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In my gather up of locomotives over the years I always meant to attach the accessories that came with a new model and to lightly weather it.

 

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At last I got around to it and adapted the centre section of the layout to be a temporary paint shop allowing me sufficient room to stack the locomotives and lightly weather them.

 

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Have to keep doing something even if this glorious weather keeps you outside.

 

Very basic job painting Dapol Workman Figures. There's quite a difference after adding a bit of paint to these figures.

 

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Now all I have to do is remove the plastic bases and drill holes in legs to accept a thin wire to hold the figure on the layout.

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Nice painting! What brand of paint do you use?

Also, do Dapol make modern image (ie high viz alround) style workers, as i am thinking of adding a little track gang to my layout?

 

Anthony is right about Modern Image, Bachmann are the ones to go for. However for an earlier era the Dapol are worth a go. The paints I used was what ever I gathered up over the years and it's a mixture of enamel and acrylics. I first gave them a coat of Halfords grey primer and then did a light wash of well thinned black. After drying period I applied the colours.

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I’ve start work on making Ballast Wagons following Hidden-Agenda’s excellent Tutorial.

 

Gareth has provided a list of items needed, where to get them, diagrams with all the measurements in mm or .5 mm as well as photographs of the various steps.

 

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I used the sharp edges of my gauge to mark of the measurements, it made things so easy, I set to the gauge to, in this case, 6 mm and you can mark the length of the styrene sheet.

 

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The cutting out was the easy bit, now for sticking it together.

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Ballast Wagons -Assembling the Bodies.

 

As I suspected the cutting out was the easy bit. Assembling the bodies means getting each corner true to 90 degrees which for my clumsy fingers was not easy. The first body I did can be seen on the extreme right of the picture and will testify to how to get the angles wrong.

 

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For the rest, when I was putting the four sides together, having bent the plastic card inwards, I used the floor as a template to work too and placed the body on top of it. That made it easier for me to get the angles right.

 

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Now I'm at the filling/sanding stage which needs to be taken carefully and with patience - and again that will test me.

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Those containers are very convincing, and I like the weathering a lot.

 

Your ballast wagons are very convincing too.

 

It looks as though you may have a motive power shortage though.:tumbsup:

 

Is each NIR 111 actually a different length or is it just an optical effect? The sky blue version looks distinctly longer.

 

Alan

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Third photo in that batch. Good god! :drool:

 

Yup, seriously atmospheric, looks like the inchicore barrier line, but with GM's.

 

 

Great job on the pocket wagons, transfers and brass sides came out very well ;)

 

 

But the cardboard Norfolk Line 45's are just the Dogz Nuts. Now formally on my "to get" list.

 

 

Oh and well done on the hoppers, I don't doubt a LOT of work there.

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Lovely work, the old Airfix Lomac and JCB 3C were excellent models thankfully Dapol did a re-run. These wagons may have been used to deliver new equipment, there is footage of a down Burma Road goods complete with Lomac & Massey Ferguson digger shunting at Kiltimagh in one of the Markle Associates irish videos.

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Lovely work, the old Airfix Lomac and JCB 3C were excellent models thankfully Dapol did a re-run. These wagons may have been used to deliver new equipment, there is footage of a down Burma Road goods complete with Lomac & Massey Ferguson digger shunting at Kiltimagh in one of the Markle Associates irish videos.

 

The JCB and low loader were from the same original Airfix mould.

http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/Lowmac.htm

 

But Dapol did the smart thing when they bought the moulds and sold the loader and the JCB seperately.

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Thanks John, must look that up.
Its a great clip in the days when railway men wore a uniform suit, the shunter stands out wearing his early 70s Saturday night disco dancing purple elephant flared suit as cuts wagons out of the train. Hopefully Dapol have a suitable figure.
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Its a great clip in the days when railway men wore a uniform suit, the shunter stands out wearing his early 70s Saturday night disco dancing purple elephant flared suit as cuts wagons out of the train. Hopefully Dapol have a suitable figure.

 

 

 

Surreal, and sums up just how weird the 70's were. A strange melange of pop-era and residual Victoriana.

Only for the fact that I lived through the period, I'd hardly believe it.

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