A few recently completed wagons. Two of the 21 ton VBs are now done in contrasting styles, one fairly tidy and the other contrastingly scruffy. I've been experimenting with tinted varnishes (Humbrol Mattcote with Humbrol matt 100 or leather (62) blended with Metalcote Gunmetal and a touch of matt white in this case), applied with a brush rather than an airbrush since I don't have one to hand. This is built up in thin, transluscent layers with varying amouts of tin to get the colour balance I was after - dark first into the nooks and crannies, then a rustier layer and then a greyer layer, all left overnight between coats - Acrylics woould be much quicker! Maybe next time.
Anyway, this is the 1/119:
This is the 1/120. It's strange to think that the last of these - an essentially Edwardian design concept - were being turned out at the same time as the first of the HOP AB MGR hoppers:
These big coal wagons tended to weather to a dark grey with a hint of brown as an even coating, leavened with rust and brakedust, but with the markings - notably the end door stripe - peeking through. While the cleanish one is an effect I know I can achieve by other means, and I'm perfectly content with it I'm particularly pleased with the scruffier effort, what does everyone else think?
Adam
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