Ressaldar
Western Thunderer
I have always had a liking for the BR 03 shunters and back in 2009 a friend asked me to paint his brass San Cheng 03 as running at Birkenhead docks in 1987 with the special Birkenhead South commemorative livery.
The opportunity to repeat the exercise came up recently with an unpainted version on the Bay of E at a price that I could not ignore. An offer was made and it arrived a few days later.
The unwanted lamps were removed and the housing cupboard on the right hand side fabricated and fitted. I could not de-solder the horn to enable it to be fitted in the vertical position, so I decided to leave well enough alone!
The main body colour is Deep Bronze Green from a rattle can, the yellow is again from a rattle can and the buffer beams are brushed acrylic. On the first model I masked off the yellow to create the stripes but this time I decided to use Railtec filmless stripes - having first removed the horizontal handrail on the cab rear and all of the handrails and the radiator filler pipes from the nose, all to be reapplied after the transfers had dried out. The cabside transfers are from Precision Decals (a repeat order from 2009)
Now earning its keep on the layout.
I fitted a Zimo MS450 with an MGOBLOC stay alive and a 28x10x8 Icecube speaker mounted vertically behind the radiator - having applied a black permanent marker all over the face to disguise it when in place.
It will be weathered over the course of the next few weeks, so further photos will be posted
The opportunity to repeat the exercise came up recently with an unpainted version on the Bay of E at a price that I could not ignore. An offer was made and it arrived a few days later.
The unwanted lamps were removed and the housing cupboard on the right hand side fabricated and fitted. I could not de-solder the horn to enable it to be fitted in the vertical position, so I decided to leave well enough alone!
The main body colour is Deep Bronze Green from a rattle can, the yellow is again from a rattle can and the buffer beams are brushed acrylic. On the first model I masked off the yellow to create the stripes but this time I decided to use Railtec filmless stripes - having first removed the horizontal handrail on the cab rear and all of the handrails and the radiator filler pipes from the nose, all to be reapplied after the transfers had dried out. The cabside transfers are from Precision Decals (a repeat order from 2009)
Now earning its keep on the layout.
I fitted a Zimo MS450 with an MGOBLOC stay alive and a 28x10x8 Icecube speaker mounted vertically behind the radiator - having applied a black permanent marker all over the face to disguise it when in place.
It will be weathered over the course of the next few weeks, so further photos will be posted
