grahame Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 I've started to renovate an old 2-EPB model that I made many moons ago. It's an unpowered model. I wanted to change it's livery from green to blue and correct the underframe details as best I could. Firstly I stripped down the body, roof, bogies, etc., and then pared the sides off (they were etched brass ones from Worsley Works). Bearing in mind this is an N/2mm model I felt that the cab ends were still pretty good, so I've left them: The sides were cleaned and I've started to give them a coat of blue paint. As I couldn't be bothered to get the air-brush out I've hand painted them (with a hairy brush) with very thinned down paint. So far they've had two coats, the second which is drying now: G. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 Annoyingly the brass sides are a little short on height to match the height of the Farish Mk1 coaches they need to overlay: In order to help disguise/camouflage the small gap I've painted the bottom of the plastic body shell blue (to hopefully match the sides) and fingers crossed that it wont be too noticeable when I fit the long continuous step boards. G. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasatcopthorne Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) Annoyingly the brass sides are a little short on height to match the height of the Farish Mk1 coaches they need to overlay: DSC_3218.JPG In order to help disguise/camouflage the small gap I've painted the bottom of the plastic body shell blue (to hopefully match the sides) and fingers crossed that it wont be too noticeable when I fit the long continuous step boards. G. A lot of units had strengthening strips fitted along the bottom of the bodysides. Could this gap be hidden with plastic card strips? Dave. Edited August 28, 2017 by dasatcopthorne 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Dyson (onslaught832) Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Nice Little project are overlays such as these still freely available for older Farish coaches? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 A lot of units had strengthening strips fitted along the bottom of the bodysides. Could this gasp be hidden with plastic card strips? A great idea - thanks. I remember those strips now. I just need to cut some strips from styrene sheets a tad thicker than the brass. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted August 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28, 2017 Nice Little project are overlays such as these still freely available for older Farish coaches? Hi I've had some done in the past by Allen at Worsley Works on 5 thou brass. There is a picture of my 2HAP on the website http://www.worsleyworks.co.uk/Image-Pages/Image_N_2HAP.htm Cheers Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atso Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Nice work so far on the refurb Grahame. If it ends up anything like your normal standard it will be a truly stunning model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 A bit of a set-back. One pair of the etched sides ended up with a crinkle finish, while the other two sides were fine (odd as they both had the same treatment). That has meant I've needed to strip them back to bare metal and start again. And I guess I'll need to do all four sides otherwise if I just do the dodgy two they probably won't match the other two. Damn. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 The four sides are all now stripped back to bare metal, cleaned and primed with the ubiquitous Halfords aerosol. Tomorrow I'll get out the hairy brushes. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPH 603 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Now I feel like I should make a model similar to that... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 (edited) On 28/08/2017 at 10:38, dasatcopthorne said: A lot of units had strengthening strips fitted along the bottom of the bodysides. Could this gap be hidden with plastic card strips? Dave. I've finally got back to re-starting this project and have taken on board the suggestion above. I've added strips of styrene along the bottom of one coach to see how it will look. And I'm quite happy: Okay, it's not the finest bit of modelling but then the old model wasn't either (bashed some time ago) and I need to work with what I've got. Next I'll paint the strips to match the body side colour and then I'll re-check. The sides need another coat - they've been painted with a brush using very much thinned down paint and the dried finish doesn't look too bad (IMO). If all is okay I'll fit the strips to the other coach which is quite a tricky job to get them on with a straight top edge. G Edited August 22, 2019 by grahame 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 24, 2019 Author Share Posted August 24, 2019 Sides and roofs now re-painted and the lower bodyside strips also painted which seems to match okay. G 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) Close-up digital photography can be very useful as well as cruel (even quick snaps that are poorly composed, a little out of focus and so on as below). It shows where further work is required that you might not be aware of. For example I didn't realise that the roofs needed some fettling to fit and sit better on the body as can be seen in the pic below: G Edited August 25, 2019 by grahame 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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