Sometimes life just gets in the way a little and any shape or form of modelling has ground to a rather unimpressive halt. I had plans at new year to finish quite a few projects, but little headway has been made! Fortunately, nothing stressful or negative has happened, it is just life has been too busy over the last couple of months leaving virtually zero time for modelling. However, today I fired up the airbrush for the first time in an age. There were a couple of wagons pretty much finished that needed a blast of varnish plus quite a few other wagons are nearing completion which need a bit of tidying up here and there. I have an exhibition coming up this week at East Grinsted, so I was hoping to get a few things finished for then, but I have run out of time.
Progress so far on the faded and chipped bodywork - taken in awful light!
Anyhow, pictured above is a Hornby BY wagon, called a passenger brake van C by Hornby. I had forgotten I had purchased this many years ago and found it a few months back whilst looking through the boxes of projects I have not yet got around to. I decided to have a really good go at doing some chipped and faded bodywork on this. So far this has been treated to some white paint stippled on from a paintbrush, with some removal via a cotton bud with white spirit. The wagon has had an all over wash of grime, before some work with the airbrush using faded BR blue and weathered black. There is a little weathering to go, but it is starting to shape up. Hopefully I can get this one finished soon.
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