This morning was spent working on 47709, which has now been sprayed up in Fraggonset black. other than a few of the usual areas which could do with some minor touching up its gone on pretty well. Once again the masking tape has failed to do its job so the cantrail stripe is going to need to be repainted (along with touching up the paint on one corner of the cab roof).

Now that the paint has dried the next job is going to be preparing the ends to be resprayed. Most annoyingly will have to prime first given I need to paint out a black headcode box at one end, so thats an extra days work and another layer of masking. Still, have saved some time by reusing the Vi Trains roof colour (although at some point the panel over the boiler port needs changing to the rectangular type which may mean respraying the roof to match...

In readyness for painting tomorrow I have set about tidying up the cab front removing the mould line above the handrail (normally the handrail seems to hide it pretty well, but i figured since I'm respraying I may as well....

Ended up heading into town to do my christmas shopping today, and stopped by Hobbycraft on the way home hoping to find some weathering powders. Ended up with two sets of the Tamier ones which I have been trying out on 47768,

So far I have had a bit of an issue getting the colours to go around detail (ie where I want to be dirtiest) but quite happy with the look of the bogies.

The affect around the exhaust port could do with being a lot darker, so I think will have to get on and buy some mig powders to do that!

Again the photo is pretty poor quality given the lighting conditions need to get a finer applicator to refine the dark stains under the roof panel joints, and give the roof a much better going over once I have some different powders to use. I do think that these tamier colours are pretty handy for building up road dirt on a flush sided loco though