I've now made three attempts to get the lining right, used three different types of paint - this is car touch-up paint, applied using the pin nozzle. It's about as good as it's going to get.
The cab numbers have also been applied.
Now for the tender.
The one that came with this City is plastic and was in very poor condition. It had been repainted before and after stripping, some deep scratches and gouges are visible. This just isn't good enough and the final coat of paint will show every imperfection.
This will need a lot more work if I'm going to produce a second City locomotive:
Luckily I had this tender up in the loft, which became spare recently. Although broken, this makes it easier to paint as I can paint the front section separately and then just glue it back into place.
Back to bare metal again. It took longer to strip the paint off the tender than the loco body did! Clearly it was once a Montrose tender as the original green paint was exposed underneath before finally getting back to bare metal.
After priming and a coat of black, the final red coats were added:
The transfers were then applied and the tender body briefly attached to the chassis to check for alignment, using the middle axle as a guide:
Now to paint in the black sections of the tender chassis, spray with matt lacquer and refit the handrails and smoke deflectors.
Then the chassis will need work...
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