Rustys workbench - builds and paints

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Wow, lovely. I don't know what else to say. Stunning locos.

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jwealleans wrote:Lovely. The forum always benefits from work of that quality.
Hear hear JW
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The GNR Brake Van is now in paint awaiting some weathering:

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Very neat indeed.

A couple of questions though: How widespread was the practice, according to date, of painting brake van handrails white? Were side riding lamp bodies ever red? I ask the latter because I instinctively painted some red but later information suggested to me that they were black.
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From memory - so treat with caution - riding lamps on passenger brakes were red for a time early in the LNER period but then went either black or body colour. Brake van lamps I thought were black.

What red oxide paint have you used? It comes up very brown on my monitor. Tidy job, though.
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I did wonder what colour the lamps were, on these vans they were fixed bodies if i understand it right and a lamp was put in from inside.

Not sure on the handrails either but once weathered they won't be so obvious.

The paint was a mixture of Railmatch LNER oxide and some sleeper grime i had laying around.

Will paint the lamp bodies black later tonight so thank you for the info folks.
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Got a quick job on it's a Mousa Models GCR D.7 Dropside wagon

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Got some work done last night:

1. Rivets punched out in the outer shell.

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2. Outer shell folded and Soldered:

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3. Inner shell folded and soldered alongside the outer:

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Inner and outer shells soldered together:

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Inner Solebars added and the outer cosmetic ones have already had the rivets punched out:

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Cosmetic (outer) Solebars added and the first of the end stanchions side already folded up:

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All 4 end stanchions sides added, the front faces now need to be folded up and added, this is a very long winded way of doing things and i would normally have used white metal castings:

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End stachions complete and buffer bodies added:

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First set of wheels and axle boxes added:

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Both wheelsets now fitted:

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Brakes started to be added:

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All Brake gear added:

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Buffers added and now in grey:

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Transfers on, will need to weather it down now:

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Now Weathered:

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GNR Brake van also toned down:

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Re: Rustys workbench - builds and paints

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On with the next wagon build, this time a Mousa Models GCR D.19 5 Plank coal wagon, so here is the result of the first evenings work:

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