For your older project loco, you can redo the interior wall detail pretty easily by exporting a frame from this video into a photo editing software, trim and square the wall image and print a color sheet you can glue to the back wall. Gets all the detail in one shot, and I’ll bet you won’t see the difference through the windows. Cheers from across the pond!

Its gonna be so good day when Everard Junction posts

Absolutely wonderful. It's always a treat to watch your work. 👍🏻

Excellent video. When I look through my diesel books I see the best pictures are when the loco is a bit grubby. To see a Deltic with white wheels is my worst nightmare.

My wife and I back in 1991 lived in West Kensington she was carrying our first child and on a nice summer evening we would go for a walk when I got home from work at Royal Mail, we would walk up to the back of West Kensington underground station where the west London line passes under the A4 and around 1930 every evening a 47/8 with matching aircon rake would pass going north I think it was a south coast to Manchester cross country service seeing your model took me back the baby is now 31 but sadly my angel passed away but junior loves the railways albeit not as much as me ,thanks Richard ,I’m planning to get one of them soon ,Mark 👍🏻😊

Great weathering episode, love the methodology detail and product detail, plus comparison of old and new, thanks again

Great video... Excellent work! Really appreciate your passion for your projects and attention to the details.

Your eye for detail is exceptional,well done 👍

Excellent work as always!!

Fantastic weathering! An example to follow!

Amazing work of yours, like always. The weathering results couldn't be better. All the best from Germany, Valentin

Good to see you doing some weathering the model looking amazing thankyou for the video

As always a great video full of advice. Keep them coming, weathering technique and paint colours Cheers from down Under

Fantastic work Richard. Using real photos as reference is proberly one of the best things you can do when weathering a model. - Nicholas.

Another excellent tutorial, Richard. And as usual the results are very realistic indeed. From what I gather, many modellers here in the US have the same attitude toward sound as you do. I discovered this independently when after a very long break from the hobby I built a very small switching/shunting layout which uses only one loco at a time. I converted one of my old engines to DCC with sound. It was very exciting at first, but I ended up turning the master volume down quite a bit and eventually realized I was quite happy running engines with DCC but without sound. So I have sound only when that one loco comes up in the operating roster rotation. Cheers from Wisconsin!

Well done, this locomotive looks so realistic now after your fantastic weathering, detailing end enhancing. Another excellent video and very enjoyable listening and seeing your masterclass.

Bachmann deserves kudos for this, looks very good

Great video. I like the way you explain and show what you are doing and why. Your research and attention to detail is wonderful. I know I would not have the skill or patience to achieve what you are capable of but thoroughly enjoy watching your process. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

Great technical work. End results look natural. Stay safe.

Lovely work, Richard. Greeting from Ohio.

Great work, as usual 🙂💪

Man... I tried my hardest to follow your instructions on benchwork. Unfortunately im not that handy. But was able to create 4- 4'×27-1/2" modules + 2- 2' x 3' modules, with 1/4" screwed on backdrops that are 20" a little taller then I intended, I was going to build lights above but decided to use these desk clipped lights that come out from the back and over the layout which it makes them look like they are floating over the layput. All the wood was mounted with heavy duty deck screws.. (hard to remove) but I shall be able to move these in and out of the bedroom they are in, if I ever move to a new house. Now im staining the wood with a ebony like finish which will make the backdrops POP with the sky blue. Im pretty F'N excited! Ive been watching your videos since you started and ive learned alot of stuff! You are a very good teacher, very precise! You are the best modeler on youtube by far. Thats alot coming from an American. 🤣 keep up the good work. Ill be excited to see more videos

An excellent bit of work on this new 47 Richard and really good to see a subtle weathering job which I prefer to a heavy weathering job, the detail on this new 47 from bachmann is incredible the lengths that bachmann have gone to on this model is great to see, to me it shows that Bachman can still be a good manufacturer who can still release a great model even with the many other manufacturers who are coming onto the scene, the sound in my opinion is acceptable, the sound to me is adequate, it does sound like a 47 and I have only heard 47s as they have gone past me when I have been videoing them on the rear of trains hauled by steam locomotives.

