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Post by williamfj » Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:13 pm

Personally I'm impressed with the lettering and the wagons in general, especially the box van. :D

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Post by Keith S » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:53 pm

Yeah, I think they look great too. There's nothing wrong with the hand lettering. I mean if you are making scale models I guess you'd want neater looking writing, but I'm sure it's plausible that a little shoestring railway would have hand lettered wagons on their trains in real life. I think it looks fine.

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Post by Stuvon » Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:19 pm

I agree, the lettering is spot on, most narrow gauge lines would not have had a lettering specialist to paint the letters, just someone with a steady hand (or not as the case maybe).

The trucks look great, just need to run them behind that new loco now!!
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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:55 pm

Thanks guys, I feel a little less forgiving on it than you chaps.

I've gotten them almost finished, just a dabble of weathering on the van and a tarpaulin hood for the open wagons!

Just out of curiosity. I primed these wagons with some terrible Wilkos stuff... but out of curiosity here. Who primes their wagons before painting? and what with? (if you do)

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Post by Peter Butler » Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:05 pm

I use a car spray grey primer, either light grey from 'The Range' at about £3.99 a can or a darker grey from Poundland at, you guessed, £1.00 a can! Both are acrylic and do a similar job.

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Post by bazzer42 » Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:29 pm

I prime with holts greybandnthen (foolishly) I've adopted to humbrol greys as stock colours for body and underframes. 67 tank grey for underframe and sea grey body. I like the lettering Mr T, got brace myself to try on my stock. I think we may become the Vale of Fairway Rly allowing me to make a V and F template from thin styrene and spraying as a first effort.
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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:30 pm

Cheers chaps! So I'll continue to prime my wagons. Just I've got a brake van to build next and unlike the other wagons the axles boxes are apart of the chassis plus I want to give it an interior (plus removable roof!)

Anyway, I've managed to get the wagons all painted up, and weathered using some tamiya acrylics and humbrol leather and metal coat... I'll go into a bit more depth later on but please do enjoy the pics.

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anyway... I've managed to finally run my wagons being Jemima tonight after work. After a slight issue lighting her up all seemed well. Unfortunately, as my back garden is about as level as the North Sea in a blizzard I has a couple of buffer snags and derailments of the coal wagon but apart from that there was not problems at all.

I wish I had used a template but I couldn't find any around plus I wasn't tempted to try and make curved one... but please keep us updated on the rolling stock Bazza :)

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Post by Keith S » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:01 am

The little train looks great. I like it the better for the hand-lettered wagons, to be honest, it looks more real. Sometimes rolling stock can be "too perfect", you know. Yours looks real.

The Lady Anne will need more wagons than that to slow it down though!

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Post by Andrew » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:46 am

Looking good! Loving all the extra detail, and the subtle weathering too. I agree about rolling stock sometimes looking too perfect - I like to think that my inability to cut straight or glue square actually helps there. Although I fear I take it too far at times...

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Post by bazzer42 » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:23 pm

The wagons look great, the lettering looks good. If it is an ip brakevan I found that some of the push out off cuts make great half length running boards. Just need some plastcard supports.
I also agree with the comment that sometimes wagons can look too clinical, I may be guilty as charged.
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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Wed May 29, 2013 7:02 am

I've been very quiet on the internet lately, so much so that I'm not even updated the weekly blog I promised to do. I'm going to review that situation and make a decision on it s future as a weekly effort was getting a little on top of me. Maybe monthly instead?

Anyway....

I've managed to finish off the rest of my wagons with only the brake van now left to do.

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The first wagon to show is the already finished open wagons which I wanted to fit with a tarpaulin. The tarpaulin itself was some tin foil, primed with halfords and painted with revell dark green. The strapping was some cross stitch thread bought from boyes with the knots dabbed with super glue.

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The second wagon was painted a lovely shade of humbrol cockpit interior green and given a private owner livery (the name of a very dear but bemused artist friend). and given a load of coal, smaller pieces that the loco coal wagon though... ;)

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and the final one painted a Revell yellow colour, and given some crushed party balloon ballast to represent road or railway ballast to be taken from the quarry to a distribution centre.
 
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and this is the lonely Jemima pulling them.

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Post by Peter Butler » Wed May 29, 2013 11:05 am

Nice and 'rustic' looking......very effective out in the open.

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Post by williamfj » Wed May 29, 2013 11:11 am

Very impressive, especially the lettering on the Higgins open. :D

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Post by Big Al » Wed May 29, 2013 12:17 pm

I like the wagons, Good idea to use foil on the wagon for a tarpaulin I was wondering how to do it.
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Post by Keith S » Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:48 pm

THose look great- you're getting good at decorating wagons. I should send mine to you for overhaul. Mine are looking rather plain.

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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:11 am

Geez! Thanks guys :oops:

Live steam maybe a bit of a learning curve for me but I'm pretty much at home here with this who model building thing.

However... the train is not yet complete (for the moment)

I shall offer you some tantalising images of my next 16mm project before I revert back some some 4mm scale stuff for foreseeable future. Not that I'm bored of 16mm thing not at all. Just that since the start of this year my modelling time has been pretty much 16mm and I have an exhibiton to present some of my smaller stock at so I best crack on with that asap.

Anyway pictures!

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I had to file down the weight to get it to fit under the box but she's coming along! A man's work is never finished though and I'm looking forward to Elsecar to strengthen this rake. I saw an interesting article on modifying an IP tank wagon :P

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Post by Andrew » Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:16 am

Sylvian Tennant:86018 wrote: I had to file down the weight to get it to fit under the box
Looking good! Just in case it helps with future projects, I discovered the delights of fishing wrights recently and found that they can be reshaped very easily with club hammer - I managed to get two of 'em (probably smaller ones) underneath a slate wagon. Very theraputic too...

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Post by Narrow Minded » Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:32 am

Andrew:86022 wrote:I discovered the delights of fishing wrights recently and found that they can be reshaped very easily with club hammer - I managed to get two of 'em (probably smaller ones) underneath a slate wagon. Very theraputic too...
Thanks for that Andrew, I'm not sure that I actually need any weights at the mo' but I'm sure gonna pick some up today!

And the club hammer is waiting ;)
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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:06 pm

Excellent! Cheers for the tips there Andrew. I never realised they'd file so easily too.

My next set of wagons I plan to run at least one empty.

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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:29 am

Okay so after 8 months I've now finally come to the end of the first chapter of 16mm scale modelling. With this, my new brake van.

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It is a modified IP Engineering kit with saftey chains, handrails, foot boards and a furnished interior built from scratch.

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The van is weighted wth a fishing weight under the chassis and hidden by a box ala LMS style.

The roof is removable to access the interior which include a seating area with table, a stove (built from plastic tube and a seal-able bottle top)

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Bramwell the guard chats to Ted about his new Van :D he seems happy.


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Now I've finished another chapter of 16mm scale, I'm gonna give it a bit of a rest, save some running and concentrate on some 4mm project I have in mind.

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