Weathering Services and DCC sound fitting as well

[Barry O]

Been busy with a follow up to the Thumper (a blue 2EPB very nice!)

 

and lots of fish vans..

 

some BR (LM) ones..

 

Cambrian kit

 

 

ABS kit

 

Baz

[Barry O]

I have been busy r-wheeling/regauging and adding couplings to a large variety of 4mm wagons and vans.

Now I can get on when weather them..

 

first up two (of 16) Ventilated Meat Vans - these were in Maroon, of the 16 3 were in crimson but once weathered they all look similar..

 

 

 

and yet more of 

 

 

and

 

 

Fish Vans!!

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17, 2015 by Barry O

[Barry O]

Nice to meet up with some RMWebbers at Normanton and Pontefract show. I managed to even weather some of my own stock... photos to follow

 

Baz

[Barry O]

Busy doing some more wagons .. but something different in the shape of some Departmental stock - all pre-built from Cambrian kits and painted by someone esle so I have regauged them and added couplings then started to weather them

 

A shark, a catfish and a mermaid. More Departmental wagons are in the pipeline.

 

and also in works for weathering a DJH Fairburn tank...

 

 

looks like this needs a bit of rectification as that dome just does not look right,,

 

 

[Barry O]

A real mix of items weathered this week. Locos and wagons... nice bit of variety!

 

First up a DJH Caley Jumbo built by Mike Edge

 

 

A nice loco..

 

 

and a Rebuilt Scot - Comet kit ..

 

it seems to have more presence than my Hornby version!

 

 

and a couple of vans..

 

 

more soon!

 

 

[Barry O]

Been busy fitting sound chips to a number of diesels recently - not much point taking photos of them ... but some are now being weathered and will be photographed when complete

[Barry O]

a few diesels... EMd by Mike Edge, sound and weathering by me..some English Electrics..

 

a Type 1

 

 

a type 3

 

 

a type 4

 

 

and 3/4 front

 

and, finally the precursor to the above

 

 

 

[Barry O]

Latest work.. Caprotti 5 supplied built and painted to me. I have fitted a Zimo soundchip and weathered it.

 

Side on

 

 

footplate details

 

 

tender details

 

 

enjoy!

 

 

[Barry O]

Duchesses - I love them!

 

Four completed for a client. These are from a variety of Builders and painters .. all are DJH kits and all are EM. Two very heavily weathered, two lightly weathered

 

Duchess of Abercorn - light

 

 

King George VI - heavy

 

 

City of Sheffield - heavy

 

 

and finally Sir William Stanier FRS - light

 

 

The two heavily weathered locos cover up some blemishes in the paint work.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Barry O

[Barry O]

Due to other commitments I have not managed to undertake a lot of weathering recently ..but I have started to work through the backlog today starting with 10001.

 

This is a Bachmann model regauged to EM by Mike Edge. I have  fitted a Legomanbiffo 37/0 sound chip and then weathered it.

 

 

end three quarter view

 

 

and t'other side

 

Baz

 

[Barry O]

I have been trying to update my website slide show. For reasons best known to Moonfruit it will only allow me to display 15 slides at a time. Many apologies but I will try and change the show every week or so.

[Barry O]

Been busy with a bit of sound fitting and weathering over the last couple of days.

 

A couple of examples

 

First up a Caprotti 5 from a Comet Kit built and painted by Steve Haley  Graham Varley.  (correct builder identified) I fitted a Loksound V4 (sound from Digitrains) chip in the tender and 2 sugar cubes in the front frames (isn't EM gauge wonderful sometimes?) and then weathered it.

 

Question - were any Caprottis ever kept clean?

 

 

and for something different a Heljan CoBo - re-gauged by Mike Edge to EM. I fitted a Loksound V4 (sound from Digitrains) chip in the body and two sugar cubes in the fuel tank. 

 

and the other side

 

 

I replaced some of the Heljan pipework as it is too flimsy to survive very long

 

Baz

Edited July 29, 2015 by Barry O

[Barry O]

More weathering completed today.

 

Another Black 5 not sure who built it - its in EM.

 

 

and a B16/3 - from a PDK kit built and painted by Graham Varley

 

 

a close up of the tender

 

 

and 

 

a Fairburn 2-6-4T

 

enjoy!

 

Baz

 

Edited July 29, 2015 by Barry O

[Barry O]

Just for a change I have been re-gauging/fitting 3 link couplings and weathering a number of wagons this week.
First up examples of a group of unfitted vans,


Not sure about the "W" number on the van on the left as its a SOuthern Railways/BR design.

Next up some fitted vans



looks like both are Parkside kits.

