A couple of coats of matt black. I've started switching over to Tamiya acrylics, and although it is early days I'm not yet entirely sold on them. I'm going to smooth down and fill the body, then give it a couple more coats of black. Then the lining can be added.

Lining, according to Carter's liveries book, is going to be

- black boiler bands with red line either side;
- single grey line to tanks and bunker (one panel each);
- thin chrome yellow line outside of the grey band;
- thin red line inside of the grey band.

A pity that the light blue band originally adorning LD & EC engines didn't make it to the GCR takeover; it would look quite attractive and be obviously different from the rest of my GCR fleet.