aardvark Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Page 200. I think I'm gaining!! Tally ho ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, aardvark said: Page 200. I think I'm gaining!! Tally ho ... Thanks Hope you are enjoying..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) This is where we currently are with the bolster wagon. Been left on the main line overnight to thoroughly dry before applying transfers and then weathering. Load to add, with chains of course, once I have decided what that will be......still having discussions - with myself - as to what that will be! Many have asked me how do I do the timber decking so I have photographed the many stages and hopefully, with all things being equal, will post that later today. Edited March 24 by KNP 20 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) This was the first attempt catching some plonker using the iPhone to control the camera but failing to spot they where in the picture...... Appropriate caption just above the phone! Edited April 20, 2020 by Bogie Typo 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 The Macaw could also carry pipes of various sizes. A girder is a bit cliched, and in fact quite rare though interesting. At Cwmdimbath, the off-scene colliery is having a pit head baths built, as promised when it was nationalised, and a great excuse for loads of building materials, including the pipes on a bogie bolster, for drainage, water supply, and so on. Theres’s a canteen being built there as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Bogie said: This was the first attempt catching some plonker using the iPhone to control the camera but failing to spot they where in the picture...... Appropriate caption just above the phone! Now it makes sense. When the first post arrived with no caption, I thought a bit to deep for me this Australian humour....!!! Edited April 20, 2020 by KNP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 27 minutes ago, The Johnster said: The Macaw could also carry pipes of various sizes. A girder is a bit cliched, and in fact quite rare though interesting. At Cwmdimbath, the off-scene colliery is having a pit head baths built, as promised when it was nationalised, and a great excuse for loads of building materials, including the pipes on a bogie bolster, for drainage, water supply, and so on. Theres’s a canteen being built there as well. I agree with the idea of pipework, another one was large sections of timber. I also have an idea of a fabricated girder or sections of a footbridge for example. No rush, I will leave for a while until an idea forms. Do need to add some weight to it as it keeps derailing at the slightest issue. Here’s an idea, copper tubing like microbore (8mm) painted as steel - load and weight!!!!! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 20, 2020 41 minutes ago, KNP said: Now it makes sense. When the first post arrived with no caption, I thought a bit to deep for me this Australian humour....!!! Trust me there is nothing too deep about Australian humour. 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) Wooden deck planking. This how I paint mine and I will say no one comes out the same, which in a way makes it look more realistic I suppose. A lot of my techniques involve the 'what if' principle and that is I start with an idea and perhaps it doesn't look right so I will try something else instead - the 'what if' principle. Now this is fine but many times I start out with great intentions of noting what I do for future reference but in most cases the enthusiasm takes over and when finished with the result I was looking for end up saying - how did I do that!!! That luckily isn't the case with timber as it has taken me many a year to get the results I was after so here they are: Paint: Lifecolor Wood Weathering : Vallejo Black Grey, Old Wood 1.Basic model with deck painted Cold Base Colour and using a pin vice with a needle in the plank joints are scribed both to highlight and clear out joint. 2. Now don't panic as this looks very odd but random individual planks are painted in Warm Base Colour, Warm Base Shade and Cold Base Shade - paint along the plank length and don't worry about getting the covering to even. 3. A wash of Cold Base Shade - about 50/50 mix with water over all areas. 4. Black grey wash (same mix) painted on over all areas but finished off with a cotton wool bud to work the paint in. 5. At this point there was a few areas I was not happy with so I went over each plank in question with either a Cold Base Shade or Black Grey wash applied along the plank. 6. Then using a propelling pencil with the lead sharpen to a point this was dragged along the plank joints to both clean and to add depth 7. This was the end result of the previous tasks but still not looking right. 8. At this point the 'what if' principle was applied and the whole area was given a stiff brushing which tended to pull the effect together plus I started to add Dark Earth powders to the perimeter of the areas using the brush in a circular motion to drive the powder into the corners/edges. 9. Additional coats where added of the powder, some of the plank joints redone with the pencil. 