Hornby Star 4025 repaint: wartime black
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For a while I have been trying to source a Hornby Star to repaint in wartime black as 4025. Today a suitable model finally arrived, all be it the worst experience I have had buying off eBay (taking a long time to arrive, arriving damaged and not DCC fitted). But it was in budget for a DCC ready loco and the damage was easy enough to fix so I haven't bothered sending it back.
Instead I have started to strip it down. First the loco and tender were separated from their respective chassis. The tender top was swapped with the one previously used with Spitfire, (seen in the background)
The name plates were removed, along with the remaining steam pipe. The replacement numbers for 4025 are on a custom etch from Narrow Planet. The chimney, top feed, buffers and cab seats were all removed.
Next the smokebox door, the BR number plate was carefully shaved off and a replacement hinge was added from evergreen strip.
Sorting the holes caused by the steam pipes was the next job, I decided the easiest route was to carefully cut the fixing lugs off the steam pipes and glue them into the holes (before finishing off with some filler.
Next up was removing the mounded on cab side handrails and toning down the lining. This is where I made the first major mistake, after carefully carving off the hand rail I didn't sufficiently clean up the damaged side. It should be hidden by the new hand rail. I decided the vertical hand rail was much less obiovious so that has been left. The mistake was with the removal of the lining. Rather than using Microsol as usual I decided to take a shortcut and just use a fibreglass pencil. This left some residual damage which is visible under the new paint.
The final prep work was with nameplates, the plate had to be carefully removed from the splashier (the opposite way round to usual) chopping away with tin snips. It was then tidied up with a file before gluing back in place 
Then it was out with the spray booth for a coat of primer followed by Halfords satin black
It now just needs a little reassembly, and touching up the black paint around the windows (which were masked insitue 
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