Highland Railway Drummond 0-4-4T Passenger Tank

Thanks Rob

The green is a little darker in the flesh - the flash seems to lighten the tone.

Ordered up the gaming metalic set from Vallejo, plus a Premium (60ml rather than the normal 17ml) of black, white and gloss.



Hopefully it should be useful.

Paul

 

Cheers Andy

Tried a second coat and is still too dark.

Checked with the "Highland Railway Liveries" by Howard Geddes and Eddie Bellas, and for the 1915 - 1922 period Body is Moss Green, with Vermillion buffer beams with Moss Green Buffer shanks.
As built (1905 - 06) they would have a body colour of Dark Olive Green, and the same applied to both buffer beams and buffer shanks, and may have had livery change to Light Moss Green between 1912 - 15, unlikely as few loco's were given this livery.

Suppose the question should be - how often did the railways repaint thier locomotives ?

Paul.

 

Ok so I've got too much time on my hands - the boss is busy today and it's raining outside - YES!!!! - I knew there was a good reason to live in Scotland

Delivery from Amazon

Two sets of metalic colours -

On the left the Model colour Metallic set - Art 70118
Contains
70-800 Gunmetal Blue
70-801 Brass
70-863 Gunmetal Grey
70-878 Old Gold
70-996 Gold
70-997 Silver
70-998 Bronze
70-999 Copper

On the right the Game Colour Metallic set - Art 72303
Contains
72-052 Silver
72-053 Chainmail silver
72-055 Polished Gold
72-056 Glorious Gold
72-057 Bright Bronze
72-058 Brassy Brass
72-059 Hammered Copper
72-060 Tinny Tin

All of these paints are designed for brush painting, but can be tinned for spraying.

The tests below are for the brass / copper colours.

I created a test card by spraying a piece of cardboard with Vallejo Grey Surface primer.
Then an additional 3 strips of colour, Vallejo White surface primer, Vallejo Premium Black Airbrush Colour, and Tamiya XF26 Deep green.

The next two pics show the result of brush painting the colour over the coloured backgrounds. The photo's were taken at slightly different angles no flash, but the light source is a cool white led lamp.

Only a single coat was applied, the Game colours seemed to go on thicker, that didn't suprise me as they are aimed at gamers - hence the more flowery names.

For the GWR readers that may accidentally landed on this post - firstly thank you, for a copper chimney I'd be tempted to go with the 72-059 Hammered Copper from the Game Color range on a green base coat, and highlighted with the 72-058 Brassy Brass also from the Game Color range, and you'll get away with one coat.

For the brass colour I'm after, mmmmm ........ I'm tending towards the 72-056 Glorious Gold from the Game Color range on a black or green base coat highlighted with either
70-801 Brass or 70-878 Old Gold from the Model Color range.

What do you think ?

Paul

 

Cheers Rob

I tried my selection of a base of Glorious Gold

Followed by a highlight coat of Brass

Still looked a little too coppery, so I applied another highlight coat of Polished Gold

Without flash - sorry for the camera shake

and with flash

On the photo without flash the colour looks very similar to the brass handrails.

All paint applied by brush.

Paul

 

A little more progress today, but generally more of a lazy day - need to enjoy it best as I can, as my daughter has informed I'm making her a greenhouse, and she already has the plants ready to go in - no pressure then. Does she not realise my gardening and construction skills lie in either 1:76 or 1:43 scales not 1:1

Cab interior masked out and two coats of Tamiya Buff applied by brush

A little cleaning up required, but almost ready for a gloss coat.

The roof was also painted black - Vallejo Premium Airbrush Black, neat from the bottle.

That leaves me with the real body to do.

Again using the Vallejo Black, the smoke box, footplate and underside were painted.

Just need to allow this to harden then mask up ready for the green body colour.
And decision time, do I paint it in the Dark Green for circa 1915 to 1922, or paint it Dark Olive Green (I've ordered up a pot of Railmatch SR Dark Olive green) circa 1905 to 1912.
Which would allow me to model the WW1 period.

The Vallejo paint gives nice coverage. I may try thiining it down, but have been warned its best to use Vallejo thinner as water and IPA don't work that well. No doubt I'll find a victim to test it on.

Paul

 

While playing I decided to create the whistle



Just need to print it now.

Need to create a folding vacuum pipe for the front - the original folds to allow the smokebox door to open. Then brackets for the front sandpipes

Paul

 

Hi Andy

Maybe a screw thread, rounded off and compressed.

Or make the main structure with a hole for a guitar string to be inserted for the hose, time for a bit of laying I think.

Paul

 

Hi Andy

Playing with 123D and trying to adapt this to try and form the hose.



Need to play more with it as I'm not getting it to follow the path correctly, but by doing a few donuts at a time (something I've always managed to cope with - especially sugar coated ring donuts), I can tweak, then do the next few.

Paul

 

oops forgot to include the screen shot as well for progress so far

 

Bit more progress



Just for a sense of scale



The inner tube diameter is 1mm

Paul

 

Almost there



Paul