This is the last of my recent weathering batch. Here are three Rustons from the recent Sales. Two DS48 and one DS88. All various liveries and mostly ‘out of the box’ apart from one DS48 was renamed and numbered.
Hoping to do one more batch in a few days.
This is the penultimate Loco for my Son that he obtained from the Heljan Sale. Just a straight forward Light to Medium weathering – assuming it ran in Diesel mode most of the time.
Still finishing off my Sons recent purchases from the Heljan/Accurascale Sale. This one is weathered to a light-Medium finish in about 1990, before headlights and Roof pods.
This was, I believe the only 47/3 to receive the metals decals. Within a year this loco joined the Speedlink family and was rebranded accordingly. I have given it a light weathering as it did not get time to get too dirty in this livery!
Another little batch of O gauge wagon weathering – usual methods and a medium application.
Here are two O Gauge vans that have been weathered to a medium standard. Usual methods used after doing a wash and wipe to highlight all recesses and gaps.
This is a third Hudswell Clark for our O Gauge Layout ‘Grub Lane’. This time it is an EFE Model, purchased at a bargain price. I have given it a medium weathering. Only thing to do is add a driver.
I have weathered several Class O2 shunters during the recent Heljan Sale, but this one haa a little story attached. This is for my friend Michael, he is a volunteer at The Mid Suffolk Light Railway, and they now have an O2 in their loco stud. It was natural that Michael would want a model of that actual loco. It is modelled in a weathered condition, as when in service in the mid 1960’s.
Today was the first outing of this layout at the Bressingham Museum and Gardens Exhibition. Although it is only 90% finished, it went down very well by both the public and fellow modellers. I did not expect any further invites to future Exhibition, but we received two for 2027.
I would like to thank Alan, the Exhibition Manager for the invite and John and Graham for running the layout all day.
This is the final loco prepared for weathering for my Son, this is also the last Heljan Sale loco to be treated! I chose 47359 as it was one of very few 47’s in Metals livery during the late 80’s and early 90’s. Its next colour scheme was Speedlink in about 1992. This Loco never had a Depot Diamond or BR cast arrows, the livery also seems a bit rushed with big gaps on the numbering and the door Steel chevrons on the wrong end on one side – still it makes it a bit different.
