Locksley Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) I'm starting to do a little more detailing, weathering, respraying, general faffing etc with RTR stuff recently so thought it not a bad idea to start a thread here. First up, Hornby's exquisite Peckett W4. I grabbed this on sale from Rails a few weeks back, and after a quick exchange for a second after the first snapped a con rod (I have no idea either), I was delighted with it. This one was denumbered and weathered with various brown shades shot through the airbrush, as well as a little black on the top of the boiler and a few bits of Citadel Nuln Oil wash. I printed out a little steel bucket to put on the running board and added a few bits of coal too, and finally finished off with a crew from Hardy's Hobbies. Edited September 12, 2019 by Locksley 10 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 With the Peckett sold and on it's way to sunny Blackpool, I made a start on one of a pair of Oxford Januseseses (Janii?) in for weathering. The other will be getting the full Stocksbridge acoustic kit and respray, but this one was just a simple debranding and mucking up. Starting off with a coat of Flory Models Dark Dirt wash to add some definition and initial dirt, this was followed up by a matt coat and some general filth with various brown shades shot through the AB. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) I've recently taken the plunge and gone DCC using one of Bill Cuthbert's Arduino Pro Mini based kits. I was absolutely itching to try something with sound so I picked up the cheapest thing I could find - a Hornby TTS 08 in DB Schenker livery. I now have a quite serious need for everything to make noises. I have limited experience with DCC sound as my Dad has a Bachy Class 40 that a friend fitted Legomanbiffo sound to which sounds excellent, but I must say the 08 is not far off. The only thing I'm planning to do is fit a pair of sugarcube speakers in place of the slightly muffled/tinny stock one. First things first though, I wanted to get rid of the garish DB livery as, although it looks surprisingly at home on the Aldwarke layout, it does nothing for me. Being a Sheffield resident within spitting distance of both Tinsley and Darnall, the only choice was a respray into Tinsley's 08857 'Darnall' I've used Phoenix Rail Blue over a grey primer with white zenithal preshading to give a faded appearance, and luckily managed to to mask off the original warning stripes which made it a nice simple job. The 08857 and 'Darnall' nameplates are from Precision Labels which are nice although very slightly out of register so will need a tiny bit of touching up with the blue, but the overhead line warning flashes from Rainbow Railways are excellent. Unfortunately it took me until this point to realise I had no BR double arrows so a swift emergency order to Railtec was made for a set, as well as their 08/09 detailing pack to restore the info markings lost in the repaint. I'm hoping they'll be with me on Friday if their previous excellent speedy service is anything to go by, but I'm in no major rush as I have the speakers to sort yet. Edited September 12, 2019 by Locksley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Locksley said: ...so a swift emergency order to Railtec was made for a set, as well as their 08/09 detailing pack to restore the info markings lost in the repaint. I'm hoping they'll be with me on Friday if their previous excellent speedy service is anything to go by, but I'm in no major rush as I have the speakers to sort yet. Already dispatched Alex; the rest is up to Royal Mail! Not that it has too far to go. If you're doing more and it helps, complete loco packs for Tinsley machines are gradually being released: http://www.railtec-models.com/catalog.php?search_str=tinsley&gauge=4mm The detail is spot printed (so no superfluous carrier film to have to cut around) and filmless where applicable, such as the overhead line flashes / 41A codes etc. The idea behind the complete loco packs is that it hopefully gives an economical and convenient solution for what would conventionally otherwise require bits from several packs. Edited September 12, 2019 by railtec-models 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) 13 minutes ago, railtec-models said: Already dispatched Alex; the rest is up to Royal Mail! Not that it has too far to go. If you're doing more and it helps, complete loco packs for Tinsley machines are gradually being released: http://www.railtec-models.com/catalog.php?search_str=tinsley&gauge=4mm The detail is spot printed (so no superfluous carrier film to have to cut around) and filmless where applicable, such as the overhead line flashes / 41A codes etc. The idea behind the complete loco packs is that it hopefully gives an economical and convenient solution for what would conventionally otherwise require bits from several packs. Super, thanks very much Steve! I do plan on doing more Tinsley stuff so will most likely be grabbing a set or 2 from you Edited September 12, 2019 by Locksley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Nice bit of modelling. I've never heard of preshading with trains, but have seen it work very well with plastic kits esp US navy grey aircraft. