I have also put some paint on a couple of wagons and these are getting ready for transfers. The first of these is a VEA wagon that has been painted in bauxite and will have some railfreight transfers added. This is very much a work in progress, but I must admit I do like painting in bauxite; it produces a lovely deep shade that takes well to weathering. There is small gap at the ends and this should of have been filled during building, but I think this is a project that was started and then put down for months, before finishing and this went unnoticed. I am contemplating filling this before transfers. This is the first of three VEA wagons to be running on Pottington Quay.
The other project that has seen some paint progress is a 22t open wagon from the Parkside kit. The was another project started sometime ago before Bachmann delivered a RTR version. I have attempted to paint in some replacement planks in a different colour to the bauxite, before some weathering was applied over the top. This one is going for some varnish before transfers. Anyhow, this is the first update of many over summer, as I hope to have Pottington Quuay all up and running in the next six weeks.
I also had a parcel arrive in the post with some DCC concepts point levels and motors ready to finally wire up Pottington and the parcel also contained a new Heljan class 33 in BR blue. This is an utter belter of a locomotive and I going to see if I can fit DCC sound into this one. I can't wait to get this one into the workshop.
