Borders Brush - Extra glam for Early Blue 1536
In the end the headcodes were the easy bit. Give them a good clearout from inside the bodyshell, stanley blade and pencil rubber method worked a treat, taking care to square the edges. I recommend an episode of Midsomer Murders for this (subject to regional variations), serves two locos.
I used cut & paste - literally - headcodes from Heljan Claytons, reversed onto clear sellotape, and mounted straight back onto the inside of the cab front, adjust by eye, dilute to taste. The hardest bit was getting the body lined up and clipped back on, especially at number 2 end cab doors, the screws in the noses unleashed more Anglo Saxon than my New Year's resolution really allowed.
1S64 at No.1 end is the down Waverley (winter portion), 2S52 at No.2 is the Carlisle - Edinburgh local, for want of a better alternative, as she's destined for passenger diagrams in the main. The latitude of two northbound workings is permissable by the slack discipline of the Edinburgh division cranking-up correct headcodes, as has entered folklore.
This loco requires tweaks to the roof, and possibly underframe before I gently weather her, awaiting sisters 1547 and 1969 to reach the same stage before I tackle the weathering.
Now for some repetitive pics:
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