A while ago you may recall my building of a couple of LMS vans, an LNER 12 ton van and an ex NBR coke wagon? Well I finally made a start on weathering them. There is still work to do but I am pleased with where 3 sessions with the airbrush have got me to so far.
Category Archives: Weathering
More photo stacking
Photo Stacking Experiments
Ghost Writers on the Wall
A few posts back Dave mentioned ghost writing. I liked the idea but then thought that during my modelling period the ghosts would still be alive.
So an image search on’t tinterweb later had me a wall with a white painted advert for a long defunct local brewery. The image I found was taken at a slight angle so the image was manipulated with GIMP, sized and then printed onto a sheet of standard office paper. To get the image onto the brick work I coated the back using some “chalk” marker pens that I picked up in the stationary section in Boyes with chalk marks on wagons in mind. They are marketed as being for writing adverts on windows and blackboards.
Once the back was thoroughly coated I then drew over the image side with a pencil leaving an impression much like using tracing paper. This was then carefully painted in and a slight shadow painted around some of the letters as in the original. I am really rather pleased with the result.
An amusing find at Guildex 2016
More from the condemned lines
Last year I picked up several plastic wagon kit’s from the Guild’s Executor and Trustee lists which I collected at the Summer show. Amongst them was a couple of 3 Aitch wagon kits which I bought on ‘spec’ not knowing anything about them. I subsequently built one but decided they were not of the fidelity that I had become accustomed to so I put them in the small adds on several forums. I didn’t get any takers.
So I decided over Easter to built the second and detail them both as condemned wagons. I am quite happy with how they turned out.
Even More Jubilation, But It All Ends Here
More Jubilee Celebrations.
Celebrating the Jubilee
Another Shelf Queen bites the dust…
Piping hot, well almost…
More from the NBR
A ropey tale……
A bit more painting and Weathering
A touch more weathering
Loco coal anyone?
Nearing the end of the line….
Hit by the weather…
Another From North of the Border
This weekend hasn’t seen any construction works but I did added transfers to the open wagon and start to weather it. I also finished the weathering on another NBR 8 ton box van.
I am on the look out for some more of these to use as the basis for some semi scratch builds.
I used this van as a bit of a test to see if IPA works the same as meths for manipulating acrylic paint after it’s dried and I am pleased to say it does and it isn’t quite as aggressive as meths which is a bonus – I have had a couple of instances with meths where I have inadvertently taken the paint back to bare plastic.