Rob's Painting, Lining & Weathering

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 24 August 2014

• #61

Having looked at the photos, besides the lighting I still felt that something was lacking on the weathering of the tank wagon -despite the texture it still looked a bit flat. So with some input from Chris a bit of tweaking has taken place. No more paint has been added just some careful dragging of the pain with a small stiffish brush and some meths. I seem to have the lighting better this time around with it bringing out the true colours.

 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer

• 24 August 2014

• #62

Robin,
I can see where the gas is taken from the tanks... where is the gas valve for connecting to the coaches?

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 24 August 2014

• #63

Hi Graham,

I believe that's what the little box attached to the solebar on one side represents but I could be wrong.

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 31 August 2014

• #64

A few more pictures of the CR Timber and Ore wagons.







These are the other side to those on the WB thread

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 22 January 2015

• #65

Having been pleased with the look of the Skytrex barrels that I did earlier over Christmas I took advantage of a Skytrex special offer and bought some wagon loads. These consisted of two different loads of barrels - from a choice of three or four, a load of sacks and a couple of loads of carboy's (demi-john type jars) packed in straw. I took the other (not shown here) along to the S7 meet up at Locomotion.

In between other jobs I have painted a couple of them.

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 9 February 2015

• #66

This weekend hasn't seen any construction works but I did added transfers to the open wagon and start to weather it. I also finished the weathering on another NBR 8 ton box van.

I am on the look out for some more of these to use as the basis for some semi scratch builds.

I used this van as a bit of a test to see if IPA works the same as meths for manipulating acrylic paint after it's dried and I am pleased to say it does and it isn't quite as aggressive as meths which is a bonus - I have had a couple of instances with meths where I have inadvertently taken the paint back to bare plastic

 

Ressaldar

Western Thunderer

• 9 February 2015

• #67

IPA has a better smell than meths as well

cheers, hic,

Mike

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 9 February 2015

• #68

Ressaldar said:

IPA has a better smell than meths as well

cheers, hic,

Mike

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I must be a bit odd because I quite like the smell of both

 

Pugsley

Western Thunderer

• 9 February 2015

• #69

Ressaldar said:

IPA has a better smell than meths as well

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IPA tastes better than meths

 

Ressaldar

Western Thunderer

• 9 February 2015

• #70

Pugsley said:

IPA tastes better than meths

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but not the Iso Propyl version

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 10 February 2015

• #71

The next one to get hit by the weather is the Midland 10 ton Brake van.









And then I noticed that I haven't painted the lamp.......

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 24 February 2015

• #72

In between other modelling I managed to finish weathering the Avery tool van. I am quite pleased with the finish on this one.

 

warren haywood

Western Thunderer

• 24 February 2015

• #73

Nice Rob
Like the padlock

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 25 February 2015

• #74

Another one that got some weathering attention last weekend was the LMS coal wagon.





The sunlight has lightened the inside somewhat - much more than in reality.









I am undecided as to whether I put a few lumps of stray coal inside to finish it off.

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 2 March 2015

• #75

A couple more wagons have passed through the weathering bench.





This one I have been tinkering with for 6 or 8 weeks in total - doing something at it each week but not being satisfied with it until now.

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 2 April 2015

• #76

I made some real progress with the lime wagon over the weekend and it now just needs a little weathering to tone down the newness. The home made transfers have worked a treat.

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 3 April 2015

• #77

Next passed the finish post is the GCR/LNER CCT.









And of course its only when you take the photos that you notice the buffer heads - they have been blackened but nothing further and they still seem a bit too shiny.

 

Len Cattley

Western Thunderer

• 3 April 2015

• #78

Hi Rob, what kit is it?

Len

 

Ressaldar

Western Thunderer

• 3 April 2015

• #79

Rob Pulham said:

Next passed the finish post is the GCR/LNER CCT.









And of course its only when you take the photos that you notice the buffer heads - they have been blackened but nothing further and they still seem a bit too shiny.

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Hi Rob,

great work as usual. A smear of epoxy, representing grease, on the buffer heads will sort that out

cheers

Mike

 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer

• 3 April 2015

• #80

Len Cattley said:

Hi Rob, what kit is it?

Len

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Hi Len,

It's a D&S GCR/LNER CCT the build is on my WB thread.