Having a bit more time lately I have made a bit of progress with some stock, I have been experimenting with colours.
I wanted the colours to be a bit different but hopefully realistic. I have used Humbrol enamels but not specific railway colours.
Decals are Microscale.
Passenger stock.
Sides.
Humbrol Gloss 15 - Midnight Blue
Humbrol Gloss 41 - Ivory
Roof.
Humbrol Matt 66 - Dark Grey
Underframes.
Matt Black
Freight Stock.
Bodies - Humbrol Satin 133 - Brown
Underframes - Matt Black
so far I have repainted a Peco Brake coach, a Airfix OO Brake van my dad built about 30 years ago, I've adopted and painted it. It will be used with two of the Chivers Tramway coaches which I shall buy in due course and I built my free Colin Ashby open wagon I received for joining the 009 Society, its been painted but still needs lettering etc
Lovely work. I use Midnight Blue as my loco colour, but it looks good with Ivory on your coach. I see how you have centred the name on the coach cantrail, but possibly I would have separated the '&' from 'Bungay'; maybe as Beccles and Bungay Railway?
Keep it up ;)
Personally I never think that gloss finish looks good on models.
Perhaps it is just me but I do recall reading somewhere that in 4mm scale the reflections in a gloss surface finish would equate to about 3 inch thick varnish on a full size item or stock!
I personally think that satin or even matt finish looks better on models.
I think that most R-T-R manufactures think the same these days as none use gloss finish on their products.
As I said it could just be me but I personally think your very nice coach and brake van would look better with a satin or even matt finish to the paint.
But I guess it is all down to personal choice and if you like the way they look that
I haven't varnished over the decals yet, I will probably go with matt but I will try a bit first.
As you say I think gloss is to shiney.
Thank you for your thoughts
That's a very neat paint job. I think Brian is right - a semi-gloss or matt finish would look better for your final coat of varnish. I used gloss paint up to 25 years ago, but changed to semi-gloss on most models, and matt on goods stock. I still have one or two gloss locomotives left though.
I have given the items a matt varnish which I think makes them look better than the gloss.
the brake van
they look a lot better with the Matt varnish, looses the slightly "toy like" shine they had.
Looking very good. It brings out the detail. Nice close-up photos by the way.
thank you for the comments, i'll be doing a bit of weathering soon.
It will be nice to take some pics with some natural light, they have so far been taken about 9pm ish with just the light in the room.
I have lettered the open wagon (but not matt varnished it yet), not 100% sure whether I like it.
It looks fine to me!
What do you use to letter your stock?
Quote from: Ross Chapman on September 05, 2014, 10:44
It looks fine to me!
What do you use to letter your stock?
thanks, I think its growing on me!
The decals are by microscale.
The set i'm using is 90001 Railroad Roman letters and numbers white.
The only problem is i'm using lots of Bs so i'm on packet no2!
Well they look very smart Richard, keep up the good work!
thank you for the compliment, the decals take a bit of time applying being individual letters and numbers!
The land around the Ink Factory that the B&BR served was said to be polluted and even the River Waveney was reported to be discoloured because of the pollution. I have built a Meridian Models Water wagon to provide clean water to the factory and the managers house. I will do a couple more in the future.
I have decaled the other side of the open wagon and tried a different option as I wasn't sure about the smaller lettering.
I think I will vary the font size on different wagons. That will also help use up the different size letters on the decal sheet.
Quote from: cnw6847 on November 15, 2014, 09:46
The land around the Ink Factory that the B&BR served was said to be polluted and even the River Waveney was reported to be discoloured because of the pollution. I have built a Meridian Models Water wagon to provide clean water to the factory and the managers house.
Well, as long as the factory and manager's water wasn't polluted that was obviously okay! Presumably the Environment Agency wasn't around to force the factory to clean up in those days...
Keep up the good work,
David.
thanks David,
In reality the factory stopped making ink in 1892, I have said it remained open until just after WWII for the layout. I guess in the late 1800's there wasn't a lot of concern about pollution.
According to the little book I have it says that early yachting manuals warned sailors not to fill there water bottles in the area and it mentions that some people had black teeth due to their work their!
I had pre-ordered 2 Peco open wagons and 2 vans in unlettered grey.
Since ordering them I had decided to paint my stock brown so they have been through the paint shops.
Here they are ex-works with metal wheels and some lead weight fitted.
Very little progress over Christmas but today I set up my xmas pressie the Humbrol workstation.
Its very smart and on it is a Peco ex L&B coach and two Chivers Tramway coaches being painted up for the B&BR.