Hi everyone,
I have finished my Br 52 right now. I have been working on it since October, about 250 hours spent. There are some pictures, I will add a couple more later. If you want to see more, its here in gallery
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Any comments welcome guys.

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Nice model Liborz. Were you able to keep the red and black assemblies seperate until painted? Some black washes around details, especially on the lower running gear, would help with the weathering. One would expect to see more grime and dirt here.

Hi Frank,
thanks for your comment. Well, I kept them separate, but it was not easy to complete them after painting. I want to start another one in the future, better detailed and in grey - yellow camo, to use both locomotives in a diorama I plan to build up, they should by use to move railway gun Dora, but there will be more things like Morser Karl, some wagons etc.
This is my very first weathering I have ever tried, so I will definitelly add some more in next weeks, when I could be a bit more experienced

hi liborz, wow...very nice...i was looking for the BR-2 in our local hobby store..ordered and still waiting for the kit to arrive. anyway...your images are good reference to start with. very clean and fine details. post more picture please..we didn't get a closer look on the coal compartment. the front page of your gallery is nice and still under construction. thanks for sharing. ed

Hi ed s. sarao
I show in my gallery finished kits, but you could find handy my build log of this locomotive, there are pictures from middle working.
building log
I would also recommend some upgrade sets, I used Eduard parts and there is the set from Voyager, can find on Ebay, they will bring you model much nicer.
There is one picture of its interior, which cannot be seen in gallery anyway.

And check the pictures from model building of my countryman Ondřej Nadrchal, I think this is another level of building kits, and I hope I will by one day at least 10% as good as this guy is.
Br_interior
It is written in Czech, but check the pictures!

Nice work! I do think it could use some weathering. Especially the red color.

Lars

Hey, that looks fantastic! There's a couple of pix there that look VERY 1:1. I'm glad ya left all the armor they'd load 'em up with during wartime. It's a beautiful engine. Nice cab details too.

If you do, indeed, do another one (or anyone who's thinking about doing one), please join the Stop, Look & Listen Campaign and join us in our attempts at cool rail subject modeling. It's the first Railroading campaign on KitMaster, so, you'll also be a part of History.

Again, NICE loco!

Cuhail

Thank you guys for your comments, hope more is coming. I will definitely do some more weathering soon.
To Cunhail, I have joined your campaign already, got many great ideas!

Very cool! Glad to have you on board!

What do you have in mind?

Cuhail

I have checked a couple very special things coming out in next weeks, and there was another one on the list of small Czech model manufacturing company, but I am not sure it´s still available. I love railway and I want to get the members of this site excited, when they will look at my build, it must be impressive, here never seen before. I have mentioned that model above is even my first one I tried weathering at, and I built just a few kits last year (not good ones, anyway), when I returned to building kits after maybe 25 years. Got many books, DVDs etc. to learn these new techniques and bring my result to higher level. I feel I have balls to be good and I will. So I do not know exactly what, but I know it is gonna be something special

Well, if the BR is any indication, you can stand next to any of us! There is so much help and support here that anything you do will be accepted and admired.

We are modelers. We are all the coolest guys and gals in the modeling genre.

No worries!

Cuhail

That´s, what I know, and That´s, why I came here. Someone might want to see these:
railway kits
what you think about them?
Another WR 360 (C12 this time) is coming from Trumpeter soon, and they want to do gondola OMMR in spring time too.
Libor

What color "red" did you use?

Thanks

Hi,
I used flat red XF-7 Tamiya acrylic paint (30%) with combination of a retarder (1%)and Sidolux (25%), which is a clear acrylic varnish(Czech made), used for care of a wood floors, and 44% Tamiya acrylic thinner. Painting is a bit glosy, ready for application of decals, and it is very abrasion resisting, I mean really very, it is almost impossible to cratch it. The final kit is painted again with Sidolux and Tamiya thinner 25% + 75% instead of any other varnish.


Libor

Great work Liborz! You've got a real winner there, nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

Cheers -
Tim

Thank you for your comments, guys,
I have tried to bring some washes on the chassis, and here are some pictures. I could have used probably more, however the real result looks much better than the pictures show.



More pictures in my gallery:
gallery
Libor

hey that's fantastic! some great reference for my 1:72 br 52 with leopold check it out--its only a few posts up in this forum.

hellow again! just wondering...what did you use for/how did you paint the faces of the dials in the cab?

Very nice build it looks great, I have the kit in my stash. The last weathering you did is bringing it to life.
Sheldon

Wow..a nice looking model there Libor. The weathering is looking good,I have no idea how I would weather RED, seems like you got it down.

Rob

Thank you for your comments, guys. Probably I will start some other locomotive soon.
Libor

Another goog news for everyone who is interested in railway kits, a new announcement from Trumpeter, there is a new Br 57 armored and a few railway cars, I am really excited!
railkits
Cheers
Libor

Wow, that is an awesome train!

Very nice work on the weathering, its coming along great!