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.

This is the second batch of Presflo’s I have done for my mates – this time group member Graham. This batch are for two era’s, Tops and Pre-Tops. I used my usual methods of weathering to ensure differences between members of the rake. These Ellis Clark Presflo’s really are great models.

CPV – Tops up to 1985 (3)

Pre Tops – one yellow – one grey – up to 1972 (2)

An old friend once said ‘you can never have enough Brake Vans’. Well, not sure about that, but here are three for Group member Graham. All are different liveries and have had a medium weathering. This has hopefully taken away the distinct ‘plasticy’ look and slightly bright paint!

These are the last three of the Presflo’s for Mike, this makes the rake up to six. This batch was very similar to the first batch, using misting, wash and wipe, and dry brushing.

At this point I would like to say what a great model the Presflo’s are, well done Ellis Clark Trains.

This is the first three of a rake of six Presflo’s that have been weathered for my friend Mike. They are to run on his early sixties layout.

Two different types of weathering was used, first the Yellow one was subjected to a wash and wipe session before a bit of misting and dry brushing afterwards.

The two brown examples were totally misted and dry brushed, although I did one lightish and the other more to a medium standard.

A lot of examples I have seen have used a near white paint – I used three shades of light grey, the last one with just a drop of light yellow mixed in.

Here we have two completely different wagon types. The first one is the ZXV that Graham made and I painted and weathered, I have put pre-weathered photos on a previous post. The second is an out of the box Heljan OAA, this has been detailed by adding the provided chains and a representation of a replacement plank on the center drop side door.