Sorry if your getting bored with this one....

...But its yet more work on 47768

Transfer work this time, replacing the OHLE flashes with the post 98 type and correcting the blue flashes on the RES logo with the correct colour.

With the OHLE flashes unfortunatly I wasn't able to use my normal method where I remove the red part of the flashes with microsol before adding the new transfers, because the Vi printing just wont shift. Thankfully the printed ones were a bit of the thin side colour wise, and arnt showing through the transfer too badly.

The RES flashes were a pain in the backside. Vi Trains made 3 mistakes here, getting the size fractionally too big, the lower stripe fractionally too low, and the colour completely wrong. Thankfully the first two arnt really a problem (more a nuisance on correcting the colour.) Fox's transfers were a poor fit but also have the grey background as part of the flash, as such these wern't of use. Thankfully I had a set of Replica ones in the transfers box that just have the blue flashes, these were cut into 4 parts (one for each stripe) to avoid the problems with the spacing issue. While they were fractionally too small, they were bigger than the fox ones, so its not noticeable on the model. The most annoying thing with them was that they were rubdowns, (I didnt think these hateful things existed anymore, and must have purchased them by mistake!) In the end the first 3 logos went without a hitch, but the last stripe on the last logo took 6 attempts to get right wasting one side of what would have been another locos worth of stripes.

Still, pleased with the end result, and probably the biggest improvement to the model thus far. Certainly the black doors/windows are barely noticeable from where im sitting now looking at the loco.....

Thats going to be it on this now until I get the bits of Shawplan for the rest of the work, unfortunately the modifications to the chassis will have to wait until after I next go to devon so that I can attack the chassis block with a cutting disk.....

Shocking photo time, unfortunately taking evening photos I cant avoid the grainyness..... That said I think it does give a nice comparison with the photo in the previous post showing the improvement the stripes change makes.