Kia Whakauru Tatou!
Kia Whakauru Tatou!
Adjust your Deltic Lights
We've noticed that one of our complex lighting functions on our Class 55 Deltics is not quite correct. However, we have a very simple fix to sort that out for you. Here's how you do it...
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Fitting your Mk2 Coaches with Curtains
Take your new Accurascale Mk2 coaches to a whole new level of realism! Using the simple guide below, we'll show you how to quickly and easily install the supplied curtains to your coaches for maximum results, all you'll need is some glue and a craft knife! Step one: Unclip the body via four clips, two located on each side just next to the bogies. Their location is indicated in the following two photos. Step two: Find the plastic sheet with printed curtains from inside the carriage box. Then cut the curtains out of the acetate sheet using a craft knife or scissors, cutting down the black lines on each side of the curtains. Step three: Once you have prepared the curtains, test fit before adding the glue to make sure they fit where you'd like to position them. Once happy spread a thin line of PVA or similar glue along the edges. Step four: Place the curtain section over the desired window and firmly press and hold with a finger. After a few seconds, the glue should be tacky enough to hold the curtain in place. Step five: Turn the body over and check that the curtains are straight with no glue is visible on the window. Fit the curtains to one side of the coach and allow to dry. Apply the other side and allow to dry. Once happy, let the glue dry overnight before reassembly. Once both sides are fully dry you can clip the body back in place and enjoy.
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Let's Get Involved - Weathering BR 21T MDO Mineral Wagons With Alex Roughsedge
Welcome to another of our "Let's Get Involved" series of how-to modelling guides featuring techniques to take our models to another level. Today it is our lovely 21T MDO wagons that are the subject, as Alex Roughsedge captures the rather battered state the real wagons ended up in. Take it away, Alex! Built between 1950 and 1952, the British Railways 21t MDO wagons were a mainstay of mineral traffic for the best part of 40 years, lasting in some cases until the early nineties. Accurascale’s models are superb renditions straight out of the box, but they’re just too clean! MDOs got utterly filthy in service, some ending up with remarkably little of their original grey colour left. Hopefully, this tutorial will help make your own models just that little bit more prototypical. Usually, my own weathering methods involve heavy airbrush use, but I know not everybody will have the luxury of an airbrush in their own toolkit. As such, I’ve tried to keep the use of this to a minimum. The airbrush is used solely for varnishing; rattle cans are a perfectly good substitute. We’ll make a start with the first MDO, B202043. Looking at photos on the internet of the real wagon this model is based on, the weathering is somewhat different to the other two MDOs included in Pack H so we’ll focus solely on this one for the time being. The very first step here is to give the model an overall coat of matt varnish. I favour Mr Color’s GX113, a lacquer-based formula with UV blocking technology that should prevent any yellowing or fading of the colours over time. I thin this around 50/50 with their own lacquer thinners and apply a generous coat to the model. This gives a nice key for the subsequent weathering, as well as a smooth, predictable surface. Mr Color offer this exact varnish in rattle can form which would be just as good, but any decent matt varnish can be substituted here. Studying photos of B202043 on Paul Bartlett’s superb Zenfolio page, the wagon appears almost completely dark brown, and has retained very little of its original BR grey after many years of hard work. To my eye, this looks more like heavy dirt than rust as such, and there are what appear to be areas where this dirt has been rubbed away revealing remnants of the grey underneath. More on this a little later. To begin with, a general coat of Vallejo Mecha Color 69.035 ‘Chipping Brown’ was thinned a little with tap water and applied to the areas between the side ribs, taking care to preserve the beautifully applied factory markings. This doesn’t have to be particularly neat, and I only applied a single coat to add to the rough