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 44 minutes ago, rob D2 said: Nice bit of modelling. I've never heard of preshading with trains, but have seen it work very well with plastic kits esp US navy grey aircraft. Cheers! I am primarily a plastic modeller so I just can't help myself when it comes to preshading lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 The 08 is complete! I decided to swap out the stock Hornby speaker for a pair of sugarcubes which I mounted into a 3d printed enclosure I drew up on tinkercad. The sound is so much better, well worth the extra bit of work. The decal packs arrived from Steve on Friday (thanks Steve!) so I was able to put the final ones on. After a gloss sealing coat I airbrushed a coat of Flory Dark Dirt over everything and then roughly wiped it off leaving some grimy crevices (which incidentally is an affliction most prevalent at model railway exhibitions). I then sealed that in with a matt coat before some further airbrush weathering with a very dark brown, and then a more dusty buff colour, built up in light coats concentrating around the lower section, and finally I used a similar technique with black around the roof, exhaust, and fuel/oil tanks. 8 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 16, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2019 43 minutes ago, Locksley said: The 08 is complete! I decided to swap out the stock Hornby speaker for a pair of sugarcubes which I mounted into a 3d printed enclosure I drew up on tinkercad. The sound is so much better, well worth the extra bit of work. The decal packs arrived from Steve on Friday (thanks Steve!) so I was able to put the final ones on. After a gloss sealing coat I airbrushed a coat of Flory Dark Dirt over everything and then roughly wiped it off leaving some grimy crevices (which incidentally is an affliction most prevalent at model railway exhibitions). I then sealed that in with a matt coat before some further airbrush weathering with a very dark brown, and then a more dusty buff colour, built up in light coats concentrating around the lower section, and finally I used a similar technique with black around the roof, exhaust, and fuel/oil tanks. Not that it's a complaint, but in that last picture, how about photoshopping the rest of the steelworks in behind the lorry? Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 On 16/09/2019 at 08:05, Enterprisingwestern said: Not that it's a complaint, but in that last picture, how about photoshopping the rest of the steelworks in behind the lorry? Mike. I think my photoshop skills would ruin it lol, although tbh there's actually very little looking out that way other than trees and some sidings. The far left end of the layout is the end of the building in real life. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 Picked up a Heljan 07 on offer from Hattons last week. I've been absolutely itching to get my hands on one of these and it's every bit as good as I hoped. Unfortunately the plan for this on was always a quick weather and then be sold on but I doubt it'll be last one I get. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Couple more projects arrived yesterday, both from the Hobby King sale at half price. Amazingly the 87 which came from China arrived the day before the 153 which was only coming from Germany... Gave both a few hours on the rollling road last night and they are superb runners. The plan for the 87 is a quick respray of both ends and removal of the Swallow branding to backdate it to Executive livery. It'll then be renumbered as 87007 City of Manchester using one of Railtec's excellent loco packs. The 153 will be getting a simple weathering job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 The 87 and 153 are both done particularly pleased with the 87. I had to draw up and print the multi-unit working cables at each end which somehow turned out perfect first time, and the Railtec 3d nameplates are just superb. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 I was never 100% happy with the running qualities of the Heljan 07, it seemed to waddle slightly even after a few hours on the rolling road. I decided to drop the wheelset out and have a fiddle. I think the thing that helped in the end was freeing up the movement of the pivoted section of each con-rod as these were both stiff. I added a drop of oil and worked them loose and the thing runs nigh on perfectly now, certainly much better than it did. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 My next project landed yesterday, Hornby's 67. Plan is a simple renumber and logo change using one of Railtec's 67 packs, and I've decided to splash out a bit and stick a Legomanbiffo sound chip in it, along with a Roads & Rails iPhone speaker as I can't wait to see what they sound like. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) Knew I shouldn't have put that 08 on a boil wash The plan for the chonky gronk is a respray into BR blue as Ti's 08141 Manvers. Unfortunately this particular one has an annoying tight spot that binds up the running gear at low speeds and causes it to stall. Excellent service from DCC Supplies (usual disclaimer) so far though after a very swift reply to my eBay message. Hopefully a replacement will be on the way shortly. The itty bitty gronk belongs to a friend and is in for a replacement speaker as the current one sounds like it being played from inside a tupperware in a public toilet with the door closed. It's the slightly older Hornby version, originally TTS fitted, at somepoint it's had what I now believe to be a Loksound v3.5 hard-wired in along with lights. Unfortunately I wasn't aware that it was a v3.5 when I popped a sugarcube in it, at least until it started screaming. I think the plan going forward with this one may be to pop the original 100ohm speaker back in but with a 3d printed back box and some holes drilled through the radiator a-la Hornby's more recent 08 tooling. Edited December 12, 2019 by Locksley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) A little impromtu