The Junction & Conwy

[JackB95]

Oh, hello MJAs 😉 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As per my JNAs and IWAs, these have been through the Andrew Wills treatment, and boy do they look superb! Captured the real things perfectly with an eagle eye for detail. Gorgeous!! 

 

Oh, and Accurascale have now officially announced 66793 in the Railfreight grey - a loco that's been down the NWCoast on a few workings... my poor wallet!! 

[WCML100]

They look brilliant mate. Bet your well chuffed with a nice rake of them! The variation is lovely and very realistic too! How many have you got in total? I have a mixed set of debranded green and fresh blue, a real weathering challenge when I get round to it! 
 

66793 looks to be a cracker, I am hoping for another ex euro 66750 in plain gbrf as the commissioned remaining 66 of this batch to be revealed! 

[JackB95]

16 hours ago, WCML100 said:

They look brilliant mate. Bet your well chuffed with a nice rake of them! The variation is lovely and very realistic too! How many have you got in total? I have a mixed set of debranded green and fresh blue, a real weathering challenge when I get round to it! 
 

66793 looks to be a cracker, I am hoping for another ex euro 66750 in plain gbrf as the commissioned remaining 66 of this batch to be revealed! 

 

I am well chuffed mate! He's done an incredible job. I've never seen anyone attempt such a realistic weathering on wagons before. Proof that the 'paint it all brown' brigade who weather stuff and look shat don't look at the real thing. I've got 6 pairs making up 12 wagons. It's as long as I can really get away in the sidings. It's annoying because I bought them on the basis that, at the time, the NWCoast only ever saw the green FL ones. Then as soon as I bought that lot, Dapol announced a re-run of the FL ones. But we've since seen GBRf use them too so all is well.

 

And that'd be great! Although 750 would require another tooling that's actually unique in the UK with those light clusters along with 751. I can see it being another euro tooled one though given the grey silhouette. I'm betting either 734 in the Platty Joobs livery, or something like a plain GBRf 79x one. If they do 796, I'm gonna cry.

 

Edit - Accurascale have confirmed 750 and 751's headlights are not catered for, so it won't be them.

Edited August 29 by JackB95
Updating 66 info

[WCML100]

43 minutes ago, JackB95 said:

 

I am well chuffed mate! He's done an incredible job. I've never seen anyone attempt such a realistic weathering on wagons before. Proof that the 'paint it all brown' brigade who weather stuff and look shat don't look at the real thing. I've got 6 pairs making up 12 wagons. It's as long as I can really get away in the sidings. It's annoying because I bought them on the basis that, at the time, the NWCoast only ever saw the green FL ones. Then as soon as I bought that lot, Dapol announced a re-run of the FL ones. But we've since seen GBRf use them too so all is well.

 

And that'd be great! Although 750 would require another tooling that's actually unique in the UK with those light clusters along with 751. I can see it being another euro tooled one though given the grey silhouette. I'm betting either 734 in the Platty Joobs livery, or something like a plain GBRf 79x one. If they do 796, I'm gonna cry.

 

Edit - Accurascale have confirmed 750 and 751's headlights are not catered for, so it won't be them.

 

Yes just seen them reply to my comment confirming that - which is very unfortunate! (Time to find a suitable donor!)  The silhouette looked like a euro spec one as it also had the extended horn grille - so who knows! 

 

Mick Bryan has some excellent MJA's weathered similar to yours for Deadmans lane which look the nuts too! But I do agree, much better researching on flickr and copying the weathering rather than a big dollop of all over brown! I am trying the same for my wagons as and when I get round to them, studying each individual numbered example first before attacking it!