Having trawled the Internet and my books and magazines, I decides that the blue 08 I have been working on should be renumbered. D3219 seemed to be the most suitable candidate I could find that matched the body features of this particular Hornby model: wooden cab doors, external hinges on the body side doors, the correct number of footplate 'boxes', and Southern Region based for most of its life. I have no idea when it went into blue, so that is an assumption I have just had to allow. A quick renumber, using the same Replica Railways rub-on transfers as before, and D3272 became D3219.

I have used several layers of Humbrol's black weathering wash, plus a layer of off-white dust from Tamiya, which was rather less successful in giving the faded, chalky paint effect I wanted. Another very thin wash of the Humbrol black has hidden most of the Tamiya wash. That's not to say there was anything wrong with the Tamiya paint, it just wasn't quite the right thing for the effect I wanted. At the moment the effect is a little too dark and dingy, and I want to get a little more of the BR blue showing through, so a little bit of dry brushing the centres of panels may be in order.

I used a little of the Humbrol glossy oil stain finish as well around the fuel tanks and suspension leaf springs and a little on the crank pin and hinged areas of the coupling rods. The wheels need attention to dirty them down and blend them into the overall effect.

Here she stands in full sunshine with a very cruel close-up to show me what I need to do to fix the weathering. This time, I used a strip of masking tape below the baseline of the numbers to make sure I got them straight on both sides.

I noted the slight bend in the coupling rod on one side, and have now straightened that. Sometimes these cruel close-ups can be useful!