Tutorial Tuesday Episode 17 - How To Paint A Model Railway Wagon Kit - Dapol 

Very useful tutorial which clearly shows an alternative to buying RTR. I am holiday at the moment and brought a dozen Parkside kits from my large stash, along with a few tools and a cutting mat. Plates, Tubes, a palvan and some ex Ratio 12T vans. Great way to chill !!!

This is very inspirational to the novice modeller! 10/10!

I enjoy how this channel is easy going and not crazy about making mistakes :)

Love your attitude. Dive in and do it. Having fun. Great.

Another ace video....and now HALFWAY to your target! Well done

It's nice that your taking the time to show how you can get great results without $1,000s worth of hobby tools, well done and great looking wagon, thanks for sharing, Chuck RVRR

A nice simple and friendly approach to modelling and a great result too!! A long time since I produced a model, so a very encouraging video. Thanks - R.

excellent video, very well put together and informative

Enjoyed the two video mini-series. Channel keeps on getting better. Craig

I thought it was far fetched to get 10,000 subscribers by the end of the year, but it's not even February and your already at 5000, congrats, nice tutorial by the way. Luke.

I must look at getting one of these! The kits will work out cheaper than ready bought in the long run because I have all the paint to finish the job. I am thinking of painting the wagons a blue colour to run with my BR Blue diesel.

Nice one Mike showing all your previous knowledge of model making, people do give up to easily at the slightest hurdle instead of just thinking it through. Thoroughly enjoyed watching somebody do something that I used to do in the sixties building Airfix kits some of which were a bitch but I used to walk away and think about it and there's always a way. Thanks again for another superb couple of videos.

Another great video guys, well done. 👍👍

Another excellent video the wagon looks fantastic.

Love the video and it helped me with my WWII shunting layout locomotive witch is a dapol pug and I wanted to imitate a 9 on it to make it look like the army hand-painted the number on the boiler thanks as always!

wow very nice result.. amazing the difference transfers make... great video ... cant wait to get mine now lol

Great job!

Thanks, loved these two videos, great how to guide for kits!

Nice to see someone *not* advocating the use of an airbrush for everything!

"All you need is paint and a paintbrush" Exactly! So many people seem too scared to try things. I bought some 'spares and repairs' wagons and coaches 10 for about $5 which I practice my painting and other modelling skills on. That way I've really lost nothing if I destroy them. I've built a lot of kit wagons and happy with the finished units and also repainted some very play worn coaches and wagons with very good results. An excellent video showing how simple it can be to get a pleasing finished item - well done!

Great vid. I need rolling stock and this seems a cheap and fun way to get it and personalise to my own spec. You do take the fear out of it!

Nice video again, very cool.

Oh my god ! You have really perfected the dry brushing !!!! ASTOUNDING JOB

Another excellent vid! Another source of “cheap trucks” are the old Mainline or dare I say Airfix wagons. I picked half a dozen up from a certain model shop in Whitefield in greater Manchester, around a fiver each plus excellent tea! Well! I learned a bit today!

thank you for posting. You are right it's totally worth the time and effort for the price. Thanks enjoyed it very much

Drybrushing is such a great technique for quick reasobable results with minimal skill levels. Used to paint warhammer tanks with this really effectively! For even bettee results spray undercoat the matt black. Games Workshop spray cans are reasonable price and great quality :)

Great video I am going to paint one of my Class 43 HST Trains with a flat paint brush

Nice job, might have a go myself. Dave

thats a good job you dun there on the carge 👍

Fine job Gentlemen!!!

I use acrylic paint for quite a lot of my modelling and, though I have an airbrush, I haven't taken it out the box yet! B&M stores (other shops are available!) stock 200ml tubes of Brunel Franklin acrylic for £1.49 - a lot cheaper than those little pots of Tamiya and Humbrol for those on a budget. Turned out very nice for between a third and a half of a new one and make a rake of them that much more achievable. Cheers

Maybe you should try a bigger brush for larger areas . Flat with natural bristles

And great video

I use pva glue before applying the transfer. You also get a bit more time to move it if required

Thanks for the painting tips, you save me an hundred euros by showing me an aerograph is not mandatory to have a really more than decent result. Tamiya is a good choice, I can buy some in the model shops of my city. Anyway, the prototypes were certainly brush painted, I think that airbrushes were not used before the 60's for real wagon painting. Dapol kit wagons are a good choice to have low-priced and decent vehicles if you need some experiments, like putting some no. 5 Kadees on the one I will buy.

I mixed the brown colour by eye when I built one (review on my channel). I really like these kits, I feel a great sense of achievement from building something rather than off the shelf. It's personal then

Hi love your video's that one was great and as made think about making some myself it would be a lot cheaper when I start my layout in the next couple of weeks I am a retired decorator so I don't mind doing some model making & painting did a lot of model making with my eldest son when he was younger we one made a section of an aircraft carrier form scratch and he won a" comp" with it anyway Cheers for now George..

