class"66" Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Very nice "detailing" here james at high standard,for others to follow.. cheers neil.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) James, the weathering on those wagons is amongst the very best I have ever seen. Truly inspirational stuff. Cheers Dave Edited February 16, 2015 by Waverley West Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdw7300 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Those wagons have had some of the most realistic weathering / battering I have ever seen. Truly incredible. Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted February 16, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks for the kind comments everyone, that's really nice! Each time I tackle a wagon I never quite know how it's going to turn out but I think I'm starting to get the hang of these rugged old OBA's! James, the weathering on those wagons is amongst the very best I have ever seen. Truly inspirational stuff. Cheers Dave Thanks Dave, must say I keep seeing your Waverley pics on the Realism thread and thinking the same for yours, 'wow'! Would also love to see a classy GNER HST in your Waverley station, just to see how it'd fit in haha! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Thanks for the kind comments everyone, that's really nice! Each time I tackle a wagon I never quite know how it's going to turn out but I think I'm starting to get the hang of these rugged old OBA's! Thanks Dave, must say I keep seeing your Waverley pics on the Realism thread and thinking the same for yours, 'wow'! Would also love to see a classy GNER HST in your Waverley station, just to see how it'd fit in haha! Cheers James. I actually have a GNER HST set sitting in its boxes. I always thought the GNER livery looked very smart, especially when clean. It's on the list! Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Nice work on the Power Cars James. Just when you thought you had seen it all, along comes two OBAs! I think it is time to just stop now James, enough is enough, how can we be expected to carry on modelling after seeing your latest creations?!!! Superb, absolutely superb. You will be hard pressed to find better modelling than this!Well done Sir Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Two more down! I've still got three part-finished OBA's sitting on the workbench before it's back on with other bits - some really exciting wagon projects in the planning stages over the coming year. Now for a spot of Sunday night Top Gear!Really great modelling sir! Can I pop all my locos and wagons in the post to you?! Do plz tell what the exciting projects are....if they're anything like the 'electrostars' they'll be brilliant. Keep it up! Jack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessolomon Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Quite a striking livery the fag packet especially on a 47 https://flic.kr/p/8tfLJf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted February 17, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 Quite a striking livery the fag packet especially on a 47 https://flic.kr/p/8tfLJf Thanks James, I think all forms of the GWT/FGW liveries are pretty striking, I've got one of those gold-stripe variants on the Heljan '47', must get round to digging it out sometime! Always thought it would have been interesting for FGW to apply the jazzy white stripes to the 47 as well as the single gold stripe! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessolomon Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Was reading on a photo they converted the 47s into 57s and then into Thunderbird's for Virgin. You doing the mk2s https://flic.kr/p/kCTD7t Edited February 17, 2015 by jamessolomon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Lovely models James. Especially liked the Electrostars you did earlier in the thread. Wish I could justify a 375/377, but the area I'm looking at requires a 376, which as you know is a much harder prospect and rather different. For now I'll concentrate on a 465 and 4EPB, but a 376 would be good to bring the ideas into the modern era rather than the current plans for early 90s when the Networkers were just coming in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted February 18, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2015 Was reading on a photo they converted the 47s into 57s and then into Thunderbird's for Virgin. You doing the mk2s https://flic.kr/p/kCTD7t Haha I've got too many FGW coaches from the time of my first layout! I've put together a standard daytime loco-hauled set and now putting together a full 1999/2000 Sleeper/Motorail set as well, it's a slow burner project but some of these ran on Loftus Road for the first time at Stafford the other week, was good to give 57601 and 47846 something to haul! The 57 conversion project is a sore point, so many great 47s from my spotting days got swallowed up there, mostly the Virgin ILRA pool but the odd FGW example like 47846 and some beautifully weathered Freightliner examples got taken down as well! The saddest ones were old favourites 47844 and 47849, stripped to become 57s but rejected and then just cut up, bad times haha! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eddie reffin Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Stunning attention to detail on the OBAs. Well done, they really look the part James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Looking forward to another update now James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted March 7, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) Drawing this year-long project to a close, here are my remaining two OBA's for the Loftus Road ballast train - OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Last to join the fleet are OBAs 110370 faded 'Dutch' and 110050 in 'Dutch'/olive green patch livery. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Based again on my favourite wagons from Flickr, 110370 is a fairly standard 'Dutch' OBA with a few replaced planks and faded stencil TOPS panel. There are also planks in bright yellow to contrast against the faded yellow remainder. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Starting with a very light grey base, the yellows were first built up in varying strengths, followed by weathering washes of Humbrols 62 and 186 amongst others. Dark greys were used to replicate some of the discolouration of the damaged wooden planking where it's managed to break and pick up staining compared to the painted sides of the other planking. Exposed metalwork has rusted and some photos show this to have caused water streaking down the sides. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr As with the other OBAs before, the faded data panels were made up in CorelDraw using the Gunplay stencil font, with compression to get the correct letter depth and spacing. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Second, and last up, is the strangely-coloured 110050. This was challenging as unlike the others so far, it required a handpainted TOPS panel! OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Presumably once in full BR 'Dutch' colours, there have been so many replaced planks that it bares little resemblance beyond the top yellow sections. Olive green planks adorn the left parts of the wagon, with newer EWS red replacement woodwork to the righter-most end. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I didn't enjoy handpainting the TOPS panel! The real thing does look as scruffy as this, fortunately - type the number into the Flickr app! OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Similar weathering techniques were used as on the other OBA 110370 above; building up a variety of different tones through washes and drybrushing. Colin Craig brake discs finish of the model. I forgot to take any workbench progress shots but can confirm that Sophie Ellis-Bextor's 2007 Trip The Light Fantastic is the recommended album when undertaking weathering for this type of livery. OBA wagon by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Anyway, here we go! A scroll back through these pages will reveal an Easter 2014 kick-off for the great OBA project and a year later, there are now fifteen horrendous wagons running behind the vulnerable 47004 on Worthing MRC's Loftus Road! OBA wagons by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Of course it's never really the end - I'm tempted to do a few more 'caged' OBAs and I've recently bought a few OCAs for future use, but from the original prototype batch I tracked down on Flickr a year ago, they are all here in miniature form, and in service. Where to go next? In terms of the engineering fleet, I've always had a large stash of MHA, MTA, MFA wagons awaiting detailing, and been buying Parkside kits for some of the ODA (former 'Pipe') wagons in recent times. Then there's the FTG Models 'SPA' wagon which has a few neat ZCA ballast conversions for a rainy day too. Some Loftus Road scenic building work is currently underway but some brightly-coloured period freight stock is flying towards the workbench very soon sporting one of the best liveries ever! Cheers, James Edited August 12, 2016 by James Makin 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 That is a superb rake of wagons James, first class modelling as usual - I look forward to seeing them on Loftus Road sometime. Cheers, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted March 8, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) James, they are stunning. I have a couple of OBA's I need to try and tackle , I have had a go at these before, but they didn't work out like these haha ! Perhaps it is time to try and re-visit them. I love the variety you have achieved here, its unreal ! Marcus Go for it Marcus! My best advice is to find a photo of a prototype with a livery that's not on the Bachmann OBA and model that, as it's far easier to get the right look if you're mixing the colours from scratch to match the photo than trying to alter a factory shade to something more realistic! Once you get the base colours sorted then it's just a case of smearing some weathering colours around on top and it should fall into place!! Best thing about these were that the wagons were cheap so didn't matter if anything went majorly wrong and by only doing two at a time you can learn from the previous project and make the next ones better - I'm much happier with the later wagons than those from early last year! Edited March 8, 2015 by James Makin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Drawing this year-long project to a close, here are my remaining two OBA's for the Loftus Road ballast train - Last to join the fleet are OBAs 110370 faded 'Dutch' and 110050 in 'Dutch'/olive green patch livery. Based again on my favourite wagons from Flickr, 110370 is a fairly standard 'Dutch' OBA with a few replaced planks and faded stencil TOPS panel. There are also planks in bright yellow to contrast against the faded yellow remainder. Starting with a very light grey base, the yellows were first built up in varying strengths, followed by weathering washes of Humbrols 62 and 186 amongst others. Dark greys were used to replicate some of the discolouration of the damaged wooden planking where it's managed to break and pick up staining compared to the painted sides of the other planking. Exposed metalwork has rusted and some photos show this to have caused water streaking down the sides. As with the other OBAs before, the faded data panels were made up in CorelDraw using the Gunplay stencil font, with compression to get the correct letter depth and spacing. Second, and last up, is the strangely-coloured 110050. This was challenging as unlike the others so far, it required a handpainted TOPS panel! Presumably once in full BR 'Dutch' colours, there have been so many replaced planks that it bares little resemblance beyond the top yellow sections. Olive green planks adorn the left parts of the wagon, with newer EWS red replacement woodwork to the righter-most end. I didn't enjoy handpainting the TOPS panel! The real thing does look as scruffy as this, fortunately - type the number into the Flickr app! Similar weathering techniques were used as on the other OBA 110370 above; building up a variety of different tones through washes and drybrushing. Colin Craig brake discs finish of the model. I forgot to take any workbench progress shots but can confirm that Sophie Ellis-Bextor's 2007 Trip The Light Fantastic is the recommended album when undertaking weathering for this type of livery. Anyway, here we go! A scroll back through these pages will reveal an Easter 2014 kick-off for the great OBA project and a year later, there are now fifteen horrendous wagons running behind the vulnerable 47004 on Worthing MRC's Loftus Road! Of course it's never really the end - I'm tempted to do a few more 'caged' OBAs and I've recently bought a few OCAs for future use, but from the original prototype batch I tracked down on Flickr a year ago, they are all here in miniature form, and in service. Where to go next? In terms of the engineering fleet, I've always had a large stash of MHA, MTA, MFA wagons awaiting detailing, and been buying Parkside kits for some of the ODA (former 'Pipe') wagons in recent times. Then there's the FTG Models 'SPA' wagon which has a few neat ZCA ballast conversions for a rainy day too. Some Loftus Road scenic building work is currently underway but some brightly-coloured period freight stock is flying towards the workbench very soon sporting one of the best liveries ever! Cheers, James superb! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Looking superb David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCML100 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I would guess some bright orange RMC wagons! Great work shown here though, the rake looks great now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Great modelling work on those wagons!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Now that is what you call a collection of wagons, absolutely cracking work. I look forward to seeing a photo of 004 pulling them. Great work, weathering of the highest order. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs4 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Stunning as ever James. You make me think I should change direction (currently JGA RMC) and try to mimic your work here. Very inspiring. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Hi James, Those OBA's are fantastic. Very inspirational modelling. I was quite happy with the way my repaints were coming along working from photos until I've seen these. The ODA's are nice wagons to do from Parkside kits and would be nice to add into your train. The garage is also a stunning bit of modelling. All the best Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessolomon Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 They look cool may look nice in a rake with a crane or as part of an engineering train. The weathering looks the business quite like how youve done it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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