Well done on that. You've got big balls to experiment with a new technique on a new model!! Dave

Astonishingly beautiful work. Thank you for sharing your techniques.

just brilliant. loved the finished look. great job

Brilliant job Richard, you are a craftsman at all you do.

Best weathering I've ever seen!!! Awsome job!

I want to thank you for making these videos, because the part of the layout I extended using your tips is looking great. So thanks and keep up the good work

I love this, man. Thanks for uploading and sharing it with us.

Well done for being brave and stepping into the unknown with a new model - the results are great and it paid off a treat!. Just watched the update too - looking forward to seeing the layout in Hornby Magazine. Well deserved for all your hard work.

That looks absolutely superb- it looks just like the real thing. BR Blue is my favorite livery, and you recreated all the fading, grime, grease and general aging of the paintwork brilliantly.

Perfect! Great job mate! Looked splendid!

You can never have enough dirt!! That looks amazing, well done :)

watching this one for the second time, a really really impressive bit of learning as you go weathering. I think this vid among one or two others are what persuaded to take the plunge on my precious locos.

That looks so life like,brilliant!👍

That looks great, you matched the picture pretty damn well.

Fantastic review of your layout in the Hornby magazine. Brilliant camera views of your layout. A project brilliantly achieved, may it give you years of enjoyment.

excellent work, you sir are a very talented man....thanks for sharing

Completely flawless weathring job, looks so much like the real loco in the picture, always helps to have a reference to the specific loco your modelling

The end results look magnificent. Great work. Paul

wow that was a great video , to watch from new to years of service in 15 minutes , the rear and grills look great , well it all does but them two spots really pop out at me ,, terrific , thanks for sharing

I must say you do amazing work really enjoy watching your videos!

Looks awesome Richard, really authentic.

Excellent job. My layout is at the other end, ie. just started so I've gone back to your early videos and working my way through to get ideas and how to do projects

Hi Richard, I saw your article in the hornby magazine, and it looked awesome! I can't wait to see the video on the completion of your engine shed. Keep up the epic work fella!

Absolutely sensational weathering job done mate love it 😉😎

Great result! Really makes a big difference

I can walk across a 750v third rail,take abuse from passengers dispatch trains in the rush hour,but weathering my mods,I chicken out,hats off to you superb ,mark

Lovely job, well done, and thanks for sharing your method.

What a great job sir and a nice video. Thanks

Brilliant job Rich! I do envy your eye and your steady hand!

That was both bold and brilliant. I am a great believer in that if you are you going to treat something you should treat it. Usually these things are viewed from at least 3 feet away so well done. Great result, excellent video

Looks great Richard, got an 08 will try all those techniques when I get round to weathering it, thanks for sharing Andy

I know I've watched this before, but KZfaq says I've not seen your 2016 videos. So, another thumbs up for you and I think this is a piece of art, just about perfect. Fantastic job and I tip my hat to you.

dry brushing the faded blue was a great idea and work brilliantly. when I saw the shunter in your other videos I thought you must had done a complete respray. very well done.

beautiful job man! another great video, thanks.

The Class 08 is a beautiful locomotive indeed! Enjoying your VIDZ immensely, keep the good work! Hello from Canada.

Excellent weathering on that little engine!

I agree with Leon you've done a brilliant match to the picture. I have not seen the liquid masking before that looks really good, thanks again for the video!

That was so interesting and what a brilliant finish to the engine. Looking forward to seeing it pull a few coaches out of the new carriage siding area.Barry. Devon

That looks amazing!

Great stuff Richard. Well done

Richard......great job there mate! Really captures the aged look of a heavy use loco.

Class 20's are good candidates for the same effect. Great fun to do. Enjoyable video as usual and looking forward to that Hornby magazine.

It is a cool looking locomotive. Very nice weathering. great video

Hi Richard, the weathering looks great, very effective with that method. Cheers Gary

Looks really good...very good match to the picture. Well done!

Great video and thanks for explaining dry brushing.

beautifully done

Excellent job. Very informative

A wonderful display that works nicely, I do admire you artisanship! Greetings from France !!

Brilliant weathering, particularly the faded paint. Looks way better than the frosted effect you sometimes see

Brilliant! Well done.

Looks brilliant mate some serious weathering skills I'm jealous

Superb job. I noticed you’ve even put in the orange pipes in the four foot. Very realistic.

Very nice mate, my son and I got a few tips on your process and will try them out, thank you.

