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Nice!

 

Just now, Westcorkrailway said:

Look fantastic! which livery will they be put into?

They're actually already in their initial livery! (OK, very slightly lighter in real life...)...

Most never had any other livery, but maybe some 40% of them ended up brown after 1970, for their last few years.

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8 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Nice!

 

They're actually already in their initial livery! (OK, very slightly lighter in real life...)...

Most never had any other livery, but maybe some 40% of them ended up brown after 1970, for their last few years.

They look alright without painting I suppose. indeed I was thinking was it going to be the lighter grey or the later brown livery. Probobly fair to say weathering can bring that light brown to that colour 

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1 hour ago, Westcorkrailway said:

They look alright without painting I suppose. indeed I was thinking was it going to be the lighter grey or the later brown livery. Probobly fair to say weathering can bring that light brown to that colour 

On a railway, much of what we call "weathering" was, in the past, brake dust from brake blocks. Hence the brownish colour of "weathered" rolling stock in photos. I have seen many a photo of a wagon which we would know to be grey, but with a brownish look at least to chassis and maybe ends; a note for the more artistic amongst us!

 

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3 hours ago, StevieB said:

Many years ago modelling friends used a technique called drying brushing to achieve a realistic weathered appearance.

Stephen

Yes, that’s what I did with areas round wheels.

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5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

The wagons? Almost all are Provincial Wagons (“H” vans, timber GNR vans, cattle trucks & Bullied opens, plus 2 ex-GSWR guards vans).

One JM Design CIE goods brake (another on the way).

Several bought wooden opens (Hornby, Bachmann or whatever).

One kit bashed van.

4 x KMCE old style vans (DSER origin) of 3 different types. (3 awaiting wheels).

2 x SSM whitemetal convertibles of MGWR origin & 1 x whitemetal GSWR open.

 

 

Sorry, meant Stevie's Palvans

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