Here are a few photos of recent weathering exercise – the Jinty is a medium application and the Sentinal is medium to heavy. Method used was airbrushing with a little dry brushing. Both Locos are in O Gauge.

This is the result of a complete repaint and a move in livery of about 20 years. This Loco lasted until November 1948 – so just lasted into the British Rail Era, But even although it was allocated a BR number, it did not receive this livery. This Loco was then in Scotland and they did some modifications to it, namely remove the Westinghouse Brake and Piping as well as the bunker extensions.

So there we have it a completely fictional Loco – the first time I have ever done this.

I purchased this ready made Connoisseur Loco recently, it is in LNER livery and numbered as a very early withdrawal – so no use to my BR(E) layout. I will need to re-livery and re-number as something more appropriate.

I spent about three hours researching the last two Locos of this class yesterday evening. They did make it to BR ownership, but not on the Eastern Region – they were on the Scottish region for nearly a year under BR at 65A. The Locos were allocated BR numbers but whether they where taken up is doubtful.

I now had a decision to make and after much thought I decided to change the livery to BR Black with the full ‘BRITISH RAILWAYS’ logo, and numbered 67093, one of the last two withdrawn. I can not ascertain whether this Loco actually appeared like this but using a little ‘modellers licence’ helps.

Just finished another weathering job. It has been given a medium weathering with six different colours and a little Gloss Varnish. All paint was Railmatch.

Here are two Kit Built Sevenscale Pugs, one BR and the other LMS. The BR Pug was built to a very high standard and only a few tweaks and a light weathering were asked for by their owner Ollie. The second Pug I believe was an Ebay purchase and required a lot more work as it was built to a lesser standard, had a few bits missing. It was also in the wrong LMS livery for Ollie, so a partial repaint and new number and transfers required, it also has been given a light weathering.

This is my latest purchase, it came already weathered, but I have added extra detail. I have added Loco Lamps, Fire Irons and touched up various areas of the original weathering.

I spent yesterday fitting snowploughs to some of my recent loco’s.