So this weekend the layout still did not make an appearance! Instead I have pushed a few models in the paintshop forwards a little, whilst waiting for next weekend for a full hit at the layout detailing. One of the projects I wanted to finish before the layout reappears is a Dapol class 22 in BR blue livery. The original body shell was subjected to an all over wash of heavily thinned frame dirt/weathered black. As with the Dapol class 122, this wash attacked the Dapol paint finish. I was less worried about this on this body shell, as the locomotive was due for a heavy weathered finished, depicting the locomotive right at the end of its (short) working life.
Factory finished on the locomotive, pictured some time ago whilst running in on Charlton.
Class 22 with the finished paint job. Only reassembly to go.
Class 22s were fairly regular turns on the Barnstaple/Ilfracombe/Torrington branch lines in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and they looked in pretty shabby condition. The locomotives as pictured had a distinctive area of removed/weathered body paint at the centre of the body, and I have attempted to recreate this on my model. Weathering followed the standard route of using Railmatch enamels to create a patchwork of faded paint, rescuing to do some degree the fading on the Dapol finish caused by the weathering wash. Then various shades of frame dirt, weathered black and sleeper grime were used to weather the underframe and the bogies. As per normal all paintwork was undertaken using my Iwata air brush.
The discoloured removed paint on the centre of the body is clearly visible here.
One of the weathered bogies.
I have a Howes DCC sound decoder ready to go into this locomotive alongside a Roads and Rails double Iphone 6 speaker. The speaker needs to be soldered to the sound decoder and the locomotive needs to be reassembled, with the glazing, bogies and cabs requiring reassembly. So this is a job for the evenings this week.
My first attempt at repainting and weathering a locomotive using an airbrush. Whilst I was delighted with this at the time, with reflection it is a pint heavy!
Another little project that has made some progress this weekend is a long time class 25 repaint. This model was featured a long time ago after stripping in 2016 (see May 2017 post), and was my first attempt at repainting a locomotive. Over the last weeks I have primed this locomotive and pre-shaded the model with some weathered black. I painted the ends first using faded yellow, before masking and applying some mixes of coats of faded BR blue. With this locomotive I want to recreate a faded but clean BR blue finish.
Some wobbly edges!
So more masking and repainting on this locomotive.
However, after removing the masking yesterday there had clearly been a disaster. I used some very old masking tape and this had not retained its stickiness (I suspected this at the time but decided to press on). This resulted in some very messy edges between the faded yellow and BR blue. So today I purchased some new Tamiya masking tape, and remasked the model for respraying these bad edges with faded yellow. Anyhow onwards and upwards with this project, with the respraying of this model scheduled for the next couple of weeks. If this finish turns out well I will treat this locomotive to a new DCC sound decoder.....if it doesn't go so well.....well the sound decoder can go into another class 25!
Lesson learnt - it is always worth using new masking tape that is still sticky!
Remasked body shell ready for respraying.
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