Eric & Gripper

Simply gorgeous ! best regards Eric & Gripper

Best wishes Lee,with your freedom !

Lovely work there Barry, well captured. Best regards Eric & Gripper

Nice.looks bit hilly for me and gripper though. Best regards E&G

Thanks Sean, I spent three weeks looking through Flickr.for some pictures of a faded green 08 to no avail.Cracked on anyway Using various other sources notably blue ones faded to a similar degree.I then spent a week with the paint fading and body weathering and left it a further week for my own walk-away-come back-to-it assessment purposes. While searching through some old photos for https://www.facebook.com/groups/453813081355784/. I came across a picture taken by Mr Of Doom of a very faded green 08 with a very much younger/racing snake version of myself stood in front it.So much for Pathos. What else can i say about Mr Holly,It was a tenuous link as they all are hehe. Thanks for the correction i shall research better next time. What was the largest runway at the time?........ for another day Best regards Eric & Gripper

For Yorkshire folk everywhere and lesser mortals who fancy saving stuff to put to good use. Well I'll start this topic off purely from a painting perspective. Obviously Jam and pickle jars are really good storage containers on there own.It goes without saying really. Nutella, horrible stuff but the smallest jar is Glass .£1.28 is worth it just for the jar and lid.Bin the evil nutty/chocolate concoction. Excellent place to wash you brushes Yoghurt pots .Excellent for mixing paint prior to a wash or spray.Be wary of the thinner softer ones (Aero/mouse etc) the thinners will eat them first. Kiev trays Those deep plastic.trays useful for dipping projects in ,like say a wagon that you painted and looks more like a Panzer MKIV. Fill it full of brake DOT4 brake fluid and renew that bauxite look. Cooked Ham platters.the kind that processed ham come on/in. Nice,hard flat plastic.These make excellent mixing pallets for dry brushing and when paint and powder have to be mixed. Philadelphia tubs, horrible, Is it really cheese? shouldn't be allowed in Yorkshire...A shallow dish excellent for soaking transfers, airbrushes etc.. Collecting all these extra modelmaking elements can only be a good thing.But remember to be wary of going too far(.http://en.wikipedia....i/Edmund_Trebus) Any more suggestions add them below and you can all be Honourary & Thrifty Yorkshire folk. (Results may vary,Yorkshire effects are temporary and will wear off in time) Best regards Eric & Gripper.

Excellent advice.thanks Barry, I realised afterwards that the Gresley teak pics were a little off subject.So would now have them in there on the basis of differing colorations based on the varnish treatment of natural timber and your own advice on the subject.They do seem to Darken over time anyway further disproving my theory,haha. I just knew I should have put some Thompsons in there better illustrating the point. I'm hoping to have a some Gresley Full brakes in a later entry on peeling paint. You do have some great Gresley coach pics yourself are you a member of the LNER Coach Association ? They are a thing great beauty,built long lost craftsman and should never have been painted. Best regards Eric & Gripper.

A good start Sir.The more you paint the more you will want to paint. An airbrush won't do everything you need but once you've mastered it,it will speed everything up for you. A good friend of mine has been using Aerosols for the past 25 years and swears by them.I haven't yet managed to get him Airbrushing but when i do he'll be a happier man. Your early results speak for themselves you should be very pleased.If i can offer any advice( this is not in anyway a criticism).when you paint with a brush you tend to go for coverage in maybe two coats.An airbush is far finer to work your first coat should be barely visible and this the key to your second coat. By the third and fourth you should be seeing some good coverage.the fifth coat should just about do it.This method should of course take a good few hours between coats to allow for proper drying.Airbrushing will dry the paint much faster since the thinner atomizes instantly on the surface being painted. Some colours will always be tricky reds and yellows especially. Practice your thinning,see how thin you can go before the paint is too runny to work.You will find the limits at the top and bottom of thinning pretty quickly. The main to remember is always clean the airbrush thoroughly at the end of the spraying session. Best wishes Eric & Gripper.

Simply beautiful! Best wishes, Eric & Gripper.

