Paint your wagon - Part Three

Acquired some more wagons!

For the Weetabix wagons, I found the logo on the internet, the only usable version has a shadow effect on the lettering and the corn logo was to the right of the lettering. This was cut, pasted and resized into roughly the right position and the shadow effect was manually painted out.

I've used the wagon scans described in part one, added a white rectangular box behind the logo (as it appears on some versions of the Weetabix truck) and then pasted the whole thing into Publisher for printing.

For the Fyffes Bananas wagons, again finding usable, original versions of the logo proved difficult. In the end I found a good quality picture of a Hornby O Gauge Fyffes wagon and lifted the logo and writing from it. The background was then flood-filled to match the colours of the design, which was then lightened in Publisher as the whole thing had a mustard coloured appearance to it.

Wagon roofs repainted in the usual fashion using grey primer and lacquer, the intention now is to make an entire goods train built from refurbished wagons.

 Now for some trucks...

I find it easier to remove the truck body from the chassis, also allows me to service the couplings and oil the axles more easily. After giving the bodies a soak in warm soapy water, the paintwork on two of the bodies started lifting quite badly, the one remaining good body has a fair few scratches, so no issues with fitting overlays to these as they would never see use in this condition.

Dorchester Gas & Coke company was a real company and Bachmann produced a version of their truck many years ago. Although theirs was designed as a 7 plank wagon, the bulk of mine are only 5 so I came up with a design that suited.

Again a scan of a good truck was taken, colour adjusted etc with the lettering added over the top. I've also numbered the trucks.

My overlays are applied as once continuous sticker, wrapped around the body so it needs to be applied straight.

The sticker is cut longer and the top coloured black to assist with blending in the colour inside the truck.

Each overhanging side is cut to allow it to fold inside.

And then gently pressed inside the body.

The stickers have a tendancy to lift inside the truck body, so a small blob of glue is smeared along the edge to aid adhesion. These will need some touching up with black paint inside the trucks.

While the bodies are off, good opportunity to make sure the couplings are straight and working, also clean and lubricate the wheels.

And the final result - five more trucks, mostly fit for scrap, all restored to running use.