Replicating real life
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Jaz avalley
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Goathland station
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Goathland cattlegrid
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trailrider
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Very nice!
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FYI for clarification i do not make the buildings I buy them i my upgrade them lightly but their re pre-made.
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Plant machinery, I bought the model, and only weathered
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again bought, decent model but not great paint job so weathered
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and again plastic model easily upgraded
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Find the right material nd you can get one great result, from foam to wall
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I can source detailing, it often has good detail, but is let down by a poor paint job, so when looking at detailing in packet gave a good look and consider if you can upgrade it easily
Bachmann makes a dodgy looking IBC but a bit if paint raises the realism
the real thing left out to weather
the Bachmann product lacks ‘the look’
but sone red black and silver paint improve them no end
placed on a layout with similarly upgraded bits and bobs,
and I tell you honestly this was a quick slap on job
Bachmann makes a dodgy looking IBC but a bit if paint raises the realism
the real thing left out to weather
the Bachmann product lacks ‘the look’
but sone red black and silver paint improve them no end
placed on a layout with similarly upgraded bits and bobs,
and I tell you honestly this was a quick slap on job
Jaz avalley
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Pallets, another item we see that responds to a bit of love and attention, just add either grey for aged or brown for reasonably new or thinned black for dirt and just dab it on, in the UK there is a company that rents them out and they paint them blue so easy to identify
blurring the picture hides most issues
a little distance improves then
the paint job does not need to be anything clever
load them up like in real life helps
A real aged item
blurring the picture hides most issues
a little distance improves then
the paint job does not need to be anything clever
load them up like in real life helps
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when ever I model something there is usually a bit left over, and I hate wastage, nowadays binbags are everywhere, so you can add masses of them
i rolled them used a toothpick and painted them, placed in appropriate places there are easily recognised
skips,bins,places where binbags are dumped,if you are feeling creative you can model ripped bags, even the bins
i rolled them used a toothpick and painted them, placed in appropriate places there are easily recognised
skips,bins,places where binbags are dumped,if you are feeling creative you can model ripped bags, even the bins
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Colour in my opinion is one if not the most Important issue in modelling, sometimes I look at something and see the potential for improving it, you can do physical features, and it will vastly improve a model, but you can colour and improve for less effort and less cost, and if you trial the easy stuff you can build up confidence to the more difficult stuff.
This little loco is a dead cheap Hornby model,
the livery is frankly tacky,
the interior unloved
i did a little research and found a similar model in real life, decided on green, and just slapped sone paint on by hand
the front and back buffers got a lick of red
the horrible black plastic got a black paint job
compared to a similar plastic model
there’s detail in the cab totally ignored, and I added sone red and white to the lamps, a perfectionist will laugh at my paint job but imo you can get it to work , I dirtied the paint brassed some detail, dulled the bogie
see next post
This little loco is a dead cheap Hornby model,
the livery is frankly tacky,
the interior unloved
i did a little research and found a similar model in real life, decided on green, and just slapped sone paint on by hand
the front and back buffers got a lick of red
the horrible black plastic got a black paint job
compared to a similar plastic model
there’s detail in the cab totally ignored, and I added sone red and white to the lamps, a perfectionist will laugh at my paint job but imo you can get it to work , I dirtied the paint brassed some detail, dulled the bogie
see next post
Jaz avalley
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Kadees would improve this, but imo not worth spending the money on
my reference picture, in order to not lose the link I photographed it into my library
I had sone nice evergreen plastic and that loco needed sone rails
the glue holds them on, but you need to be careful because if you forget and pick the loco up and touch the rails they ping over and you have to find them find the glue and reattach them and swearing often takes places - to be fair after the second time I have avoided this and leave the loco well alone lol
i photograph this carefully hiding the big Clunky parts I am too tight to replace with kadees
,just carefully riding and lowering the camera angle normally allows me to hide them
now I could sit and criticise this with ease, there is lots of stuff that is dodgy about this, BUT is it an improvement on the original without doubt, was it worth the effort,well debatable, but it was a cheap item, I enjoyed the upgrade and the challenge to see if I could make something that past muster, and was happy with the result. so for me it was a win win.
