Painted Teddy

Painted 14
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.

OK, I'll come clean. This blog is running slightly behind the times as far as the build on the Class 14 goes. If it wasn't then I wouldn't be able to bring you up to date with the painted body shell.

This work takes several days as the paint has to be left to harden between coats. The task runs something like this:

Day 1 - Paint the light green cab sides.
Day 2 - Mask the cab sides and spray the dark green bits.
Day 3 - Paint the yellow bits including the nose doors which are separate until the stripes are printed. Those stripes involve lots of pencil lines and constant fiddling until I am reasonably happy. Then they are stuck to the nose with superglue. Also paint the white bits with Humbrol 147 (pale grey) and silver windows surrounds. Then touch up the pale green bits around the window frames where the brush slipped.
Day 4 - Spray the whole loco with satin varnish.

So now you are nearly up to date. Nearly, the sharp eyed amongst you will have spotted one job I need to do. And I don't mean the cab roof.