Squirrel Rail

Weathering continues, another 47004, 

lots of runnng grime on this one;

and the other side,

and another railfreight machine with a slim Jim 33,

and again,

I will post a couple more pics when they’re done and the EWS gronk lurking in the background!

Various weathering projects on the go including Hornby 31;

Dapol bubble car

Another 59,

with the underframes and tanks getting extra attention

and a TPE 68 just having the shine taken off it:

Following on from my last post the 66 has had its gold bands replaced with a taller strip so the decals sit properly in the band when compared to the previous pic of it with 724

The 121 and MLV have had their network rail yellow;

and staying with NR yellow these vitrains 37s are having some weathering,

last up a sort of what if - a standard 73 going into sleeper livery;

20 hours ago, Rich Papper said:

Fantastic work as ever. Although I do get Shakin' Stevens stuck in my head every time you do one with a Green Door.

Showing my age!

Rich

I can only apologise for the outbreak of Shakin’ Stevens, hope it’s only temporary!! Cheers Jerry

7 minutes ago, sb67 said:

Loving your work @Squirrel Rail, those 90's look superb! Apologies if I've missed it somewhere but what paint do you use for the warning panel yellow, I'm looking at respraying a class 47 into 80's blue? 

 

Many thanks.  

Normally I use Phoenix Precision as it’s enamel with a drop of Humbrol /Revell yellow to get a particular shade, hope that helps, cheers Jerry

A few different schemes….,details on my workbench thread, Greater Anglia

De-branded Anglia for Freightliner

National Express branded for Abellio before it’s white repaint,

and lastly another 047

Bit more weathering going on, National Express 90, this was a tatty loco by the time it went to abelio branding

and with 047

Heres 047 with quite a lot of changes from the 048 base model, green door and black door(048 had a grey door on the model, revised patches, repositioned OHLE flashes new numbers and lost the factory weathering 

and from the other side;

last up debranded colas 60 as 096

45 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

Never saw those 90 liveries , looks quite smart 

That was my daily commute so sick of the sight of it, however wish they were still here now we are solid units!!!

6 hours ago, WCML100 said:

Sorry to here about your father in law, my condolences.

 

I must say your 158 really looks good in original ATW colours - you have done a great job on it, the weathering looks great too and as you say brings out the detail brilliantly. Surprised Bachmann have not done one in this livery yet...

Thanks for your thoughts, appreciated. Bachmann just announced they are doing an Arriva 158 and I thought ahhhh noooo but luckily it’s the blue and blue version of the livery not the cream/blue my customer wanted- I suppose as they did the old 158 in it they steered clear- phew 😅

8 minutes ago, WCML100 said:

Great work mate… TEA’s look spot on.
 

I look forward to seeing the 158 finished, always wanted to see how that version of arriva sat on the newer tooled 158 from Bachmann…

I had a load of good reference pics from their owner which helped, photos don’t really do them justice. Held my breath on the recent Bachmann announcement- they’ve done Arriva but not the blue and cream livery - phew!!! 

1 hour ago, JackB95 said:

First time I've heard it referred to as blue. Guess it's a blueish silver. Gorgeous work as always! 

Just checked the tin and it’s called silver blue!

1 hour ago, sb67 said:

 

They are looking good, what colours have you used? 

There’s quite a few colours in there, using Phoenix sleeper grime as a base colour then different shades of this using dark rust and roof dirt to add variation. Then I’ve used a mix with light rust for the lighter shades. It’s just a process of lots of thin layers to build the colours. Hope that helps, cheers Jerry

More Anglia Class 90s from the last few days, two in the white and grey

and a new livery for me the short lived National Express metallic blue and white with the blue on first,

and a closer view, it’s quite thick pigment but is actually quite smooth!

2 hours ago, WCML100 said:

Top work bud! The variation between each wagon is great too! 

Thanks, they are about a third done so lot more to do but I will post some more pics after the next session on them! 

4 hours ago, virginhst539 said:

if your wanting a bit of variety have a look at 011-8 in this screen grab from youtube, this is one of the ones I'm going to be doing. its probably picked up a bit of grim now  and has the extra strapping points but it adds a nice contrast between the work worn examples. Might look for a stronged super glue as it was just the usual supermarket Loctite stuff I had used

 

Nice pic - I’ll keep that in mind if I get more to do- great with the new paint and the old makes a nice contrast!