Hello, welcome, good to see you all again. Yes, it has been too long, if not for you, then certainly for me. I type this from the comfort of my bed, in our new cottage. YES…. I did say cottage, how awesome is that.
But firstly, I need house the toilet. Actually, sod it, I’m gonna’ write a bit of this on the bog. Also, I may leave for a bit as I need to walk the dog and gawp at the solar eclipse but i shall be back to talk about trains!
So, down to business Crosti toilet- I mean boiler - yes, I am writing this on the toilet too… I care not what shame to put on me. This is my blog and I can write it wherever I bloody well want.
…In fact I’ve now writing this a week later whilst rehearsing lines at university…
…oh how time flies…. a few days have now passed even then, and now we have a kitten! Bernard. He's a real, bastard too.
He and Bert, our dog, seem to be getting on like a house on fire, or wildfire or something relatively destructive. But they are getting along, which is nice.
…now, I’m re-watching Game of Thrones as the little buggers mess around in the living. Sorry, I’m being terribly ill disciplined.
So modelling, well as you can tell from my hectic lifestyle of bed that not much has been progressed. However I was given a commission to fulfil in the shape of a Crosti 9F.
The person in question has built it around a Hornby Railroad 9F using the Dave Alexander Crosti conversion kit.
A lot of the weathering was pretty much my normal mix of layer upon layer starting with the blocking in a mix of Humbrol 62 & 33 followed by strategically painting on rust patches using Humbrol 62 and Humbrol 113 and another wash of 62 & 33 until everything is toned down.
The limescale streak were a real pain in the hoop, I haven’t really done a lot of these before as from my research the Teesside Region locos tended not to have limescale to the point that Midland Region did.
A lot of it was just scribbled on it brought downward lines followed by dry brushing Humbrol 64. The initial process didn’t work for me but after trying it a few time, going away, coming back, shouting at it, swearing a few times, going on mass genocide and finally returning to it, I think I got something I like.
One further thing I did, was to light dry brush Humbrol 27004 over the side of the loco and tender to give it a much more lifelike sheen.
I’m quite happy with the finished model and was more than pleased to release it back to my friend.
Here it is with my own detailed Railroad 9F.
so, what’s next for me.
Well, I decided to completely fuck with history… more on this little beauty in the next few weeks.
Oh by the way, by the time I finished this blog, we re-named the Nigel (You know after Sir Nigel Gresley). I reckon next week we’ll have re-named him Ivatt (fingers crossed)
Here's the delightful little bastard, with our dog, Bert.
