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Evening guys. What a wonderful, hot, sunny day. The little one is off to bed, so I opened the french doors, and enjoyed the evening light by trying a few outdoor shots. As I sit typing this, there's a lovely cooling breeze coming in. Does it get any better? The 09's have been weathered. The following are locos I have posted before, but not shot in natural sunlight. Enjoy this wonderful warm evening. It will probably be snowing next week

It's a very old moulding Jeremiah. The manufacturers have learnt a lot since then!

Cheers Mr Brit, it really is a fantastic livery isn't it?

Indeed! You learn something new every day.

Cheers. I tend to stick with the brush for nost of the projects, I'll do the odd one off where I really go to town with a bit more detailed work. In future some of my stock will no doubt get revisited again, it's nly about 12 months since I started weathering anything!

Definitely black matey, Have a look here. http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_zoom_v3.php?img=1158051215211 Doh, cross over post!

Hi Cav. That's interesting....I thought they were always black. The pictures I had to work from were pretty poor so I just presumed. I'll have a leaf through some books.

Cheers Jon, just need to dirty them up now!

Good evening.How hot has it been today? Lovely. Apparantely hotter tomorrow Anyways, update time. The 2 09's have been transferred up and matt varnished, just added the bufferbeam detail. It never fails to amaze me just how well detailed these little shunters are after a close up scrutiny. 47430 has had the same varnish treatment, and weathering to finish. I do think these Heljans still scrub up rather well. The 87 has been weathered and had lights fitted. It's also had a Bachmann 85 Pantograph fitted. 09's to weather next. All the locos in the pictures were 'part gloss varnished' for those of us discussing it yesterday. They always finish off beautifully for me.

For some reason, varnishes are one of the trickiest stages of aircrushing to get right. It almost caused me to choose an alternative hobby on many an occasion! Practise, practise, practise, is the only way to master them.

Hi Sean. Matt varnish is my normal weapon.

Nice work! You were certainly right about dirty Gateshead locos......

Nice one Jon, I'm sure it will go fine. Look forward to seeing the results!

I started off with Precision, and still swear by the superb quality of finish, especially with their matt. But (I think documented earlier in the thread), completely out of the blue I started getting terrible quality issues, which resulted in a couple of ruined locos. The general conclusion of a lot of people was that the Precision ones tend to have a shorter shelf life for some reason. It must be damn short as I used that particular tin in less than a week and a half! I just can't justify the wasted time when it goes wrong like that now thus the switch to Railmatch. And it's worked perfectly so far........ P.S. I used the ready thinned ones too.

I use.....an Iwata Eclipse CS. One of the best modelling tools I ever invested in. Used in combination with an Iwata compressor.

Everything pictured in a finished state on this thread has been varnished the 'patchy' way I am a perfectionist....if it resulted in a poor finish I wouldn't be able to live with it!

Sounds like they are going on a bit heavy Dave. I have recently switched to Railmatch varnishes after various quality issues with Precision, I find it goes on superbly with a couple of lightish coats. Never had an issue with detailing getting too covered. Thats with quite a few coats too, 3 or 4 of primer, up to 4 for colour, couple of gloss varnish, then matt or satin, and finally weathering. I think it was Tim Shackleton who once scraped an accumulation of spraypaint off a heavily used area of his worbench....after about 5 Years. It wasn't even a mm thick. Paint coats are measured in micron thicknesses, maybes try thinning your mix a bit more?

Good evening Dave. Apologies for the rather slow progress. I did have the 12 wagons to varnish and pack up too I hate gloss varnishing. I started by doing the full locos, but didn't think my finishing was too clever. I experimented with glossing only the required areas, and it works a treat. I always finish with a matt or satin coat, this seals and evens the final finish out completely. Give it a go! Thats interesting to hear CAV say that, what paints do you use matey?

47430 and 87005 have had their transfers put on. The cantrail stripes on 87005 had me driven to distraction, they usually go on easily The pair of 09's have.... Had the chassis solebar sprayed blue, bodywork glossed ready for transfers, remaining old orange cant rail stripe removed from bonnet ends, windows re added, handrails painted white. I love the Hornby 08. Pigs to get to run right, but lovely little locos.

Thanks guys!

Cheers Dave. I actually apologise for only doing half the fleet, I have just had a weeks Holiday :-) PS I actually fell off my chair laughing at your comment! Enjoy your lie down.

Lovely stuff as always Dave. I was exactly the same with the 128, It's been a very long time since I bought something slightly out of period purely because it's such a superb model.

Cheers Andy, your duffs look superb. 004 and 464 have always been favourites on my to do list!

Tell me about it Colin! The joys of modern freight stock.