Loads of paint

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Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.

Where to start ? A bit of a hectic day.

First, the dark green paint was sprayed. This was left to harden for a couple of hours before the black bits were hand painted from a slightly suspect Humbrol tin. Then yellow buffer beams were given a second coat. Next the white handrails went on with a white/147 mix. Finally the silver window frames. A bit of touching up with greens and the job looked good.

Transfers were the usual fiddly pain to apply with lots of prodding with a fine, wet paint brush to get the numbers something like in line with each other.

Next the wasp stripe nose doors which had been painted separately were glued in place. I was ever so glad these could be done in the flat as painting hazard stripes is no fun at the best of times. Transfers would be best for this job but I didn’t have any in 4mm scale to hand.

Finally the whole model was sprayed with satin varnish. This brought all the colours together and made the dark green come alive.

Actually, now I write it down this doesn’t seem like much work but it certainly seemed like a lot of effort at the time.