Weathering 7mm Wagons

[brossard]

I'm working through the few wagons that haven't yet been weathered.  I just finished three:

Class B Oil Tank (for heavy oil like Kerosene and Diesel), Dapol

 

BR Standard Planked Van, clasp brake variant, Slaters

 

 

BR Meat Van, Dapol

 

 

I replaced the rigid plastic vac hose with a flexible vac pipe/hose set from Slaters.  The set includes lamp brackets and a buffer beam receptacle for the vac hose QR connector.  I also added the chalk plate.  Notice the lamp bracket is white.

John

Edited December 20, 2017 by brossard

[brossard]

Finished another wagon today:

 

 

It is the Parkside LNER long wheelbase Cattle Wagon.

 

I used Slaters flexible vacuum hose.  I can't recall the make of the steam pipe.

 

John

[brossard]

I completed a couple of commissions today.

 

GWR Dia W5 Cattle Wagon:

 

 

This is the Slaters ex Coopercraft kit.  I added extra underframe and brake detail - the kit has some parts but you only get a vague impression if you build the kit.

 

BR Shoc Van:

 

 

 

Pretty much built as supplied, I can't recall any issues.

 

John

Edited December 27, 2017 by brossard

[brossard]

Completed the GWR rToad today,  dia AA19 (Parkside):

 

 

 

Guard is from ModelU.

 

I built the model with through vacuum piping and used Slaters vacuum pipes.  If you look closely over the guards shoulder you can see the setter and a vacuum gauge.

 

John

Edited December 27, 2017 by brossard

[brossard]

I just completed this Parkside (PS18) LNER 20T LOCO Coal wagon:

 

 

I replaced the plastic tie bars with brass strip.

 

The brake levers and guides on this kit were simply horrible.

 

You will notice the coal load is removable:

 

 

The interior is left natural wood:

 

 

I initially painted the exterior with BR grey but it seemed too light.  The instructions call for black patches in the corners with small LOCO lettering.  Pictures I found seemed to be a darker grey with large LOCO so that's how I did it.

 

John

 

Edited April 25, 2018 by brossard

[brossard]

I completed a Slaters MR 8T 3 plank wagon.  This kit is a bit dated and the notes don't say what diagram it is.  According to Midland Record Suppl 2, Midland Railway Wagons by RJ Essery, these wagons were to D818 and, in 1915 uprated to 10T.

 

 

 

"During the BR period these wagons would have remained upainted", so I tried to depict this wagon in that condition.

 

First some comments on the build.  The floor is plain so I scribed planking and ran sandpaper along the planks to simulate grain.  The inside of the sides and ends were not well defined so I scribed the planks and used sandpaper to get the grain.  The bolt heads were wiped out by the sandpaper (they weren't that great to begin with) so I half drilled 0.020" and filled the hole with 0.020" plastic rod.  This was trimmed to produce the bolt heads.

 

The kit comes with short brake levers but I wanted long ones as depicted in the drawing so I scrounged out some etched ones and bent them to shape.  (I've made brake levers from brass strip.)

 

To get a bare wood effect, I started with cream.  The ironmongery was picked out with a black paint pen.  Then I used umber and black powder to give the impression of usage and weather.

 

Not too bad I think.

 

John

Edited May 8, 2018 by brossard

[ianLMS]

Your wagons are just superb. I have a very long way to go to match the quality of these. I know the detail in 7mm is far greater than 4mm but that aside, the colouring, weathering and build quality is excellent. Thank you for inspiring me to do better!

[brossard]

Annoyed to find Photobucket had greyed out my pictures.  I replaced everything with better pictures.

 

John

[georgeT]

Very nice work there John, top work...