appearance. The side ribs are significantly cleaner on the real wagon than the areas in between, but these are still pretty grubby. The same Vallejo Chipping Brown colour was now added to the remaining grey areas using a small piece of sponge held in some self-closing tweezers. This is applied in a stippling motion and can create some incredibly convincing chipped paint effects. This technique nicely blends in the cleaner ribbing but leaves it noticeably cleaner than the rest of the wagon. It’s time to crack out some oil paints for the remainder of the weathering process. My chosen colours here being: ABT510 ‘Starship Filth’ and ABT240 ‘Cream Brown’ from 502 Abteilung, along with some bog standard ‘Mixing White’ and ‘Lamp Black’ from Winsor & Newton. These were applied to a small piece of cardboard to leech out some of the linseed oil which makes the paints a little easier to use and dry much faster. I began by mixing the Lamp Black and Mixing White to form a grey somewhat similar to the original BR grey. As mentioned above, the photos of the wagon seem to show some areas where the darker filth has been rubbed away, particularly around the doors, and what looks like the original BR grey is showing through. At least that’s my interpretation anyway. The mixed grey oil paint was applied neat to the model, following the photo references as closely as I could. The advantage of oils here is that these patches could then be blended slightly using white spirit to soften the edges. At this point, I gave the model another coat of matt varnish to seal the grey patches in so they wouldn’t be affected by the next stage of oils. An alternative here would be to leave the model to dry for 24-48 hours, but who has time for that?! The next step was to apply some neat Starship Filth in a streaking motion down the side of the wagon. Shortly after, neat white spirit on a large brush can be used to further refine these streaks. The beauty of oil paints is they remain adjustable for many hours, giving you full control over any effects you may want to achieve, to the point of being able to completely remove the paint if you’re not happy. Small amounts of other colours can also be added here, particularly the Cream Brown, to add further streaks and rain marks. At the same time, some oil washes can be added to the underframes and wheel centres. I used mainly Starship Filth here, but feel free to experiment. Wagon underframes ended up all manner of colours so you can really go to town. I applied mine as washes, before using some neat Lamp Black around the axleboxes to represent oil staining. Once this step was complete, I added a further coat of sealing varnish, however this time I used GX112 gloss. The reason for the gloss varnish this time was to allow a careful pin wash of Tamiya Black Panel Line Accent Colour to be applied to the nooks and crannies around the bodywork. This should hopefully bring back a little definition to the wagon and create some false shadows. The wash is allowed to run around details and along the side ribs, then once dry, the excess can be wiped away using a cotton bud dampened with White Spirit. I didn’t go too over the top with the inside of the wagon here, simply opting for an initial all-over wash of Mig Ammo ‘Light Rust Wash’, which was then augmented once dry with ‘Streaking Rust Effects’. The latter can be streaked in a vertical motion up and down the inner sides to give the impression of rust streaks left by rain. The final step for B202043 was to give it a good final coat of matt varnish. As you can see, the model now looks a million miles away from its original pristine finish, and hopefully much closer to how the real B202043 looked in service. Moving onto the other two wagons in the pack, B202125 and B202028. Paul Bartlett’s site again also has excellent images of these two wagons. Immediately it can be seen that these two are much rustier in appearance than B202043. As a result of this, I opted to start with Vallejo Model Color 71.037 ‘Mud Brown’ as a base coat for the rust effects. This was again thinned slightly with tap water and applied to the model in a single coat. Once dry, the Mig Ammo rust effects were cracked open once more. Similar to the wagon insides, an initial coat of the lighter colour was applied to the brown areas as a wash, before the darker colour was applied over the top and streaked in a downward motion using a large brush and White Spirit. Chipping Brown