Fantastic details

Another superb video Richard, full of great tips and info. Sound in locos is a no go for me as I experienced in the early days of it showing my layout next to one which had over 25 locos on full sound in the engine shed throughout the two days of the show!. Would not affect me as never had DCC due to cost of converting my fleet of 80 plus locos. However weathering is excellent when properly done. Having a few years back come into a small amount of surplus money I purchased a superb compressor and air gun for £700. They are still in their boxes!!! I somehow never got the confidence to use them but I will one day despite the fact I am getting rather old. Your video encourage me no end and I thing what holds me back is the arthritis in my fingers. Pulling the air gun levers is actually quite painful and the thought of over 1000 pieces on N gauge tock is not the best tempter to proceed. Meanwhile I shall just enjoy the excellence you give us. Cheers, Bob

Another master class and that loco really fits in with the rest now. Grand work, sir! Weird to think, I have actually seen some Swallow Livery locos and cars in person now.

As usual details details . Enjoy your videos

Interesting to watch your techniques and the things you use. Right now I'm weathering rolling stock using acrylic paint, washes and powders. Like you when I'm done, I give a coat of matt varnish. That's a must really, for durability and especially if you've glossed the piece for the application of transfers. I'm using detail brushes alone. Not got to spraying yet. It's a fun process and if it goes wrong..... wipe it off and go again! The more layers the better. Great video. Regards Stephen.

awesome layout and videos

Yes sound locos seem to be more effective on small layouts where they are mostly reving up and down. One advantage small layouts have over large ones..!

Another great video and an excellent result. Can't believe the model doesn't have close coupling though.

Wonderful weathering

Nice weathering work...

Beautiful job, well done 👏👏👏 Also, in the end clips, I thought that the interior lighting in the passenger coaches really enhanced the view of the passengers etc. Cheers 👍 ; - )

Good video as always.

The trouble with sound is that it doesn’t scale. The engine idling and then picking up a little as the amps come up and it starts to roll away, if you were sitting on the platform at at Shrewsbury and a forty came in ,stopped ,had a crew change then drifted off with its train, out and round the corner the engine would be there in front of you making loads of noise but that would diminish rapidly and by the end of the platform or even halfway down you wouldn’t hear it, just the boom of the empty tanks that make up its train With the model sound the distance is constant so the sound is too, so it’s not unrealistic, just doesn’t behave like you know it should. Lovely job on the spoon. At 27.30 it looks so good that I was hoping the louvres we’re going to open and shut and a big cloud of black exhaust going to pour out. I’ve driven a few of them long range tank ones. Happy days.

It's odd. I love seeing weathered locomotives and rolling stock but I can't bring myself to do any of my own or buy pre-weathered. I like to see mine pristine.

Interesting hearing your comments regarding sound decoders. Personally I have never ran a loco without sound. Actually curious now to go and try one of mine with the sound switched off.

It is very, very unlikely that I will ever begin to invest time into train models and their environments, even in the most basic way. Yet, this channel has become a staple. It's so enjoyable watching the creativity and seeing your thought process. Being an admiring bystander is completely alright because, there's just too little time to have more than a few hobbies anyway (if you want to do them any real justice, that is).

The brown Tamiya panel liner works good on faces for tiny scale figures. I put a few drops into the well of an aluminum pallet and thin it about 50% with thinner. I use a fine brush to put it in the details of the figure's face and hands. After it dries, I use the same fine brush with clean thinner to clean off the bridge of his nose, cheek bones, point of his chin and his fingers leaving the wash in the low spots.

wonderful video

the inside of the locomotive looks much cleaner, and it seems built to last much longer. Now it's a traction workhorse, inside and out!

The sound in the new Bachmann models is brilliant and done by south west digital, but the problem is always the speaker, they always fit crappy ones with no back boxes and they sound pretty tinny

Whilst there's no doubt other inaccuracies with the noise generated with the sound equipped locos, I can't believe they went to extent to add horn tones but not the sound of the straight air and train brakes being released.

Great video Richard I want to give my 47 a weathering but wasn't sure about how but now I do thanks for the video cheers Paul

Wonderful loco

Lovely loco and good job on the weathering, I would be very concerned with the bogies if they are made from Mazak.

