So here she is temporarily kind of posed so you can see the livery U have chosen. This is meant to be a dirty quarry engine and so nothing about the paintwork is meant to be perfect. Which is a clever way of hiding mistakes too :-)
The dull LMS crimson lake was airbrushed at 1:1 and done in such a way that the black underneath kind of still shows through, making it look like the paintwork is grubby. I am really pleased with this. Further weathering and rusting around the filler cap will be done and the handrail knobs and fire iron brackets will be painted black again. The cylinders were brushed and one coat nicely shows through the black. However cleaning out the airbrush took ages – I officially hate enamel paints.
Weathering has now commenced using acrylics (hooray no enamels here) and here is one illustration of the effects I’m after – peeling paintwork and a bit of rust. The effect will be dulled down with general weathering. Sorry the photo is slightly out of focus.
Note the rods have been painted with humbrol “buffer beam red” but despite much mixing these are in fact pink(!) so railmatch BR crimson will be used over the top and should improve the hue! How humbrol, think that is buffer beam red I don’t know.
I have also sorted the plates out with a red partly peeling backing) and these will soon be installed. In fact it won’t be long before I put the engine back together and then add the copper pipework.
It might even be ready for Stoneleigh.
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