktail stick; I tried Archers Rivet transfers but the ones I have are too big. Four of the five boxes were test fit and then added to a base/false floor to keep them all together. I also decided to make up some brick loads from scribed plastic card, which are removable. The containers were then painted grey and weathered inside and out. In reality they seem to have had a hard life and were perhaps more worn and damaged than I’m portraying them. Basic home-produced transfers and a bit of weathering was applied. While mine are not as precise or fine as those modelled in the MRJ article, I’m happy with them. The fifth ‘spare’ container will likely find a home somewhere on my ‘one-day’ layout. Upgrades for the wagon were brake safety loops (Bill Bedford and .45mm wire), sprung buffers (the plastic housings drilled out and Gibson heads and springs fitted), vacuum pipes and screw couplings (Roxey). Lead sheet was cut and fitted to the underside of the wagon to provide weight. Kind regards, Iain
  20. I do find the tit for tat on here incredibly tiresome and so unnecessary. Kind regards, Iain
  21. Sorry, I don’t have a Britannia to show, just this recently refurbished trio of Parkside Dundas LMS 3 Plank Medium Open wagons. Their first build was done in the early 90s, and although run on a layout back then they were never really finished, they had no loads or running numbers and one wasn’t even painted. Earlier in the year I dug about 20 similarly completed wagons out of deep storage, the ambition being to try and take them back to their component parts and rebuild them, as background projects, into something more approaching complete and accurate during 2022. The first is this LMS built unfitted one loaded with a Cambrian Models ‘A’ type container, which was a pretty poor quality moulding needing lots of fettling to get a fit to the parts. It has 3 link couplings, Gibson sprung buffers, improved brake safety loops (Bill Bedford) and cross linkages. Transfers are home produced – the font is perhaps a little too big. The container is ‘roped’ down with some brown thread – not sure if it’s quite right but I’ve seen other models (by well-respected modellers) done in similar manner. Completed with some light weathering. The second is finished as a BR built one, vacuum fitted and finished in BR bauxite (Railmatch 2235 Freight Stock Bauxite), again with some light weathering. I have loaded it with a BD container and added vacuum pipes, screw couplings (Roxey), brake safety loops and linkages. The buffer shanks are by LMS, I bought the drilled out ones (beautifully cast and finished, well worth the money IMO), and fitted Gibson heads and springs. Transfers, for the wagon, are from Cambridge Custom Transfers. And the third represents an LMS built diagram with vacuum brakes; I’ve secured a Dublo Diecast tractor as the load with cotton thread. I drilled fine wire loops to the deck as anchor points. I subdued the shine on the tractor with satin varnish. I’m not sure the wagon running number’s right (..too late…) although I thought it was at the time of application. A couple of the buffer shanks, from the first build, got lost somewhere along the way so these buffer shanks are from the ‘spares’ that so many Parkside kits used to have. They’ve been drilled out and fitted with Gibson sprung buffers. The drooping one has since been rectified. Brake gear improved as above and completed in Railmatch LMS Bauxite 612. It has Smith Instanter couplings. Some transfers by Cambridge Custom Transfers, other left over from I know not where. I’m quite pleased with the three of them; if they ever get into service they’ll be spread across a variety of goods services – if only to break up the rakes of opens or vans. Kind regards, Iain
  22. I have walked over that crossing by the box, many, many, many times! Kind regards, Iain
  23. Thanks Adam, that was good to watch - and no sag! I have identified just three images of LMS articulated stock in my collection of Somerset and Dorset books, two are by RC Riley showing a BTO/TO set in an ECS train at Evercreech Junc in 1959. The third is a TO/TO pair, as the second and third vehicles, in an eight coach train Bournemouth to Bristol service in August 1961 (Gavin Morrison - The Somerset & Dorset Railway 1961-66, p.28) - the inspiration behind wanting to recreate my own set! Kind regards, Iain
  24. Over the last few days, I’ve made some steady progress on an LMS articulated TO+TO pairing. Having made the carriage bodies first, I then did the underframe trussing and floor pan. The trussing etches are beautifully done and went together without issue. The design, and fit, of the chassis is different to all except one of the Comet Coaches kits I have put together previously. On those, the solebars fit neatly into holes etched in the floor pan whereas on this variant, the solebars fit onto tabs protruding from the floor pan. This seems to make the floor pan narrower than it needs to be and if you don’t get the chassis to sit ‘inside’ the carriage body at exactly the right height, the protruding tabs can be seen. It’s only a minor point and I’m not sure if it was designed intentionally this way (for a purpose I can’t fathom) or its just the way it was designed. Put together to check the height relationship between the two carriages. The connecting pieces are just bent/folded up brass tabs but lined up exactly. While ride height between adjacent individual coupled carriages varied, the real character (to me) of articulated stock is that they should be the same height and ‘look as one unit’. The coupling bolt needs trimming – I'll probably substitute something more appropriate. And with the bogie sides and bolsters fitted and the roofs cut to length and resting in place. The facing ends have bow shaped castings to be attached and next I’ll file the ends of the roof round/curved to try and match the bow, then solder cross beams between the eaves and drill holes in the roof for securing bolts. Then, I’ll knock up the interiors. Kind regards, Iain
  25. I think some of the weathering shown on this page, and the previous, is outstanding - inspirational and truly worth emulating. Weathering is something I’m still learning, I did a few locos many years ago with powders and dry brushing that I think were okay, but they’re probably distinctly ‘average’. So, for some of my recent humble efforts - I have started practicing on some wagons I’ve built, firstly these couple of SR Box Vans in grey. I’ve just used a dark wash and some dry brushing of brown and rust around the underframes and some of wood supporting angle iron. On one I have attempted to replicate replacement of the roof resealing strips. And on this bauxite one, much the same. And on this Container BD I’ve spent time on the roof trying to show cracks in the lining/covering. And a pair of conflats with light weathering I never saw ‘working steam’ but I’m aware that it wasn’t pristine and towards its end in Britain, it was truly filthy, but that’s not what I want to represent. I will work to what I hope is a subtle level of light weathering so things don’t look new but at least cared for. I want to see much of the colour of the stock - I want to get pleasure looking at it. For me its very much work in progress, I have The Art of Weathering by Martyn Welch, which is really good; it’s only negative for me is that most of the photography (other than the colour supplement at the end) is in black and white. But I need to refer to it more. Kind regards, Iain
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