Hand painted and sign written 7 plank wagon

[Paul Ash]

Dear All,

My name is Paul Ash and I am new to Gauge 3, having only just joined the society.

For a first attempt I am building some GRS wagon kits including a cattle wagon and a 7 plank open.

I have decided to try hand lettering the wagon as a local (to me) private owner from the 1930's.  I have (hopefully) attached some photos of the work so far and of the original wagon.

I would welcome some feedback from the forum members as to the results, one side complete so far.  I am planning to weather the wagon down a little so a few of the errors may not be so obvious.

If there is any interest I can explain the method and show it in stages when I paint the other side.

Cheers

Paul Ash

[AllWight]

Looks good Paul. I look forward to seeing it weathered as well.

Mark

[454]

Excellent work Paul.
We look forward to reading about your method & seeing the step by step pics.

Dave
454

[John Candy]

Paul,

If you would care to prepare a "blow-by-blow" account with pictures, I shall be pleased to add it to www.g3madesimple.org.uk as a downloadable file.
If you are able to prepare as a PDF file that would be fine but, if not, I can convert other formats to PDF.

Regards,
John.

[Andy B]

Paul,

Welcome to the Society and the forum.
It's good to see another member having a go at hand lettering - time consuming but very satisfying!

Overall results look great - a few spacing and shape 'deviations' which you obviously have an intention to improve on the second side.
One general observation on wagon lettering is that the originals were by no means perfect - I expect that the best painters were put on the job for the works photo wagon in each batch, but looking at photographs of 'in-service' wagons it is easy to spot odd spacings, distorted characters, variable stroke widths, etc.
That's why (to me) hand lettering often looks more convincing than transfers in the larger scales.
I look forward to comparing notes on the methods you use.

Andy

[Traininvain]

Hi Paul
Excellent effort!
Would love an article for the Gauge 3 Newsletter and will contact you by separate email
Ian

[Paul Ash]

Thank you for the good comments.

I did find it difficult lettering over the moulded strapping on the GRS resin body, hence the reason why the M and the S are not perfect, although I did find it easier than an N gauge private owner I did a few years back.  I'm sure it will be less noticeable after a bit of careful weathering.

Cheers

Paul



It appears I shall now be writing an article for the G3 society magazine

[midnight miller]

 Hello Paul

Going to be a nice job , looking forward to seeing it in the mag . In the next few days I intend to start lettering a waggon into the HAYDOCK livery . But do not hold your breath , Just on with fitting some decent buffers and draw gear , and it is NOT one of Mikes kit's


                                                                               John