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Think I've got about as far as I can with the 33 & 37 until a stash of supplies is delivered.

 

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So while I'm waiting I'll have a go at something different !

 

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Long time favourite of mine, 37426, which has been in the collection since it's L/E release many years ago, but not had anything done to it other than adding the plates & crests. So it's about time she got pipework added & a light weathering.

Newly released 33026 'Seafire' is staying as that identity, so just a light weathering is required. Light enough that plates, arrows & diamonds can be added later, when I get them !

 

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Phil.

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Not really made much progress with anything lately, but I have started the weathering on 37426.

eBay 'professional' weathering is the look I'm going for.....

.....think I've nailed it !  :blink:

 

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Phil.

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19 hours ago, Phil Mc said:

Not really made much progress with anything lately, but I have started the weathering on 37426.

eBay 'professional' weathering is the look I'm going for.....

.....think I've nailed it !  :blink:

 

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Cheers,

Phil.

L@@K!

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On 30/07/2020 at 17:20, Phil Mc said:

I tried my best, but can't manage 'professional' standard.

Hopefully I managed to achieve 'willing amateur' level !

 

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Cheers,

Phil.

Skill level 10.....next step Ebay expert level!.....out with black poster paint. 

Top draw

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Another 'fill-in' job has landed on the workbench.

The lovely looking 117 unit.

Jack's already added the passengers, I've started the weathering with a subtle wash around the rainstrip & doorshut's. (with a little bit around the lights & cab handrails too.)

 

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Airbrush treatment next, that shiny roof has got to go.........

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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16 minutes ago, Eddie R v2.0 said:

That 117 looks the biz- nice subtle weathering that really is a top notch job. I like that a lot! 


Thanks !

I sometimes find it as difficult to do a ‘clean’ weathering job as it is to do a ‘grotty’ version.

With the airbrush I tend to stick to the same routine, but just use thinner paint, so while it’s wet it looks like there’s a lot gone on, but when it’s dried it not so heavy ! :lol:

There’s a few hopefully subtle touches on the unit, like the doorsteps have had ‘roof dirt’ sprayed over them after the chassis was done with ‘frame dirt’, then when they were dry, they got a light rub over with a cotton bud dipped in a very finely ground graphite powder. To try to replicate years of footwear rubbing the wood smooth.

The radiator grilles also got the graphite powder treatment, just to give some tonal variety and to highlight the texture of the mesh.

Some of the things I do, I do wonder whether it’s worth the time & effort, but hopefully they add up to a better end result....:scratchhead:

Anyway, I get to practice on another 117, Dads got himself a Blue/Grey one !

 

cheers,

Phil.

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1 hour ago, Eddie R v2.0 said:

 

I like the idea of the graphite powder on the footsteps etc as these areas do get almost a sheen to them in real life. Stock like this never really got that manky as it would still get a wash now and again but a wash plant would never clean the recess properly.

 

 

That's why I've tried to keep the edge of the roof fairly clean, where the brushes of a washplant would reach, but then dirt has washed down from higher up giving vertical lines.

Lately I've found myself airbrushing 'roof dirt' onto the couplings and hooks, as the grease on them would make them look darker than the surrounding 'frame dirt' coloured areas.

Couldn't tell you when I started doing that though, I kinda noticed I'd done it, but without really making any conscience decision about it ! :laugh_mini:

 

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Phil.

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Haven't had chance to get near the workbench for a couple of weeks, so I'd forgotten how many part finished projects were on the go !

After having a look through what was on there, I came to the conclusion that I haven't got the necessary parts to finish any of them, so I might as well start something else. :lol:

The 6 different Dutch Turbots that have been released by Dapol are being prepared to enter service.

 

Start point-

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Interiors are tackled first.

Base layer of 'wood' colour (Humbrol 29)on the floor-

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Followed by a wash of Humbrol 72, and random patches of Humbrol 148-

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'Rusting' of the inner sidewalls will follow when the floor is fully dry.

 

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Phil.

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Using a flat brush, the inner walls got a dappled coat of Humbrol 160.

A cocktail stick was then used with the same colour to add rust streaks to the outsides.

Finally, with the same brush, the outsides were rusted, by dipping the very tip of the bristles in the paint, then dipping in white spirit and applying downward strokes over the whole surface.

When all 6 wagons had been treated, I went over them again, but just with white spirit.

This brings most of the paint off again, leaving (hopefully!!) a more subtle finish.

 

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After they had dried, a coat of the same 'weathering powders in white spirit' wash I've used on previous ballast/spoil wagons, was brushed over the inner and outer faces of the walls.

It doesn't stand out too much, but adds variations in colour and tone to the bodywork.

(pics taken under a spotlight, which stops it showing up too well, hopefully I'll take some in natural light that will show up what I mean.)

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Phil.

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On giving the Turbots a test run with the supplied coupling bar, rather than the tension lock, I encountered a couple of niggling issues.

The wagons didn't seem very sure-footed and randomly derailed.

It wasn't a buffer-locking issue, as even on the tightest radius, the buffers don't touch.

I figured that it was because layout baseboards are ( sorry Dad, but you know I'm right !! :rolleyes: ) not flat, and effectively fixing the rear bogie of one wagon to the leading bogie of the next wagon with the coupling bar, was causing wheelsets to ride up over the rails.

I thought about trying to loosen the screws holding the bogies on slightly, but there seemed to be as much movement there as I should need anyway.

