Motor-Rail G-series: details, primed and yellow...

The G-series has been an enjoyable build and things have moved along quite quickly alongside the commissions in smaller scales I've been working on lately...

Pictured here with the small plate frame Simplex in 009 it shows how much presence the scale has...

...and here posed with the 40S I built last year, shows how small the prototype is! If you remember it has been built to test out a few ideas for the range of diesel locomotives I'm building in 2019 and 2020, and I'm really pleased with how it combines etched metal from 2D CAD, 3D printed parts from 3D CAD, laser cut styrene and acrylic from 2D CAD and some scratch built items in styrene as well. Truly multi-media.

Once the etches arrived it was quite a quick finish, adding cab details including the handbrake and some levers on the back of the bonnet before adding a coat of primer. Since then I've applied two coats of enamel yellow, and begun to paint in the details, exhaust, rubber door seals, couplers and axle boxes.

Here are a few shots of her posed outside, excuse the 'cameo' but I quite liked it! The driver, wearing his Oxford blue shirt, will be in the cab soon enough! The Fuchs oil drum and the oil tank have progressed since I last took photos, including the 'level' and tap adding to the large tank. The side on shot below shows the cab details, handbrake, levers, clutch pedal and such...

I'm looking forward to adding a few more touches before sealing with dull-cote and applying a little weathering... scuffed metal, scratches, rust and a few oil leaks. More soon...