7mm BR Diesels

[Yorkshire Dave]

I'm not sure my camera has portrayed the colour correctly as it appears 'all' orange here!! I shall look at it again once dry and then if not happy re-spray with a 50-50 mix of the two paints.

Personally I would not worry if you are going to weather the loco.

 

[Healey Mills]

Personally I would not worry if you are going to weather the loco.

Hi Dave,

Thanks, after I had finished with the blue it all looked ok!!

Cheers
Lee

 

[Healey Mills]

A busy morning... after finally taking the plunge and started weathering I have to confess that I rather enjoyed ruining all my previous hard work in achieving a pristine spray finish

First lamb to the slaughter, the bogie side frames. As I mentioned earlier it seems that the bogies became darker and oilier in appearance the further inboard of the loco that you got. Anyway here's what I've achieved:



Then time to start the boiler water tank, I think this pic was taken after the first stage of weathering applying a thinned coat to 'taint' most of the tank:



With that lot drying I made a start at assembling the underframe components again, hoping that my efforts at weathering once altogether might look ok. Bogie No 1 went together well, except I really need to give the wheels a quick whizz over with some underframe dirt or something like that as they now stand out like the proverbial thumb!!



On my last build, and in fact during this one, I wondered why on earth JLTRT provide long machine screws for fixing the bogie pivot plate. Yes the long screws stop the main fixing from dropping out once in place but getting into this once assembled to tighten the bogie bolt up is impossible. So I bought some shorter machine screws:



Right, that's enough of my waffling. Here's what it all looks like together:





Once the body has dried solid I shall get on with replacing all the handrails (there's loads too ) and make a start on getting a few coats of varnish on it prior to decals.

Cheers
Lee

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Lee
That really does look the business!!

 

[Purple-haze]

Lee
Most realistic dirtying I,ve seen in a long time.Fantastic!

regards

Rog

 

[Healey Mills]

Not much of an update today as I ended up adding small details to the body work, i.e. painting handles, emergency cut-out handles, rubber window surrounds, blah blah blah. The loco was then put aside in readiness for two coats of gloss varnish tomorrow.

Once that was complete, and for some reason it took a while, I managed to get the buffer beam details added and glued:





It's surprising how the close-ups reveal some horrible attributes!! The detail items themselves need a waft over with some muck me thinks

I need to make up a couple of windscreen wiper shaped masks so that I can start weathering 40118 as it's sitting looking waaaay too clean. I've managed to get the body and chassis apart but that's it for today.

Cheers
Lee

 

[Healey Mills]

While waiting for the varnish coats to dry on 40060 I decided I'd have a go at weathering 40118. As the sun was out I took a few piccies (unfortunately I only noticed afterwards that the body was not sitting all the way down at the no 1 end.. Ooops!!):









Not too bad, but I guess still a lot to learn about weathering locos.

Cheers
Lee

 

[mickoo]

Looks fine to me , like the effect at cant rail level where it's been through a carriage wash, but you need to do it also on the B side at #1 end over the radiator intake to make it uniform through out. Other than that I'd leave well alone.

MD

 

[Healey Mills]

Hi Mickoo,

Ah yes, I see what you mean.. hmm not sure if that roof dirt will come of now. I did follow some pics religiously and I guess being taken on different dates means a different state of dirtyness!!! oh well.

Cheers
Lee

 

[mickoo]

Hey, it looks good as it is and rule #1 always applies.

Mick D

 

[Healey Mills]

Thanks Mick.

I need to crack on with 060 now... and learn (rather quickly) how to emulate the oil spills/ stains/ leaks that the loco had.

Cheers
Lee

 

[FiftyFourA]

And what is wrong with the weathering on your 40?

Not all locos (except for Gateshead's allocation in steam days) were grotty, many had a subtle weathering just like your 40, and I think it is very good.

Well done - Peter

 

[FiftyFourA]

Sorry, forgot the advice bit.

I have tried two ways to do the oil spills - Humrol metalcote on its own (polished when dry) and a mix of gloss black and a gloss dark blue (I am told the blue help brings out the tinge in the oil) and both seem to work equally as well for newish spills that are still 'wet'.

I have used a matt black for old oil spills with a touch of blue for the discolouration you often see but I have been less sucessful in that although I think Precision do an 'oil spill' colour but I have not tried it yet.

Hope this helps - Peter

 

[40126]

Pictures Peter please ?

Steve

 

[Healey Mills]

Sorry, forgot the advice bit.

I have tried two ways to do the oil spills - Humrol metalcote on its own (polished when dry) and a mix of gloss black and a gloss dark blue (I am told the blue help brings out the tinge in the oil) and both seem to work equally as well for newish spills that are still 'wet'.

I have used a matt black for old oil spills with a touch of blue for the discolouration you often see but I have been less sucessful in that although I think Precision do an 'oil spill' colour but I have not tried it yet.

Hope this helps - Peter

Hi Peter,

Thank you for those tips. I have used Metalcote Gunmetal mixed with gloss blue for the fuel spills on the boiler water tanks. On the bodyside however, every time I tried to get a nice thin vertical streak before though it just didn't look right so I ended up removing it.

I guess I should try to use a set square set to the base of the loco at least then I'd have something to gauge the vertical off.

Cheers
Lee

 

[FiftyFourA]

Steve, I am busy with the Flying Scotsman event at Shildon for the next 10-12 days or so but I will try to sort out some photos when that is finished (or when IT finishes me!)

Peter

 

[FiftyFourA]

Steve, a thought (not tried it but it might work) thin the mix with white spirit so that it runs and finds its own 'path'. Were all spills vertical or were they affected but the speed of the air passing over the loco at speed?

I feel a bit of 'research' coming on.

Peter

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Ah yes, I see what you mean.. hmm not sure if that roof dirt will come of now. I did follow some pics religiously and I guess being taken on different dates means a different state of dirtyness!!! oh well.

The weathering look superb Lee . As Mickoo said earlier - leave well alone.

 

[FiftyFourA]

Sorry abou that last post, it should be to Lee not Steve.

Think I need to get some sleep, early start tomorrow cleaning the Q6.

Peter

 

[Healey Mills]

Sorry abou that last post, it should be to Lee not Steve.

Think I need to get some sleep, early start tomorrow cleaning the Q6.

Peter

Ha, no problem Peter. I'd leave the Q6 alone... who needs clean locos