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Looks right at home in the canefields. I've also found yellow difficult to weather, for the same reason. Quite like the squat appearance of the loco, it's reminiscent of the locos working the Redlynch line.

I grew up just south of Redlynch (North Cairns) and that was a common occurrence everytime it rained and Freshwater creek filled up.
The locos on that line had specially lowered cabins so they could fit under the Kuranda/Tableland line they were originally from Hambledon mill at Edmonton if I remember correctly, later they went to Mulgrave when the Edmonton mill closed and the land was turned into sub divisions.
Living next to the Kuranda line is what started my love of steam engines as they ran right past our back fence and the drivers/firemen used to give us a wave and a toot.
When they got rid of the steamers the diesel electrics could not go through the water and the Kuranda run was cancelled till it went down.
Ahh the good old days, life was good in the 1960s/70s in North Queensland.

Not sure I can give the weathering a thumbs up. But it's your loco.

gregh wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:30 am Not sure I can give the weathering a thumbs up. But it's your loco.

I did go overboard with the weathering I did not dilute the wash enough.
The wash was actually drying as soon as I painted it because the shed was so hot (about 38C).
I am planning to wipe a lot more of the wash off, the shown result was after I had removed some already, think that a less is more approach is needed in future.
I will put the Stainz conversion next to this one and copy the amount of weathering.

I have been busy the last 2 days updating my blog to show the state of the railway at this point in time.
Added are descriptions of my locos and some rolling stock, this is in addition to the posts about the cane line feel free to have a look around.

https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... -page.html

After tumultuous 2022 I have updated my blog to show some of the little work that was done over the year.
I added a "Scenery Construction" Log tab and posted (been sitting in draft for over a year) then updated a post about my scratchbuilt wagons. It has details of some 3D printed Bogies and knuckle couplers. I can put the stl files into the 3D print area if anybody is interested, Hmm might add them to the blog as well.

I made the decision to dismantle the HO division of the Ringbalin Light Railway as I had not touched it since Jan 2021.
This blog post explains more.
https://ringbalin.blogspot.com/p/lat.html

With the demise of the HO a real estate grab is in the making which will involve moving my work nook into the bigger of the 2 sheds and filling the smaller shed with track, it will be a hybrid indoor/outdoor layout utilising the HO backdrop and putting buildings on the inside portion keeping the outdoor scenery minimal.
The original plan was to have storage tracks in 1 half of my smaller shed with loops running through so that I did not have to carry trains outside before running them and then bringing them back into the shed when finished but the radii for multiple tracks would get to tight quickly hence the expansion plans.

A small shunting layout inspired by Gregs tiny layout is also at the dreaming stage.

Wish me luck as I embark to this grand adventure, the 3D printers most likely will get a work out throughout this (if it ever happens )

Latest developments on the railway
Stage 6 has begun description of what is planned at the moment, subject to change of course.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... age-1.html

New workshop area completed and an area of 5.3M x 4M cleared for expansion, this is in the shed pictured in the preceding post.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... st%20Posts

Blog has been updated showing progress made.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... st%20Posts

Latest post to the blog showing a minor setback which resulted in a change to my well laid plans.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... tling.html