Somewhere SW of London. Somewhen before today

Main line steam occasionally visits Waddlemarsh. Here a “West Country” class departs tender-first towing just a single van. 

I must admit Rick - you have a way with photos and weathering.  Great shots of a great looking layout.  :thumbs

Now that is really great looking.
Clever work, Rick.

A little work was completed today weathering the chain-link fence which runs alongside the railway for the length of the goods yard.  

The paint mix is 4 parts Woodland Scenics Raw Umber, 1 part Woodland Scenics Black and 1 part Railmatch Rust. This was carefully let down a drop at a time with wet water until reaching an airbrush consistency - that of milk.  

The mesh was painted using a wet no.12 flat Renoir brush. Corners were touched in using a round no.10 Renoir.  

The posts, previously painted in Railmatch concrete beforeassembly and fitting, were then dry-brushed with the no.10.  

The “before and after” difference is intentionally subtle. 










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Two more trains. 

Electro-diesel class JB (or class 73 for those with shorter memories) E6007 waits to depart in charge of a mixed freight. 



While the weathering is shown to good effect around the front end of a Standard 2-6-4T tank shunting an SR PMV (Parcels and Miscellaneous Van) marked as a bicycle van. 

Amazing work as always, especially the fence. I’ll have to give that one a go. 

The 2-6-4 T is my favourite locomotive, they pulled my Dad's commuter train.
As a boy I would watch them at Benfleet station from either the bridge or by the level crossing gates - which gave the best view of the motion at the cost of the mega loud steam blast.
Can still smell them now.

I can only add to everyone else's comments, the detail is great, the fence is so very good and the weathering is first class!
Michael

The shot with the blue Diesel-Electric shows how the fencing gives some great depth of field to the whole setting. Very effective, well done.

Wot 'e said.

80120 on yard duties today. The track is steadily gaining a wash of grime. 

Looking good as usual. Re the loco crew. Do you find the 00 size too big?  I've just got some HO from Hardys Hobbies because I couldn't even get OO ones in to the cabs, them being too tall.

[user=1120]peterm[/user] wrote:

Looking good as usual. Re the loco crew. Do you find the 00 size too big?  I've just got some HO from Hardys Hobbies because I couldn't even get OO ones in to the cabs, them being too tall.

This is an puzzle for me as well. Found just the same when I started fitting crew so I did some measurements.Upright crew measured up correctly for "typical for the era" viz 5'8" or 5'9" (by my guess) yet still seemed way over scale installed your average tank engine cab then barely fitting in a Terrier.

I have been know to give the odd one a "footectomy" or two to fix the problem :mrgreen:

Probably would be less of an issue for "Driver seated on Regulator" or "Driver leaning cab-side" figures or Fireman shovelling (my favourite way of fixing his over-height problem).

For steam locos I often cut and rejoin as upper torso is all that's visible with cab doors blocking down below.
 

Yes I'll be doing some foot and legotomy even with the HO figures to suit my Southern loco's. The D class must have been really tight in real life as would the terriers.

Hi Rick. I also found that I had trouble with coach passengers, but, I then purchased a Modelu guard, the one hanging over the back of a brakevan, but I have misplaced him.   Best wishes Kevin 

I find it’s some and some with the people. OO Bachmann steam crew as I use here are just about ok though some smaller locos might benefit from HO crew.

Elsewhere many of my people are HO and have to be placed carefully to avoid upsetting the appearance of scale. But on the other hand their careful use alongside OO figures can also be used to force perspective.

[user=1120]peterm[/user] wrote:

Yes I'll be doing some foot and legotomy even with the HO figures to suit my Southern loco's. The D class must have been really tight in real life as would the terriers.

Hardest of the lot to crew realistically have been the Beattie well tanks. Not only diminutive but with the splasher intruding into the cab space. It took several attempts to achieve the correct (and awkward) angled “legotomy” but success paid dividends. 

One wonders, given that everything is supposed to be the same scale, why people are so difficult to fit in.  In the real world, there's usually adequate space.  If, as Colin said, he's measured people at around 5ft 8 ins tall, are the loco cabs and coach seats under scale ?

Scale is a funny thing. We perceive things as too big or small relative to each other yet when measured they are a perfect fit. Steam locomotive cabs are not as spacious as our memories perhaps suggest. Many of us may have stood - even worked - in one and thought how little actual space there sometimes is. Modern traction drivers are normally seated and here the limitations of modelling come into play as we always have to perform radical surgery to our model train crew to fit behind the console yet once the job is done they normally look quite at home and “right size”. 

Meanwhile it is Sunday morning on the yard allotments and with no trains moving there is time to catch up on other things. 

The extra filth around the points and the levers look really good. Plenty of honey, pumpkin and beans to go round too.

I've got a Beattie well tank and tried to get the roof off to aid in the fitting of crew, but couldn't manage it. Maybe I'll try again when I've plucked up courage.