I have had these Bachmann Brass wagons for well over a year, and after much cleaning of the brass and undercoating, they have taken a back seat for a while. As far as detail is concerned, these wagons are very lacking of detail, on the good side is they are very sturdy and withstand handling much better when finishing and weathering.
The weathering is only about 3/10 to give a different slant when running with late bauxite ones already completed that were very very dirty!
Here are four wagons made by my friend Mike. I have painted, lettered and weathered them. They are all black and as running in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I have given special treatment to the interiors, assuming their last trip was being used for spent ballast.
This is a new BR Dapol Ex GWR Brake, it arrived with lots of ‘restriction workings’ in patches over the sides. I repainted the sides before renumbering and weathering it into an unrestricted class member.
This is my first work for over a fortnight do to being unwell, more items to follow soon.
This O Gauge Pannier came to me in quite poor condition, it was purchased without a detailed inspection by a friend, and it was a bit of a ‘lemon’.
After putting the bits that had fallen off back on securely and repairing other parts, the loco looked a lot better. The loco was not originally meant to be weathered, but I felt that I could cover several old glue marks with a light weathering (dusting).
Here is something a bit different. I was given a quite old 5 plank wagon kit. I looked through some photos of wagons in the late 1950’s to see what I could find and came upon a very well worn wagon being used as a ash carrier in a steam loco depot.
These are the locos from my current batch of weathering.
88DS weathered as working at a cement factory
‘Wissington’ as working at a sugar beet factory (before being preserved)
J94 Yard Shunter – Medium weathering
Peckett Industrial ‘IMP’- Medium weathering
Just done a small weathering run of wagons and locos, here are the wagons:-
Here is a Heljan dogfish, when it arrived it was in yellow/grey livery. I repainted it to 1960’s black, then a medium weathering.
Private owner steel mineral wagon – medium weathering, inside and out.
This is a rush job for Graham as it is needed on Saturday (1/3/25) at the O Gauge Guild Show at Kettering. This Loco will also appear on Morlock Heath, now owned by Graham. It has been weathered to a medium standard and with it working on Diesel power in an engineers yard.
Yes, I had to look it up too! A ZYV is a four wheel Cement Mixer Wagon. This was 3D printed by Graham and weathered by myself. Thanks go to Paul Bartlett wagons website for giving me a clue to what was required.
This wagon will appear on Morlock Heath, now owned by Graham, at the O Gauge Guild Show at Kettering on 1/3/25.
This seems to have got lost in the system! I did this about a week ago. Standard Grey 16T with coal load, using my standard five weathering colours. Some stippling, dry brushing, then washes and finally sprayed. I have included a close-up of the chassis for info!
