Shaun's builds

[Ratch]

Excellent work Shaun

[TomW]

Cor blimey that's a bit special Shaun

Regards

Tom

[beany]

Quite simply stunning Shaun.

[ShaunW]

Many thanks boys. I've just got back from our summer hols so I'm playing catch up. There are one or two finishing touches, which I hope to do today or tomorrow (the lawn is, however, now like a jungle ). I'll then pop down to the local railway model shop that I didn't know existed until shortly before we went away and see what he's got Dapol wise.

[ShaunW]

I was about to declare my Class 9F finished and post the "glamour" shots but the camera battery needs charging. A thought has occurred to me though and I can't seem to find much in the way of conclusive evidence as shots of in-service locos seem to all be in black and white (not wholly surprising I suppose given the time period) - should the loco have a red front lower crossmember upon which the buffers are mounted and the tender a red rear crossmember? Colour shots of preserved locos seem to feature such

[splash]

I think they were red but as they were work horses and never cleaned, so they finished up very grimy and dirty black.

Regards Splash

[beany]

Agree with Splash, definitely Red to start with then faded - I've seen some almost pink or coral red looking. Not sure about grimy black - depends on their area of use. Many have lighter, earthy, dusty looking weathering. Really it should just match the weathering on the rest of the loco.
Cheers
Al.

[splash]

This one looks nice.

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and this one

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I suspect all the black grime fhas come from when they clean out the smoke box.

[beany]

Beautiful pictures Splash - definitely see what you mean about the grimy black (Revell No.9 Anthracite Grey?) - the first picture looks like there is a seagull trapped inside the smoke box!!

[ShaunW]

Many thanks boys and those are great photos Splash - and they also show I've missed a steam pipe off the front . I'll paint the crossmembers up a quite heavily weathered red, but red nevertheless, as I haven't gone for a very heavily weathered engine. I've noticed the white "seagull effect" streaks on a number of photos, but have to admit that I ultimately bottled out of it

So I'm not quite finished yet then!

[ShaunW]

Right, I'm now declaring this finished. I painted up the loco front and tender rear crossmembers using Revell 36 matt red, which was then weathered with a dry brush of Tamiya NATO Black. In addition, I also carried out a bit more careful dry brushing of the tender coal and the loco using Tamiya Sky Grey.





All in all a very enjoyable project and I have a feeling that this will not be my last loco build.

Thanks for looking.

[ShaunW]

Here at last are my next two builds for this display, the Dapol Booking Office and Signal Gantry. My man at the Featherstone Model Railway Shop kindly let me have the pair for the princely sum of £7.00, which is a bit of a bargain. The kiosk and platform accessories kits should be here next week. This guy and his shop have been a real find. Service is perhaps not the quickest but he is a great bloke and gets there in the end.



I don't intend to go overboard with additional detailing as time is getting tight now and will treat these, especially the building, as an interesting painting and weathering exercise. Once again this project has taken me right out of my modelling comfort zone as I've never built anything like this before. Best get cracking then!

[TomW]

Good to see they've arrived on the bench Shaun. The Airfix/Dapol buildings are stunningly simple to build but the trick is definitely in making them come alive with the paintwork. Good luck

Regards

Tom

[ShaunW]

Cheers Tom, hopefully my painting will be up to scratch and won't kill them stone dead

I decided to start with the booking hall and here's what's in the pack - a bunch of nicely moulded components with little flash and decent enough detail:



Also included are advertising posters for the billboards at the sides of the building and a clock face for the front clock. I'm not sure what "suitable adhesive" I'll use to attach my chosen posters and the clock face, possibly PVA.



Dapol also thoughtfully include a couple of small sheets of clear acetate with which to glaze the windows.

And we're off. I didn't have a great deal of time this arvo but I did manage to fit the doors. Fit wasn't brilliant and some filler was required, together with the insertion of some plastic strip at the door tops as they were all a little short. I also decided to add a small porch at the rear using an off-cut of plastic card to keep a little of the good old British weather off the punters as they struggle to open the rather poorly fitted doors





Thinking ahead, I might try to insert the window frames after main painting and before I fit the roof as I intend them to be white and I think fitting them later will make painting them less of a chore. I'll do a dry fit etc before making a final decision.

Thanks for looking.

[chrism]

You've done well to get one kit with so little flash and crap to have to dig out and off the parts. I spent hours cleaning up parts for both the pub and the windmill. Splash has also sent me his second crane which I am cracking into this week, and that too has taken a while to dig some of the parts out of the flash.