Tunny nearing completion

The last week has been manic. Finishing off work for the xmas break, having to do the xmas shopping, and of course plenty of festive socialising has seen modelling placed well and truly of the back burner. However, work is now finished and I am hoping that tomorrow will see the end of the xmas shopping. I am planning a trip to Taw Valley Models to pick up some bits and bobs early in the morning. And then I plan to crack on with some modelling.


The partly painted tunny

One little project which received a little attention tonight was the tunny wagon. This is the chivers finelines kit, and is now largely painted. It is going to get a coast varnish to seal it, but then I need to wait for some transfers......it is so frustrating that getting transfers is such an issue at the moment. I can only hope that modelmaster decals final sort out their supply issues soon.


Just waiting for the transfers.......

The painting of the wagon was with lifecolour acrylics. It must have taken at least 10 coats of various colours to get the wagon to this stage. I intend to weather over the top of the transfers, so there will be a lot more grime to add this yet. I subsequently decided to buy another 3 of these wagons, one southern and two GWR types, for my rapidly growing engineering stock department. However, it seems that getting hold of the chivers finelines wagons is now just about impossible as well. This is really annoying as the chivers kits are excellent and I sincerely hope they will be available again soon. In the meantime I am scouring e-bay.

On other fronts and on a more positive note, the lighting kit turned up for the class 121 today from Express models. This project I now hope to finish over the xmas break..... fingers crossed