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milocomarty
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 Posted - 09/01/2011 : 06:58:24 AM
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Originally posted by andykins
thanks martin!
You're welcome Andy, have fun with the static grasses  Do use hairspray or matte clear laquer as a final coat. Haven't tried sprayglue for static grass tho, wonder if it conducts ? |
Grtz Martin..
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/01/2011 : 10:20:50 AM
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| thanks will try them out, but got to wait another 2-3 weeks for everything! wont send out what he has in stock now and send whats to come later.... you'd think after the money ive just spent they would, oh well kinda used to it now. |
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/07/2011 : 06:44:16 AM
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sorry for the lack of updates, not alot going on, basicly waiting on stuff.
however i spoke to a friend about doing some standard gauge trucks as loads on flat cars, he had replaced most of his o gauge trucks with better ones, so had a few knocking about and handed me a set of what i think where atlas trainman trucks, all shiny and black. i had to look up the date of those trucks and it turns out thay started making them in 1955, so would be brand new in my layouts time frame, but could i find any prototype photos of brand new trucks? nope, so a bit of guess work/what ive seen in the uk.
base coat of black, cheap craft, then a wash of black and white mixed together for a very dark grey, then not quite drybrushed a mix of german camo black brown and black grey by vallejo (that mix makes for a wonderful bare metal colour) the wheels where painted silver, then again not quite dry brushed with a brighter rust colour, i used to work in the carriage and wagon dpt at the bluebell railway and remember seeing brand new wheelsets turning rusty in a matter of weeks so went with that.
after all of that i used the tamyia weather powders to high light the high points, then gave it a dullcote (after this photo was taken)
they look ok to me, and once ive sorted a couple flat cars out should make for a neat load.
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Geezer
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/07/2011 : 09:52:13 AM
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thanks bill!
ive started work ont he flat cars these will sit on.
thanks for the advise about the blocks and chain, question, where dose the chain run to? dos it go to the steakpockets or onto eyebolts or what? |
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Geezer
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milocomarty
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/08/2011 : 07:53:30 AM
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thanks again bill, and thanks martin. i get the feeling you just have chairs in my thread :P
just for size compaison and to show you one of the flat cars im working on here is the truck on one of larrys cast flat car frames
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BBLmber
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Posted - 09/08/2011 : 08:02:04 AM
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Looking good Andy, be sure and center that load when you fasten her down.
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Geezer
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/08/2011 : 09:53:50 AM
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thanks! but i have to mark, even in model form these are enough to tip the cars over a bit :P
yeah shes pesky like that bill :P shes old, but she likes to think she owns the house, but yeah they are great ive got a load from a swop we did a while ago, just handy to have around, saves having to screatch build them :D |
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/19/2011 : 10:13:16 AM
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well here is one of the flat cars, both are at the same stage, just waiting on one side of each car's decals to set, then i can dullcoat them and carry on. need to find some wood for the decking.
still think the numbers are a touch large, but they are all i have at the moment. |
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milocomarty
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/19/2011 : 3:52:17 PM
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| i think 1"x6" is whats used, i'll bung some on the next time i do an order at somepoint. i painted them both in different colours, both polys, one of the denver's railroads frieght car brown, and the other is something like light fright car brown, both look pretty simular. try and get a snap tomorrow that gets the colour right |
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andykins
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/23/2011 : 05:14:09 AM
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so last couple days ive been playing around with my new grassmaster. its a beast.
last time i used one all we did was put down one layer of the neon green grass on a friends layout, because that the time all you could get was neon green grass... so while i had a rough idea on the use, still pently to learn. this is what iv come up with so far
patch on the left is a mix of a brighter green (that i brought cheap) with some lighter hay colour mixed in at a ratio of about 5:1 its ok, bit bright IMHO, i added an extra layer (made of the ame mix) with watered down PVA glue missed on top, its hard to see in this photo, but its at the bottom of the photo, should be clearer in the next photo.
see?
on the right is a 4 to 1 ratio of silfor early autumn green 4.5mm and late autumn/winter 6mm, a much nicer colour IMHO but i added an extra layer useing roughly the same mix, but there are two, one small strip right at the back with neat PVA this didnt work at all. and another right in front with sprey glue, this has worked, but has stayed "tacky" and will attarct dust like your mums best china figure. so would need to be sealed with something, worked ok, and maybe ideal for small patcheds, but the watered down PVA glue has seamed to work the best.
id like to try matte medium, however money being what it is, i can spare a £10 just now, not to add i have so few patches i wish to double and maybe tripple up not sure its worth it. more so since it seams watered down PVA has worked fairly well.
but heres my problem (and hopefuly where someone can help me) all my tests of doubleing up, have been hoovered and loose fibers collected, however some fibers still remain loose and can be pulled out with little effort with my fingers, at 1st i thought this was just because of what i had used to double layers up, however the same can be said for where i have a single layer, fixed down with neat-kinda tacky PVA glue, i must admit i did not put a very thick layer of glue down and i wonder if this has playd a part?
in an effort to try things out, the sample on the left, has had another over all mist of watery PVA, and the one on the right, a quick sprey with dullcote, wont check in on them till much later but both work for me if they happen to hold loose fibers in, luckly for me with such a small area to grass and even smaller to double up the coast of dullcote is not an issue (i have 4 cans anyway, 1 half used)
just one more
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numpty's creek narrow gauge RR
