A shark and a walrus

Another week passes, been working at home this week, but again modelling time has been less than I would like. However, the shark brake van is nearing completion, with some graffetti decals added and general weathering. It needs a little more to finish it, such as buffers and roof weathering, and a little dry brushing of weathering powders on the body sides. But it is coming along nicely and I am happy with the result. One of the transfers did not take properly so more weathering was undertaken to disguise this. I will see if that worked properly tomorrow.

Another project that is nearing completion is the first of the two walrus wagons I am building. This has been a really interesting paint job, using many coats suitably thinned from a variety of colours including olive green, dark rust, light rust, sleepr grime and underframe dirt. One final coat of weathering frame dirt was applied to the exterior of the body. This just leaves the final details to pick out, such as finishing the bogies, hand rails, etc. This is the first of two walrus wagons and two whale wagons that will be used with the sealions/seacows on my layout, combined with some dogfish, catfish, mermaids, etc.

I also took apart an intercity Mk1 BSK this evening. This is also going to be given a light weathering job, again using some of George Dent's weathering tips. I might even try to the tee cut trick, see how that goes. The doorframes on the rbr stand out, so I am going to weather these as well. The class 08 lighting kit, class 20 weathering job and building the class 119 as ever rest on the sidleines, so I hope to get these moving before xmas!

I am also planning to build an LMS CCT, southern CCT and southern PMV in BR blue, combined with a ratio coach B, to be used as a little engineers train/tool store. These will be the main projects combined with building the scenary on Amberleigh. I ordered some plaster bandage and woodlands scenics materials from MG sharp models to start building the scenic section of Amberleigh, only to find out after ordering that they are on back order. I find this very frustrating as they are registered as in stock. I planned to do this with my son over the weekend, but this will now have to wait. My son is building a cambrian OTA A wagon at the moment so I think we will push on with that instead.