This last week has been spent mainly on finishing the paint job and doing the lining.

The loco footsteps still need doing!

This last photo is pretty much a mirror image of the photo of the original loco that inspired the model in the first place (which I shall post when the model is finished).

After I had finished the loco lining I came to the decision that the Revell 'leaf green' enamel alone does not make for a convincing reproduction of LNER apple green; it is too bright and, to my eye, too yellow. So I had to go back and give the loco a couple of coats of Humbrol 'apple green' too.

The lining itself is a mixture of methods and mediums; for the boiler bands I cut some 1mm strips of paper and used a ball point pen to line in the black strip. For the cab sheets and the splashers, and the black/white lines on the tender and the red lining on the running plate, I used paint pens (and a very steady hand).

There is still a bit of lining to do on the tender, and for that I'm planning to use HMRS pressfix lining transfers. Embarrassingly I thought I had plenty of that in my bits box; only when I came to actually appy the lining did I find that I did indeed have enough of the straight lengths to do the job, but only about two of the curved sections! So until a new sheet arrives in the post this job is on hold.