was once again applied using the sponge method to the side ribbing, and the top edge of the wagon in varying amounts according to the reference images. These two wagons feature more refined patches of grey, so here I used Pro Acryl ‘Bright Warm Grey’, a surprisingly good match for the original Accurascale BR Grey. This was applied carefully using a small brush, again following reference images. Another noticeable feature of these two wagons is the presence of much darker grey patches around the lighter rust areas. Here, neat Starship filth was applied roughly in the areas where these patches occur. There are also visible weld lines on the sides as well. I opted to represent these with thin lines of oil paint, but if you were feeling particularly adventurous then you could carefully scribe these lines in with a needle or scribing tool. As before, the oil paint is blended and feathered in using White Spirit. The weld lines were softened slightly using this method, before some very slight vertical streaking. As a bonus, this step also helps to blend in the grey patches applied previously. Perhaps the most curious feature of these particular wagons is a number of odd horizontal lines towards the top of the wagon. I can only begin to speculate on the purpose/reason for these lines – they appear to be above and below the weld lines so are they perhaps some result of the welding process? Maybe they’re simply to denote a fill line? I’m sure someone out there will know. I absolutely love replicating features like these lines on models as they just elevate it to another level. These were carefully painted on using a small brush and the neat Cream Brown oil paint. Once allowed to dry a little, these were again softened and refine using White Spirit. Also at this point I gave the interior the same treatment as with the previous model, and applied the black panel line wash too. The final step was to re-apply some chalk markings present on the real wagon. These are actually represented on the original Accurascale paint job but were obviously obliterated during the initial rust painting. To recreate these, I used a sharp Prismacolor White pencil, however, it must be noted that this has to be done over the final matt coat, and after the matt coat has had a number of hours to dry otherwise the pencil simply gouges away the varnish. These wagons were incredibly fun to weather. I don’t often try to recreate actual wagons using references, I usually use elements from various sources to create a representation of the subject, so it was a real novelty to try to get these as close to their real-world counterparts as I could. ORDER YOUR ACCURASCALE MDO WAGONS BY CLICKING HERE!
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Te whakauru i to Kaihoko 66 karaehe
Whakanuia to Akoenga Accurascale 66 hou ma te taapiri i tetahi o a maatau kete Tauira Tauira! Ma te whakamahi i te aratohu ngawari i raro nei, ka whakaatu matou ki a koe me pehea te tere me te ngawari ki te taapiri i tetahi kaihopu ki to waka. Whaia nga taahiraa i raro nei kia tino whakanikoniko i to Whare, ko te mea anake e hiahia ana koe ko tetahi o a maatau kete taraiwa karaehe 66 me etahi kapia. Hipanga tuatahi: Wewetehia te tinana mai i nga waahi e wha kua whakaatuhia. Hipanga tuarua: Ka tangohia te tinana, hurihia ki raro ka toia te tinana ki waho ka puta te kaa. Hipanga tuatoru: I te tangohanga o te Cab, he wa pai tenei ki te whakaaro ki te taapiri i te Valance/Bufferbeam tino taipitopito. Tirohia ta maatau kaiarahi i konei: https://www.accurascale.com/blogs/lets-get-involved/fitting-your-class-66-front-valance-bufferbeam Hipanga tuawha: Whakanohia to kaihoe i mua i te rahi ki te waahi i whiriwhiria ma te whakamahi i te whakapiri pera i te PVA ki runga i nga nohoanga kaa. Hipanga tuarima: Tukua kia maroke te kāpia i mua i te whakakapi i te tinana. Hipanga tuaono: Whakakapihia te kaa ki roto i te tinana, kia kitea e nga spigots o ratou rua whakamarumaru. Ina whakahokia te tinana ki te tahuhu kia tupato ki nga paipa hau iri. I te hokinga mai o te tinana, kei te waatea koe ki te pai ki to Akomanga Accurascale 66 mo to tahora. Tirotiro i ta maatau momo karaehe 66 i konei tonu: https://www.accurascale.com/collections/class-66
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Te whakauru i to Akoakonga 66 Tuhinga o mua / Bufferbeam
Tirohia ta maatau aratohu taahiraa-i-te-taahiraa ki te huri i te karaehe o mua ki to Akomanga Accurascale 66 hou...
