Nice work!!! Tac
Looks great tac. Throw a nice black wash on that and it will look nice and used 
Fust I’ve got to colour it in the right shade of worn-out oxide red, as near as I can get it to the rest of the flat - THEN I’ll get out the washes and pastels…
I’ll post them up, too, via the usual helpers here, bless 'em.
Best to all
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Great job Tac
Looks Really inspiring, keep posting coloring pictures
Dennis
If the rain and 100mph+ gales stop, that’s what I’ll be doing today. No garage to work in, y’see. No cellar either.
THIS is UK we’re talking about here.
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Old Mill Lumbering Boys
'kay, finally got around to starting the painting this aftenoom, after it stopped raining. Needless to say, it now needs some serious dirtying-up, which is next on the agenda. I found some antiqued chain in the local HobbtCraft, and dirtied it up some more in brass-black and a toothbrush, plus lots of other pieces of tools and such that Richard gave me a while back. The front box is 'secured with DSST, but the cabin is held on by tight-fitting lugs, as is the roof. the plan is to install a lighting set for the markers and a glimmer inside - maybe even a smoke generator.
I’m doing an article for the UK’s Garden Rail magazine, since I got a ‘shrug’/ignore from my last effort to impress Klambake’s magazine a couple of years back when I scratched another car.
Who need pesky ‘furriners’ and their articles when there are so many from the home country?
Hmmmm.
Anyhow, plan is to really get down and dirty this coming Thursday or Friday, and before somebody tells me, yes, I DO know that couplers are NEVER painted, so that cracks can show. Trust me, they’ll look like real metal couplers when I’m done.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Wow, awesome!
Sir, you are too kind to an old f*rt with little else to do but wait for the last train…
tac
OVGRS
Super build, TAC.
That is a great looking car!! Super job, TAC.
tac Foley said:
Thanks - just a few coffee stirrers,
and not just any coffee stirrers, those are gen-ewe-wine Starbucks coffee stirrers…
Hand stolen, too.
tac
OVGRS et al
Thing about these multi-material scratchbuilds is they also have an esthetic appeal in their raw materials. They look good naked and painted both but you can’t have it both ways.
He’s at it again…building with “Bilge Water stir sticks”…another van (Caboose)
tac Foley said:
Hand stolen, too.
tac
OVGRS et al
You did remember to file off the serial numbers this time, didn’t you? The last time you forgot, we almost didn’t raise the bail money. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-money-mouth.gif)
Not to worry, Steve old floon. THIS time I nipped off the end with the serial numbers on, just in case. I’m going to have to bite the bullet with the low-profile trucks needed for this low-slung veeHicle, and put smaller wheels on it as well as cut down on the bolster somewhat. Thankishly, we don’t have any curves less than about 10 foot radius, so getting them to actually ‘truck’ won’t make a problem for me.
I just might leave this one as plain old varnished wood, after all, that’s zackly what it is, right? Any unevenness will be prototypical of any similarly agéd wooden item of rolling stock, and I happen to think that it would actually look more impressive like that, as too.
I’m open to hearing your views on the matter, too, since this is a forum where just about anything like this can be discussed without folks getting hissy about a comment.
HNY2E!!!
tac, ig, ken the GFT and the Lack of Paintshop Boys
Hey Tac…Waitrose s/market coffee shop has thin long sticks!
Ross Mansell said:
Hey Tac…Waitrose s/market coffee shop has thin long sticks!
Hey, we don’t live in the POSH part of UK where you do. The local Starcost is a cardboard box with a tin cup on string tied to one corner - no ‘supermarkets’ here, Sir.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS