Morning all!
Yesterday, I took a stroll down to the shops, passing my local station on the way, where that particular stretch of the Great Western mainline was being relaid. The kit on display was pretty impressive - a shiny new class 70 diesel with a long train of bogie ballast wagons, tampers and other machinery, road/rail diggers etc - but I still felt sorry for the poor chaps in orange who worked all weekend in some horrible weather. They're clearly making better progress than the other big rail maintenance work happening locally, the relaying of the (WH)WHR at Penlan, just a quarter of a mile away, but we'll catch up - the purpose of my stroll was to purchase a tin of Poundland primer to progress my own on-track plant project, the rake of manky tippers...
I've started with just one tipper to see how I get on with a rusting technique involving vinegar and fine iron filings - I've used it before but never been entirely satisfied with the results, we'll see how it goes this time... Here's where I was at yesterday afternoon, with the skip and chassis painted, sprinkled in filings and sprayed with vinegar:
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At that stage it just looked like someone had tipped sand over it, but this morning most of the grey filings had gone brown, with some orange appearing in places - promising... I sprayed with more vinegar and we'll see how it looks tonight... By the way, if it's successful this is how I plan to finish the roof of your station building Tom - a little dilapidated rather than completely derelict, but it wouldn't be right if a RWLR building didn't feature at least a little rust!
Cheers all,
Andrew