The maintenence wagon is basically a flat with ends, the ends being supported by bent steel strip along the sides. The strips are, like the rest of the wagon, whitemetal and therefore rather heavy in appearence, due to the material used rather than the patternmaking. I replaced the castings with 1mm x .4mm brass strip. Before bending and glueing in place I drilled holes in the middle and ends, once glued these holes were drilled through into the wagon body and brass rod glued into them to add strength and represent bolt heads;
The flat wagon is just the same, but without the ends.
Axleboxes are seperate castings, I fitted one side before painting and glued the second side in afterwards trapping the wheelset in place.
The photos that I've seen of full size wagons show them to be red oxide, so I used red oxide Hycote auto primer straight from the can. The decks are bare wood, and for them I used Lifecolor's Weathered Wood acrylic set. Painting is my achilles heel and I'm no artist so using a set like that makes choosing colours far easier. I used a photo in Gordon & Ann Hatherhill's 'Slate Quarry Album' for painting inspiration, but I'm not sure if I've captured the wood correctly. An airbrushed coat of Phoenix Precision matt varnish finishes things off.
Couplings are also RT Models, with the larger loops. I like etched couplers which I find to be far more discreet than the big plastic Bemo items we all used in the past. They're still a bit big though.
Paul.
Nice to see some built Paul. I made the masters (strictly to RT's spec.!) ages ago!
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I'm rather pleased with these two Martin (although I'm not sure about my attempt at painted wood), in fact the maintenence wagon is my favourite OO9 wagon so far. The axleboxes are particulary neat castings.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like them, Paul
ReplyDeleteI like these very much, too. I have stockpiled some RT models items for when I might actually have some time...well done with the masters, Martin. Going by some wooden floored wagons on the FR I would say that the wood weathers more to a silver-grey, but your paint job looks very fine Paul.
ReplyDeleteYour probably right Iain, I did try to copy a photo but those floors, although passable, still don't look quite right to my eye. Still, I'm not changing them now just in case I mess them up.
ReplyDeletePainting and weathering really is my weakness, hopefully one that will inprove with practice. I think that I'll have to get out with the camera and take lots of photos of aged wood, lorry beds for example, to work from.
If it's any help, I usually paint the "wood" a dark grey colour, then lightly dry-brush a lighter grey with just a touch of silver in it. This brings out the grain nicely. I think that your flat beds look great if they are to represent new wood, though.
ReplyDeleteThanks Iain, I'll try that (but not on these two!).
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