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On ‎18‎/‎05‎/‎2016 at 09:14, sdw7300 said:

 

Hi Neil

 

Not progressed the lighting on my RTOV as much as hoped yet, but here's a couple of pic's to give you an idea of what I'm doing.

 

2MM tower LED's, painted black to cut down light bleed, then glued together.

 

I had to use a Dremmel to reduce some of the thickness of the coach sides to fit the LED's in

 

Push fitted in place

 

Cheers

Sam

That's some "top" work there Sam..

Been busy again airbrushing another Network rail 97 roof with exhaust marks ...

Heres my finished coach roof using this methord

10 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said:

Hi Steve - some ideas for you

 

I would pick out the curved rain gutter with a hint of dirt underneath.

They look good. I sometimes tend to put  a hint of more rusty brown in to capture that dirt/brake dust.

There is some great wagon reference here, showing how often the locos and wagons had that rust brown on them

 

 

I also tend to use a stiff bush and work it in the direction that the water would run off the roof and push in more dirt where it would collect along drainage channels, vents and so on.

 

The Silver is a test of another technique. Dry brush paint onto masking take and apply in strips across the roof and then peel off and it leaves a stippled effect.

 

Ive used this "silver print" effect on a lot of my coaches too,realy effective with over lay of light brown airbrushing.

The careful brushed in with rust effects...

Few more "47"s on the workbench for chassie weathering and buffer beam detailing...

16 hours ago, sb67 said:

I'm looking forward to seeing the 47's done, the streaking looks good on the bottom one, might have to try that streaking effect stuff.

Steve.

Ive started doing this too on my 37s and 47s Steve

Coming along great!!

On ‎05‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 08:16, Benjamin Brady said:

Lots of super detailing here

On ‎10‎/‎02‎/‎2019 at 07:38, 37114 said:

Over the last few times I have been working on the layout my daughter has shown a bit of interest in the layout and has recently been helping out with a few jobs as she is quite into art. She has helped with the bike shed which fills a nice bit of otherwise dead space:

 

Another little feature is a pond in the corner of one of the gardens at the front of the layout. It is not as deep as I would like but the plaster coating isn't that thick before I hit the baseboard:

 

And a couple of views of the whole layout. I am pressing on with the scenery but will hold off adding some of the smaller details until after the point motors are in and the final wiring done. Although it has been test run there is still a fair bit to do underneath and the fiddle yard cassettes are yet to be made before testing starts in ernest.

So much "detailing" here!!

had realy good catch up here now,great modelling...

More super modelling,along with fab videos too...

thanks neil..

Been busy last two days adding more "trackside" detailing..

More lovely work here Trev

cheers neil..

Ive never felt like I couldn't model or run trains Leon,

i look forward to it nerly every day or making things for other people as commission jobs ect...

Looking forward to all those "NEW" 37s....

Been "playing" on my growing ww2 diorama again with german tanks this time...

More super detailing here

cheers neil..

On ‎28‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 21:45, JCClark said:

Good evening everyone,

A while since my last posting but at least Roy posted the latest video taken on Parkway.

 

As normal, slow going with some scenery work but I have at least made a new length of wall for the North end of the layout.  I wanted something better than I had to match the twin tunnel portal and single tunnel portal on the main line and TMD exit.  I bought some Slaters sheeting

and mounted it on plywood and e coping stones from styrene sheet.  The photograph I have attached is post Halfords grey primer and a thin colour wash.  Dry brushing is the next step.

 

I have also included a couple of photographs of my newly installed colour CCTV monitor and one of the cameras.  The two cameras are installed under the upper level so I can see the train formations are going into the correct fiddle yard tyrack.  You can see by the photo of the monitor that it sits next to my ESU ECoS controller which I have also set fiddle yard routes on the track plan displays.  Delighted with the CCTV set up (Buyee) with colour monitor, two cameras and lots of cable for £52.00.

 

As usual, I have been up to a few re-sprays so have included photos of the latest editions to my fleet.  37114 Dunrobin Castle is a respray by Cairnsroadworks I had done a few years ago but have added the photo to show the new bonnet mounted car headlamp installed.  I bought some bonnet mounted sets and door mounted sets from Lees Models and they are excellent and really make a difference to the locomotive.

 

The re-sprays I have done are as follows and photos are attached:-

 

47315  This was Union Jack Bachmann 47 that I tried to sell on Ebay but no interest.  Thought a change of livery would go well with my previous Engineers grey 37098.  I had to fill in the boiler port and add a Hi intensity light to each end, change to white handrails and, luckily, Roy has come up with a simple re-wire for the Bachmann 47 that enables independent control of the rear trailing lights by use of functions 1 and 2 on my DCC system.

 

60095  Luckily, I had an extra EWS livery Hornby Class 60 so into the stripping bath and a re-livery into GBRf.  It looks really well on the layout and I am pleased with the result. I used Precision Decals for the re-livery.

 

67024  Managed to get a cheap Arriva blue loco with decoder fitted for £95 on Ebay.  As I had a rake of Pullman coaches thought it was a good opportunity to make use of Railtec transfers and add a Pullman liveried loco to the stud.

 

67027  Did this one a while ago in DB Schenker livery and when running it spotted that I had not done the grills black! A quick visit to the spray booth and there She is.  Only problem is that I will also have 67027 in Colas guise so maybe put the red one on Ebay.

 

That's it for now so hope you like the photos and please feel free to comment. It is really good to get constructive feedback, it helps improve future products.

 

 

Best regards

John

 

Very nice modelling here John..

Had nice catch up here Leon,its been while since been on here...

More lovely work here Mick

thanks neil..

Great work on your class 08 shunter!!

On ‎09‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 21:28, Thesmudge said:

And a few more pics, still lots of work to do, the track weathering is only the first colour. Added some lights to the scene as well.

 

 

Track work looks awesome with lots of trackside detailing here..

cheers neil..

Wow that's some impressive build work there!!

looking forward to more from this layout build now..

cheers neil..

Been using these colours below in the pictures mixed together and the lightly airbrushing

my V tankers...

Pleased how these are turning out..

14 hours ago, vulcan product fan said:

is this the first of the class 97 you have done Neil . Great weathering on the nose end mate have you added the hand rails mate ?

Yes these are my resprayed Bachmann 37s,

ive done all four of the 97 range,but keep going back and adding to them Andi..

Few more flowers glued in tonight...