Flying Scotsman 4472

Finished these over the weekend. I will post pictures of the ammonia wagons later in the week when I get them finished.

Just finished some pallet cement and curtain side cement wagons for a customer. Here are some pictures for you guys.

I finaly got Dunluce Castle finished and as Heir flick pointed out to me the other day I become a bit of a steam nut so here a some pictures hope you enjoy. ( Yes Heir Flick I had to weather her I couldn't resist )

Both locos were weathered what I did notice when taking photos of the real thing and what a lot of painters seem to leave out when weathering is the old orange paint starts to come through the new black paint from wear and tear so I recreated this effect in the weathering process

Once the build work was finished they both received a coat of white primer The cab ends were painted yellow and then masked off

After market brake wheel was added Plastic handles and lights were added

Well after Ian from MIR sold of the last of the 071's he kept 2 for his own private collection I was lucky enough to get one of the kits of him for myself and also get the job of building the 2 of them. 072 would go back to Ian and 071 would find a new home with myself so here are some build pictures and some finished pics of the end of an era I got my first 071 class 20 years ago white metal running on an Athearn SD9 chassis and she still going strong the 2 locos I built are running on Proto 2000 SD9 chassis. Some roof detail for you the white metal air horns that come with the kit were binned for brass ones also the white metal air intakes were binned for ones made from plasticard Just like the real thing lifting loops were added to the roof

With been that busy building and painting for people my own work has been put on the back burner for a while but I finally got around to building and painting my Hunslet from the group buy from MIR. I built 102 Falcon in the last livery she ran in. I didn't go to town on the weathering as I wanted to portray the model as if the RPSI had rebuilt her and got her running again when she ran in her last livery she didn't carry her name plates (falcon) but I added them back on because I feel if she was running today for the RPSI I think they would have put them back on I decided to take a leaf out of Georges book and use a white back ground in my pictures I quite like the effect myself

A couple of customers are getting a nice present from Santa

Some other things I've been working on

Hi guys I got some ammonia wagons to build and paint for a customer. He wanted 2 clean and the other 4 weathered the barrier wagon was already painted by the customer and will just be weathered before sending everything back. Hope you enjoy

Finished pictures of Mk3 EGV

A few more pictures on the progress of the mk3 EGV The windows were cut out of the donor coach and the brass overlays were glued and clamped in place and left for 24 hours before any more work was carried out The roof was then prepared for the etched brass details Brass wire and some brass rod were used to make the loops and exhaust The EGV was then given a coat of grey primer and trial fitted to the bottom of the coach ready for painting the brass hand rails and door handles will be added later