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    I was half right!

    By Pugsley,

    The half right bit being at the end of my last, unusually verbose, post where I said that the next post would be about modelling and with pictures and stuff. So here it is! The part I was wrong about though is that I thought it would be about the 37 bogies, however I've decided to do a bit more to the TTA chassis that still only currently exists in the virtual world.
     
    I've now drawn up the axleguards (W-irons if you must ), mounted them to the chassis rails with Scale Hardware rivets, and put the wheels and bearings into the axleboxes and slid those into place in the axleguards. The good news is that it all fits together!
     
    Isometric view:

     
    One thing that I did discover during the assembly process was that there were some dimensional issues with the axleboxes - both of them were too small, but luckily as I'd scaled all the dimensions off photographs, all to the wrong ratio, I've got away with it by just scaling them up as a complete part. That was more luck than judgement though!
     
    Looking at both the side and end views, below, I'm happy that, so far, everything looks to be the right kind of size and in the right place. If anyone can see something that looks wrong, please let me know - sometimes it's hard to see the wood for the trees when you're looking at something constantly.
     

     

     
    The axleguards still need the wear liners added (these will fold up onto the axleguards), so there is a bigger gap than there would otherwise be between the guards and the axleboxes. The next job to tackle will be the inner chassis rails and cross-members, which is going to be quite an interesting task, I think.
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    The Initial Griming

    By Pugsley,

    This really is the most I've done in ages - whilst on a roll I thought I'd make a start on the weathering. I used the water mixable oils for this, just to see if they were any good for loco, as well as wagon, weathering. They are! Well, subject to some limitations, anyway.
     
    This is how things now stand:

     
    I've used a combination of Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Black and White oils for the body grime. This has mostly been acheived by almost drybrushing the colour on, before running over it with a small flat brush, moistened with a screenwash solution. After this stage, when still damp, a dry number 12 flat brush was flicked over the surface in a top to bottom, vertical, motion to remove more paint and give the rain streaked appearance.
     
    The oils have also been used on the nose grilles and to recreate the grime deposits that gather in the cab door recesses. I'm going for subtle on this one, working from a pic that I can't post, unfortunately.
     
    The underframe has just had it's first coat, a mix of Vallejo Flat Earth and Black acrylics, applied by brush. No airbrush has been ued on this so far (except for the repaint). It's a bit glossy still, but later processes will tone this down to dead flat where required. I did try to use the oils straight on the underframe, but it didn't really work, they need to be used on top of something else for full effect.
     
    That's it for the time being, as everything will now need to be left for at least 24 hours to dry - the biggest disadvantage of using the oils. More as it happens
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