Squirrel Rail

Picking up from last bit here's all three numbered and ready for weathering:

With all decals complete the fun can begin. A weathered roof should not in my opinion be a few puffs of exhaust it needs a bit more, starting with a few selected washes to bring out the detail:

Here it is beginning to build up the definition on the panel lines and creep into the recesses - excess can be blended in with a brush or removed when dry building up to something like this:

or this.... 

Then these....

With all that out the way they are now ready for some airbrush

Next up was the black window surrounds and the dreaded cant rails - tidy as possible but these are going to get a battering (sorry for the quality of the pic screen shot off the PC as Icloud deleted my pics The paint around the windows is a bit ropey and got tidied up a bit, there's only so much that's acceptable!

Numbers and arrows etc up next:

So in its raw state looking something like this, engine room window cocked up by over zealous maskol!! :

All very bland but 

I've just joined RM web and started a blog on the Virgin 87s but due to work on the house these have had to be put on hold. Thought I would share a rework of three NSE 50s back to large logo:This was the starting point:

The bodyshells had all the printed details removed and then the NSE stripes so a smooth coat of primer could be applied. As usual the doors on a 50 were playing hard to get so hence they had to come off....

Light primer coat applied and rubbed down to highlight any further "lumpy bits"

Then a second primer coat to the bodysides 

Next up on the 50s was to lay down the yellow ends, not forgetting the doors.... 

BR Blue was then the order of the day, starting with the grilles and then the bodysides

With the blue dried off after a few days this was masked and the grey roof applied over the black to leave some pre-shading

The rough finish with all the masking off is something like this

I've just joined RM web and started a blog on the Virgin 87s but due to work on the house these have had to be put on hold. Thought I would share a rework of three NSE 50s back to large logo:This was the starting point:

The bodyshells had all the printed details removed and then the NSE stripes so a smooth coat of primer could be applied. As usual the doors on a 50 were playing hard to get so hence they had to come off....

Light primer coat applied and rubbed down to highlight any further "lumpy bits"

Then a second primer coat to the bodysides 

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to RM web so please forgive the postings in the wrong place or in the wrong thread. I have being doing railway modelling and kit modeling for over 30 years and from September this year will be taking commissions ( am I allowed to say that?) I will try and post regular updates of what I'm doing as well as anything else that could be of interest.

Cheers Jerry