While I had the paint on the go I decided to see what I could with these:
They are Skytrex resin that I picked up from their bits and pieces bin for £1 per strip, I do wish that I had bought more now because they don’t seem to have them on their site.
I am quite pleased with how they have turned out – they were photographed in this morning’s bright sunshine but they are quite subtle in reality.
A session yesterday morning saw the last of the transfers on the Avery Tool van and some glazing installed – I used microscope slides for this – one slide cut in half did one side.
Lastly a not very successful attempt to show the glazing in place.
Although the metal construction has slowed over the last couple of weeks I have managed to crack on with painting plus making and adding transfers.
A second parkside NBR 8 ton van is in primer and the CCT just needs a few bit’s touching up and it’s ready for transfers too.
Then I finally got around to printing the “return to Kirkcaldy” transfers for the floor cloth wagon. They were printed onto white transfer paper and to achieve this I scanned the wagon side to get the grey for the background and then added the lettering. It’s not come out a perfect match but once the wagon side and the transfer is toned down a little by some weathering I think that they will look the part.
In between work on the fish truck the Avery tool van has been progressing through the paint shop.
The CCT has also had some paint too, but it isn’t quite as advanced due to one of the pipes dropping off and needing to be resoldered……..
On one of the forums that I frequent a friend asked for a few shots of my wagon collection so I thought that I would share them here.
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Next across the workbench is a Medley Models NER Open Fish truck
2 of the 8 outer side laminations need to be made up from small pieces etched inside openings due to lack of available space on the etch – Once you figure out what the instructions actually mean on this it’s quite easy to do.
Sorry for the poorly focussed shot but you get the gist of the brass buffers.
I made a little more progress last night and now that I am laminating a few of the layers it’s taking on a satisfying mass.
