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!
This is a standard O Gauge Heljan Model, However as you view it today, it is not finished! I ordered some Oleo round Class 37 buffers as this Loco, 37050 retained round buffers during the period modelled, but sadly I have not received them! I really wish that Traders would only advertise what they have in stock and also not take my money before being in stock.
If anyone has a spare set of Heljan class 37 round oleo buffers will they please contact me through this site – shanks only would be fine.
