RMweb Premium James Makin Posted September 15, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 15, 2017 Thanks Rob! For the underframe I've started by using brush painted Humbrol 32 dark grey, then later airbrushed over Humbrol 62 Matt Leather, followed by a dusting of Phoenix Track Dirt and lastly Frame Dirt, so there's about 4 different shades of paint roughly! I'll sometimes change up the paints/bias of colours I do though otherwise all my locos end up looking the same! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulcan product fan Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 The 58 looks stunning mate great work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Andy7 Posted September 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2017 James that 58 is very impressive. Totally out of my ultra modern era but I so want it. Truly inspirational modelling. Also you put everything across in a confident (in your skills) but not look at me way! Very refreshing. Bring on the next update. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWT442 Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Loving the model of 58017 James! The attention to detail is just superb, seeing what you achieve is certainly an inspiration for me to keep improving my modelling. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Andy7 Posted September 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2017 (edited) Accidentally posted twice! Edited September 15, 2017 by Andy7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessolomon Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Hi James was tidying up my faves on Flickr and came across these FGW green/gold Motorail from Long Marsh if your considering doing them. The HST looks quite smart in this livery you did that ended up in the magazine https://flic.kr/p/a5PS3s https://flic.kr/p/a5PRvQ https://flic.kr/p/a5PRQb https://flic.kr/p/a5M11X https://flic.kr/p/a5LZJT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
big T Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Great techniques and inspirational as normal James! The 58 looks superb, and is very well matched with those filthy HAA's. Cheers Trev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris64B Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Fantastic work James - the latest loco weathering is superb! Thanks for sharing your techniques with us all too Cheers, Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post James Makin Posted September 29, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2017 Occasionally I get asked to do some interesting jobs for the gang... Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Being an attractive and fairly 'local' unit, the Bachmann South West Trains Class 450 'Desiro' was inevitably going to be bought in numbers by the Loftus gang, and it wasn't long before Chris Sweeney approached me with a few photos of a 'tagged' unit - he actually wanted me to ruin his new '450'! Now as you may have seen before, I normally have no objection to desecrating almost anything, but with severe trepidation I reached for the silver paint... Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I absolutely love the gorgeous Desiro and really did feel bad at this point! But pressing on, I carefully followed the prototype photographs and added more layers, blues, yellows, reds and blacks, in a light-to-dark application of the colours with a couple of tiny 5-nought brushes, until it started to come together - Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr It was getting there, with a few more tiny details being picked out, and within a few evenings, it all came together, very fortunately - an expensive mess to clean up otherwise!! Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Ready for service on Loftus Road! Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr But Chris' 450 project is a fairly quick and recent job - longer-term readers may remember that back in the Summer I started on another project, this time for fellow Worthing MRC gangmember, Mark Butcher. I'd commented at DEMU Showcase that his container set looked super shiny, so was awarded with the task of tackling some of the intermodal twin sets, with ASDA and DHL containers - quite fun! Container train by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Interwoven around other projects, I tackled each container based on a real prototype on Flickr, and after about 3 months, we're finally here. I posted about the initial ASDA container back in July, so I won't repeat much of this, but the other containers used a similar principal, with some having more or less weathering. The wagons themselves were subjected to an airbrush weathering session - there's no other way to do one of these container wagons, they are disgusting! As I hate airbrushing, to make it worth my while, alongside Mark's wagons, I gathered up my own sets to make for what has been the largest airbrushing session I've ever tackled to date! Container train by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr No less than 37 vehicles were lined up and received a coating of various rusty browns, track dirt and sleeper grime. Wheels were then cleaned and data panels wiped with a cotton bud, revealing only the bare essential info, just as in real life. Container train by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Once dry, I reunited the containers with their wagons, and added a little more service weathering, the classic lateral scrapes on the container deck, and the silvering the buffer shanks and wear marks on the footsteps. Container train by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I never set out to be a graffiti specialist(!) but by accident I keep being asked to do it! Mark's brief was to tackle a couple of containers, so I went and found some examples, and copied them. Container graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr The large graffiti on the DHL container came together quite well, with a white background, topped off with coloured lettering and black outlining. The recommended soundtrack to DHL container graffiti'ing is from alternative-synth band Daughter and their great new track 'Burn it Down' - definitely in my top 10 of 2017. I also slapped a graffiti tag across an ASDA container: Container graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Naturally, the graffiti looks very bright and shiny, but in real life, no one really appears to know or care about the graffiti, so it often gets 'weathered in' - so coats of Humbrol 186 were rubbed over the top, and the whole thing sealed with matt varnish. Container graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Overall - a very productive few weeks and good to get these items off the workbench at long last, and back to their respective owners ready to appear on Loftus Road at our next show - Fareham on 7th & 8th October - hope to see you there! Class 450 graffiti by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr Cheers, James 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Come and see the 'new look' 450 at Fareham Show next weekend... Edited October 1, 2017 by Harry Lime 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted September 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Grafting a model train should be a criminal offence. That looks absolutely awful. What a fantastic job, if only the kid that did it in real life knew :-) Excellent, indeed its brilliant. Edited September 30, 2017 by adb968008 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Looks terrible, but also looks very nicely done if you understand what I mean. