7mm Richards P48 US Thread

[mickoo]

A 9" thick slab seems a bit excessive for a shed unless you have a traction engine or a steam roller parked in there .
I was pulling your leg about jacking the slab up

We have soft ground here, previous thinner ones have all cracked.

 

[richard carr]

I did a bit more on freight cars at the weekend

First was decals for the Golden West boxcar





It always amazes me the difference a few decals make.

Then I did the gondola, it went a bit wrong



Oh dear I lost a bit of the "O", the whole thing fell off in the water and getting back on to the paper sheet and onto the model just didn't go to well. The saving grace of course is that these often lost and worn away as they aged.



I then started to weather the boxcar. The green is the right kind of colour but it needs to be faded. So I tried my mix of tamiya X21 flat base 20% paint 80% tamiya lacquer thinners.
I think it's working, it needs a second coat but I want to let this one dry thoroughly before I put the second coat on.







I also use the tamiya mix on this tank car



It needs to be a very thin coat as it goes white if you put too much on.

 

[richard carr]

One of things I have acquired recently is this Atlas GP35 in Kodachrome livery.





The good news with this is it has already been fitted with NWSL P48 wheels, the bad news is that the nose is of course completely wrong.
6533 had a full SP light set. Quite a few GP35s were painted in this livery, and some had a revised lighting pack of 2 horizontal headlights on the nose with a blanking plate above and a blanking plate over the cab head lights.
MTH do offer this on their SP locos so I'll be on the lookout for one on Ebay.







Locos in this livery survived into the mid 90s.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast.

Although the Kodachrome was a nice livery. Shame the SPSF merger fell through.

 

[richard carr]

This weekend the plan was to get the Overland GP60 up and running.

It almost is,



But I decided that the nose wasn't painted well enough, so that got stripped in a jar of celly thinners and is now red again. I just need to mask that off to put on the grey.
Here's all the internals, everything went OK except that the sound was almost silent even though the volume was set to max.





It turned out that the speaker was the issue, a replacement speaker fitted and all was well.
And yes it does appear to be a lot of wiring for just headlights and front ditchlights.



Once it was all back together and the decoder programming complete I added a few detail decals and the number.

 

[richard carr]

What a difference a nose makes !





Once I had stripped it I painted it red and then printed a mask drawn in CAD. I based this on the decal you can get from Micro Scale.

I also removed the hand rail and the other small item on the left side of the nose so that the mask sits flat on the nose.




and the other side. I then completed the rest with tamiya masking tape.



I've added the handrail back in, it needs painting grey.

 

[Jordan]

Once I had stripped it I painted it red and then printed a mask drawn in CAD. I based this on the decal you can get from Micro Scale.

Interesting way round to paint the nose. I bet many would do the grey first & apply the red after. No matter, it's the end result that counts.

 

[richard carr]

Hi Jordan

Funny, thats what I did the first time round, the grey first and then the red and it all went a bit wrong, so this time I went red first, which is what I did before on a couple of other locos.

It seems to work much better

Richard

 

[richard carr]

Well how did we survive the weekend with no WT, easy just get on with some modelling instead !



Some more progress on the GP60, the white stripe on the footplate edge. I did want to paint it but the paint didn't cover very well and I couldn't get a consistent line so I used the decals on the MicroScale sheet. It takes quite a time to do this as the hand rail stanchions are not white. I did the other side yesterday. Painting the hand rails was the easy bit



I did paint the louvres with some dirty black but it doesn't seem to show up much,

 

[richard carr]

Another busy weekend

This arrived as a birthday gift from the Boss




It turned out that his was an easy switch toP48, the wheels simply dropped out of the trucks and were replaced with P48 ones








There was also thes 2 boxcars







It's going to take a bit more work to convert these 2. So I've been busy painting trucks over the weekend



A mix of protocraft 70 and 100ton barber S2 trucks