4mm Shrewsbury’s big beast: early season wasps
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AJC
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Track trials: the six year old complains that it’s too slow. The Escap-powered J72 also available was much more his thing. It hasn’t fallen off, yet, the compensation works and I don’t think the rods clout the steps.
Onwards!
Adam
EDIT - post running examination shows that the flycranks on one side were close enough on curves to take the paint off but not impeded running. A file has been deployed...
Onwards!
Adam
EDIT - post running examination shows that the flycranks on one side were close enough on curves to take the paint off but not impeded running. A file has been deployed...
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AJC
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And now, finally, finally(!), it’s ready for grey primer.
The body is too, but before that, note the steam brake cylinders (mounted on the ends of the actuation arms but not attached to the outside frames), and sand pipes (soldered on to the brake rigging and let into oversized holes in the sandboxes). A bit of a jigsaw.
All very pleasing, but far from quick!
Adam
The body is too, but before that, note the steam brake cylinders (mounted on the ends of the actuation arms but not attached to the outside frames), and sand pipes (soldered on to the brake rigging and let into oversized holes in the sandboxes). A bit of a jigsaw.
All very pleasing, but far from quick!
Adam
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AJC
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First stages of painting. The loco is going to be painted as one of the trio bought for use at East Moors steelworks in Cardiff. These had relatievly short lives there, but got full repaints fairly early on (the were delivered in dark green, I think). This Austerity (picture by John Wiltshire in Peter Brabham’s galleries on Flickr), gives you an idea:
So, wasp-stripes on each nose, red buffer beams and the remainder black, lined in yellow.
First pass at undercoats here - I have straightened that window up since...
Adam
So, wasp-stripes on each nose, red buffer beams and the remainder black, lined in yellow.
First pass at undercoats here - I have straightened that window up since...
Adam
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Yorkshire Dave
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Couldn't you use black decal strips/stripes?
Locomotive Shunter Chevrons (wasp stripes)
Lining in black - 298mm x 2.5mm
AJC
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Yes, and while they get around one set of problems, they are not a quick solution and for several reasons are a poor match for the real thing in this case. The painters at East Moors were a little bit uneven for a start. The other factor is that the transfers are very black rather than ever so slightly faded which is what I’m after. So lots of thin slices of tape it is.
Adam
AJC
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As delivered they were dark green with black details which would have been *much easier*. The Dorman Long ones were the same, but had horrid low cabs, dumb buffers and so on. So, had I wanted an easy life...
Adam
AJC
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It is not easy, especially because I have only a handful of pictures and the painters at East Moors did each one of the three they had slightly differently. Naturally, being Sentinel steam locos, each was subtly different anyway. This one is based on S3/103/wks number 9606. Yes, the wasps are slightly ragged, but weathering will address the worst of that, the slight unevenness is per the real thing, as noted above. Partly because I am full of cold, and partly because this is hard, the stripes are being done in stages. This is the result of stages one and two, there will be at least two more at this end alone...
Adam
PS: the stripes at the other end? Those are different in width to the ones at this end.
Adam
PS: the stripes at the other end? Those are different in width to the ones at this end.
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simond
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I too am full of cold and am very fed up with it. It must be a Kent thing.
Stripes are a pain, I only needed to do the ”Mavis” (pictures somewhere on your other thread, I think) for young MasterD some 25 years ago, and was able to cut a 10 thou plasticard stencil, but the model was basically flat - and have stayed away ever since. Yours are more difficult by several magnitudes, and look very good.
Get well soon
S
Stripes are a pain, I only needed to do the ”Mavis” (pictures somewhere on your other thread, I think) for young MasterD some 25 years ago, and was able to cut a 10 thou plasticard stencil, but the model was basically flat - and have stayed away ever since. Yours are more difficult by several magnitudes, and look very good.
Get well soon
S
AJC
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Interesting! This is not something that had occurred to me, but I can see how that would work, especially with yellows which have a hint of orange. Yellow is much easier with an airbrush, of course...
Adam
