2750 (Tom's) Workbench-North Eastern Modelling 1938

[Tom F]

Totally looks the part Tom!

As long as the customer is happy!

Also done a blog post on the subject.
http://50aworks.wordpress.com/2014/09/1 ... workhorse/

[Dunluce Castle]

Great work on the J39, love all the soot around the boiler.

[earlswood nob]

Good morning all

I like the subtle weathering. One sees many locos on Ebay etc which have been over-weathered.

I shall take your work as a guide for the J39's that I'm converting to J39/3's.

Earlswood nob

[AdamOrmorod4468]

Hey Tom, I was gonna PM you on this matter, but it seems I cannot use this feature and "need to participate more to be able to use this feature."
I was just wondering what you do to your garter blue Hornby A4s to lighten the colour? I'm sure I read you mention your "garter blue treatment" somewhere, and I remember Mick B saying how light he thought your 4489 was.

[Kestrel]

A recent commission for somebody of this parish.

Bachmann J39 done to a typical working grubby standard.

_MG_7828.jpg

_MG_7826.jpg

I noticed the huge flanges on the tender's wheels.

[Tom F]

I noticed the huge flanges on the tender's wheels.

Good for you.
Well you wont be seeing any more commissions as I've packed them in altogether!

Hey Tom, I was gonna PM you on this matter, but it seems I cannot use this feature and "need to participate more to be able to use this feature."
I was just wondering what you do to your garter blue Hornby A4s to lighten the colour? I'm sure I read you mention your "garter blue treatment" somewhere, and I remember Mick B saying how light he thought your 4489 was.

Hi Ade....it appears through chance, I discovered that using white spirit on the body, when removing the majority of weathering paint...plus adding a coat of Klear on top, creates the desired effect.

[AdamOrmorod4468]

I'll give that a go, I was planning on 2/3 coats of klear anyway. Is there any risk of the white spirit taking off the paint though? Just thought I'd ask to make sure.
Also, what method do you use to take off the letters and numbers? I'm adding etched letters and numbers to a hornby 4491 and I remember seeing your work in progress models with the numbers taken off very cleanly with no "ghost" left behind.