project. I was digging through my wardrobe in my old room back home on Saturday trying to find an SS Turbinia hull that's definitely somewhere in there and came across this old O gauge Lima 4F. It was given to us on long term loan many years ago by a friend at the Sheffield O Gauge Group. He'd made some significant improvements to it back in 1998 according to the box, including replacing the moulded in handrails, adding a bottom to the boiler, and placing it on a JM chassis. When we got it we tried to remove the old tired paint with Modelstrip which only sort of half worked and left behind globs of paint in harder to reach areas. This being a good 15 years ago, and me being 12 years old, I brushed liberal amounts of Humbrol black all over it, stuck some decals on and called it done. It wasn't awful, but really needed work. I remember trying to spruce it up with an airbrush around 6 years ago but it wasn't massively successful and then the drive gear gave up and I just shoved it back in the wardrobe. My plan this time round was to basically strip the thing back down to bare bones. I've removed everything that will come off including handrails, buffers, couplings, coal, brake handles etc, which allowed me to really go to town with the sanding sticks. I've removed any final traces of the moulded handrails, smoothed out the filler on the bottom of the boiler, fixed some damage to the running boards and added a strip of plasticard down the underside of each one to hopefully add some rigidity. More drastically I removed the entire front bufferbeam as it still had remnants of some ungodly moulded plastic coupling chain, and the hole for the screw-link was both rough, and completely off centre so I didn't see any other way forward than to just remove the buffers and sand it smooth. I've done the same with the smoke box door, the original one being too flat which just makes the front of the loco look odd, as well as the vacuum ejector. All of these will be replaced with more detailed and accurate 3d printed ones. I did also manage to melt the tender underframe trying to remove some stubborn old paint with enamel thinners, so I'll also have to 3d print a replacement for that, not quite as involved as it sounds as I can just use the fairly simple existing one for measurements and detail it up a bit as I go. Not much to do then. Edited February 17, 2020 by Locksley 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Got a few of the replacement parts drawn up for the 4F. Hopefully these should be an improvement over the original tooling. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Another little side project I'm working on at the mo, a bit more realistic NG loco than the previous ones I've done. This is heavily based on the Baguley-Drewry/Andrew Barclay NG23/24/25 Battery Electric locos built in the 70s for RAF Chilmark, all 3 of which are currently preserved AFAIK, with a few compromises for chassis fit. Again this is designed for a cut down 11-104, I've added some space at the front and rear, as well as in the battery bank to allow for a decent amount of weight to be added. I'm hoping to trial the couplings as potential working ones with a brass wire pin and 3d printed drawbar. My plan next is to draw up some rolling stock so I'm hoping I can standardize with a coupling design that works, and is still in scale/somewhat prototypical. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 So, after a couple of disasters trying to get decals to conform to the corrugated sides of the 67, TfW's latest livery saved the day lol. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Very nice work! I’m not a huge fan of the livery in real life but think it looks really good in model form. Keep up the good work! Will 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 23 minutes ago, Southwich said: Very nice work! I’m not a huge fan of the livery in real life but think it looks really good in model form. Keep up the good work! Will Cheers Will! It's a very basic livery but I think it makes a nice change from the DB Schenker red. Apparently the plan is for TfW to add proper branding at some point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) Figured I ought to update this thread as it's been a while. Some of these have been posted elsewhere on the forum so apologies if you've seen them before. First up, the Chilmark BEL turned out really nice once painted up. I added a couple of craft 'jewel' things for the lamps, as well as some Eduard pre-painted photo etch plaqards from a 1/48 F-4 Phantom set, and some solder/fuse wire wiring. The figure is a generic driver from Modelu and just about fits. Edited May 12, 2020 by Locksley 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Next up, a random On30 logging/mining loco designed to fit on a Hornby 0-4-0 chassis I acquired off a workmate around Christmas. No idea what I'll do with it but I have vague ideas in my head of maybe some sort of garden railway one day. I've wired in a 6pin DCC plug which actually works pretty well, and at some point I'll pop a chip in and wire up the LED headlamps. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locksley Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Finally for now, I did a bit of work on my Sentinel, hardwiring a Zimo MX600R chip, stayalive, and some LEDs into it, plus a set of Smith 3-links. And I treated myself to a 48DS, which again received some weathering, Smith 3-links, a hardwired MX617F chip this time, with a stayalive and some LEDs. Runs like melted chocolate now, beautiful 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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