The Pipe wagon was finally completed last weekend - but I completely forgot to upload the photo's
As Martin (3Link) warned me the door dampers were a B****r to fit. I had to almost snap them and then re-solder them to get them to the right angles to fit. Thankfully they soldered very nicely.
It's now going through the paint shop before being offered up for sale.
My new year's resolution to finish of the shelf queens is still going to plan.
While Chris was weathering the pipe wagon I was busy adding transfers to some of the Parkside LNER Wagons that I have painted recently Many of these have sat for the best part of a year needing finishing.
Here are a few shots of the state of play tonight. next up are the LMS Wagons.....
I also managed to coal up the J63 and add the glazing to Nellie.
I now need to order some LNER wagon transfers from the HMRS to complete the NBR brake van and the Sand Wagon.
I added the finishing touches to the former Midland 6 wheeled brake van that has been hanging around for far too long.... Here it is with a couple more LMS wagons.
I still have a couple more LMS vehicles in progress but they are not quite there yet.
Nice set of wagons. I do remember a tale that a lot of the brakevans Big Bertha used to push against were of that wooden underframe variety. They must have been either very solidly built or replaced quite often.
Brian
Anything weird or unusual will catch my interest, be it an express or locomotive
I'm also drawn to the commemorative, let's hope Bachmann will produce 6165 Valour.
Another one bites the dust. I put the transfers on the Connoisseur Milk van last night and gave it a blow over with some satin varnish to seal them. All the lining has been done with a Haff bow pen and a fine brush.
Yet another long time inhabitant of the workbench joins the weathering queue.
This is the MSE Former S&D Horsebox (the one with the leather seat).
Which shows up quite well.
The reason that it has sat so long is that I attempted to line it but in the end there just wasn't enough on the beading to make a successful job of it. I got the yellow on but when it cam to the black it ultimately covered the yellow so I ended up respraying it
I am still managing to keep up the momentum. These three have just joined the line for weathering. They all have premier couplings and one still needs it 's buffers fitting (it's one of the very old Slaters kits where the buffer heads were in two parts and the couplings were pressed steel).
Another one that's ready for weathering is the Connoisseur GER Sand Wagon.
In my world it has been transferred internally to the Leeds District. The lettering has been made up from some old Woodhead transfers that I picked up at Halifax a couple of years ago and some spare bit's of Parkside that I had left. The Woodhead transfers have been revived/made usable by the application of Microscale liquid decal film and I cannot recommend it enough!
In theory you just apply a coat to the back of the transfer and leave it for 15 minutes then use it like a water slide transfer.
In practice I found that some of my transfers were still a bit fragile so I applied a second coat for strength.
To apply them I mixed a bit of PVA in some luke warm water. Then I painted the back of the transfer with the PVA/water mix to wet it (after removing from the backing paper layer) and applied it like a press fix/meth fix transfer but without the meths solution. Then I held it in place, wet the top and after a few moments the carrier film came away. From there I adjusted the position like a waterslide transfer.
Another that has had it's finishing touches is the NBR Brake van. This too presented a few challenges on the transfer front but it came out all right in the end.
I even managed to glaze the duckets without too much difficulty despite them being a solid casting and no way in from the inside of the van. I have tried and failed to show with the photo below that you can actually see through them and out each end of the ducket. I used some 1mm perpex which I cut in to a 12mm strip from which I cut further strips 2.5mm wide. I filed the ends round and kept filing top and bottom until they were a tight fit. Once they were wedged in I ran some Johnsons clear over them to help them to stick.
The rest of the windows are glazed with microscope cover slips from CPL stuck in with PVA. What I like about using PVA to stick them in is that any you get on the windows themselves can be cleaned off once dry with a bit of water on a cotton bud. But if you don't do too good a job it looks like dirty windows.
Another even longer inhabitant of the work bench is almost complete - it's been there that long that I have lost the buffers and couplings for it......
This is another one that I have used rescued Woodhead transfers on.
Another one that has been across the bench recently is this Parkside LNER loco coal Wagon. It's my very first S7 build, no I have not defected.
I am building a couple of items of rolling stock for a group of guys that are continuing to build a layout that was started by a gent that passed away as a tribute to him.
I still need to blacken the buffer heads and couplings but I couldn't resist posting a few shots after Chris has weaved her weathering magic on it.
I have also built an LNER 12 ton van to go with it (Parkside again) this is being weathered as I type this.
