RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted December 18, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2022 Some more figures painted today and fitted to the London Transport Pannier tank engine L94. 21 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestag Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 That is good painting of the figures. I would expect the shading of the cloth in a 54mm Napoleonic, but in O gauge it is impressive. Makes me bashful about the one set of crew that I have got around to painting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted December 20, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2022 Thank you but my secret to shading is really very simple. When painting 1/100th scale WW2 wargames figures and tanks I was introduced to a shading wash marketed by Citadel paints. As they make paints designed for the fantasy wargames market the colours all have weird names! The one I use is called “Agrax Earthshade”. It is a very thin water based dark brown wash of watery consistency. Take a brush full of this and paint it all over the figure. It will run into all the details on the figure such as the folds in the clothes. As the wash is so thin capillary action does most of the work. If there is too much you just touch it with an unloaded brush and that will suck it up. Naturally it will darken the overall base colour so allow for that when initially painting your figure. If desired you can dry brush the highlights in a lighter shade of the base colour to make the tops of any creases in the clothes stand out like the light is hitting them. This shading wash is also great for weathering locos such as on bufferbeams where it will accumulate around any rivet detail. Also great on wagons where it will run between planks etc. Cheers, Ade. 4 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted December 20, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2022 My LSWR pattern covered van has arrived safely. Very pleased with it. Cheers, Ade. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 And here's the service, Ade, from the GW passenger timetable from 5th Feb 1940: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted December 20, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Adrian Stevenson said: My LSWR pattern covered van has arrived safely. Very pleased with it. Cheers, Ade. Ade can I ask what make is the van. Lovely van BTW. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted December 20, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2022 The van is a Kernow model shop exclusive. Have a look here: https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/77949/K7010F-Kernow-Models-LSWR-Diag-1410-Covered-Van---SR-Brown No connection usual disclaimer applies. Cheers, Ade. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2022 Presume you know this new volume? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted December 21, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2022 Yes thanks. I picked up a copy a Warley the other week. Very good book. Cheers, Ade. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted January 2, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) Last day off work and finally got to do some modelling. Made a start on the point rodding. Got seven installed. Also finished painting some more figures and installed them in the 45xx and the 43xx. Edited January 2, 2023 by Adrian Stevenson Spelling 23 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jamest Posted January 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2023 Hi, Point rodding looks great - along with your figures. I wouldn't want to do it after ballasting - I had enough trouble with it without the ballast! Are you scraping away patches or going straight on top? all the best, James 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted January 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2023 Hi James, just a case of making a small hole in the ballast with a knife and gluing in the base for the stools. I am using cork for the base coloured with concrete weathering powder. Cheers, Ade. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted January 8, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2023 As the weather as still a bit chilly I decided to save on the heating in the cabin and do a job inside the house in the form of another Parkside kit. This time a GWR 12/13ton open goods wagon. Picked this one up yesterday. As ever a very straightforward build with all parts fitting well. I also picked up an LMS 20 ton goods brake van to pair up with my Jinty. Going to start on this one this afternoon. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted January 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14, 2023 The LMS brake van build is progressing. Roof just plonked in place for the photo. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Looking good, Ade. Nice to see a wagon from a "proper" railway... 🤪 Though having said that, I just bought a GW Mogo off ebay. Would a Mogo have a vacuum brake cylinder beneath the underfram, do you know? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 More nice stock I see Ade, very nice mate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted January 15, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2023 Hi Peter, the Mogo was vac fitted as far as I know so yes. Done a bit more to the brake van. Handrails and buffers fitted. I did discover that the sprung buffers won’t work as supplied. The securing nuts are not large enough being smaller than the holes in the bufferbeam. So the buffers would simply fall out. So I made a shim from scrap brass fret drilled to size and secured behind the bufferbeam. Problem solved and the buffers now work as intended and don’t fall out. The old modellers maxim of don’t throw anything away proves it worth again. 15 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted February 5, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2023 The GWR wagon is now in primer. The LMS Brake Van build is slowly progressing with lamp brackets and running boards now in place. Roof plonked in place for the photo. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted February 12, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Two new wagons added to the fleet after yesterdays trip to Doncaster show. The Macaw H is one of Jim’s kits, while the Fish van is from WEP. I do like to build my own kits but these were so well made and painted I could not refuse. Especially at what I thought was a bargain price of £121 for the pair. They would cost more that that to buy in kit form. Also picked up another Peco Parkside kit this time an LMS Meat van to build, again good price of £36.50. I have posted some pics from the show in the exhibition forum. Cheers, Ade. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted February 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2023 I love the fish van! That is a beautiful wagon. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 You did well there Ade. Cheers David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted February 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2023 When I grow up I’ll venture into O gauge 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted February 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2023 Sorry ‘if’ I grow up 😆 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Ade, that's one hell of a lot of fish for a small town like Malmesbury 😄. But the model is lovely. Cheers, Mike 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Some lovely wagons there Ade. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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