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Had an hour in the garage this morning with some matt varnish.

Both projects had the decals sealed.

Cruel close-up before and after shots of Howe.

The KWA as also had small Yellow squares of plasticard added for the shackle mounts.

Work also started on modifying a Bulldozer that may end up as a load on the wagon.

 

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Nice work Phil.

 

I modified a bull dozer by narrowing the blade. The ends still needed to be painted when I took the pic.

 

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Cheers,

Mick

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I got as far as dismantling the parts and cutting the blade down to a more suitable width.

I may try to re-fit the blade at an angle, rather than parallel to the front of the body like the original model was, some of the reference pics i'm working from have that style of machine on them.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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TBH, because the body of the KWA is in one piece, it feels more like a detailing project than a kit building one (with the exception of the bogies.)

That's in no way meant as a criticism, I think its a lovely kit to work with, and quite suitable for anyone nervous about having a go at something like this.

 

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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Howe is back together & waiting for airbrush weathering now.

My 036 is LL, Grey roof & Red bufferbeams, 024 is LL, Black roof & Red bufferbeams, & snowploughs. (It was a repaint from a revised NSE liveried one, way before Hornby announced it!!)

I'll take some more pics of the fleet later this week.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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Hoping to get Howe finished over the weekend, but in the meantime here's a couple of renumbered and lightly weathered 66's.

There are differences between them, one having the 'First' logos missing.

I had to do 726, my Dad is a Wednesday fan !

 

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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Made a bit of progress with the KWA.

The Bulldozer has been rebuilt, I decided to keep the blade parallel to the body, but I have transposed the sections inside the tracks, to shorten the sidearms. (just to make it different to how it was bought!)

Weathering with 'dark earth' powder.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

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So, thanks to a recent delivery of transfers from Railtec transfers (cheers Steve!), I can turn this pile of parts into a cement train.

Or more correctly, add some Vee tanks to the half-rake I've already got.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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Looking good there Phil,

 

Are you aware of the different design codes with the PCAs? I did a fair bit of research on them when modelling some Albright and Wilson versions. Some interesting variations in the PCA fleets.

 

 

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I'm not too familiar with the variations, I've just added the detail parts to the models, and copied the transfer positions from the pics I have of the individual wagons.

2 or 3 of this batch of wagons are repainted Albright & Wilson models. A couple of them started out Yellow.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

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