A happy new year to one and all!
January seems to be flying by, with the return to work after the Xmas break. My rate of modelling progress equally seems to have slowed down now that normal life has resumed! Over the Xmas period I got quite a lot of modelling time and this allowed me to finish off various models. I am planning to build a small rake of vehicles for the engineers department, being box vans, older coaches and CCT / BY wagons, which have been removed from revenue earning service and taken into the engineering department. One of the pieces of rolling stock for this small rake that has been recently completed is a 12T fruit van that is now in the engineering department, painted in the olive green livery.
The wagon is the standard Slaters kit and was painted with the airbrush using Railmatch enamels, with transfers are from the Railtec range. The weathering on this wagon was quite light, meaning that the painting process was relatively quick. I am still finding my way through the process of weathering O gauge rolling stock - for some reason the methods that I applied on OO gauge rolling stock need to be adapted for the larger O gauge models. I think I am getting better at the O gauge stock but I a definitely still on a learning curve.
Anyhow, onwards and upwards. The BSK in olive green repaint has also been finished and I am currently weathering an Heljan CCT to add to this train, so before long I will have a semi-complete rake of engineers rolling stock to use! I am now focusing on some buildings for the layout, which I hope to completed in the next few weeks, alongside various pieces of detailing to put on the platform. The aim is to set up the layout sometime in February and add all these bits to the layout. There is also a piece of track that has been annoying me on the approach to the station, so I am going to bite the bullet and take it up. I know this will be a painful process but I think it is better to get it done now before the next bout of layout detailing.
