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Hello Rob, got a quick question about your weathering. When you spray the initial coat of varnish do you cover any glazing or remove any overspray after? Cheers. Steve.

Thank you, I did see that. I've got a bundle of info and inspiration to get going now, thank you 🙂

Thank you, the colours look spot on, how did you fade the yellow? I'm doing some weathering and have been using my usual MIG dark wash for a pin wash, as has been recommended, but it looks way too dark to me.

Put the bird food out, went upstairs and looked out of the window to watch them appear to find this! Never seen one in my garden before, he (I think) was unsuccessful in his search for breakfast, looked around a bit then flew off.

I do like the work you do, very nice weathering on the PWM how did you achieve that?

Thanks for the comments, I will def start using the graphite stick 🙂

Hi, I was looking at your posts about the Graphite stick treatment. I've got an exhibition in a few weeks, my first! I want to get the best possible running but I've never really tried graphite, bought a stick a while back but it's just sat in the toolbox! I was wondering, would you clean the track at all prior to a show or is just constantly using the stick all the time enough? Many thanks.

Fantastic work, you've nailed the difference between the solebar and wagon body. Are they the Vallejo ready mixed washes you've used?

Nice photo's there Stu 👍

Keeping with the snake theme, we were at Sandwich Bay, in Kent at the weekend and saw this big Grass Snake followed by 2 inquisitive Sandpipers, probably thinking, that would be some meal!

The Seacow looks great, more great work as always! 👍

Sounds like you had a good weekend Stu, always good to see some more photo's of Sheepcroft. 🙂

Some fine work there David. I'm glad you're enjoying the build, just think of the satisfaction seeing your first loco run over it. 👍

I re-weathered the Sentinal and prepped a few others for weathering soon. Cleaned everything and made sure I had gloves on so hopefully no problems. I wanted the number on the Sentinal to look like it had been cleaned and has started getting dirty again, need to add some coal to it as well. Going to let it all dray now then I'll add some powders etc. @NHY 581 Rob, when you did the 03, did you spray the whole lot, underframe as well lightly with Matt varnish before adding powders?

Thanks for sharing the video Rob, your J70 looks very nice indeed. How do you uncouple your stock at a show? Apologies if I've missed it in the thread. I've been trying a paddle on the end of a rod to lift the couplers up manually but it can be a bit awkward. Thanks Steve.

Thanks Rob, I cleaned the outside but didn't look inside, every day's a school day! I think, sometimes trying to weather over a mistake can look contrived, so rather than weather over the scratch I prob will remove all the body weathering and re do it. I'm not sure why the paint hadn't stuck though.

While I was practicing with the airbrush, I but the bullet and started on this Dapol Sentinel, using Railmatch frame dirt and roof dirt and working from the George Dent Weathering for Railway Modellers book I got stuck in. Despite drying for 24 hours and the model being cleaned beforehand the weathering seems to be chipping off in places, the next step is a wash in panel lines etc and I fear that no matter how careful I am some will come off and I'll end up removing the lot and trying something else. I also think there was some sort of residue where the body joins the underframe, I was hoping to weather over that. The Ruston has had the Army lettering removed using T cut and is waiting for the next bit, while I decide how to do it.

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Some nice acquisitions there Rob, look forward to seeing how you deal with them. 🙂

Thanks @Daddyman I've watched some youtube stuff on filters, albeit aimed at military modellers. I did spray some frame dirt along the underframe earlier but it doesn't seem to have ''stuck'' I tried wiping it off to get some streaks but the paint just come off so I'm now wondering if that would be the same using a filter, the Ruston seems to have a very smooth finish! Thanks Rob, @NHY 581 I've got an 03 to do so will use that info, do you ever have problems with your initial coat of varnish not sticking to the factory finishes? As said earlier the Ruston seems to have a really smooth paint finish, almost like a die cast vehicle finish.

That Ruston is fantastically grubby! I wouldn't know where to start with that!

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I put a small pond in my garden earlier in the year and last week saw my first ever Dragonfly in my garden. Not sure if the pond brought it in or the amount of insects flying around my Ragwort!

I want to start weathering this loco to go with the wagons I've been doing, but I've been looking at so much stuff I appear to have weathering overload and don't know where to start!! I'm looking to remove the Army number and fade the livery then weather the underframe etc. Can anyone tell me how to remove the number without causing too much damage? I was also wondering if I should airbrush the usual frame dirt around the underframe as I don't think a shunting loco would weather the same way as a main line loco. Any advice greatly appreciated.

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