I use it in the same way as all the other rattle cans I use and haven't noticed the powdery effect up to now. This is teaked directly onto the primer, to see what the effect would be like:
Question about this - do we think the end steps would be black or teak painted?
Now, with four locos stalled awaiting test running and no wagons to hand that I fancied fiddling with, I turned to a new project this evening. Some time ago (just over a year, actually) I came across an RMWeb user called Gazman424 who was making some really nice carriages using laser cut card. We had a discussion about materials and techniques and in the end he kindly offered to cut me a set of sides for a D265 TL. For those not familiar with them, they're a 54' steel carriage with a lav at one end and an internal corridor so all compartments can access it. They were common across the GE Area and I have photos of a couple at Framlingham, so it was a vehicle I wanted for
Wickham Market. This:
Why they were built to 54' I don't know, but they're a characteristic vehicle and just a little different.
Things went quite for a while, and Gaz then contacted me again a few weeks ago to say he'd cut the parts out and they'd be with me soon. Sure enough a parcel arrived, but it didn't contain sides....
This is almost entirely card - there are wooden blocks for the bogies to screw into and the underframe components (which I thought were butchered Hornby) are 3D printed by the man himself. It's entirely home made, in other words. This is how it breaks down for painting:
For comparison, this is it against a Bill Bedford etched side which I'd laid in in anticipation of building one of these in the future:
The full width end compartment windows are slightly narrower - I'm guessing that's to keep it within the correct overall length and accommodate the thickness of the ends. MJT roof, buffers and handles to complete once painted. The card has just been primed and I'm told I can finish it with rattle cans, so we'll see how that goes. There's some slight warping of the internal partitions and one of the trusses and I also cleaned up inside the window reveals where the surface was a bit hairy, but overall I'm far more impressed than I expected to be. We'll see how this develops.
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