Sylvian Tennant

I've just found this thread and *handshakes* wow, well done. That is an amazing beast.

I've seen much worse lining from more professional modelers!

Thanks chaps I was really worried about this one as it did cost

My girlfriend has such strange & creative titles titles for my engines. Anyway, I shall keep this short and sweet as you pretty much know how I weather my engines. Unfortuantly, my pcitures are terrible I have finally finished my WD which was once a limited edition K&WVR 90733 and is now an even more limited edition "51E" 90155. I have some some slightly different weather technique to this engine to see how they would work (hoping they would anyway!) The first is dry brushing some humbrol rust into the wheel recesses of most the driving wheels. I left one out to add a little bit of diveristy as if the engine has had a recent wheel replacement. The second was dry brushing some humbrol metal cote along the cab side, I think I could have done it to the tender too. In addition to that you may notice one of the buffers is still a vibrant red compared to the rest of the buffer beam. Again this was intentional as I remember a picture from a Dub-Dee (possibly from about a year ago) showing a dirty buffer beam with a bright red buffer shank which interested me. Finally I painted up the coupling rods the usual way with humbrol gloss brown and matt black but on the occasional linkage I dry brushed some leather and painted up the joints, slide valves and spome of the link with metal cote. These areas where finished with a smearing of gloss varnoish (making sure it is carefully applied as to not fowl the running gear) to make sure, I oiled the back of the working to free them. Finally the crew and coal. The coal is as per WD usual mostly awful and dusty with the driver looking back to the rear of the loco and the fireman having a craft ciggie between stoking. The ciggie was made from some 5amp fuse wire and painted with acrylics. Unfortunatly the close up shot was great and it looks better from a distance. Anyway, time to go, christmases to attend and things to not care about. Toodles

Well I'm back again This time I have this wonderful Bachmann WD limited Edition based on the one at the KWVR. I have to make sure I do treat this one with the respect it deserve, no unecessary... OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! Yeah, I didn't want a KWVR loco! I'm doing North Eastern Locos! This loco will eventually be Stockton Based 90155. I have so far carried out the following. Replacment smoke box darts. Lubricators piping and water feed piping from 5 amp and 15 amp wire respectively A new front coupling loop from brass wire. A whistle from 15 amp fuse wire crimped gently to represently the pipe and whistle (strangely missing from this model) I cut away the front coupling mount and replaced with some plastic card to represent the basic design of this truck. Fire Iron store on the tender (also strangely missing from this model) I have also given that gap between the loco and tender a fall plate and added cab doors which allow the loco to round 2nd radius curves. As with the nature of these locos I have added one of the cab side doors in an neglected open position. Anway... more progress to follow soon!

Thank you chaps Matthew, I shall really look forward to seeing that.

There it is! I completed J39! Fully tendered, weathered, watered and crewed! The fire irons are from Springside and coal lovelingly given from City of Truro (omg not a western engine!) and the foremans coat was made in the same way as the weather sheet (some greaseproof tissue paper, crumpled three times and soaked in water/pva for a day. Weathered was achieved via the same methods as perviously mentioned. The weather sheet above the cab was initally painted Tamiya nato black then some dry brushing of humbrol matt black and metalcote gunmetal helped to add depth. The fireman and driver are now in position. The driver keeps control of the loco, hoping the fireman closes the cab door, looks on as the fireman has removed his coat whilst he prepares to readjust his gloves. The crew were primed with halfords and painted with some cheap acrylic paints obtained from The Works (or any good art shop) "CLOSE THAT ******* DOOR!" He impatiently reacts. Hopefully, you'll be able to see this loco on our exhitibtion layout "Hartburn Junction" in 2014 for mor einformation please do visit the S&DMRC website at http://www.stocktonmrc.co.uk/

Oh dear! I it appears I may have, all of those bright colours... ah well never mind. TBBH I'm awful at implying risk. But honestly After adding the vibrant rust colours I was a tad worried it may look awful once finished. Anyway, as you'll find out later it turned out all okay. Firsly was to applied a 50/50 mix of matt black and batt leather to the uncleaned bits of the loco (cab interior, roof, smokes, running plate, chassis, tender tops and coal space etc) than once dry add the rusting colours. As anyone who follows these blogs (you poor devuils) may be aware I tend to leave a signature piece of adding red to the chassis top where you'd expect to see the inner workings of the chassi and I have not let you down this time I have also painted the cab interior as this was quite an exposed position. Finally, I've wanted to add a crew but I simply cannot stand just adding a crew simple just coaling the loco and sat there looking into middle distance to I got all Ed Gein on them and butchered some Dapol work men figures. TBC... soon... very soon... almost immeadiately

Right so here I am again, tlaking about the J39. I decided that in keeping with all of my other modified locos the front coupling hook needed to be replaced with some brass wire, to necessitate this I sawed off the mount and reattached the steam heating pipe to the buffer beam sealing in with cyno-glue. I also added some steam injector/ejector pipes to the underside of the footplate as per some refercne photographs I have seen. I find that although I'm not making an absolute scale model of the loco, certain small details such as this can really add some extra depth to the overall outcome and generally differs this model from your basic off the shelf J39. Also after consulting some photos, I added a pipe to the air reserviour tank using some brass wire put into a drilled hole. I ahve also decided to open the ventialor hatch with a drill bit filling it general away to the slide bars and replacing the original hatch with some plastic strip. The white thing at the batch of the cab roof is the taraulin. This was made with some tissue paper (from shirt packaging) crumpled three times, bundled up and soaked in pva/water and elft to dry on the cab roof. Once dry you will have a nice roughly curve the same as the roof, peel it off and put it aside to be painted. the pva once dry should come off the plastic easily. As you may have seen there is also a smaller piece of tissue paper which (hopefully) will become the firemans coat. I finally decided to add the air reservoiur tank and the boxes to the tender in perparation for painting. And now, I've taken the model completely apart, cleaned it with white spirit and have put it to one side to awat weathering

Hi there Yeah, I mean it was a nice model to start off with (mind you the split chassis is a bug bare mind!) But is generally a nice enough model and the detail work is fairly minor in regards to other projects (i.e the Hornby 9F) I would just becarefuly with the smoke box door handle as it has only a slight purcahse of the plastic I created with a drill bit and some non gental handling displaced it which caused some swaering but that should okay now. After looking at some of these pcitures there were some furtyher mods I made which I'm about to blog now.

Just to keep you up dated at this moment in time in regards to my J39 from Bachmann. I have added doors to the tender as they were there in the drawings I've seen. As you can see I have made one set of doors open, hopefully you'll see as you why later. I have carved the moulded handle off the smoke box door and replaced it with brass wire. This was a little tricky but is it do-able. I have also given the locomotive a steam heating pipe and added the sand pipes too. In all there appears to be little else to do in regards to this model unless someone else can think. I'm also planning to give the model a tarpaulin sheet for wintery seasons. I have also added a fall plate for health and safety reason and.

Okay so far I have come to a point where I would consider the tender almost finished. Here are a few shots, I've started work on the actual locomtive now but as ever, the work will be a little lengthy due to other commitments, however here are some pictures. It was sprayed with Halfords matt black with several coats of humbrol 60 for the, brake handles buffers and buffer beam painted on by hand. Transfers by HMRS and varnished using humbrol 49. Hopefully the weathering will hide the dodgy varnish finish!

I would explored this forum and others too you'll find loads of help and support. I got back into the hobby a few years back and felt it was going to be a bit of a tall order to get my modelling up to scratch. I haven't really looked back now .