I bought this wonderful model for a small sum at the Loughborough Model Centre recently. It's the latest Hornby Railroad Black Five, in an LMS livery. The model itself is forty pounds cheaper than the super detailed model, but I don't think the detail is that much worse, in all honesty.

I intend to modify this model into 45249 - one of the Black Fives seen in and around the Leeds area in the 60s. There's a photo on Flikr - found here. A fabulous photograph, and I hope to make the black five every bit as grimy as that!

So, onto the repainting - I used my normal method of nail varnish remover, with a cocktail stick/cotton bud to remove the printing. It was surprisingly easy to remove the LMS livery, and I was left with a blank canvas on which to paint it.

Then a simple, light coat of Gamesworkshop acrylic black (Chaos Black) was applied. This formed a nice base on which to place the Fox Transfers numbers. The smokebox numberplate was made up from individual numbers stuck onto a piece of clear plastic (number down onto plastic), then sealed from behind with varnish. Cut to size, it was then glued on using Revell plastic paint.

With regards weathering - in that particular photograph I can't see a tender emblem - can I get away with just a huge amount of weathering, I wonder?

More next time - including the Stirling Single repaint!