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The 'Tin' HAL continues towards completion

SRman

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More on the 2 HAL: I have now started painting the interiors. I know they started with a reddish-brown for second class (ex-third class) but I have no idea what colour the first class seats should be. I chose a French blue on the strength of Hornby using blue for their Maunsell coaches but this is a tenuous guess at best! I will also paint the antimacassars white or cream for first class only.

 

The roofs were still in undercoat before and have now had a coat of a darker grey.

 

The interior shots also show how I have run the wires for the extra pickups rigged in the trailing bogie, plus the lead weight over the leading end (hidden in the van section) and the NCE decoder.

 

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I have left the extra wires at full length on the decoder because I may fit lights at a later date, and possibly a third rail flash over the leading bogie shoe.

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Colin parks

Hi SRman,

 

Sounds like you have as much of the green paint as I have of 'Engineers' Olive', also mixed at the local decorating shop! 

 

The wiring arrangement looks neat, with plenty of scope for the interior lighting over the partitions. What will you use for the flash unit?  Someone I spoke to last year (forgotten who!) proposed using a bright LED fitted facing downwards through the floor - don't know he ever succeeded.

 

All the best,

 

Colin

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SRman

Hi Colin. The LED pointing through he floor was pretty well what I had in mind. I was thinking of blue but it may actually look better with twin LEDs, one blue, one white. I also had this in mind for some of the class 73s I have (mostly Lima bodies on Hornby chassis).

 

As for paint quantities, yes, I have enough to sink a battleship ... or at least, to paint one!! I did much the same thing with the London Transport train red. :)

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