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Te whakauru i o Waehere Upoko o te akomanga 37
Kua hokona e koe to karaehe 37 moata hou, kare e kore kua kite koe i nga upoko o nga pito o te tauira. He mahi nui enei ki te tautuhi i nga waka tereina me o ratou tereina hei tohu ki runga, ki raro hoki i te whatunga, kia mohio ai ratou ki te momo o te tereina me tona huarahi kua whakaritea. Ma tenei aratohu ngawari e whakaatu ki a koe me pehea te whakarereke ngawari i nga upoko o to locomotive kia rite ki o hiahia. Hipanga tuatahi: Tangohia te tinana mai i te tahuhu ma te tawai i te tinana ki runga i nga topenga e wha (e rua kei ia pito o te tauira). He pai ake te mahi i mua i te taapiri i nga taipitopito kurupae. Hipanga tuarua: Hurihia te tinana ka kimihia te taha o muri o nga pouaka pane. Hipanga tuatoru: Peia ata te mata pane ki waho o te tinana, kia pai ake ai te whakamahi i tetahi taputapu puhuki iti penei i te huriwiri upoko papatahi a te kaihanga tauira. Ina tangohia, ka taea te wehe kia toru nga wahanga, ko te mata upoko, ko te upoko upoko me te anga tautoko. Hipanga tuawha: I roto i to pouaka Locomotive, kua whakaratohia e matou he huinga katoa o nga nama Headcode me tetahi pepa tohutoro mo to waatea. Tīpakohia ko tēhea kōwhiringa e pai ana ki tō tahora. Hipanga tuarima: Whakapirihia he anga ki muri o te nama kua kowhiria, me mahara kei te piri tonu nga nama upoko, na tenei ka mau tonu te anga i te wa e whakahaere ana. Hipanga tuaono: Inaianei tuuhia te anga ki runga o roto o te mata upoko. Tuhia te waahi o te kakau i te wa e whakarite ana i te takotoranga o nga tau. Hipanga tuawhitu: Ko te whakakapi i nga kanohi o te upoko ki runga i te waka, ka hiahia pea ratou ki te topata iti o te kāpia PVA kia mau tonu ai. Ka tūtohu matou ki te PVA na te mea ka taea te tango a muri ake nei mena ka hiahia koe ki te whakarereke i nga nama a muri ake nei. Hipanga waru: Ahakoa ka tangohia te tinana mai i te Chassis, he wa pai tenei ki te taapiri i tetahi kaihopu Accurascale ki to locomotive. (https://www.accurascale.com/collections/crews-and-people) Whakapiri noa ki te waahi me te pata o te PVA hei whakaoti i te ahua. Inaianei kua oti to riiki, kua reri ki te mahi i to tahora. Tirotiro i ta maatau momo akomanga 37 i konei tonu: https://www.accurascale.com/collections/class-37
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Kia Whakauru Tatou - Class 37 Weather Guide by James Makin
Ko wai kare e aroha ki te tarakihana paru? Ae, ka taea e koe te whakapouri i a koe me te aratohu a James Makin ki te whakamaarama i tetahi o a maatau akomanga 37. Tirohia tana aratohu taahiraa-i-taahiraa i konei....
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Kia Whakauru - Hurirere JSA Wagons With James Makin
Tangohia te kaata pai rawa atu i te OO/4mm, taapirihia tetahi o nga taranata huarere pai rawa atu ki reira, ka mutu nga tauira whakamataku na tenei kaiarahi epic. Nau mai ki ta maatau aratohu huarere JSA me James Makin i roto i ta maatau raupapa tauira hou "Kia Whakauru"...
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Kia Whakauru - To kaiarahi 20-taahiraa ki te CDA kua mau ki te mahi me James Makin
He pai te huarere me te whakamuri i o kaata CDA? Tirohia tenei arata'i ngahau 'pehea' na James Makin i roto i ta maatau blog hou "Kia Whakauru"...
