I returned from my work trip to Africa earlier in December, and a months break from modelling really arrested any momentum I had with projects. Since returning though I have slowly started to get back into the swing of modelling and the paintshop over the last week has been pretty busy. I have 2 CCTs and 12t fish wagon all nearing completion, although the 12t fish wagon has had some horrible silvering on the transfers....I am not quite sure why this has happened as they were applied to a gloss surface, using micro set/sol. One of today's tasks is to attempt to fix this issue.
16t mineral wagon
Anyhow, earlier in the week I got out my 16t mineral wagon and took a couple of better snaps of it. This one is another wagon for Pottington Quay when it comes out of storage (which is only a few months away!!). It was also my birthday in November and a late birthday present arrived - which was an 0 gauge Heljan dogfish. This is a pretty good wagon - although the font on the data panel looks wrong to me (others have commented in this too), so I might replace this with some Railtec transfers.
0 gauge Heljan dogfish
This model will go with the 0 gauge grampus, which has now reached the transfers stage, and the 13t sand wagon is now in the paintshop. These wagons will form the basis of a new 0 gauge micro layout and I aim to keep building new wagons throughout next year, and finishing some old ones - not least the 25t Pillbox brake van, started this time last year. Whilst I still really enjoy 00 modelling I am finding myself more and more interested in 0 gauge modelling - and am looking forward to the Dapol 08 so I can have something to shunt these wagons around with.
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