Different pipes are different colours depending on what they're for, white, blue and orange seem common. I guess your best bet is to find a pic of an ex-works 60 and work from there. Also, I think the recently replaced undergubbin is probably a compressor.

Just found a pic in the Platform 5 combined volume from 1990, all the bogie pipework appears white.

Fabulous, thanks Rich! Probably harder to do dirty white than dirty metal though...

Does this help at all Will? http://community.fotopic.net/search/simple.php?tab=P&txt=60014+2006

Quite interesting - looks like it has a silver cab door in this photo: http://iandelgado.fotopic.net/p28265621.html

The underframe does look reasonably black still... so I suspect your idea will work fine. I'd perhaps consider a very light wash of the brown over the whole underframe before using the powders.

Looking good Will.... S'funny, never really saw any of these locos until a couple of weeks ago... and can now understand the appeal completely. Looking forward to seeing the next stages.

Luvverly jubbley Will, can't beat a good 60

I loved the cab interior work you did, and if the wagons are anything to go by, Tug 14 will look great!

The pale grey part on the underframe is the compressor by the way, and those on the bogies are the dampers. Refurbished compressors are quite common sight, often on one side only. As Rich says, pipework is painted white

HTH

jo

Quite interesting - looks like it has a silver cab door in this photo: http://iandelgado.fotopic.net/p28265621.html

 

judging by this photo and James's photo it seems that 60006 and 60014 must have swapped doors at some point during their careers

http://www.garyschofields-railwaypics.fotopic.net/p63228691.html

most likely 014 was broken into hence the smashed glass and EWS acquired a new door from fire damaged 60006 as a direct replacement then boarded up 014's old door and re-fitted it to stored 006

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions, all! I think I agree about the brown wash, the light parts are a bit too strong at the moment, and they do seem to weather to a very flat colour eventually.

Doing the door would be interesting if I can get it out to paint it, but I'm not sure how long it lasted as silver. It's funny, I'd looked at that picture at Ely before but I didn't spot it wasn't black! On a like note I'm quite pleased no-one has pointed out that 60014 got some mismatched buffers, possibly in the same refit - also visible in that picture. I'm not going to do that immediately but might come back to it post-Railex.

Ahah - I was wrong, the next picture after magic_monkey09's shows 60014 had the silver door from 2006 to 2010:

http://www.garyschofields-railwaypics.fotopic.net/p63228692.html

I guess that means I ought to do it ISTR someone mentioned using a mixture of a metallic and nonmetallic light grey to approximate the Corus silver?

I think that's what Pugsley used on the Yeoman 59

Hi Will Vale,

I have to confess that I don’t visit the blogs section that often, should really look at it a lot more! I was looking at your wagon weathering and have to say good work Sir, great weathering.

Excellent work on 014, she is looking really good. As already mentioned said beast does indeed have the Corus silver door off of 006 and the latter has a black door!

I am sure that you have already noticed 014 has an oval buffer at one end as well as an EWS maroon wiper plate!

The bogie pipes are predominantly white but with some brown too on one bogie.

If you look at this photo of 040 you can see the brown pipe work:

http://www.garyschof.../p53705960.html

If you have a spare moment here are some photos of my model 014:

Will definitely be following your blog from now on!

Thanks Grimley! I'd spotted the buffer (and chosen to ignore it for now - I don't have a suitable replacement) but not the wiper plate. I went back and sure enough, it's in the pictures I have - amazing how these details fade into the picture sometimes.

I've admired your 60s before, thanks for posting the pictures - the last one is extremely realistic. Be interesting to see how they compare when I get mine done.