This is yet another Accurascale/Heljan item purchased by my Son at a great price. This one is in Regional Railways livery as running in the mid 1990’s. I have given it a light to medium weathering.
Again there are lots of doors in this DMU that have to be shadowed to show gapping and openings. This is time consuming, but well worth it.
This is another recent purchase by my Son, from the Accurascale Sale. It has been given medium weathering in keeping with the 1960’s and still living with some steam locos.
A wash and wipe, then airbrushing with four colours and finally a little dry brushing.
Just noticed that a hand rail is missing on these photos – will be replaced – no problem after paying so little for it!
This is yet another buy at a very low price made by my Son from the Accurascale Sale. Believe it or not – this is the first O Gauge Class 58 I have ever weathered. I have two of my own, but not been touched since I purchased them!
This is a quite lengthy process as there are lots of nooks and crannies on a Class 58. The main thing to do is to get some shadowing between the bodyside doors, this has to be done very carefully with cotton buds after a wash of dilute matt black.
I am pleased with the results, I hope my Son is! I am calling this a light weathering.
I purchased this lovely little tank engine on Sunday. I was at the KLOGGIES Summer bash, and there was about six traders present. One of them had this engine on sale for £150, a good price I thought, nearly £75 saving on a new one from Minerva, and after giving it a test run I paid up.
It was in an unlined maroon livery and effectively in new condition. I have a small collection of Industrial tank engines that used to run on an old layout called Norfolk Coke and Tar Ltd. I gave it to my Son when I finished with it, he re-invented it as Grubb Lane, and it is still on the Exhibition circuit.
All of my Industrial locos are Black and weathered, here it is after three days work, on and off due to being about 35C for last two days. I have left the wheels spokes maroon, just to be a bit different! It is still to have a light weathering,
These are items I have sadly had quite a long time. My friend gave them to me months ago and they just came to the top of my list.
The Pug was purchased as a kit built ready to run item, I had to partially repaint and give it a general tidy up. Looks much better now!
This is an old pre-made Bachmann Brass tank wagon, painted quite well and then given the most awful weathering job! I stripped as much of the old paint as I could, but could not budge most of it, looked like it was put on with a tar brush! All I can say was, I did my best doing what is now a quite heavy application!
Dare I say it, yet another purchase from the Heljan/Accurascale Sale by Graham in Australia. This is again one of Grahams favourite locos and one he saw regularly when he was based in the UK in the 1970’s and early 80’s.
It again has been given a medium weathering. The nameplates are Fox and the transfers Railtec.
This is a freight Class 27 purchased in the Heljan/Accurascale Sale by Graham in Australia and delivered to me. It arrived with an early seventies head-code, numbers and letters. I have done a temporary fix with some old marker dots, but some better ones are on order.
As this was a freight loco, it has been given a medium plus weathering.
Yet another Class 37 from Heljan/Accurascale Sale. Again purchased by my Son for his Ashwell Moor layout. While weathering this Loco I needed to remember it was used on some Passenger Services as well as a few freight workings. I therefore did a wipe of the sides after the weathering was complete, this restored a cleanish finish and quite a pleasing difference.
Here we have a Dutch Class 31 with isolated ETH. It is another Heljan/Accurascale buy from their current sale. This was purchased by my Son for his Ashwell Moor layout.
All my usual methods used, no re-numbering etc required – straight out of the box! This is a medium weathering.
This is a recent O Gauge bargain from Heljan/Accurascale sale. It was purchased by my Son and I was given it to weather. Class 56’s in this livery were quite rare, I believe there was only 5 or 6! Liveries moved on very quickly in the Mid 1980’s.
This is a medium offering, but reflecting its use on Coal Merry-go-round (MGR) trains. The ‘wash and wipe’ was a big part in weathering this loco, especially in the grills.
