GWR O gauge open wagon weathering.

Back in December I visited Doncaster toy and train fair and I picked up a couple of GWR open wagons, really nice but way out of the era and area I am modelling.



So the first thing I did was to attack the paint and decals with my fibre glass pen.



I left part of the "W" as it will show through the paint as worn and weathered.



Next I masked of the upper body and sprayed the chassis matt black.





I picked out the iron work in a dirty grey black then painted most of the planking bauxite, leaving some to be painted as new timber, which is about as far as I have got at the moment, as I need to get some meths to fix the new lettering.







I have painted the inside and once the lettering is on I will give it some more weathering with dirt washes and powders.

Cheers, Pete.

 

Hi Tom, yes I,m going to use weathering powders but I have a little more work to do on it first. There is a very good book called Weathering techniques by Martin Welche that I am using I highly recommend it.

Pete.

 

Later, much later I,ve acquired some meths and have fixed my decals.



Next up I slapped on some Modelmates weathering wash, whilst still damp I put some powders on.





At the same time I attacked another wooden bodied wagon in basically the same way.



3 down loads more to do, I,ve not started the other GWR wagon yet, think I will do that next.

Cheers for now, Pete.

 

Kimbo wrote:

Hi Kim, no its a Colin Ashby kit made many years ago and sadly no longer made, they were basic and rewarded finessing, they were also really cheap for an O scale kit, if I remember right they cost about £10/£12, A$20ish, I would like to find out what happened to the moulds .

 

Thanks Tom, still got loads to do yet, I just wish I could concentrate on one thing at a time , easily distracted me!

Hi Kim, very interesting links there, I can attest to the state of the plastic mouldings on the wagon underframes, I may still have some in my naughty drawer in the shed, I will have a look and take some photos if I have.

Pete.

 

I have a couple more wagons to do once I have sorted my shed out, some of you may recall my other hobby, restoring vintage stationary engines, well at the moment my shed/workshop resembles a scrapyard with bits of engines all over the place, hopefully one of them will be finished soon and I can get some work space back and restart modelling, I have also treated myself to a new airbrush and I,m itching to use it, a wagon weathering would be an ideal start.

Pete.