Painting the Rolling Stock for Halsferran Cove

[Ken Davidge]

A really good day with a good number of wagons built and painted. An open wagon with higher rails used for apples when in season and sometimes sheep. 2 vans for use by the Cider Works sprayed in grey primer and then red primer to give a bauxite colour. 3 tippler opens used for the transport of red and green stone (serpentine). I am hoping to have an interchange siding with the standard gauge people. The one ready built wagon is a Bachmann WD hospital coach, soon to be an ex WD coach. A small black open used for coal transport to Halsferran Cove for the local tank. 1 of 2 tanks being built for the Cider Works for selling cider in bulk and finally a brake van waiting for windows and a guard.
All wagons are usually sprayed with grey primer then painted with 1 to 2 coats of finish coat. These are usually Halfords Car Spray but I also use ArtFX also from Halfords. It is a nice paint with a good smooth, matte finish.
The Airfix pug conversion has a thin coat of grey primer mainly to show up poorly finished areas. This loco will be weighted and will be used to shunt in and out of the cider works which is a few feet above the main street. As usual I've added some photos.

[MickT]

That's an excellent day's work Ken!

Would it be possible to post slightly larger photos of your models? These are just 320 pixels wide which makes it very difficult to see much on a standard sized screen. 800 wide (x600 deep for a standard sized non-cropped image) is the usual protocol for online posting and will normally get get you a good size on-screen image for around 100 to 150Kb, many are now preferring 1024 wide or therabouts but I always go for 800 as it appears to be acceptable for all viewing platforms without having to scroll to see the whole image.

Mick

[Ken Davidge]

Thanks Mick I will do so. Ken