10. At point I turned my attention to the bulks of timber supporting the load They where painted in Old Wood with Black Grey washes applied with a final one applied at about 75/25 water mix lengthways. Metalwork painted in a suitable metalwork type colour in this case Steel and Black grey mix... Bit more Dark Earth powder worked in edges and on some of the planks to give tonal variation The end result is as I envisioned it and I suspect when the load gets added most of it will be hidden. Hope this is of help. Edited March 25 by KNP 8 8 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 27 minutes ago, KNP said: I agree with the idea of pipework, another one was large sections of timber. I also have an idea of a fabricated girder or sections of a footbridge for example. No rush, I will leave for a while until an idea forms. Do need to add some weight to it as it keeps derailing at the slightest issue. Here’s an idea, copper tubing like microbore (8mm) painted as steel - load and weight!!!!! Weight can be added by replacing bogies with cast whitemetal, metal wheels and buffers, and anything you can get in underneath and out of sight. Brass chains, which remain on the wagon when it is unloaded, and replacing the uprights with metal will help as well; it's a bit Tesco, every little helps, and presumably you want to run it empty on the return journey when it's delivered it's load to wherever it's delivered it to and, as a specialist wagon, is needed elsewhere. This is an LMS wagon, isn't it, so it's railway will want it back, empty asap if you can't find a return load. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, KNP said: Hope this is of help. Absolutely splendid, Kevin. Many thanks for explaining it so well, too. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 That's as fit as a butcher's dog Kev. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 21, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) Waiting for clearance into the station. Edit Changed picture for a replacement one as I felt the colour was wrong - added a bit more to this one! Edited March 24 by KNP 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Many thanks for the step by step guide on painting the decking on the Bolster wagon it is an inspiration Kevin 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, KNP said: Waiting for clearance into the station. I wonder how long the wait will be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: I wonder how long the wait will be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And talking of lifting the Crate, or finding the Key. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snailpace Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 My plan for my Macaw (when I get a round tuit), is a couple of seaplane floats spare from an old aeroplane kit. On their way down to Mountbatten, they can also be weighted to help running......... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallpaul69 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 hours ago, snailpace said: My plan for my Macaw (when I get a round tuit), is a couple of seaplane floats spare from an old aeroplane kit. On their way down to Mountbatten, they can also be weighted to help running......... Which is on the "get a round tuit" pile, the Macaw kit, or just the load for the made up Macaw. That's assuming of course you have purchased the kit...…….. Keep smiling, and modelling, but please stay safe! Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Bridge Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 hours ago, snailpace said: My plan for my Macaw (when I get a round tuit), is a couple of seaplane floats spare from an old aeroplane kit. On their way down to Mountbatten, they can also be weighted to help running......... Surely, won’t the seaplane sink? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snailpace Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Ashley Bridge said: Surely, won’t the seaplane sink? Without the floats - yes, but hopefully after you’ve got out. Most naval aircraft of the 30’s had an undercarriage option and often a floatplane version for use, for example, off catapults on cruisers etc.... Often the performance of the floatplane version was so poor that they weren’t fitted very often. My Macaw (made a few years ago and wouldn’t stand up against Kevin’s) awaits the floats that I am sure are in the bits box......somewhere. Oh, and I’ll need that tuit as well...... 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Bridge Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Judging by the pictures of the average Naval planes, I wouldn’t think performance came into it! Great idea though. My late father was at Mountbatten about 1940, got posted to Glasgow, but that’s another story. Stay safe, Rich 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Your cutting mat looks as bad as mine.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 22, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) A couple of pictures of my favourite area and angle Edited March 24 by KNP 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 22, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2020 Transfers added. These where over 30 years old and slide off as if they where made yesterday. Thought I was going to have a battle with them!!! 36 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 23, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) Arriving at Little Muddle Edited March 24 by KNP 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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