Scubaidh Dubh
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I started doing railway modelling in the late 1970s in my teens after serving my time as an Airfix Apprentice.
It wasn't long before I noticed that other modelling disciplines were engaging in a practice called "weathering", particularly the Military guys.
I can't recall exactly when but given I was getting a lot of my railway knowledge from the massive collection of Bradford & Barton books at the local library, I started to notice that steam locos were actually pretty grubby things at least in the 1960s views predominating in those staple albums.
Fast forward to 1996 when I got back into the hobby seriously, I had dabbled again with those other modelling disciplines again in between times and knew that was the way I'd be going with railway modelling in future.
It was really about ten years later after I had invested in the equipment and gained a lot of skill and confidence that I realised this was were my "special skill" was.
The following are a selection of models I've finished over the years.
Some of you may have seen some before but please bear with me.
There are many more on an old memory stick but given I no longer have a suitable device, those remain unavailable for now but the above will hopefully give a taster of my work.
What astounds me is that I used to be a lot more productive than I appear to be these days but then it's been a slow process getting set up over the two and a half years since I moved home. Given everything else I have to do I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself!
Davy.
It wasn't long before I noticed that other modelling disciplines were engaging in a practice called "weathering", particularly the Military guys.
I can't recall exactly when but given I was getting a lot of my railway knowledge from the massive collection of Bradford & Barton books at the local library, I started to notice that steam locos were actually pretty grubby things at least in the 1960s views predominating in those staple albums.
Fast forward to 1996 when I got back into the hobby seriously, I had dabbled again with those other modelling disciplines again in between times and knew that was the way I'd be going with railway modelling in future.
It was really about ten years later after I had invested in the equipment and gained a lot of skill and confidence that I realised this was were my "special skill" was.
The following are a selection of models I've finished over the years.
Some of you may have seen some before but please bear with me.
There are many more on an old memory stick but given I no longer have a suitable device, those remain unavailable for now but the above will hopefully give a taster of my work.
What astounds me is that I used to be a lot more productive than I appear to be these days but then it's been a slow process getting set up over the two and a half years since I moved home. Given everything else I have to do I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself!
Davy.
