I started spraying the boiler/tank/smokebox assembly and this is what happened! The other side was great. damn!
So I stripped all the paint off using cellulose thinners (smelly stuff!) and then used a fibreglass brush on this area…I tried again and hey presto… it’s fine. Two coats have been applied.
Then the chassis was sprayed matt black too. One footplate has also had some acryllic black (slightly browny) dry brushed on to give a kind of oily appearance. This is a test to see what it looks like. It will be airbrushed over anyway but I hate uniform colours like the matt black which is not true to life. Real footplates have oily mank on them, so mine will too. Here they are drying for the night.
The plan is to use the tamiya masking tape pictured to mask off the panels and then airbrush on the phoenix crimson lake (dull) using airbrush thinner from railmatch (Ian Rathbone says normal white spirit is just as good, but I had already bought this so why not give it a go). The buffer beams and rods (once they have been brush primed) will be bright red (humbrol enamel probably but maybe acryllic I haven’t decided yet).
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