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Side Project #1 - Spent the weekend painting a trio of Peco bufferstops using an ancient pot of Humbrol 81 to try and create a faded and weathered appearance. Any suggestions on how I could improve this further? I also painted the Traintech buffer stop lights in a prototypical grey colour to hide the black PCB and bare resistors/LED's. Ive also painted the LED's red so when they are unlit they appear to still have red lenses as per the protoype. Side Project #2 - I've started building some knightwing fuel tank kits and painted them in some possibly familiar colours. I plan on loosley basing these on the trio of fuel tanks found at the St Phillips Marsh HST Depot (Pic can be found below). I will be printing the faces and lining using some crafty computer paper.

Nice! need to get myself some of those!

Hoping to get some more progress/ pictures up on the weekend! A 3D printed DBSO cab has just arrived with a Mk2 for some surgery so I’ll get some pictures doing that. Finished wiring the bus under the layout. Probably no pictures of that as it’s not my neatest work ! And I’ve swapped two TTS speakers from Richard at Roads and Rails so I’ll hopefully get some clips up of the improved noise from them!

Finally amost finished the hardstanding! Wasn't too happy with the finish again so I've sanded even more and now added a coat of dulux paint and then some MIG Acryllic concrete paste. This has gone down really well and creates a great texture for roughed up concrete although the surface is a little coarse and I'm now going through the process of sanding the concrete paste to scale it down suitably. Now for a but of fun! I've also modelled my now old car in 1:76th by using some touch up paint and clear. With a few transfers i'll be pretty happy with the result!

Update - PolyFilla is almost done! lots of sanding and refilling has gone into it so far still not quite happy with the smoothness of the surface so a few more layers and a little more sanding is required Picked myself up a lovel Mudmagnet models 3D printed hoist that I need to find a home for! It went together beautifully and with just a very light black wash loosks great. Any guesses what this will be? Hint - I've got 2 Network Rail Coaches on order and need to get myself a rake

Update - So I finished the concrete hard standing using grey board and concrete sheet but I was unhappy with the finish this gave me and ripped it all up After ripping it up I've looked into other techniques and have decided to use PolyFilla. The first tube has gone down and so far I'm really happy with the filler. Pics will follow after a trip to B and Q tomorrow for some more. After that hopefully I can get the ball rolling again and make some more progress.

Didn't manage to order the ballast as I am eyeing up the class 73 in the sale at hattons I did start painting the sleepers of the track a more realistic wood color as the Hornby set track I am using has a black plastic sheen to it. Above is the track with just the rails painted a rust color above is after I've painted the sleepers ill tone down the effect with weathering once the ballast has been done but i think it looks a lot better than the black sleepers. Thanks

Little Update for today. I've finished the concrete hard standing kit, Now i need to weather the top surface and paint the sides in a concrete color before ballasting I then lightly weathered some Network Rail vans. I gave them a light black wash and a touch of brown on the sides to represent mud splash. I'll probably end up removing some more of this as at work I've never seen a really dirty van. The Transit with the crew cab will get a ladder rack on the drivers side to represent a S+T van and the Flatbed will get a load of some kind. Next Step is to weather the track and order the ballast. I'm thinking of giving the hattons ballast a go. Thanks!

Hi Everyone! This is my first post on this forum so hopefully I've done it in the right place! I have just started a new layout which is going to be a small Modern "Ish" Diesel Depot. That is DCC to run the various locos I've collected (and had sat in my cupboard) over the years So far I have laid all the track which is Hornby Code 100 and began weathering the track to take the sheen off of the rails I used a humbrol rust colour which i applied to the rail sides to give a realistic rusty side to the rail this will need some further weathering once the ballast has been laid. I Have also began laying the scale model scenery concrete hard standing kit using Deluxe Materials Backscene glue. I must say the kit is very easy to use and the concrete printed paper provided with the kit does a good job at representing the real thing although I will be weathering and adding my own touches to increase the realism. Thanks for checking my post out!

I have purchased a Peco many ways Train Shed Unit kit and i shall assemble this shortly I intend to detail this to include lights and a working roller door. I also now have added a Lima Class 60 to my Loadhaul collection which now consists of a 60, 56 and Class 14 shunter though i hope to add to it soon with a custom repaint of 50135 Ark Royal in Loadhaul colours!!