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Kia Whakauru Tatou - Accurascale Class 92
Kua hoki mai a "Kia Whakauru Mai"! I tenei ra kei a matou he aratohu taapiri mo to maatau mokohiko Akomanga 92. Engari ehara i te mea anake, ka whakaatu ano matou ki a koe he pehea te ngawari o te tangi DCC ki to DCC reri rerihiko. Kei te pirangi koe ki etahi o au ake? Patohia ki konei ki te tono! Ko ta maatau tauira he tino taipitopito me te maha o nga waahanga pono, ma te whai i tenei aratohu ka whakaatu ki a koe me pehea, me etahi atu waahanga ka taea e koe te huri i to tauira ki roto i te Locomotive Class 92. Whakaahua tauira 92023 e toia ana te Caledonian Sleeper i runga i te aukati ECML i mua i te pouaka tohu Helpston - Mike Wild Mai i te whakaurunga mai i te tau 1993, e 46 nga waka tereina kua tohaina ki nga waka, heoi e ono o te karaehe e whakahaere ana i te ratonga Caledonian Sleeper i waenga i Raanana me Kotirana. He maha nga ahuatanga ka taea e taatau ki te hanga ano i runga i o maatau whakatakotoranga, hei tauira i te ahua o runga ka kite tatou i te 92023 e ahu whakatetonga ana ki te ra ka whakahekehia e te kaitaraiwa ona matapo. Ko te kawe i nga kaiako Mk5 ka uru mai te waahi ki nga hononga o dellner, ka taea e tatou te hanga ano i enei ahuatanga me te maha o nga waahanga mo te kurupae / kaa e whakamohio ana i roto i te pouaka. Ka taea hoki te taapiri i te taraiwa me te tangata tuarua ma te whakamahi i a maatau kete taraiwa (e waatea ana i konei). Ko te mea tuatahi, me tango te tinana. Te tango i te tinanaStep 1Kimihia nga topenga tuku kei raro o te tinana, ka kotahi ia taha o te bogie. Taahiraa 2 Ma te whakamahi i ou maihao ki te waahi o nga topenga tinana, toia nga taha o te tinana ki waho ka hikina atu te tinana ki runga atu i te tahuhu. Taahiraa 3 Na te tangohanga o te tinana ka taea e koe te uru ki te waka me te whakauru i te DCC pūwetewaehere ki te waahi. DCC/DCC Whakaritea oroTaahiraa 4 Mo te whakaurunga oro DCC, DCC ranei ka hiahia koe ki te 'Class 92 Lokpilot DCC Pūwaehere' (e wātea ana i konei) he 'Class 92 DCC Pūwetewaehere Oro' ranei. Step 5 Rapua me te tango ata i te pereti patea mai i te PCB, kia tupato kei piko tetahi o nga titi. Hipanga 6 Panuku ki te whakauru i to DCC wetewaehere ma te whakanoho ki runga i nga titi katahi ano ka puta mai te pereti paratea. Kotahi te kohao titi e ngaro ana i te wewetewaehere, e marena ana ki nga titi penei i te pikitia i raro nei. Kia tupato kia kaua e piko nga titi i te wa e whakakapi ana i te wewetewaehere. Ko te Akomanga 92 kua whakauruhia ki mua me te kaikorero Accurathrash, na i tenei wa kua oti te whakaurunga oro DCC, DCC ranei. Te taapiri i nga korero a te CabStep 7Ki te taapiri i te taraiwa me nga arai matapihi me tango te Kati i te tuatahi, hurihia te tinana ka tango ma te whakanoho i nga koromatua e rua ki te taha o nga topenga tinana me te pana ki waho i te whakamahi i to maihao tohu ki te utu i te kaa mai i tona whare. Step 8Na te tangohanga o te waka ka watea koe ki te taapiri i tetahi taraiwa. Ko a maatau mokete Kaihoko 92 i hangaia kia uru pai ki te tuuru taraiwa. Heoi, ki te hiahia koe, ka taea e koe te whakanoho i tetahi waahi o te superglue ki runga i te tuuru. Step 9 Me te kaitaraiwa e noho ana i te tuuru, ka kimi i muri mai ko te karaehe matapihi matapihi o te akomanga 92 kei te taha o te locomotive. He pai te titiro ki nga whakaahua