Mossys 3D Models

True Andy, but everything from the chassis down is black, so that minimises the problem and lots of the hard to reach areas could easily be hand painted.

 

Hi Rob

The problem isn't the running boards its the conflict between the supports for the running boards and the queen posts.
I have a fix which has been applied to the dgm 104 and it's under skirt has been build, basically using small blocks glued to the underside drilled to move the queen posts backward 1.5mm. I am seriously thinking of stripping down the running boards and queen posts of the dgm 53 and applying the same fix to it.
A neater solution will be applied to chassis before any more are printed. I will post a photo later, as Lynn is out and has my phone as hers is still bust.

Mossy

 

As promised the updated chassis using the dgm 104 body. The small blocks which enable the queen posts to be moved backward can be seen on the righthand side. Everything looks so much better than the Dgm 53 solution so it's going to modified in line with this. The gas pipe lines linking the 3 tanks is entirely a function of imagination, the tanks just looked naked without them.

 

I finally got to spraying the underside after an epic of trying to mask off the body work, which frankly didn't work as is obvious:



The question now is how to correct it, but that needs some thinking about so for now has been put.

Along side of this I have been completing the dgm 52A 1st/3rd compo and doing the obvious and painting its interior first. This time around the underside will be masked and painted first as I think it will be easier to mask this off before spraying the bodywork. Since it hasn't been seen in public looks like this:



2 third class compartments at each end book ending 3 first class compartments.

 

Thanks Rob, That was exactly the plan I came up after seeing the problem above, and yes I used 6mm Tamiya masking tape. followed by household tape and paper. The bit I got wrong was to overlap the Tamiya to the underside of the chassis. A lesson learned!

 

Lesson learned and successfully applied. The dgm 52A has been undercoated red oxide all over, interior painted and using Robs logic the underskirt was successfully masked off and 4 costs of Crimson Lake applied. The 52 still needs its underside spraying black, that's for tomorrow morning. Following all that success I decided the only solution to the over spraying on the dgm 53 was to respray the body, another prolonged masking session before 2 extra coats of Crimson Lake applied. Photos to follow when there's some daylight, but they are starting to look like NER coaches.

Now a question - Westinghouse Hoses, I think it should be body colour where it's attached, brass collar at the top, hose red and the connection again brass. Am I right?

 

Paul

NRM is a good call we were there over Christmas with our Grandson, I will check if the team have any decent photos.

 

Sadly the only NER locos on display at the NRM are a Bouch long boilered 0-6-0 which doesn't have Westie brakes and one of the Shildon-Newport electrics, nether of which are any use. I have a copy of one of Chris Pulhams painting of a Class C, it's westie has a grey hose and lighter grey fittings top and bottom of the hose so I am going to go with that.

Painting lessons the 2 low arcs have reached this state:



There is just the westie hoses to do before they both gets a couple of layers of varnish.