Embankment Road TMD

[JonKing]

A bit more progress on 31201. Weathering has started with streaking / oil spills to the bodyside, these have been done using my normal method of dk greys / browns roughly painted on and then removed with a flat head brush soaked in thinners in a vertical motion (reference to photos is important here to make sure the streaking is in the right place!). Roof weathering has also started with diluted matt black painted around grills, hatches, panels etc and then wiped off again with a flat head brush soaked in thinners. I would normally avoid matt black when weathering however find its the only colour that really "works" on a exec dark grey roof ("roof dirt" shades are actually lighter than the exec dk grey and look odd in my opinion). This is probably as far as I want to take the weathering on this one other than a quick (light) blow over with brake dust on the lower bodyside. 

 

 

Those with eagle eyes will also note the yellow cab door at the non rad end on this side, there is also a BR blue door the other side. This is 100% correct for the prototype loco in its final years.

 

Weathering has also started on 37719 using the same techniques. Weathering on this one is lighter with most of the streaking being confined to the tumble home, I want this to represent a bog standard 37 in its final years (e.g worn but not over weathered), I am however planning to add homemade "non-multi" yellow stickers in the centre windows at one end. The non-multi stickers, a yellow rectangle with black X basically signified that the locos multiple working equipment was defective at that end.

 

 

 

[JonKing]

Well 31201 and 37719 are now complete having had a light dusting of brake dust to the lower bodysides, buffer beam details brake pipes etc have also been fitted along with a crew in 31201:

 

 

 

Weathering has also started on 37412, an initial light wash of dk grey in the grilles / tumblehome area wiped off with a flat brush soaked in thinners and a wash of dilute matt black to the roof. A spare set of ploughs from the spares box has also been fitted.

 

[dj_crisp]

I really like your 31... cracking job

[JonKing]

A while since I have posted on here during which time a few locos have rolled off my workbench. First up is a trio of battered Hornby class 50s, these have all been partially resprayed to a varying degree (either to correct livery errors or as a result of past weathering fails by me!). I have modeled these in battered 1990 / 1991 condition as that is how I remember them from regular visits to Laira with my dad when I was 6 / 7.

 

 

 

50046 is a partial respray to correct dodgy weathering, I have included some hand written "AVFC" graffiti which is present on photos of the loco taken around 1990. Weathering is fairly standard - washes, chipped paint on the roof and brake dust / exhaust dirt to blend it all together. The white engine room window is liquid glazing which is drying (I lost the window!).

 

 

50001 started life as Hornby's 50002. I resprayed the blue to the earlier NSE light blue (the dark blue on 50002 being too dark anyway for NSE dark blue) and the Hornby mustard yellow warning panels were resprayed the correct shade of warning panel yellow. Again weathering is fairly standard, bodyside streaking formed by dragging dk grey downwards with a brush soaked in thinners, washes to the grilles and brake dust / exhaust dirt sprayed through an airbrush to pull it all together.

 

 

50032 is modeled in heavily battered condition as it was prior to withdrawal. The yellow warning panels and blue have been resprayed to a better color match and white added to the cab doors (the Hornby model doors are plain blue). The livery is technically incorrect for 50032 as the upper white band should be higher up (and there are also a few other detail differences). I was happy with leaving the livery as is as I didn't want to fully respray NSE livery!. The roof chipping was achieved by brushing on rail grey, leaving to dry and then covering patches of the grey with maskol (working from photographs). The roof was then sprayed with a coat of exhaust dirt, left to dry and then the maskol removed to leave a patchy finish. This was then blended in with dry brushing and the rest of the loco weathered using a similar technique to 50001.

 

Next up are a pair of 31s, 31434 in br blue and 31229  in dutch. Whilst I could purchase a dutch 31 or br blue 31 both were resprays of spare body shells to save money (I also find it easier to weather resprayed locos).

 

 

 

31434 was a fairly simple respray however the roof  was sprayed faded br blue to give it a sun bleached effect, heavy streaking was then added in addition to dk grey washes to the grills and copies amounts of exhaust dirt and brake dust sprayed from an airbrush.

 

 

 

 

 

[JonKing]

Next up for me is something a bit different. Unique single MPV DR98008 modeled in its original white livery when it appeared to be purely used as some form of tractor unit (prior to its conversion to a Network Rail switch and crossing inspection train). Firstly I stripped down a Bachmann MPV to its component parts, in hindsight I didn't need to strip it down this much but wanted to work out how it all went together and how easy it would be to move key components. I wanted to model DR98008 with a single tool store as shown in the below photo:.

 

http://www.ontrackplant.com/photo/98008

 

Once stripped down it became clear that I could shift the circuit board with a bit of modification to the wiring so that it would all sit over the motor at one end, as modeled by Bachmann the tool store would need to be located in the middle to hide the circuit board which wouldn't look correct.

 

 

 

Photo above shows the wiring modified to move the circuit board to one end. The tool store will sit over this and the motor, unfortunately the metal protrusion at the right hand end of the motor (as shown in this photo) will extend beyond the tool store slightly. I am happy with this compromise as removing this protrusion will mean re motoring and major surgery to the metal chassis.

