Time for an update on loco 3 of 4:
After previously stripping, priming and painting the Castle and Duchess bodies, they were left while I accumulated some cash to fund the transfers.
For now, I've invested in some more LMS transfers from Fox, along with the brass nameplates. These arrived within 48 hours of ordering and I wasted no time fitting them.
With the transfers fixed in place, Matt lacquer was applied to finish the loco, reduce the shine of the satin black paint and give a little more shine to the grey primer.
This is the final result, having found the necessary fixings for the bogie and the loco body. The transfers aren't suited to being applied to a flat, primer-based finish and I wrecked the first set of LMS transfers on the tender, on both sides, by applying the lacquer too quickly and in too great a quantity.
So the tender was stripped and painted again. The transfers were added and left for a day to harden before careful lacquering. After some initial concerns that the graphics were shrivelling again, they retained their shape once everything dried. The instructions supplied do clearly state that they're not suited to matt surfaces so it wasn't a huge surprise that I had issues.
The final result, whilst not quite identical to the Wrenn version, is certainly good enough to run and exhibit - a far cry from the state it was in when it arrived. At least it now has a future and after a few speed runs around the loft, it's ready for showing.
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