If I saw it would I think it was a nice loco, well no, but if it was side by side with the original I would think, yeah worth the upgrade.
Everything as they say is in the eye of the beholder.
For me I try to see the best in modelling efforts, rather than picking on the faults, if I did I would never get anything done, I’m an 80/20 person if I think I got around an 80 percent improvement for just 20 percent effort then I am happy, I have at times tried for perfection in modelling, but the truth is it drives me insane, because I can always nit pick. that said if others point out the faults I have no issues accepting the truth,tI can fl people often enough to feel smug enough to be truly happy with my modelling.
my reference picture, in order to not lose the link I photographed it into my library
the glue holds them on, but you need to be careful because if you forget and pick the loco up and touch the rails they ping over and you have to find them find the glue and reattach them and swearing often takes places - to be fair after the second time I have avoided this and leave the loco well alone lol
i photograph this carefully hiding the big Clunky parts I am too tight to replace with kadees
,just carefully riding and lowering the camera angle normally allows me to hide them
now I could sit and criticise this with ease, there is lots of stuff that is dodgy about this, BUT is it an improvement on the original without doubt, was it worth the effort,well debatable, but it was a cheap item, I enjoyed the upgrade and the challenge to see if I could make something that past muster, and was happy with the result. so for me it was a win win.
If I saw it would I think it was a nice loco, well no, but if it was side by side with the original I would think, yeah worth the upgrade.
Everything as they say is in the eye of the beholder.
For me I try to see the best in modelling efforts, rather than picking on the faults, if I did I would never get anything done, I’m an 80/20 person if I think I got around an 80 percent improvement for just 20 percent effort then I am happy, I have at times tried for perfection in modelling, but the truth is it drives me insane, because I can always nit pick. that said if others point out the faults I have no issues accepting the truth,tI can fl people often enough to feel smug enough to be truly happy with my modelling.
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NorthBrit
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I'm in the same frame of mind, Jaz.
I chopped the cabs on some of them.
'Huxtable' and 'Harwood' , same type of engine Harwood has been 'butchered'.
'Bezel' has had the cab partly cut away.
'Allan Water' has had a coal bunker built over the boiler.
Like you with the couplings I am not changing. The grandchildren know how to handle them.
David
I chopped the cabs on some of them.
'Huxtable' and 'Harwood' , same type of engine Harwood has been 'butchered'.
'Bezel' has had the cab partly cut away.
'Allan Water' has had a coal bunker built over the boiler.
Like you with the couplings I am not changing. The grandchildren know how to handle them.
David
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I like to upgrade my wildlife, and humans it does not take much to get vastly superior results
cows are seriously easily
another case where the model is superior to the o rigibal paint job
cheap as chips realism pretty shitty
Go for a proper cow colour, if keep. White paint white cos white plastic is just terrible
vastly superior
before after
and the better paint job brings out the actually not bad model look at those muscles and skin rolls, I did saw off the horns I did not like them but a paint job would have improved them no end
cows are seriously easily
another case where the model is superior to the o rigibal paint job
vastly superior
before after
and the better paint job brings out the actually not bad model look at those muscles and skin rolls, I did saw off the horns I did not like them but a paint job would have improved them no end
Jaz avalley
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Optional colours, a slightly costlier model,and on the layout.
fyi if pink noses or cow teats use skin tones.
I use a thin black under belly for shadows,I go as thin as possible and build it up as desired.
model ok paint job leaves something to be desired,makeover imminent
fyi if pink noses or cow teats use skin tones.
I use a thin black under belly for shadows,I go as thin as possible and build it up as desired.
model ok paint job leaves something to be desired,makeover imminent
