MAYBACH just painted some of my wagons, WOW !!

[RobB]

Hi,

I just thought somebody may like to see the painting job Maybach (Rob) has done on some of my wagons ready for the coming shows.

 

[coyote97]

what- or whoever MAYBACH is:

thats an exellent job!!!

greetings

Frank

 

[Gizzy]

MAYBACH is Rob, a member of the forum Frank.

Known for his model of the Sharknose.

His talents obviously extend to painting and weathering too....

 

[yb281]

Excellent work both Robs.

 

[mbiff]

wicked - look so real

 

[mike]

fantastic atention to detail, love it

 

[garrymartin]

Beautiful Work:love:

 

[PaulRhB]

Nice job by both guys,

must be high calcium milk in the tanker though

 

[simon@mgr]

Wow is an understatement

 

[pugwash]

Two thumbs up from here too. Rust rules!
Just out of interest, would that overflow of milk from the dairy tanker stay white in this scorching summer heat? :thinking:

 

[Martino]

Very, very impressive.

Congratulations that man.

 

[Hobo]

Excellent job!

 

[yb281]

Just out of interest, would that overflow of milk from the dairy tanker stay white in this scorching summer heat? :thinking:

Well, yes, but even more fundamental than that, did any narrow gauge railway ever run milk tankers? I've never been able to find one that did. Bulk milk transport was really for standard gauge trains travelling long distances (by narrow gauge standards). In fact, bulk milk collection by road tankers didn't come to many farms much before the early 60's, collections in the time scale of most model narrow gauge railways would have used churns.

Sorry Rob, but some other boring sod like me is bound to bring it up at your next show.

Doesn't alter the fact that this is stunning modelling of course.

 

[pugwash]

Just out of interest, would that overflow of milk from the dairy tanker stay white in this scorching summer heat? :thinking:

Well, yes, but even more fundamental than that, did any narrow gauge railway ever run milk tankers? I've never been able to find one that did. Bulk milk transport was really for standard gauge trains travelling long distances (by narrow gauge standards). In fact, bulk milk collection by road tankers didn't come to many farms much before the early 60's, collections in the time scale of most model narrow gauge railways would have used churns.

Then there was the Leek & Manifold solution of putting standard gauge tankers onto narrow gauge transporters, but of course that was to serve the dairy, the local pickup was still by churn. Oh dear, are we going geeky about milk transport?

 

[RobB]

To me, it's just a pretty paint job on a fictional wagon.

 

[Rob s]

To me, it's just a pretty paint job on a fictional wagon.

Bit of an understatement there RobB - more like
Aa pretty fantastic paint job on some cracking wagons.

Just Magic

 

[pugwash]

To me, it's just a pretty paint job on a fictional wagon.

:timeout: I wasn't knocking the paintwork or the model, lord knows I've painted up some wagons and not got that 'just right' patina. In fact some of mine make the LGB circus wagons look drab!

 

[RobB]

Some more of Maybach's painting.
I scratch built the loco from 90% brass.

 

[PaulRhB]

would that overflow of milk from the dairy tanker stay white in this scorching summer heat? :thinking:

It's the calcium deposits that leave staining on locos from water so if they spilt a lot of milk then I'd not be suprised. Had a class 58 stop at my box about 12 years ago to use a bucket and broom after they had a carton of milk thrown at it, certainly was white. The driver was leaning out of the side window to see where he was going!

 

[trammayo]

Lovelly modelling and painting. Like the loco - looks like a 12" to the foot