Its is a nice little kit, I bought one a few weeks ago from my local model shop for £4, I liked it so much I went back for another the next week. I agree with painting the bottom first, can get a bit tricky painting it built. As for the paint scheme I used only Humbrol colours, 33, black for the base , 70, brick red for the main body and 71, slate grey for the roof. The great thing about this kit is that there are a choice of 4 codes to put on the kit, so you can have four wagons with different code, not enough? cut and match the number. I was lucky I only spent £8 for the two wagons and £2 for the paint that I was missing but if I had needed to buy the paints brand new thats £6 (the model shop sells one 14ml pot of Humbrol acrylic paint for £2) on top off the £8 but since I already owned two of the required colours I save £4 only having to spend £10 in total. not to bad considering the price.

Nice work, the only additional thing I do is give the body a blackwash, black paint diluted 5:1, brushed over the whole body, then blotted off with tissue then left to dry before dry brushing. It helps pickout the detail a bit more and tends to give the finished model a bit more life.

here's a little tip. These wagons require a little extra weight to make them perform at their absolute best (I'd say add 30g but they're okay in small trains on smaller layouts), use alloy wheel balancing weights. You get a big box for not too much money (so you can use them in loads of wagons, coaches or even additional weight in locos) & they're self adhesive too. They'll come as a mix of 5g &10g weights so you can spread them through the wagon for good even weight. You can also use them in tank wagons by using 6 5g weights, very handy. In regards to paints, I spray the chassis (without wheels or couplings) with satin or matt black aerosols. Black is also a good basecoat for the brown (I use humbrol Brick red, can't remember the colour) as you could dab the paint off the grills & vents to give a light-used look

Very nice. I'm just about organised to start making some kits . . . By the way, re the art or craft thing at the small buiding video: My working definition of 'art' is that art is ' the presentation or the re-presentation of something: either solid and tangible or not material and intangible.' Of course, much art is both (think of Robin's 'The Kiss' or Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'). So, yes, railway modelling is an art form. Now, as to the distinction between 'art', 'craft', and I'll add, technology. More later. Best wishes, John

Great video, your drybrushing was brilliant. before i drybrush i usualy water down black acylic paint and let it settle in the detail, it realy brings out the detail. after that i then drybrush much like you did . I have also been using graphite dust from cheep graphite sticks; that i have scraped with a scalpel, to give my 0 gauge Terrier a well worked look, after a couple of coats of hairspray the powder is firmly stuck to the model.

Very well done. I love how encouraging and inclusive and simple you make things. Brilliant. Keep up the good work. Where do you get these wagon kits from ?

Another great video.

I'm going to get some for couplerslack and giggles for my fleet. I wonder how a British coal wagon would do behind my EMD GP38-2 and GE Dash-840cw? Lol.

Inpreartation for the louse of my school I'm going to buy three unpainted dapol wagons and I give any thanks to you for the recommendation of humbrol paints. What type of brushes do you use? Again thanks, matt and stay safe.

Officially, the colour was bauxite, but if you look at colour photos of the era, you can see that the colour varied hugely even within a single train. Paint would fade or be affected by dirt or weather, and the different wagon works didn't necessarily get the shade exactly per the BR specifications. In other words, if you think it looks right, it probably is right. Same deal with any wagon colour.

Very good video now I know how to weather my wagons thanks john

interesting that you keep the wheels in while painting. I usually fit the wheels on wagons once painting is finished on my models.

Looking at this the tamiya paint looks like it has covered the wagon really well , may have to buy some of these paints myself I painted one of mine in citadel paints not the best stuff to use but modelling you learn from your mistakes lol did you manage to take a look at the coaches dapol do? Cheers Beeton Hough Junction (Dave c)

Hi I am getting some unpainted wagons in from dapol, was wondering what type of Humbrol brushes you use? cheers

So had the model been primed first or were you painting directly onto the original plastic? I’m still struggling that despite stirring the paint well the humbrol paint seems really watery. I just cannot get one coat coverage. And I don’t want to ruin my n gauge coaches.

What made you pick that particular weathering color? Is it because it is a muddy color or because it was a slightly lighter color than the wagon sides?

Whilst very much admiring of weathered models , NATURAL DUST is my preferred method

I decided to start painting my kits that I'd finished the other day with some Humbrol (turned out it's gloss but I think weathering should fix that). Although my paint was really thin and watery, what's the best way to fix that?

Next layout you should have a butcher shop and a goods yard so you can shunt your meat van in to a siding to deliver meat to the butcher.

The handle on the end of the brake arm was painted white (which then wore off). The brown colour was associated with vacuum brake fitted wagons under BR (add a bit cut from an old biro to the underside for the cylinder). You can use a fine tipped white ‘gel’ pen to add lettering, I had a lot of success using a dip type pen with white ink but that did get fiddly and I ended up buying more nibs. If you make a mess of it a bit of enthusiastic weathering works (I use enamel paints so I just give things a wash with dirty thinners, that doesn't affect either gel pen or dip-type inks. For BR livery you might find this interesting . . . www.igg.org.uk/rail/6-livy/br/9-br-4864.htm For info on the chassis . . . www.igg.org.uk/rail/4-rstock/04arstock2f.htm The wagons are N Gauge, mostly semi-scratch built or kit-bashed on Peco chassis.

take wheels off first ??? Mattcoat over decals ??

can you please do a tutorial on a dapol kitmaster locomotive please?

I had to pay $22 for one New NE Hornby box van And I bought 2 so that’s $44

3 years later and £16 is now considered a cheap wagon...