Lots of work on this loco today!

Prototype Photo:

Starting off this morning with priming the yellow ends, followed by 2 coats of Warning yellow. Annoyingly there are still a few areas on the ends that need the yellow touching up (mostly those areas that its difficult to get paint onto), so that will get done tomorrow.

Once the final coat was dry, I then got on with the transfers for the sides.

Working with an old set of Fox transfers (picked up in a bargain bucket at the Falmouth show a couple of years back for about 50p) I have had a few issues with the transfer cracking, but it seems to have patched up ok.

I didnt bother using the white backing piece given that for some reason it was a few mm too long (the red/white top layer being the right length.) in the end I decided to test it directly onto the model, while it looses a bit of intensity it did save a lot of hassle (and I think it turned out ok.)

There is always the possibility of adding a 2nd layer of the same transfer to see if that helps. The other transfers went on much quicker (not requiring messing about trying to get a straight line for a start...) the Fraggonset in particular was very finely detailed!

A little disappointing are the pre made number sets which look a tad on the small side (annoyingly I dont think there are other transfers available for Fraggonset numbers) but again its not far enough out for me to start having to worry about commissioning replacements.

Photos:

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Still to do:

Finish touching up yellow paint & add front OHLE Flashes. Touch up black paint on buffer beam cowling, Then varnish.

Add Handrails & Glazing

New underframe - needs long range tanks. Will use Heljan parts, not sure how I will add the pipework on the side yet.

Add details - air pipes, multiple working jumpers on cab front (Hurst), ETH socket

and finally some light weathering, mostly focused on the roof and chassis