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Western Thunderer
Good evening - A couple more shots of Bulldog for you - its started to look a bit more complete now - although I've just loose fitted the buffers and headcode boxes for the photo - The bufferbeam is looking a bit bare at the moment - Ive got air control pipes to add - from my spares box , as they aren't supplied in the kit - and I've got to make a pair of blanking plates to fit where the locos original jumper sockets were removed just inboard of the buffers. A nice cast coupling guard plate is included in the kit , they're were from the locos later on in life. At the moment I'm filing bits of clear plastic to glaze the headcode boxes , and of course deciding what headcode to fit. Will - weathering - I'm not sure actually - ill have to ask the owner what he'd like done to the model - personally I'd like the sides left clean. dunno if the real locos ran long enough to get absolutely filthy
With this kit i found the body castings had a slightly more sandy texture than others - its not a big deal as one can simply polish them with wet n dry , but on this model there's an awful lot of rivets in the way ! so paiting took an awful lot of thin thin coats to flood and level everything out - think I've got away with it/
tfn
Jon
With this kit i found the body castings had a slightly more sandy texture than others - its not a big deal as one can simply polish them with wet n dry , but on this model there's an awful lot of rivets in the way ! so paiting took an awful lot of thin thin coats to flood and level everything out - think I've got away with it/
tfn
Jon