Mostly to confound Mike and save him from turning blue here is a quick follow up to last night's posting.
48079 rolled majestically out of the SLW paint shops at the weekend sporting her shiny new BR livery following an intermediate repair. As some of you may notice the buffer beams still require a coat of red paint but the apprentice called in sick yesterday.
Enough of the story. In actual fact 48079 is a rather beautifully scratchbuilt P4 model of a Stanier workhorse. It is owned by my friend Robin (a.k.a Barrowroad) and I'm sure he would be happy to tell a little more about it's heritage. It was acquired in LMS black livery and had a number of areas where the underlying metal was peeping through. To grace Barrow Road (the layout) it needed to be put into BR black livery so the best long term option was a complete paint strip and repaint from bare metal. Robin and I carried out some exploratory work, in an unseen area, with a variety of paint strippers to establish what type of paint had been used originally and how easy the stripping was likely to be. The only substance that removed the paint rapidly was Nitromors Craftsman paint stripper (the low viscosity stuff in a yellow can). We concluded that the paint was probably cellulose. Robin was also confident to press on with using Nitromors because the builder of the loco had told him that it was all metal and fully soldered construction. So after her investigative visit to SLW 8079 went away to be returned at a later date......naked!
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