 

My eventual plan was to add weight under the chassis, like this-

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( Don't know why the pic is showing vertically, it's horizontal on my computer !! )

 

I also filed the top, bottom, and sides of the coupling bar prongs, but left the end 'pips' intact.

This allowed a very slight amount of horizontal and vertical movement of the bar in the NEM pocket.

I was worried that it might also allow the bar to be pulled out of the pocket too easily, but it doesn't appear to be the case.

They've been pulled and pushed all around the layout, including over a ladder crossing, also up and down a fairly steep slope, with no issues ! :D:D

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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We've had this class 101 for a long while, but it never really saw much use because the dummy car lights (interior & cab-end) didn't work.

After much faffing around, I decided it must be the lower circuit board that was at fault, so last week I contacted Bachmann for a replacement board, which arrived the following day.

I've installed it, and replaced the temperamental spring-clips that transfer power from the lower circuit board to the upper one, with soldered wire.

Now got a full complement of working lights. :D

 

Figured I might as well weather it while it was on the workbench.

 

So far, I've swapped the names on the headcode blinds for more appropriate destinations, and removed the 'E' from in front of the running numbers.

 

Added a wash in the appropriate places-

 

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Then removed most of it ! -

 

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Seeing as my chief passenger installation engineer has abandoned his post, I've had to do that myself !!

 

Next up is a visit to the spray booth.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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On 18/02/2020 at 10:53, Phil Mc said:

A couple of modelling sessions over the weekend has seen pick-ups fitted to the bogies, the whole thing wired up, and rebuilt. ( I could have done with 3 pairs of hands !!)

Yesterday saw some very light weathering applied to the chassis.

So now it's ready to go into service.

 

White/Red bi-colour lights in the 'passenger' end.

 

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Internal lights.

 

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Under-chassis lights.

 

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The full compliment lit !

 

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And could this be a certain Cheshire based GBRf driver doing a spot of moonlighting on his rest-days ??

Hope he took his boots of before putting his feet on the seats !!

 

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Cheers,

Phil.

Good evening Phil hope you are well I've been reading through your thread and the work is fantastic. Tornados support coach is really great to see modelled, it's somthing I've wanted to do since I saw the support coach. Hope you don't mind me asking what kind of LEDs you used for the marker/ tail lights and how you made the casings for them?

 

Regards Gary 

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10 hours ago, gary_lner said:

Good evening Phil hope you are well I've been reading through your thread and the work is fantastic. Tornados support coach is really great to see modelled, it's somthing I've wanted to do since I saw the support coach. Hope you don't mind me asking what kind of LEDs you used for the marker/ tail lights and how you made the casings for them?

 

Regards Gary 

 

Hi Gary,

 

Thanks for the compliment !

For the head/tail lights LED's I just searched on eBay for 2mm bicolour red/white LED's. They're 2mm 'lighthouse' style.

The housings are made from filed down high intensity headlight mouldings, bought as spares from from Replica Railways.

 

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Phil.

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On 14/10/2020 at 07:51, Phil Mc said:

 

Hi Gary,

 

Thanks for the compliment !

For the head/tail lights LED's I just searched on eBay for 2mm bicolour red/white LED's. They're 2mm 'lighthouse' style.

The housings are made from filed down high intensity headlight mouldings, bought as spares from from Replica Railways.

 

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Phil.

That's great thanks for that phil

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Don't seem to have had much time at the workbench, but I have managed to complete the latest project.

It's a bit more up-to-date, but in a retro style !

 

Detail wise, all it's had is parts added to one end, and nameplates fitted.

weathering has been limited to how the loco has looked every time I've seen it, which is pretty clean.

So wash has been run around the panel lines on the roof and sides, including the cab doors, and over the bodyside grilles.

The exhaust silencer has been 'rusted' and darkened, off the loco.

Then the airbrush was used to finish off.

 

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Just as I started this, Rails sold off TTS 66 soundchips, and as we haven't got a noisy shed, I figured it would have been rude not to !

I already had some 21 - 8 pin adaptors, the speaker was transferred from the supplied surround to the existing one fitted in the loco, and sealed with 'Kristal Klear'.

I figured I could always change to a 'better' speaker if I feel the need to after I've tested it on the layout.

 

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Cheers,

Phil.

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Though a plain Blue DMU is a bit early, even for our 'retro' era stock, Dads always had a soft spot for them, so he got this 108 a while ago.

 

No W-I-P pics of this one, as it's the same process as previously described.

 

Went for a fairly clean look, as it will work on the 'heritage branch' of the layout when the modern stock is in use, as well as no doubt making an appearance in service when the layout is in 'retro' mode !!

 

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Hopefully that's the last unit to cross the workbench for a while, I seem to have done a few lately !! :rolleyes:

(Apart from maybe the GWR 158 that Dad doesn't know he's getting for Christmas!!)

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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38 minutes ago, Phil Mc said:

Seems like I haven't done one for a while, so I feel a full-blown respray coming on !

 

This is the target !

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The subject was mentioned many pages ago.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

Looks very nice Phil:senile:

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38 minutes ago, Phil Mc said:

Seems like I haven't done one for a while, so I feel a full-blown respray coming on !

 

This is the target !

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The subject was mentioned many pages ago.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

 

And I thought you'd managed to forget about it................. :nono:

 

 

 

 

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