I was asked if I could salvage this Loco – it was made to a very good standard, but very poorly painted – it had not been undercoated and the topcoat was flaking quite badly! I did a complete repaint, re-number and weathering job, results below.
This is a partial repaint of a Dapol Green Loco. I had already weathered this Loco while in green, so it was a concentrated effort on the body only that was needed. After repainting and lettering, I then blended the body weathering with the already done chassis.
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.