Greatly done, as allways..As your loco is a "one direction" loco die to the coupling - would the exhaust grime not only go into one direction backwards and the dust in the notches, valleys, and doors collect in a very specific way as it is directed by the driving direction? A single Word to the driver's detailling - a really well proofed skin colour ist Revell 17 "Africacorp's Brown" matt and using a darker brown ink you can easily add some details to the face and the hands that make the needed deepness. Great progress thanks for the interesting footage and pictures, Christian

Hi Richard, super stuff. I always thought two liveries suited the Class 47, the BR large logo and the Intercity swallow. That was a great period when BR seemed to be getting it right. You mentioned at the end, not being convinced by sound and the way the drone of the engine gets to you after a while. I've found all sound chips I've installed, or loco's bought already fitted have the sound level set to 100%..............There really isn't any need for it to be set so high, I've altered all of mine to about 30% of their max level, and they really do sound much more realistic. Almost like you can't really hear them until they get close, then as they pass the sound fades again. Anyway all the best and thank you for the lesson in weathering Dave.

Beautiful weathering job. They've put a really weird horn tone on that locomotive -- I've never in my life heard one where one of the tones sounded like somebody playing the recorder.

I agree... for some reason, that sound "went right thru me".... a couple of laps of that, and I'd be turning it off, as well. :) I *always* enjoy your videos and am a fairly long-term subscriber. Keep it up!

Great work always love your videos could you please do you class 52 western sometime soon.

With regard to painting the driver, you might want to look at army painter military shader. It's a "shade" coat you paint onto the figure after doing a paint job which brings out the detail. Couple of videos on you Tube. There's even a quick dip into which you obviously dip the figure. They're designed for wargames figures which have a higher level of detail but might be worth experimenting with. They also might not be "relevant" to every model railway, but with Everard being a more realistic one, from weathering/Graffiti etc, they might fit. And for £3 it's not to pricey a go.

Nice job once again. One thing I picked up on was painting the driver. Fully agree on not trying to paint any facial features in this scale but have you ever tried a wash to lift the detail? Warhammer figure painters use a flesh wash on their figures to add depth to the faces of their gaming figures. It's very easy to apply and could help avoid that mannequin in the cab look. Looking forward to your next update.

Less is more. Nice work rich. Looks very effective.

Class 47 / 7 & 47 / 8 all had reinforced floor fitted and the 47 that being moved by two overhead crane is in the Erecting Shop Crewe Works, sadly this building + 9 shop, Blue Room (engine repair) arcade and the machine shops have now gone and its a housing estate. I'm ex Crewe work from 1982 and my very first loco to work on the very famous Class 47's and the unforgettable sound from that Sulzer engine.

Brewing coffee ☕️ and making toast sandwiches to enjoy a great new video !! 🚂🚂

Great video I’ve been waiting to do this my Virgin 47 & now recently purchased intercity 47 with both with Bachmann mk2 stock, thing I’m struggling with coming up with a way of putting roof dirt on and then taking off like it’s been through a washer leaving a line before the roof gets to the side of the locos or coaches, the issue it’s the washer bush marks as it isn’t a straight line. if that makes sense,

I’d love to see a re-run of the Regional Exclusive Anglia Railways 47714, I had a couple of them over the years (one when they were brand new, sold this to raise funds for an era change to steam) and again about 3 years ago but unfortunately I had to move house and there weren’t any spaces to have a model railway unless I could afford to spend thousands on converting the loft space (which needed a LOT of work doing as it was a very old house). This being the case I had to sell my entire collection off as there was no realistic prospect of having a model railway until I could move out from my parents (we all know how difficult that is to do these days). The model of 47714 was really good for the tooling’s age, but I feel it would be much better with the new tooling.

Fantastic video as always. Would you do, or have you done an airbrush tutorial to show how you set it up, mix paint etc as I’d love to try this myself. I have an airbrush but can’t find a suitable instructional video and love what you do.

I hope you do add some sheep in your pasture. Just my humble thoughts 😌

Recognised the first photo location, Edinburgh Waverley. Been there many a time!

Richard, you need to change your spray booth filter, I’m surprised that’s allowing anything to get sucked out 👍😂

Are you going to do a video on weathering your Cavalex TEAs? If so, I’m looking forward to it.

The 47 is my favourite train

I love the 47 I recently saw the northern belle western railway 47 the driver was sound and let me have a look in the cab and take photos technology was so much more basic back in the day we’ll done Richard hopefully will get my hands on a 47 I chose a 37 over one last year (it failed very miserably a month later) so I regret not gettin a 47 edit: I checked over my photos the 47 i cabbed is one on the locos in this video in intercity livery 47826 at 2:13 that’s mad

I'm of the same opinion with sound equipped locos, they're OK for 10 minutes but then I run them silent . A great tip i learnt from a professional weathering expert years ago was to rub an HB pencil on buffer heads to replicate that shiny greasy patch.

