Ali's New Work bench

[Pegleg90]

Evening All, 

 

Long time no post again, i'll blame work! 

 

Anyway, treated myself to class 37 sound decoder & speaker from south west digital, quite happy with it but I do need to improve its air-tightness around the speaker.

 

Not too much done on the salmon/osprey wagons but I have added coupling hooks from brass masters.

Also seemed to have misplaced the axle box covers from one of the bogies so started making replacements.

 

MXA front has been slow going too say the least. After i removed alot of the body the remains started flexing so thought I might use some old rail to strengthen the body, only downside is its too tall so got a heap load of filing to do to bring the height down - yay! 

 

I've been slowly having a go at weathering wagons, mainly a few MFA's and a JNA i had to hand. Mainly dry brushing using a rail match rust base colour, quote happy with the results.

 

Also had a go at adding buffer grease based on RS4's thread, fairly happy with the results, probably got the mixture on too soon.

 

Happened to be on model masters web side when they had a sale on transfers so thought I'd have a go at renumber a MFA, using T-Cut, absolutely fine, 

 

Think I've ballsed up on the varnish though as after applying 2 light coats of humbrol acrylic gloss varnish, the model now has these mist patches, don't know if I didn't shake the can enough, let the first coat dry sufficiently or what (answers below please).

I did have a can of rail match gloss varnish which i think i should of probably used instead.

 

Anyway, thats it for now.

 

Thanks

Ali

[Jack374]

Top work Ali...a few suggestions...

 

With the MXA, you could cut a small section out of the ribs underneath the wagon, which would bring the body and chassis to the right height and negate the need for a lot of filing.

 

I've had the varnish do that before too, and I've found there is no reasonable explanation. If it's too humid (like this week hasn't been up here), or too hot this may be the cause, or 'flooding' the area with the paint may cause this effect, so maybe try lighter layers. I've also found leaving the model in the sun following spraying can cause it to dry too soon, again causing this.

Any of these could've caused it, and I've found there's no one solution to solving this....just keep trying!

Here's a thread I started many moons ago when I had the same problem. I'm now super cautious about weather conditions when spraying anything...http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/97852-why-would-varnish-white/

 

Hope this helps,

Jack.

[Pegleg90]

Top work Ali...a few suggestions...

 

With the MXA, you could cut a small section out of the ribs underneath the wagon, which would bring the body and chassis to the right height and negate the need for a lot of filing.

 

I've had the varnish do that before too, and I've found there is no reasonable explanation. If it's too humid (like this week hasn't been up here), or too hot this may be the cause, or 'flooding' the area with the paint may cause this effect, so maybe try lighter layers. I've also found leaving the model in the sun following spraying can cause it to dry too soon, again causing this.

Any of these could've caused it, and I've found there's no one solution to solving this....just keep trying!

Here's a thread I started many moons ago when I had the same problem. I'm now super cautious about weather conditions when spraying anything...http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/97852-why-would-varnish-white/

 

Hope this helps,

Jack.

 

Thanks Jack, 

 

Good idea on the underside ribs of the box, I don't know why I didn't do that! 

 

So probably spraying humbrol acrylic gloss varnish late evening in the garage when the day has been quite warm and not shaking the can enough probably caused this! How did you get over it on your 66? I'm half tempted to have a go with the thinners option as mentioned.

 

Thanks

Al

[Jack374]

How did you get over it on your 66?

Lots of thinners and patience! It's still not perfect but it's an awful lot more bearable. The underframe (fuel tank and battery box) I decided to brush paint with black to eradicate the problem, which may help on the wagon underframe.

 

The overall effect of the whiting (to me) doesn't look too bad on your wagon considering it's a ballast wagon, so I think you could just leave it as is, but of course (as wih anything in model railways) if it doesn't look right to you then it isn't right!

 

Thanks,

Jack.

[Pegleg90]

Well I’m alive and modelling again here and there on and off!

 

Bought these rail holders from Resin Printed Railways as a little modelling job just to clean up and paint. Loads of old Hornby set track lengths that have come away from the plastic sleepers due to plastic fatigue. Quick prime and and rattle can sleeper grime and think they’ll do. Holders were which ever red paint I had to hand. rails are   loosely placed hence the uneven end alignment. Will look to glue the rails in place and add a couple more to make all 12 slots loaded. Got a pack of 4 so will have an unloaded set and loaded set as I only have the 1 wagon at present. 
 

wagon will get weathered as and when I’ve practiced my dry brushing and airbrushing most likely. 
 

 

Few only bits and bobs kicking about so will upload as and when!

 

Thanks

Ali