Amongst the many facets required to successfully weather your stock,paint fading has to be a high priority.These are my observations and my method of depicting it,before the paint specialists and chemical experts eat me alive. All railway liveries seemed to fade over time.Sunshine in particular is extremely harsh on the colourful embellishments of our beloved railway stock. The Sun has particular dislike of the colour red and its variants.Maroon,Crimson and Bauxite.Though Yellow,Blue and Green also fade to varying degrees. The weathering and fading of paint is dependent on a number factors including but not exclusive to, What vehicle its actually painted onto loco ,coach or wagon,Departmental stock is particularly good in this regard. Those lovely Steam cranes went very pink, very quickly. The service interval of said vehicle; years for wagons months for locos. The actual usage and availability of the vehicle.Again with the Steam Cranes in mind long periods of inactivity focuses those harmful UV rays much better. The application and priming of the original paint.Thin paint fades quicker than many coats of the same colour. The numbers of varnish/lacquer layers applied over the painted surface. The best way I have found to replicate faded paint is in fact very simple.We were all taught to mix paint at school to produce different colours and shades.As long as you try and keep it within the same paint manufacturer you should have no problems.So Railmatch with Railmatch and so on.I have successfully mixed other manufacturers paint together in the past but can I can only recommend trial and error here.Keep some empty yogurt pots to use as mixing pallets the harder plastic ones are best since thinners doesn't play well with the softer stuff. Since you are fading the base colour of the livery, you may want mask off any areas you wish to keep in the original finish.The doors of coaches are and vans are an excellent example here, having often been replaced without the rest of the vehicle receiving a matching repaint. The method is very simple by adding white or grey to your base colour you will gradually lighten the shade. How you apply this new shade is a matter of choice Brush or Airbush being the two most likely options.If aerosols are your weapon of choice Halfords have a lovely aerosol mixing department in many of their stores.You may need to do some research and take some colour samples with you,but they are usually happy to help. Remember paint never fades in a uniform pattern. Planks and panels generally fade from the centre out to the edges.So your lightest shade should be toward the centre with increasing amounts of base colour toward the edges.Many an 03 and 08 shunter can be found in such a state.Here are my examples. The other thing to bear in mind is shading.If the vehicle has had a long period of inactivity the light hitting will have come at fewer angles causing shading which in turn retains some of the original base colour. Brake Vans are good example here and i would of course point you in the direction of : http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/paulbartlettsrailwaywagons My own example here illustrates what I'm waffling about. Some Paint Fading rules. 1, Faded paint is dead paint and lacks varnish so a Matt finish is required.Areas with remaining base colour may still retain some sheen. 2, Fading paint is rarely uniform and often gives a strange other worldly look to a vehicle. 3, Build up the fade look from the edge to the centre of panels and planks.Exposed edges corners may also be effected by fade. 4, As usual with any painting project paint what you see not what you think you see.Good reference is essential. 5, Some good liveries that faded well BR Blue,Departmental Red and the later Yellow version,the Dutch departmental livery.BR Bauxite,BR Freight Brown,Railfreight. One final thing to ponder Dr Beeching - ICI - Paint - BR Liveries - Fade - Run down railways - Dr Beeching. Best regards and good luck with your Vic Berry collection Eric & Gripper

Once had a customer who insisted I had mispainted his Hymek in Two tone Green.Since according to him all the Hymeks had white skirts and he had the Black and white photos to prove it. 100% genuinely true Great work keep it up. Best regards Eric & Gripper

Now does anyone know of a good clock supplier. I require a clock with at least 10 more minutes in every hour and if at all possible several more hours within the daylight periods. If any of you know of such a supplier please get in touch before i attempt to build one.Pictures to follow. Best Regards Eric & Gripper.

First impression Wow. Lasting impression Wow. Really impressive work.Well done to you sir. Best Regards Eric & Gripper.

Having just found this thread I have to say Beautiful work Arthur.Thank you so much for all your hardwork,research and the fantastic kits you have too offer. Best regards Eric & Gripper.

Quality work so Mr P Best regards Eric& Gripper.

A lovely job there sir.! like and craftsmanship for you. Best regards Eric & Gripper.

Love the transitional photos.It shows were all your hard work went. Best Regards Eric & Gripper.