Hornby BR Southern Region BY. A few tweaks.
A while back I was given one of those excellent Hornby Southern Railway BY's in olive green and decided to repaint it into BR (SR) green. Paul Bartlett's excellent site came up trumps with this photo:
http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srby/h3317da13#h399adca5
The thing I liked about this photo of 'S764S' is didn't appear to have the full data panel on the right hand ends this making application of decals easier.
The model itself breaks down really easily into its component parts. The bodyshell received a coat of Halfords grey primer followed by Howes Railmatch BR (SR) green acrylic paint. Then the roof and ends were sprayed with Tamiya black and NATO black. Once dry a coat of Klear to the sides give a good surface to apply the HMRS decals.
I had to put the wheelbase decal above the 'BY' lettering owing to size. The HMRS sheet doesn't contain the 'BY' lettering so this was made up from other parts of the decal sheet. I managed to find a 'Y' on an old set of Woodhead decals I had. The decals where once more sealed in with Klear.
I then sprayed a home brew track colour on the underframes, lower sides and around the iron work. This was followed by a wash of the same mixture which was wiped off with a damp cotton bud once nearly dry.
Everything was sealed with Tamiya matt varnish and left to dry.
In my eyes one of the weaknesses of the Hornby model is the lack of window grills. Thankfully, I had some of the excellent Roxey etched grills suitable for the 'BY'. These were given a coat of white primer then misted with NATO black to tone things down. Prior to putting the glazing back in I fixed these in with PVA so as not to fog the glazing.
Reassembly was straight forward. Here's the finished article being shunted by 46444 somewhere along the Kettering to Cambridge line in the 1950's.
A detailed Base Toys AEC Monarch is parked up next to the line.
Cheers,
Mark
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