I think we're about done here....

I'm sold on the idea of making my own transfers. This looks so much neater and more like what I had in mind when I set out to model an 11B.

As I feared it might, the printer had a bit of a moment when printing and so the transfers were only about 95% the size they needed to be.... I had to deal with this by cutting each one in half and then accepting a bit of a fudge in the middle; this was preferable to the transfer being 2mm out at either the front or back.

Once the transfers had been applied, I very carefully went over the green with another coat of brunswick green to get the model in one shade. This just left the bits of lining in the middle of the splasher to sort out.

From previous experience neither brushes nor paintpens could get the necessary finesse, so I pulled out one of my screwdrivers and dipped it in enamel paint- gloss white, matt black and the closest bronze-ish colour I could match to the beading. I'm happy with how this dodge turned out but I have to admit I would not want to line out an entire splasher like that.

I still need to do the beading to the spectacle plate; a roundtoit job it seems. Other than that all the loco needs is its numberplates.