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4: It's a warm spring Saturday as
UELX 15327 has been emptied and
shoved out of the local dealers yard
onto the siding lead. The local will
pick it up early Monday morning and
send it back on its way to be loaded.
Thomas Gasior took the photo of
this Atlas 17,000 gallon tank car.
A base coat of yellow primer was
applied and then covered with hair-
spray along the top of the car. Black
paint was applied over the hairspray
and then gently washed off with
warmwater, leaving the yellow
primer. Tar spills were made from
Micro Flat and powders.
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5: Local Freight no.77 pauses at
the station of Noorinbee while the
crew perform safe working duties
in the signal box.
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Darren French photographed the
scene on his layout, which is a
proto-freelanced N scale layout
modeled on the State Government-
owned Victorian Railways. The lay-
out location is based in Gippsland,
Victoria, Australia. The model was
built by Ian Fletcher.
Y109 is a fully detailed Spirit Design
(local Australian manufacturer)
etched brass kit mounted on a
LifeLike SW9/1200 mech, the gray
and orange airbrushed with Badger
Modelflex water based acrylics pre-
mixed to suit the prototype. Black
and white detail was hand brushed
on with Humbrol enamels, and the
model weathered with powdered
artists pastels and finished with a
light airbrushing of an earth wash.