This locomotive is still out in service today under LSL, i have a video ogf it out last week

You’re a braver man than me, looks great! Wish I had the guts to do this but fear I may mess it up. Fancy doing mine and a rake of Mk2Fs and a DVT? 😉 Obviously for a £. I’m wanting to add the white dashes to the wheels, marked out on the wheel rim every 1/3rd of the way round, did you consider doing that on this?

Almost time for the next layout ..? Exhibition layout? DEMU is back this weekend..

Love your work. Could we have more Buddleia please? Growing out of annoying inaccessible places.

Hi Richard, Excellent work there mate. Could you forward a link or let me know where you get your Tamia Panel line from please. Cheers.

Having been an exhibitor at shows i can tell you that the worst thing is being close to a DCC sound equipped layout ! Especially a TMD or small end to end display. Most of them will have numerous models with the sound running the whole time, it gets very old very fast.

Really enjoyed that, one question where did you use the grey panel wash?

Richard I’m not sure if you’ll see my comment but I model locos in the 1960s(late Br steam). I really like the intercity 47 and I’m going to buy one. I have the Br green class 47. What intercity carriages do u have behind yours? What brand are those? I would love to get some for a one off rake. I want to make sure they are the right ones.

Everard junction are you Leicester based? Hence the name? My son would love to see your layout, I’m in earl Shilton, be intrigued to know and if it’s something we could arrange, great work btw

Hi, I know you probably will not buy a new 2024 Heljan class 47 until it's down to an acceptable price level but from the information that's available today with the new Heljan class 47 now available I'm interested to know what your thoughts are regarding this model as it's going to be sometime before you do a review on it if you do one at all?, many thanks.

Richard, just as a matter of interest, what type of spray booth are you using? Been looking at getting on myself shortly.

Hi. Have you tried a pin or needle for super fine detail? The smallest dot of paint on the tip works well but appreciate how small this working is..

I'm sure you've answered it before but what compressor do you use, and does it have an air tank?

you can recast the figure using oyumaru as a cast; check on youtube

May I be so bold as to make a suggestion with your driver. Use a flesh wash on the face and hands to pick them out a little. It reduces the brightness of the flesh colour. Also add some people with different coloured skin. This is Britain in the 1980s!

With you having 5 tracks am sure it works out as : down slow , down fast , up fast , up slow and brench relief line . It's what I have seen in real life.

Ow! My ears! No warning! 😀

Hello you said the gear box is made of Mazak. Are you not worried with the price of this locomotive that it could suffer from Mazak Rot one day. Hearing that has put me right off buying one

Please consider adding a shade wash to your figures. You go to such high levels of detail on all your vehicles and terrain, but the figures are just flat colour. I come from a tabletop wargaming background, not trains, so seeing figures in flat colour with no shading/highlighting really sticks out to me. I can't make the models you make, I couldn't do the realistic weathering you do, but I find myself watching all these railroad videos going "ooh, quick dab of Agrax Earthshade and they'd look twice as good" on the figures.

Hi, I know this is not related to this video Allan from Dragon Junction shout you had a similar problem. BachmannFGA Freightliner Wagons. I have a set that I'm about to sell/throw away as they keep derailing. How you had any issues. It looks like to me, a novice modeller that the bogie is restricted by the under frame at the rear. Any comments suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks I'm an avid watcher of your channel. Dallas

The elephant in the room is that the real loco has a gloss finish yet the model is matt finish. I hear the arguments that if you have a gloss finish the model looks plasticky but if you are going for authenticity then surely a rippled gloss finish most reflects the loco.

You don't get drive with stream locomotive when bought new . We have too buy both driver and fireman. They possibly added other bits instead of the driver

If i didn't know better I would swear blind the model, when running with sound, is the real thing. But i agree, running the model with sound on would quickly get tiresome.

Why don't you just brush paint the wheels and pickups? Not very visible anyway.

Alllllll that money and no driver 😠

Spot on as always Richard. But that silver on the buffer shank...wow what a difference that makes.