Commission: Dolgoch in the flesh...

I’ve been working on a Bachmann USA Rheneas for a customer in 009, applying the Narrow Planet Dolgochification kit...

This is a kit designed by Stuart Brewer and it’s a pleasure to work with, a multimedia approach with brass castings, nickel silver etch and 3D printed plastic parts. They all fit really neatly with a little tidying up, and the kit can be accomplished using the simplest of hand tools.

These days I don’t often show a model in its own post until it’s completed, but I felt that the naked variety of materials in the kit would be best shown in this manner. The paint was removed from the Bachmann boiler and tanks assembly in a bath of IPA over night and then it just scrubs off really easily.

The customer has requested he is finished as today, so I’ve got the lining transfers sorted and I need to look back at my notes to see how I mixed the custom body colour on the last one I did. I often mix paint by hand to match the project, so although notes aren’t detailed, they will tell me the base colours I used.

Finally, I thought it interesting to compare the Dolgoch, based upon Bachmann’s Rheneas in 009, with my Porter, based on Bachmann’s Percy in N... the latter being larger despite being a tiny prototype. Rheneas is now in primer along with a few other projects, so I can progress them through the paint shop at the same time. 

I’m hoping to feel well enough to begin work on a few commissions of Backwoods kits next week, we shall see how Covid treats me over the weekend, it’s been three and a half weeks of it now. There is unlikely to be a Friday update tomorrow, but I will endeavour to post something of interest. Until next time, more soon...