Squirrel Rail - Workbench

[Squirrel Rail]

On 13/10/2022 at 16:33, virginhst539 said:

57313 looks fantastic! how did you go about getting the best match for the northern belle brown? seems to be one of those paints that no one has made readily available yet

We looked at pics of 313 and agreed it had the cream added to the WCR livery so left the loco as it was with just the cream. In the past with northern belle I used a Pullman umber and lightened it. I think there used to be some pics on my thread here but may be one on my website, cheers Jerry

[virginhst539]

Will go take a look, for some reason im sure i read to use a 50/50 mix of br maroon and GWR freight brown but could never find any refrence to it.

 

It is really hard to tell in prototype pictures as depending on the lighting results vary

[Squirrel Rail]

On 14/10/2022 at 21:23, virginhst539 said:

Will go take a look, for some reason im sure i read to use a 50/50 mix of br maroon and GWR freight brown but could never find any refrence to it.

 

It is really hard to tell in prototype pictures as depending on the lighting results vary

Rainbow Railways do the correct WCR maroon if you need it - before they produced it it was a mix your own job!

[Squirrel Rail]

O gauge A4 is finally finished with its respray back to garter blue:

 

[Squirrel Rail]

DMU season is here with another 150 in London Midland, this is definitely the last one of these I’ll do….

And again….

Spraying the fade on a local lines 150/2

And 3 more 153s into primer

And two more 150s about to get their TFW decals;

last up not a DMU but a bit of weathering on a 2 Bil

and a couple of closer views,

And the show gear,

Thats all for now!

[Rich Papper]

Hi Jerry. A bit before my time, but that 2-BIL is an absolute beauty of a job - well done. The perfect 'in service' patina of gunk.

Rich

[Squirrel Rail]

12 hours ago, Rich Papper said:

Hi Jerry. A bit before my time, but that 2-BIL is an absolute beauty of a job - well done. The perfect 'in service' patina of gunk.

Rich

Hi Rich, thanks for the kind words, weathering just makes so much difference IMO and they don’t have to be coated like they’ve been on the Somme, sometimes less is more! Cheers Jerry

[Squirrel Rail]

Hattons 40 bogie snowplough now being weathered, needed a change from DMUs so more of them in the next update- here it is:

and a couple of close ups, rivets round the bogie frame,

and rust around the storage box, 

Whilst I had the rust out this old Hornby gronk is going on a scrap line on a mate’s depot, I’ve got glazing which I’ll add later,

and the obligatory DMU - citizens rail 153 having its weathering:-

 

[Swifty11]

Looks great as always Jerry! Looking at your great selection of DMUs, I'm looking to get a Ginsters class 158 done, would this be something you're interested in? 

[Squirrel Rail]

11 hours ago, Swifty11 said:

Looks great as always Jerry! Looking at your great selection of DMUs, I'm looking to get a Ginsters class 158 done, would this be something you're interested in? 

I’ve never seen the Ginsters one done but would look good! Unfortunately I’m taking a break from commissions  in January due to too many other things going on but I will still be working through my backlog and my own stockpile so the thread will continue! Cheers Jerry

[Squirrel Rail]

Finally an update - it’s been DMU central with two TFW 150s, a local lines 150, citizens rail 153, local lines 153 and the hybrid 150/153399 in Local lines:-

TFW 150236

The 153s

and again

Citizens rail 153

and lastly a 37 in RHTT livery!

[Squirrel Rail]

As a change from DMUs bit of wagon weathering with this rake of Accurascale PTAs, starting of with a wash and then weathering the insides, before and after

followed by a mix of rust shades for iron ore dust - the light on my bench makes this look a lot lighter,

Next up more filth, chipping to get to this stage;

and another one …

At the same time working on a pair of flask carriers, a quick before;

and then with a light coating of frame dirt to tone everything down..

 

[Squirrel Rail]

Duff time! Four class 47s, two of the new 47375 Tinsley TMDs - one to become 47219 Arnold Kunzler, and two of the 47359 in RF Metals to become 280 and 362. The latter pair needing cut down cabs so used the Shawplan set:

here’s one done with a base coat of black with untouched behind-

Next pic is the sector decals going on with the white under patches going on - need to extend the black behind the cab doors

last up here’s the four - I’ll post some pics when they’re all done,

[rob D2]

Nice , right up my alley those 47s

[Squirrel Rail]

Here you go Rob, the pair now finished👍

[rob D2]

Very nice Jerry ,
Arnold appeared on a few of my beloved MOD trains

[adb968008]

Are those white patches sprayed, or are they a transfer ?

[Squirrel Rail]

16 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Are those white patches sprayed, or are they a transfer ?

They are the Fox transfers - they provide a white blanking patch to give a good colour density on the sector decal- I did remove the old metals branding underneath to start though! Cheers Jerry

[rob D2]

I’m hoping mr railtec will get round to some faded RFD patches , like almost orange splodge,  at some point .

[Squirrel Rail]

For the first time in ages I’ve managed to attack the Squirrel Rail backlog so here’s a few pics. The RFD pair are finished. The red and yellow repeater. Are behind the leading cab on the no2 end according to reference pics, clot here noticed on my pic I can’t tell one end from the other but has been sorted!

Another long term project has been this Anglia 90, it’s just being weathered so a quick pic but I will post a longer update on it and finished pics

last up weathering time, starting on the log carriers, here with a wash in the front one;

and the cargo wagons having had a wash and the first coat of muck

i know I’ve said it before but will try some regular updates amongst the domestics!

[Squirrel Rail]

Too cold for spraying today so a little bit more on the RFNoos. In my last post they’d had a wash and then a first bit of airbrush work which I didn’t take a pic, but here they are working on the weathering

a wider view showing the overall look…

 

[Squirrel Rail]

Anglia 90 now finished so a couple of pics and I’ll post some on the 90 thread:

front end with my etched horn grills, 

Finished a pair of the cargo wagons, weathered with cleaned patches, one more than the other

And the other one

and last up a close up of the timber carrier

 

[virginhst539]

On 22/01/2023 at 20:58, Squirrel Rail said:

 

 

 

You have captured the grubby wiped clean look absolutely spot on! got to ask how you you stuck the narrow stanchions on as mine seem to like flying off! Also going to steal the way you have removed the blue ones but left the bases on them as they look weird with loads of holes along the side of the wagon. Will eventually get my set weathered, loads of reference pics on the work phone.... just a shame most of them are of the brake rigging and underside  

[Squirrel Rail]

9 hours ago, virginhst539 said:

You have captured the grubby wiped clean look absolutely spot on! got to ask how you you stuck the narrow stanchions on as mine seem to like flying off! Also going to steal the way you have removed the blue ones but left the bases on them as they look weird with loads of holes along the side of the wagon. Will eventually get my set weathered, loads of reference pics on the work phone.... just a shame most of them are of the brake rigging and underside  

Thanks for the message, I used a dab of thick superglue and accelerator to fix the red ones. Revolution say you can take the blue ones off but I found some were absolutely solid and started to break whilst those that came off left the holes which looked awful! Cutting them down seemed the best option. Good luck doing yours they’re a good project to do, cheers Jerry

[virginhst539]

if your wanting a bit of variety have a look at 011-8 in this screen grab from youtube, this is one of the ones I'm going to be doing. its probably picked up a bit of grim now  and has the extra strapping points but it adds a nice contrast between the work worn examples. Might look for a stronged super glue as it was just the usual supermarket Loctite stuff I had used