Hi. Well done again for an exalted video. The 08 just reminds me of how they use to look at Newton Heath shed in Manchester in the 70s when I use to go talking number lol 😊 Keep the good work up. Stevie

hi rich thanks again for a really helpful video its just the look I am trying to achieve on my 08 and 20s will have another go with the dry brushing method. layouts looking great. kind regards Ralph

A really nice "how-to" video, great finish on the locomotive. Thanks for taking the time to do this and share. It was good to see it run afterwards, maybe, next time moving some rolling stock doing what the 08 does best? Cheers.

That intro looks bloody real! I'd play with that layout all week nevermind all day! Its a credit to you! Hell yeah brother!!!

Amazingly beautiful!

great weathering and I like the window masking thanks

Congratulations on your first article in Hornby Magazine. A very good read and gives a different perspective to the layout and you intentions for it in the future. As mentioned below, I didn't realise you are only in your mid twenties. Keep going with the videos, they give me inspiration as I'm sure it does many others.

Can't wait to see this in the Hornby magazine

what i do with the buffer faces is use a slate grey and using a cotton bud get a dab of the paint and dab it on a tissue until there is not a lot of paint on the bud (as per dry brushing) then dab it on the buffer face. this gives a close match in colour as the grease as it is a graphite based grease, and grey not black, and spreads from one buffer face to another like from the cotton bud, and you get a softer edge to the grease mark. another thing i use is an orange and brown pencil to make rust streaks, around placed like the vent and runners on the cab roof, and on the radiator, and a soft pencil rubbed on steps to represent worn paint through to the metal (not too silvery) hope this helps

Richard you have out done yourself what a fantastic job on the 08

Excellent video. Looks very convincing.

Really like what you did here with acrylic paint. I'm going to try you technique to fade and weather a few of my cars.

Great work! Matched the pictures excellently.

I aspire to weather BR blue locos to look this way. A masterclass. nicely done.

Nicely done Richard! Very realistic......

wow, that's turned out really well

Great job..... Thanks for sharing

Fantastic weathering

Hello Everard. This little engine I really like. For me it is the classic British Switcher, is very well known in Germany, in its compact form it is to be used almost anywhere .By the aging that is very good is to look wonderful.

Really good looking faded paint. It looks just right on the layout...John

Great weathering job

Congratulations on your first article, Richard. I got it from Tesco coming back from work last night and read it on the bus. Some great shots but I don't think they gave your genius efforts justice. Also I had no idea you were so young!! Best wishes!

Awesome work!

Brilliant! I can almost smell the grime!

Great job Dave!:)

When you use the maskol put a small tab of card into it before it dries, then when finished just grip it and pull the masking off in one piece, no chance of scratching the glass with the scalpel

brilliant as normal

Brilliant, very prototypical! I want it

Excellant Job. Thanks for sharing ... Spike

Nice technique and good ideas for weathering.

Very nice the way you did looks the part as a shunter would look

Excellent "shows you how " video Richard

All I can say is 'Brilliant' I must get me one of those.

Great job well done!

Excellent video!

super job,looks amazing! dave

The weather-man predicts great weathering......nice.

perfect work.....👍

To be fair I was not convinced by the colour of the faded blue, but once dry it works really really well. Great job.

I love the video, keep it up

you are great .! keep it up... very intresting...

Hi Richard congratulations on the excellent write up in hornby magazine. I would be interested in seeing how you wire up the signal circuits as i find they are quite expensive to buy and would be more satisfying to build my own ones. Keep up the great work and look forward to the next vids cheers Paul.

Very wise to use Kay Dee Couplers. They are great for switching and doing prototype operation

Great method used it twice class 37 and class 08 both.blue great fade effect

looking great.....Jordan

The history of that locomotive is somewhat different. They were developed in the second world war. They came to the European mainland with D-Day, the invasion of Normandy 1944. The British army needed a strong, "portable" locomotive. About 7 - 8 months after the war in 1946, 10 were given to the nearly completely demolished and looted Dutch Railways. The NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen / Dutch Railways) were very satisfied about the 10 locomotives. They proofed to be very reliable and easy to maintain. A few years later the Dutch bought 100 new locomotives. Between 1949 and 1957, 2 more orders follow for in total 260 machines. Some of them are still in service. The class number in the Netherlands was Loc Serie 500 / 600 / 700. Rumors go (in the Netherlands) that the British were quite surprised by the first order of 100 copies and the very well performance in the Netherlands. So they start to use the locomotives themselves in 1952. The class 08 were probably only ment as warmachines.