These wagons were made by Ian Hammond, I have only weathered them as they were running just before withdrawal in the 1990’s. These wagons were very run down by then and many had lost their numbers, extra ones being painted or chalked crudely on the sides. I have used chinagraph pencil to add the numbers, so could be changed if required. This batch of five wagons differ in many ways, many converted from existing wagons.
Here are two Heljan Dogfish from the second batch recently delivered. I have given both a light to medium weathering with special attention to the inside of the hopper and the ballast shutes.
I felt I needed to make the interior much ‘grittier’ than I normally do, to add more realism – I hope it is a step forward.
This is the second Sentinal I have weathered in a week. I think I need to describe the Sentinal as ‘Grubby’ as opposed to Medium or whatever. I did quite a bit of research on these little beasts before starting and noted how coated they were in general grime, some depots did look after their charges better than others, but generally they were unkept. I also added extra coal into the bunkers.
The Van is for the same friend but is not to be used in the same era. This is a general wash and wipe in all crevices before weathering. I have to say Parkside now Peco wagons do take to the wash and wipe method very well as the slots in the planking are nice and deep.
Humbrol and Railmatch paints used, both sprayed and dry brushed.
Here are seven wagons that I have just weathered – all my usual methods were used, starting with a wash and wipe and ending with four colour spraying and dry brushes.
This is a Dapol tank that has just been released – it is classified as an anchored tank. The weathering was achieved by using five different colours, the tank itself was misted and enhanced with Gloss Black. I have added a photo of the underframe so that you can see how I airbrushed and dry brushed the colours to form a medium blended weathering.
This is a black tank (type B) so carried the heavier oil products, hence the darker spillage.
Here we have another three SM32 wagons, these are versatile flats in different sizes, they were used for carrying almost anything, but mainly Ammo Boxes and Shells. These models are as usual 3D printed.
Here is a rake of three captured wagons. As WW1 was drawing to an end and German lines were breached several wagons were captured by the allies and used on their own narrow gauge lines.
These were 3D printed.
Here we have three 3D printed WW1 Hoppers for Grahams SM32 layouts. They have been given a medium to heavy weathering in keeping with lots of use in poor conditions.
These are the last four Presflo’s in O Gauge – that makes 28 I have done since the release of the wagon. This has proved a great learning curve and the diverse ways of weathering certainly helped with picking different methods of achieving a different look.
Here is the penultimate batch of Presflo’s heading down under to my mate in Australia. In fact he is coming over in November to see his family and collect them.
I think I have learned a few lessons as I done the different batches and this batch has proved the most popular. These are all wash and wipe with all sections wiped with cotton buds, lots of cotton buds. I guess you take off about 70% of the wash. Nice result but very time consuming – I then varnished the whole upper structure.