 

 

I also wanted to make sure that the lights worked at both end. Installing wiring for the lighting board at the "new" cab end was easy enough, I just took the feeds off the old wiring which would have gone to the second car and ran them through a hole drilled in the chassis. I then 3d printed a spacer which would support the "new" cab and lighting board. Photo below shows how it works, the cab just slots over it:

 

 

A toolstore was also 3d printed and toolstore / cabs then painted. I have never had to spray a large area white before and it was infuriating, taking around 8 coats from an airbrush to get good coverage. Warning panels were sprayed WP yellow and details picked out in black. The handrails on the deck were salvaged from the old Bachmann sandite units.

 

 

Its starting to look the part now, a lot of finishing still to do including finding some custom transfers and a varnish that wont yellow when sprayed on the white.

 

 

 

[JonKing]

Not much progress on DR98008 recently, I am trying to source a set of custom transfers to finish it off. In the meantime a handful of locos have rolled off the workbench. First up is 47315 in battered dutch livery. I remember visiting Bescot in the late 90s and 47315 was stabled outside of the TMD building, being a Devon boy dutch liveried 47s were a rare "spot" for me especially given there would only have been 3 or 4 left in traffic at the time.

 

47315 is a complete respray of a Bachmann 47, given I am modelling the loco in battered late 90s condition base colors were sprayed using faded tones. Varnish and transfers were applied as normal and then body streaking added by painting on thinned dark grey / dirty black paint which was then removed in a vertical motion with cotton buds soaked in thinners to soften the edges of the streaking. Roof grilles and panel lines were then given washes of the same dark grey / dirty black to build up an accumulation of dirt in the grilles & recesses. On the prototype the fibre glass roof domes had been chipped in places revealing BR blue underneath, chipped areas were added with a small brush as were nameplate scars where the nameplates had been removed. The roof was then sprayed with a light coating of dk grey / dirty black withe a second coat of dirty black / dk blue around the exhaust area. Lower bodysides were sprayed with frame dirt and brake dust. Correct pattern underframe tanks were added (retaining steam heat water tanks) and the under frame was sprayed with frame dirt.

 

 

Next up is 20118. A complete respray from a Bachmann 20 previously resprayed & weathered (badly!) by me around 10 years ago. Respray and weathering techniques on this one are fairly standard however I have modeled the loco in 1995 condition when the engine room doors had been repainted a lighter grey on one side (following these doors being replaced with doors from a BR blue loco at Tinsley in the early 90s). Eagle eyed will notice I have used the incorrect OHLE warning stickers - I have used the post 1998 versions (yellow triangle) rather than the pre 1998 versions (red symbol), I have done this on the purely fictitious premise that 20118 was reinstated by DRS as a short term measure to work with its original batch of 20/9s. Not too far fetched given 20118 was only withdrawn in 1995 due to a broken windscreen, 

 

[saxokid]

On ‎14‎/‎03‎/‎2020 at 22:50, JonKing said:

Not much progress on DR98008 recently, I am trying to source a set of custom transfers to finish it off. In the meantime a handful of locos have rolled off the workbench. First up is 47315 in battered dutch livery. I remember visiting Bescot in the late 90s and 47315 was stabled outside of the TMD building, being a Devon boy dutch liveried 47s were a rare "spot" for me especially given there would only have been 3 or 4 left in traffic at the time.

 

47315 is a complete respray of a Bachmann 47, given I am modelling the loco in battered late 90s condition base colors were sprayed using faded tones. Varnish and transfers were applied as normal and then body streaking added by painting on thinned dark grey / dirty black paint which was then removed in a vertical motion with cotton buds soaked in thinners to soften the edges of the streaking. Roof grilles and panel lines were then given washes of the same dark grey / dirty black to build up an accumulation of dirt in the grilles & recesses. On the prototype the fibre glass roof domes had been chipped in places revealing BR blue underneath, chipped areas were added with a small brush as were nameplate scars where the nameplates had been removed. The roof was then sprayed with a light coating of dk grey / dirty black withe a second coat of dirty black / dk blue around the exhaust area. Lower bodysides were sprayed with frame dirt and brake dust. Correct pattern underframe tanks were added (retaining steam heat water tanks) and the under frame was sprayed with frame dirt.

 

 

Next up is 20118. A complete respray from a Bachmann 20 previously resprayed & weathered (badly!) by me around 10 years ago. Respray and weathering techniques on this one are fairly standard however I have modeled the loco in 1995 condition when the engine room doors had been repainted a lighter grey on one side (following these doors being replaced with doors from a BR blue loco at Tinsley in the early 90s). Eagle eyed will notice I have used the incorrect OHLE warning stickers - I have used the post 1998 versions (yellow triangle) rather than the pre 1998 versions (red symbol), I have done this on the purely fictitious premise that 20118 was reinstated by DRS as a short term measure to work with its original batch of 20/9s. Not too far fetched given 20118 was only withdrawn in 1995 due to a broken windscreen, 

 

Great work Jon here...

[rob D2]

Super job, I also have a 47315, but that’s a simple renumber from the Bachmann one 

[saxokid]

2 hours ago, rob D2 said:

Super job, I also have a 47315, but that’s a simple renumber from the Bachmann one 

Same as me Rob..

im going renumber my 47315..