The regeneration of a Accucraft Baguley

[vjoneslong]

Morning all.

 

Although I already had a Mk1 of these (the one with the plastic chassis), I had always kept my eye out for one of the newer metal chassis versions. A couple of weeks ago I spotted one on ebay. The bodywork needed a bit of repair, but it was more or less intact. As seen on ebay:

ebay by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

Now the simple option would have been to add r/c and off we go, but I wanted it to be different (so I could tell them apart). So I decided to give it a complete overhaul, into a new livery, representing one that had spent its life at an industrial location.

 

I started off by filling the bits of damage, sanding off the moulding lines on the body, and replacing the missing handle.

2017-08-06_09-04-51 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-04-59 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-05-08 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

 

Body was then primed using Halfords Grey Primer.

2017-08-06_09-05-19 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-05-29 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-05-38 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-05-57 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

 

I then sprayed the ends using Halfords Fiat Golden Yellow

2017-08-06_09-06-31 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-06-39 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

That was end of play Saturday. On Sunday morning I measured up and masked off for the wasp striples. Starting in the middle, and 20mm between each stripe at the centre, leading to a 12mm wide stripe.

2017-08-06_09-06-48 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-06-57 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

This was then sprayed with Halfords Satin black, allowed to cure for 1 hour, and the end result is:

2017-08-06_09-07-09 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-07-18 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

Not perfect, but for a first attempt I am rather chuffed! While I allowed this to harden for a couple of hours, I turned to the chassis. This was dismantled, and all the electrics masked off to prevent paint ingress. It was then degreased (not that it had actually run anyway) as a precaution.

2017-08-06_09-07-37 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-07-46 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

The chassis was then primed, and buffer beams, cranks, and coupling/jackshaft rods were painted yellow.

2017-08-06_09-09-07 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-08-51 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

Final job was to spray the body with the chosen colour. I let SWMBO choose, and the choice was an electric blue. It's quite vivid!

2017-08-06_09-08-11 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-08-40 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-09-20 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

2017-08-06_09-09-52 by Matthew Jones, on Flickr

 

Next I need to mask off the cranks and bufferbeams, before spraying the chassis black. I also need to replace the missing glazing and window frames, and paint some the detail parts on the body and chassis. And weather it of course!

 

[Owd Bob]

Superb Idris!  Great job on the stripes, but can you tell me where and what shade and make is the Blue spray please,   I've just got another MK1 Raleigh Chopper bike to restore into a similar Blue like the one i had as a kid.

Edited August 7, 2017 by Owd Bob

[vjoneslong]

Superb Idris!  Great job on the stripes, but can you tell me where and what shade and make is the Blue spray please,   I've just got another MK1 Raleigh Chopper bike to restore into a similar Blue like the one i had as a kid.

Thanks Pinzer. Not quite as good as your efforts but I'm trying. Any chance you could write a brief guide on how you achieve such realistic weathering? I want this one to look like its had a hard life.

 

I think the colour is Ford Mondeo Electric Blue. Will double check when home and confirm. 

[77philg]

 Hi Mathew  are they plastic gears ? on the baguley Never seen the drive mech of these. Remember watching a lot of these shunters being constructed ,the doors of the assembly line were always open in the summer .phil

[Owd Bob]

Thanks Pinzer. Not quite as good as your efforts but I'm trying. Any chance you could write a brief guide on how you achieve such realistic weathering? I want this one to look like its had a hard life.

 

I think the colour is Ford Mondeo Electric Blue. Will double check when home and confirm. 

The Blue sounds just right mi Dad had a MK3 Cortina GT back in the '70's and it was the same colour as my old bike was....cheers!  For the weathering i mix Humbrol satin Black (85)and Humbrol track colour matt Brown (173) together 50-50 and then thin it down really watery with turps' or White spirit, wash it all over from the top and let it run down, let it sit or wipe off the excess with tissues and cotton buds from any area you feel is over-done, you can always remove more areas with T-cut on a bud later. 

[ozamrr]

Hi Mathrew aswesome build coming along nicely, like the  colour schem, with the bigger scales you can have  a lot more detail.looking foward to see her run, your wife itching to for the first drive.

 

I am working on a set of F7 locos for  Santa Fe's super chief , F7/A-B-B-A all powered the two F7/B's need to be painted in Santa Fe colours will put up some pics on my post.

 

Tony from down under

[Night Thunder]

Just nosed through this - BR Blue era scheme, great work on the striping too, will look a treat when finished