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57 minutes ago, Phil Brighton said:

Thanks. It's all about the Ronseal Teak Woodstain I had left over from doing the front door!

Is it just the Ronseal that has given you the darker weathered colour around the edges of the panelling? Or some extra weathering with inks/powders?

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55 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

Is it just the Ronseal that has given you the darker weathered colour around the edges of the panelling? Or some extra weathering with inks/powders?

The whole process is:
Brown undercoat 

Cream on the panels

Using a couple of different shades of brown for variety paint the panels using a thin coat so as not to obliterate the cream completely

2 or 3 thin coats of wood stain.

Transfers

Cover the whole thing in black weathering powder and then remove most of it with wet cotton buds

Brush on varnish

Line if needed

Varying the shade of the undercoat, the shade of the brown paints over the cream and the number of coats of stain can all give a different look to the teak. Pictures show the shade varies a lot with age on he coaches. 

 

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Nu-Cast J3 underway.
Struggled a bit with the Hi-Level gearbox this time and couldn't get the first gear to fit under the worm so it engages off centre to enable it to fit. I must have done something silly somewhere. However it does run very smoothly albeit with quite a lot of noise.j3.jpg.600184540bb3bc5225259a0ca50511cb.jpg

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Phil,

 

I've just found this thread after your post with the CBE on Wright Writes. Excellent stuff and I particularly love your rendition of teak as others have said. That silhouette cutter looks the business as well - makes my Kirk cut ‘n’ shuts look a bit basic! 
 

I base my own layout on the timetable for Hatfield (although the track plan is pure fiction), so just down the line from you but 20 years later.
 

I shall follow with interest.

 

Andy

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Given how quiet Christmas is this year I have started a kit I had been collecting bits for over the year. Its the first full brass loco kit (and first one not bought secondhand) I have attempted. A PDK P1 2-8-2. 

All going together nicely so far but I have had puzzle over how to get the motor in without it being seen in the large gap between the running plate and boiler. I have settled on setting the gearbox on its back and having motor vertical. This meant using the mini-drill to carve out the top of the resin firebox to enable it to fit and I will need to workout some way of doing the rear pony truck, but will cross that bridge when I come to it.

 

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Chassis is working with about 4-5mm of resin removed from the top of the boiler. Lead sheet gives some weight with a little slot for the decoder to poke into. The kit goes together very well and makes a change from the filling and filing of old whitemetal kits. Instructions aren't that clear though!

 

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P1 chassis has been painted and is drying so here are a few other things I have been finishing up.
Nu-cast J3, a D&S LNER horsebox and the old Hornby Gresley conversion I started first and finished last. The coach is a 56'6" full brake which needed to the Hornby coach to be shortened and narrowed. 

I have't been able to find anything yet to tell me where to put transfers on the horsebox so if there is any help with that it would be very useful.


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On 01/01/2021 at 21:17, Phil Brighton said:

P1 chassis has been painted and is drying so here are a few other things I have been finishing up.
Nu-cast J3, a D&S LNER horsebox and the old Hornby Gresley conversion I started first and finished last. The coach is a 56'6" full brake which needed to the Hornby coach to be shortened and narrowed. 

I have't been able to find anything yet to tell me where to put transfers on the horsebox so if there is any help with that it would be very useful.


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Phil,

 

I have the Parkside instructions for a similar LNER D.5 horsebox which gives positions for that. Would you like a copy?

 

Andy

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I think its time for the paintshop. A bit of trouble getting the thing to balance as the whitemetal booster hanging right out the rear pulled the centre of gravity back and meant the front wheels didn't have enough weight over them. This caused them to rise up and over the frogs on some points. I have stuffed as much lead between the frames as possible as far forward as I can and sprung the rear truck wheel. This seems to have sorted it though I can't say I am convinced the spring does much.

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A few years ago I manged to pick up these GNR D&S kits off ebay for £20 each. Was pretty pleased with that - no one else bid.

With a lot of talk of 6 wheel coaches about I thought I would give them a go. Have done the Luggage Brake and it's ready for painting.
They really are very nice kits to build. Only the brake gear gave me any difficulties and I ending up fudging it a bit so you can still get the wheels out if needs be.

Hopefully the 3rd and composite should be pretty straight forward as they as identical in construction methods.

(The Luggage Brake isn't screwed to the chassis and the roof isn't glued down. Will be done after painting.)

 

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Its mixed media time when it comes to coaches here.

First up the three D&S brass kits are very nearly ready for painting.

 

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Islinglass 3D printed milk brake sides have been bought to be stuck on a non-corridor plastic kirk kit.

 

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Finally another go at a Diagram3D kit - this time for a GNR Howlden coach. Laser cut card. Very thin but all loaded into the 'Smart frame'.

 

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21 hours ago, BWsTrains said:

Phil,

 

I'm considering trying the Diagram3D GWR Siphon kits, any further comments on how your kit went together? Any pics of the finished product?

 

Regards,

 

Colin

 

 

Hi Colin,

 

Sorry no pictures of the finished thing, as I haven't finished it! I have a mate with a 3D printer and I have done up a whole bunch of parts, vents, underframe, bogies on Tinkercad but he is taking his sweet time about getting round to printing them. It's on hold till then, I must give him a prod. 

 

Here is a picture of where I have got to. I am not a huge fan of card as a material but I think I will get a decent end result. I didn't spray the card with something to seal it and really should have done. Overall if you want the prototype they offer the main consideration is are you confident you can build the underframe etc. If so then give it a go I recon. 

 

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Has been a while again.
Finally gave up waiting for my mate to 3D print the parts I had designed and persuaded him to just lend me the printer.
After a lot of faffing and getting bits wrong I got to the point where I could get usable results.
Here is a bunch of smaller items - all made in Tinkercad. Mansell wheel inserts, lamps, GNR roof fittings and some underframe parts.


 

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The wheel inserts were the final parts needed for the D&S GNR 6 wheelers which are now weathered and complete.

 

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Now am moving forward on some of the other coaches and using my own designed and printed fox bogies.

 

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I also saw a nice photo of an earlier Howlden milk brake in an article I tracked down in a magazine about milk trains. The sides are from plasticard and the roof 3d printed. I tried making the beading from sticky back plastic rather than plasticard and it has come out much better. Easier to keep straight and will cut finer on the silhouette cutter.

 

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