Commission: Spanish Victory in OO...

I love my customers, I get some wonderful commissions and this is another example of something I've really enjoyed creating! It's a 'sort of' North British conversion of the Planet Industrials 'Kerr, Stuart Victory' in to a type of narrow gauge locomotive operated by Rio Tinto in Spain...

A few months ago I was asked to create a Ruston for the same project (you can see that here) but the Victory conversion was actually commissioned first, just we had to wait for the models to arrive! The work which has been shown in Friday Updates involved the removal of buffer and addition of a buffer beam insert to deepen them, sand box on the boiler and large sand boxes in front of the tanks, a new cab, roof and bunker, and squaring off the rear bunker. The result is a bruising yet somehow still quite attractive beast that captures the look of the prototype, and hopefully all their character, without being a slavish copy that would have required much more of a scratch build.

The transfers were custom designed by me and printed by my supplier and finish off the otherwise plain model really neatly. The weathering then brings the black finish to life, some of the sheen of the gloss paint is still visible, the mix of washes, removed washes, airbrush and dry brush give a patina across the locomotive that really suits the character of the prototypes, in the condition they were seen by my customer.

The glazing is still 'curing' in these beauty shots (hence it looks white in a few of the photos), but these will dry clear and flush. The other finishing touch is the coal in the bunker, this is only a few mm deep, and shows a recently load! 

The change of character by replacing the cab and removing the buffers is quite staggering. If you'd like to commission your own dream model then get in touch for a personal fixed price proposal, through the website, Facebook or forums. Until next time though, more soon...

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