1:16 scale Tea Pot

[mobilgas]

Gordon,   Very nice job on the Tea Pot.....How about some tips on how you did the painting and weathering.  Craig

[RoughboyModelworks]

Fantastic work as usual Gordon... love the underbody detail and the finish on the top of the tank is particularly fine. I'm curious about the solid disk drivers... I see in the original photo they were solid disks, just curious as to whether the backs of the drivers were a flat plane or had some form of ribbing. They are certainly unusual and I wonder how they made the originals...

Paul

[Scratchman]

Thanks guys for your comments

Ray, I go with the 4-2-0.

Chuck, all my models are sitting on shelves in a small building in back of my house.  One good earthquake though and they'll all be on the floor.

Painting is very easy.  I use Floquil Engine Black out of a rattle can, over this I brush on powdered hard pastels with a big soft brush to highlight the detail. The water tank, stack, front wheels, drive wheels and the tender have had a coat or two of Testors Dullcote.  I still need to do this to the rest of the engine. I use a hard pastel stick  for the white trim on the wheels and the tender floor.

Gordon Birrell

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[finescalerr]

Your paint and weathering techniques are simple but seem to work just fine, thanks. -- Russ

[Hauk]

Painting is very easy.  I use Floquil Engine Black out of a rattle can, over this I brush on powdered hard pastels with a big soft brush to highlight the detail. The water tank, stack, front wheels, drive wheels and the tender have had a coat or two of Testors Dullcote.  I still need to do this to the rest of the engine. I use a hard pastel stick  for the white trim on the wheels and the tender floor.
 

Best example of the KISS approach I have ever heard!
A great inspiration, and a reminder that you dont have to make things so damned complicated all the time.

But I guess that if you had the chance to ask Leonardo da Vinci about his drawing techniques he would answer along the lines "naw, I just grab some red crayons and some paper and start droodeling..."

[Franck Tavernier]

Nice model! Awesome as usual... ;)I like the paint job and finish, all in smoothness!

Franck

[Frederic Testard]

Your model is great, Gordon, and as usual its building was very well documented. I particularly like the pic of the upside down loco in a jig.

[John McGuyer]

Gordon,

Be careful with earthquakes. We had one not that long ago here in California and it busted up four of my locomotives that were sitting on shelves. My GS4 fell 6 feet and was broken in two. Incidentally, it is now back together and ran at the recent Southwestern large scale show.

John