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted September 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2017 Only thing is it needs to run straight to Northam to be cleaned as SWT were always adamant they came straight out of service so it didn't act as promotion for them, so no stopping in the station, full speed to depot Very good job on the wagon graffiti and weathering too James 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 40-something Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Fantastic graf James! Has to be the best replicated I've seen yet Edited September 30, 2017 by 40-something Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Like the 58 used to see them thundering past Wolvercote outdide Oxford on a merry go round bound for Didcot nice noise but didnt realy warm to them as much as a 56. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowlander Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Hi James Can I please ask where you get your driver figures from? Thanks Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted October 1, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2017 Hi James Can I please ask where you get your driver figures from? Thanks Stephen Hi Stephen, Sure, the drivers tend to be from a mix of sources - mostly if it's Bachmann then I'll keep the factory driver in the cab but modify it, e.g. filing down the old BR drivers cap to make it just look like a head of hair, before painting up in hi-viz etc! Others like the Heljan '58' above had no figure so I'll normally raid my stock of 1:72 unpainted figures from China (99p for 100 from eBay!) and then perform gruesome surgery to get him to fit in his seat. The poor chap in the '58' was amputated up to the mid torso, I then painted up representations of his legs on the cab floor!! Cheers, James 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 What James hasn't told anyone is that in order to keep my non-DCC 450 in place for the photos (post #792), we had to use whatever was available to chock up the rear car. This just happened to be a 1:76 scale figure of Michael Portillo which we are supposed to be installing on Loftus Road. I can't think of a better use of a model figure myself... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
24grange Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 How much was that 450 worth ! Jeepers - looks good, but I just couldn't do it to a model that price! Although saying that I wonder if its now worth more, if you wanted to sell it on, as its now famous, having run over Michael and been customized by James !! - a mini work of art which should appreciate !!! :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Hi James, where abouts do you get your figures? I looked for some on e bay but was couldn't see any, they sound like a good idea for diesel locos . Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Hi James, Excellent work on the 450, it's amazing to see you recreate the graffiti. I like the 58 too, it's got a real grimy appearance to it with not much time left in service. Very nicely done. All the best Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2017 Hi James, where abouts do you get your figures? I looked for some on e bay but was couldn't see any, they sound like a good idea for diesel locos . Steve Hi Steve! I've just had a look, the scale is slightly different to what I recall - search for "1:75 model people" on eBay and you'll see packs of 100 unpainted people from just £1.52, there's also sellers offering the same people painted for a bit more cash, and £18 gets you 1000 painted people haha! Hope this helps James Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted November 12, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2017 I've been working on a few things lately...a couple of fun loco projects, and inbetween, messing around with a few containers! Spurred on by the recent batch of containers I'd tackled for my mate Mark, I decided to take a look at the collection I'd been building in recent years, to get a Freightliner train of my own ready for Worthing MRC's Loftus Road & my own future Didcot layout. Maersk container by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I bought my way into this container game in style at Warley a couple of years back - Dapol were selling on the FEA twins with Maersk 20' and 40' containers for a very reasonable £25 a pair, I went straight in and bought 6 pairs - two feet in there! So I've now got a billion boring grey Maersk containers and have gradually spent the last few months bartering exchanges for other people's containers in more jazzy liveries! But I knew I'd have to do a few Maersk ones, so here goes...! Maersk container by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I started with two 20' boxes - pretty cute little things! Based on my learnings with Mark's 45ft containers, I decided to mount these on a base of foamboard for the weathering process - save my fingers getting covered in the weathering washes being applied! The containers were given a coating of matt varnish initially, this tones down any shiny appearance, and really gives a great 'key' for any weathering washes to stick to the sides of the container. One of the boxes is in almost-new appearance, with only minor weathering to the locking points, whilst the other has seen some action! Both were based on actual photographs found on Flickr (see if you can find the same ones!). Maersk container by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr I focused on the dirtier of the two, whilst the cleaner version is still being finished currently (ironic!). A coating of Humbrol 62 Matt Leather was washed on, followed by a patch-paint in fresh new grey at one end, whilst the beginnings of a container dent were modelled. The majority of the damages to these containers appear at the extremities, around the locking points and the corners, which are frequently heavily scratched, devoid of paint and covered in superficial rusting and water stains. Fast-forward with the weathering and here we are! IMMaersk container by James Makin_0349 by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr The rust effects were built up from light to dark, applied with 00000 brushes. Maersk container by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr One very noticeable thing with this container, and many others, it had a significant dent along the vertical side ribbing. I did a trial with using a soldering iron applied down the side to bend into the vertical ribs, with some potential success. It needed fettling, and can definitely be improved upon, but does give a good effect - now when you look down the side of the container, it's not just a paint effect, it has a scale dent! Maersk container by James Makin by jamesmakin2002, on Flickr It only took a few evenings to pull together, and marks the first complete container for my own Freightliner set - and I'm already planning out an expensive trip to the C-Rail stand at Warley to stock up on some more exotic containers to replace my Maersk fleet - watch this space! If anyone is desperately looking for Maersk 20' or 40' containers and has some interesting Dapol or C-Rail containers for swapsies, then by all means, drop me a PM and we can chat further! Cheers, James 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Fantastic! Some great weathering there James. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Superb weathering on the containers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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