This is the final part of my latest batch of weathering. These are all for our group member Shaun and are to a light to medium Standard.

Weathering the Class 122’s is quite a long job as you can not use the wash and wipe method due to the amount of windows on a DMU. I carefully run the dilute matt black into all the door creases ensuring that none got anywhere near the windows, I then used a cotton bud with a little white spirit to clean up the overspill, again being very careful with the windows.

Here are two of the five Locos I have been working on recently. both are lightly weathered as required by my friends. I have two Dmu’s and another loco to follow soon.

My usual methods were used, wash and wipe, followed by airbrushing and a little dry brushing.

Today I have numbered and named a batch of Loco’s for myself and some mates. I did the research before adding the numbers to confirm position etc.

I hope to weather them later in the week depending on how cold and wet it gets.

They cover various eras and regions.

These are my final three Class 33’s for my 1993-5 era. They have all been numbered and named to my requirements. All this batch are to a light to medium standard.

Another arrival today is 20132, it is already weathered to a very good standard so all I will do is just enhance it a bit. Very pleased with my purchase.

This is another recent arrival. It was already named and numbered, but was in as new condition. The Loco had already been very lightly weathered to a good standard.

After doing some research I found that the Inverness Depot did some little tweaks to the Large Logo livery in the late eighties. The nose grilles were painted black, the head codes were also painted black. The Highland Stag was added earlier, but strangely enough the Loco did not receive the usual orange cant rail stripe at this time.

I have re-weathered the Loco to a light – medium standard that was more akin to its late eighties condition.

This is a recent purchase and it has to be said it was a bit of a lemon! The reason I purchased it was that it was heavily modified and I wanted a close look at how this was achieved. The modifications were as follows:-

Buffer beam modified to ‘cut away’ example.

Twin Fuel Tank Modifications.

Roof Grilles with extra strengtheners.

Body Foot Steps modified.

Front Nose Doors changed to Welded Sheet.

Front Nose Headlight Fitted.

Full repaint to a very good standard.

Nose aerial.

NOW THE BAD NEWS:-

Buffers Glued Solid

Wheels/Gears very worn.

Buffer Beam pipes damaged or missing.

Bogie Frames glued on/hindering access.

All Pick-ups in a filthy condition causing problems.

Missing body to chassis screws.

One light not working.

After much thought I decided to keep my purchase and give the Loco a good spring clean and add all missing bits. I then weathered it to a light to medium standard to hide a few little blemishes. I still have to address the Stuck buffers and the gear problem, but I have some spares gears.

Anyway here are the results so far.