A Gunpowder van (Hornby Dublo body on a Parkside chassis) and chalk marked Parkside van



Some fitted opens

 

and some cattle wagons

 

 

 

An oil tanker (Peco Wonderful wagon)

 

A Bachmann Bogie Bolster C

 
and finally a Hornby Bogie Bolster A

 

 

and it just wouldn't be complete without

 

 

[Barry O]

Just been doing a bit of weathering on an Industrial. Its a Kitson "long boilered" 0-6-0T and has been scratchbuilt and painted by Mike Edge

 

It arrived in this state

 

 

 

I was supplied with some colour photos of NCB Numbers 41 and 42, and, after a bit of ink and powder application we get

 

and

 

 

 

Loco built , painted and lined by Mike Edge. Its 4mm OO and is an absolute peach.

Edited August 16, 2015 by Barry O

[Barry O]

Just for a change from the LM Pacific's I have just sound chipped (Digitrains sound on a Zimo 648) and weathered two DJH kit built A3s (I believe they were built, painted and lined by Graham Varley)

 

First up Sir Visto

 

 

and its brother

 

 

Spearmint.

 

These are fairly clean - with dirt of the valve gear and top of the boiler

 

 

and a Brush Type 4 - Heljan regauged to EM by Mike Edge and weathered and sound chipped (Legomanbiffo) by me

 

 

[Barry O]

Many apologies as the A3s need to swap tenders!

[Barry O]

I have altered the title of the thread to reflect the number of kit (and RTR) locomotives I have been fitting sound to. 

 

Strangely enough I can mange to fit the sound into locos where the sound comes from (and not in the tender) for most kit built larger steam locomotives.

 

In previous posts locos fitted include DJH A1, A2, A3, Duchess, Scratchbuilt Princess, DJH Black 5s, Comet Caprotti 5s, DJH Duke of Gloucester and Britannia.

 

RTR sound ready include 10000/10001, not sound ready Bachmann Class 40 , 45, Heljan Co Bo etc. Just contact me for further details - more photos soon!

 

Baz

[Barry O]

Some finished examples - cruel close ups..

 

Conflat A with insulated AF container

 

 

 

and a Container A with insulated FM container

 

 

 

all  (33 Conflat As and containers) now complete! ( been a busy couple of days!)

 

and tomorrow its mineral wagon weathering time...

 

Baz

 

[Barry O]

A couple of DJH Black 5s - I believe these have new EM chassis from Steve Haley and a bit of paintwork from him too.

 

First up 44868

 

 

 

and next 44943

 

 

and a shot from above

 

 

Modified method of weathering valve gear employed - supplied to me with motion work painted a brown colour - ink added, powder added then "pulled" with a stiff brush.

 

Baz

[Barry O]

Lots of visitors to the demo stand at Warley where quite a few RMwebbers (and others) had a go.

 

Had a varied assortment of commissions to do over the last week or two (and 6 more Conflat As still to weather..

 

First up a Lima "Compressor Van"

 

 

This has been fitted with Comet LMS bogies and is in EM.

 

some coke hoppers - all £H Kit built and very fragile - 8 shown on this shot, 12 in total

 

 

and a breakdown train

 

 

Hornby Dublo model modfied to run on EM track and reworked to remove the operating handles and string (chain used to replace the string) by Mike Edge

 

and 

 

 

A Hornby man riding coach (regauged and new couplings fitted by Mike Edge) and a Ratio ex LNWR coach built and modified by me - again in EM

 

Lost the shots of the water tanker and van to go with these - will try and add them later

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barry O]

An update.

 

I know I said no more conflats but...

 

 

another 6 of these have been completed plus

 

 

a couple of lowfits - these still need the ropes adding.

So thats about 40 Conflats done....

 

time for something else so..

 

 

a couple of Hornby 20T hoppers

 

a cross channel tank wagon

 

 

and...

 

a Bachmann WD

 

 

 

enjoy!

 

[davefrk]

Hi Barry, please don't think I'm being pedantic but there's a set of drivers missing off the WD,  90763 is a 2-10-0, the only English one having been at 12A Carlisle for most of it's time. How do I know this? I've got one half built for my layout as 90763 got down to Leeds on a number of occasions plus I've built quite a few WD 2-10-0s for fellow Scottish modellers.

In fact I think another 90763 was running on a Scottish layout at the Swindon show this year and will be running again on Hewisbridge at Blyth NE next weekend. I built that one when the Bachmann 2-8-0 came out and we had a number of people at Aylesbury asking is that the new Bachmann model - harumph....

Sorry.

 

All the best,

Dave Franks.

[Barry O]

Bananas!  I knocked the number off pre weathering and the 7s should be a 1... thanks Dave

 

but here is a 2-10-0 I did a while ago

 

 

built by Mike Edge in EM

 

Will change number and rephoto later today.

 

Baz

 

 

[Barry O]

Number - renumbered!