It has ages since my last post. A combination of being away and a broken camera put pay to my modelling and blogging activities recently. After a lovely family wedding last weekend I got home last week. This has allowed me to finish at least one of my current projects which is a 13t open wagon which has been drafted into the southern region engineering stock in the 1970s/80s for transfer of spoil and aggregates.
It was a fairly simple project, building the parkside wagon kit for the 13t open wagon (diag 1/041), with only some metal buffers added to the build. After priming it was painted with light rust and weathered black. The transfers are standard Model Master ones, and the underframe had a light dusting of frame dirt over the chassis, after the transfers had been sealed with matt varnish. The whole wagon was given a sealing coast of satin varnish and there you have it. Another wagon to put into my varied mix of engineering stock.
I have a sturgeon and GWR tunny on my desk at the moment, and I also have the transfers for the tunny wagons (CCT transfers thank you!!), so hopefully I can finish a couple more wagons off over the next couple of weeks. I also plan a day or two on my stalled class 119 DMU. Incidentally, the news from Bachmann that they are releasing a class 101 DMU is welcome news to me, I just wonder if I can persuade them to also do a class 120 DMU too...
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