Paint Your Wagons!

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Gonna paint some wagons,

Gonna paint 'em fine,

Gonna use acrylic paints,

Cause the wood's plastic, not pine!

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Well, I thought it was funny anyway...

The painting process is similar to the Talyllyn coaches seen earlier in the year, the only difference here being that rather than using a leather colour to undercoat all the metal work a rust colour has been used instead. Why? Well the top coat will be a leather brown colour, using it as both a base and top coat will make it a little too bold, and I want these wagons to look like they've been working a while. Hopefully this way the rust colour should 'bleed' through the top coat in places, but not so much as to make them look like they've just been dragged from the condemned siding!

Two of the painted wagons pose on The Garden Railway as they await their loads. The wooden one of the left has had a wash of black to bring out the plank lines, whilst the steel type still awaits this, showing the difference even a slight amount of weathering gives. To add some slight differences between the planked wagons, a single plank was touched up in earth brown colours again to give the impression of a replaced plank that hadn't quite got round to being repainted yet. All the wagons will probably get a very light dry-brushing (Particularly round the frames) once all the washes have dried.

The plan here is to potentially do something Leek & Manifold style and have them all crammed with milk churns. Guess that's one of my future jobs, I'll be seeing churns in my sleep...