Well, this is a first for me, weathering a ready to run O16.5 Steam Loco. Graham M gave me the Loco several weeks ago, so did a lot of thinking about it. Finding photos of a real working loco in colour is not easy – but I found a couple, but did not really help me to much. Plenty of pristine, preserved photos available, but nothing really ‘workaday’.
This is my freightliner 08 585 Vicky, weathered to a medium standard. Usual methods used, wash and wipe and then five weathering colours, Railmatch paint.
Here are the balance of the OO wagons for Peters Western Region Layout. These are Vans, Grains and Brakes. I have also included a photo of Peters Layout so far.
This is the start of the wagon weathering on Peters Western Region OO Layout – open wagons and tank wagons first, others to follow.
Here are 5 locos I have weathered for Group Member Peter to run on a WR Layout that is awaiting completion. All are a medium weathering. Hopefully Peter will let me take some photos of them on the layout when finished. I am in process of weathering the wagons for the layout at the moment, they will appear here later.
This is an 08 that has just had a change of identity, it was 08530 now 08585 Vicky. The nameplates were not available when I originally numbered this engine! Weathering to follow!
This is another recent O gauge purchase, it was, should I say, a bit rough. I have repainted after adding back all the pieces that had fallen off and given it a good service. I have renumbered to a welded tender example, will have a medium weathering later. This Loco was purchased at what I considered to be a good very price and I am now happy with its refurbishment.
This is my recently purchased E4 in O Gauge, I have serviced, repainted, renumbered and detailed the Loco, it will be lightly weathered later. The Loco now represents 62797 in the correct condition, with tender and cab types as running in the mid 50’s.
The last time we were out with my Sons new N Gauge layout, all the stock was in the original boxes and it took ages to get everything ready and put it away. A decision was taken that we look for alternatives and look at stock boxes.
After looking on various sites we found N Gauge was not well catered for, OO and even O had plenty of options. A self manufacture seemed to be the best way out and several options were looked at. I had some old ‘Bachmann’ OO Stock boxes that have become redundant since my move to O Gauge, so an extra cardboard spacer was made to half the size of the OO gaps. It worked very well and the two layers now hold a total of 43 wagons and coaches. I used foam cubes to hold the stock in position. That’s saved some money!
I have now named my O Gauge Industrial Terrier, it is now called ‘Sofia’ after my grand daughter. The engine was a recent purchase for £125 in a box shifter sale. After a little research I discovered there was a couple that made it into Industrial service although not the era I model, so a little modellers licence took over. Sofia’s brother Charlie already has an 08 named after him, so this balances things up.
The Plates were custom made, and from time of order to delivery was about eight weeks. The plates came from CNS, Custom Nameplate Studio, and I cannot recommend them enough – superb service.