tauira penei i tera kei runga ake o tenei aratohu kia kite koe me pehea te ahua o nga matapo. Step 10 Ma te whakamahi i te scalpel, i te kutikuti ranei, tapahia kia rua nga matapo hei whiriwhiri. Mena kua waiho he mata ma, ka taea e koe te whakamahi i te pene kare ki te kara i nga taha. Step 11 Kia mau te matapo me etahi tweezers, mauria he rakau kokoti ka pania he pirepire angiangi o te kapia ki tetahi taha o te matapo. Step 12 Inaianei taapirihia te matapo ki te tinana ka whakapirihia te tapa kua whakapiri ki te tihi o te matapihi i mua i te tukurua i te mahi mo te pihanga tuarua. Te taapiri i nga taipitopito o wahoTaahiraa 13 I mua i te hokinga atu o te tinana ki runga i te tahuhu me te tuku kia maroke te kapia ka huri te aro ki nga korero o waho. Rapua te putea mokamoka kei roto i te kaareti ka ata whakatakotohia kia tirohia kei te noho nga waahanga iti katoa. Step 14 Me whai whakaaro ko tehea momo kapia e whakamahia ana i tenei wa, ko te superglue ka mau tonu engari ka taea te whakarereke i te PVA i roto i te waa. Rapua nga kohao mo te parepare hau me te whakapiri i to kapia e hiahia ana koe. Kia maumahara mena ka piri te parepare hau kare e taea te uru ki te hononga NEM ki te kawe kararehe. Step 15 Ko te whakakotahitanga pai ko te whai i nga taipitopito kurupae parepare ki te pito o mua o te kaikokoti me te hono NEM kei muri. He ngawari te taapiri i te hononga ma te kimi i te kohao tika i runga i te tahuhu. Ko te whakapiri ki roto ka tohutohuhia mena ka whakamahere koe ki te toia tereina nui ake. Step 16 Muri iho, whakapirihia te paipa ki te tahuhu me te parepare Air, he pai tonu te whakamatautau i mua i te taapiri i te kāpia. Step 17 E rua nga momo hononga e piri ana ki te matau hono (i runga i te ahua o te hikoi kei a koe kei roto i te pouaka). He ngawari te hono o enei ahakoa ka taea te tango i te matau mai i te kurupae parepare kia pai ake te uru mo te whakaurunga. Step 18 Ko etahi momo rereke o te Class 92 he pereti taraihia, taapirihia ki te tinana me te pata o te kāpia. Mo nga hua pai ka ngana ki te whakararangi tika ki te pereti taha tinana. He waahi pai tenei ki te tirotiro i te kaikokoti mena kua paopao etahi waahanga taipitopito me te whakahaere, ka taea te hono ano me te maturuturu o te kapia. Ka taea e koe te haere tonu ki te whakahiato i to locomotive ka reri koe ki te takaro.
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Kia Whakauru Tatou - Accurascale MHA 'Coalfish' waka na James Makin
Let's Get Involved" kua hoki mai! I tenei ra kei a matou he kaiarahi huarere o a maatau waka hou a HMA Coalfish na James Makin. Engari ehara i te mea anake, kei te whakaatu ano a James ki a koe me pehea te hanga i a koe ake uta me te taapiri i te graffitti!
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Kia Whakauruhia - Hurirangi MGR Wagons Me James Makin
Kua hoki mai ano to tatou "Kia Whakauru" me pehea te whakatauira! Ko te tuatahi ko te aratohu huarere i runga i ta matou whanau MGR ataahua o nga kaata na James Makin. Kia poke tatou!
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Hurihia nga KUA ki te P4 Me Mike Ainsworth - Kia Whakauru Tatou
Kei te pirangi koe ki te huri i o kaata kaata karihi karihi KUA ki te tauine pai? Ko Mike Ainsworth o te Scalefour Society e whakaatu ana ki a koe me pehea tenei aratohu taahiraa ma te taahiraa!
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