Sturgeon, GWR tunny, SR tunny and a 21t departmental wagon

Whilst finishing off my class 25 over the last few months a few other projects have been ticking away quietly in the background. These have mainly involved building a few more wagons for my ever expanding departmental fleet of rolling stock.

Currently in construction is a 21t mineral wagon (Parkside) and a sturgeon wagon (Cambrian). The sturgeon build is taking a while and I have built it slightly differently to the instructions - but so far so good. It is going to require a bit of filler though I think. The 21t wagon is nearly done - I am just waiting on couplings then I will give it a wash and a coat of primer.

The two other wagons are an SR tunny wagon and a GWR tunny wagon. The SR wagon has had it transfers applied this week and I will give it a blast of acrylic varnish this morning. The GWR tunny is painted, but requires a gloss varnish fir the transfers t adhere too. Hopefully, a further update on these wagons in a finished state before long.

Sturgeon

SR Tunny

GWR tunny

21t mineral wagon

Bachmann class 25 repaint finished (updated!)

As described yesterday I have finally got around to finishing the next class 25 for my layout. This project was a complete paintstrip and re-paint, the locomotive being a bargain for £30 from my local model shop second hand. This included a pre-fitterd decoder as well! This is the older Bachmann model without working lights and 8 pin decoder socket. It runs superbly well and now I hope looks the part to.

With this locomotive I attempted to develop a faded paint look, started by using a weathered black pre-shading. The BR blue was then about 3 coats of BR blue shades mixed to varying degrees of being faded and applied in an uneven manner over the top this pre-shading. The decals were modelmaster ones, again not perfectly applied, but acceptable. I have now invested in some microsol/set - hopefully this will improve the look of future projects.

Weathered/repainted class 25 at Georgeham Halt running light

Lastly a light weathering job was airbrushed over the top of the locomotive after adding the decals. All the livery and weathering was undertaken using railmatch enamels. All in all I now 90% happy with this one - I am especially pleased with how the BR blue livery looks faded over the body side. Another model complete and onto the next project today - which will be finally be adding some decals to the tunny wagons - more progress reports to follow soon I hope.

And finished class 25

The original Bachmann paint job

The BR blue livery during application before transfers

13t open wagon

Hi all. Apologies for the lack of recent posting - the xmas period and the flu have put pay to a lot of plans! Anyhow, as things settle down in the new year hopefully some semblance of normality will return. Unfortunately, I made no progress with the track laying on Pottington Quay over xmas - which was one of my key tasks to complete. Several smaller projects are now reaching completion, but I have nowhere to run my trains except my small Georgeham.

Shunting at Georgeham at night

One small project that recently finished was the weathering of a small 13t high sided open wagon. This is the Bachmann model in late bauxite livery, which has now been seconded into my department stock. A simple little project really, just change the couplings and several layers of weathering via the air brush.

Finished 13t wagon

More excitingly(!) I have just about finished my class 25 - this will appear soon. Just reassembly to go. Hopefully, I can get this finished in the next week. The sturgeon wagon and class 50 are also progressing well, so hopefully more to report soon. I have also noticed that Dapol are producing a class 121 single car DMU. In my opinion it is high time that a major manufacturer produced a top-end model of this DMU - I am looking forward to the deliver of this model and getting a few for myself. Now who is going to produce a cross country class 120 unit....