"City of Lincoln", Part II
Entry posted by James Harrison
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It may seem like things have gone very quiet but I have been busy (honest)!
There just hasn't been any progress really worthwhile talking about yet...
So when I last wrote about 'City of Lincoln', I had just broken the model down to it a number of subassemblies (body, chassis and tender) and was about to put the lot into paint stripper.
After a few days sitting in white spirit I was able to remove the vast majority of the original paint finish; I found two variations of GCR livery and three of LNER, plus two coats of grey primer below all of that.... no wonder the paintwork looked a little thick!
Once it was all cleaned off and dried out, I repainted the model in GCR green livery. Firstly a coat of grey primer, then two coats of Humbrol gloss Brunswick green enamel and two coats of Humbrol matt Brunswick green acrylic. The dark brown/ crimson splashers are Humbrol no.73 enamel, over a coat of Humbrol satin mid-brown.
Now came the puzzler! Coming to put it all back together, I found that the body didn't want to go squarely back on the chassis. Then I found that the loco chassis didn't have any pickups fitted- hence the obtrusive wire back into the tender, where the pickups lived (what an odd set-up). I decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to re-chassis the loco, and picked up a Hornby RailRoad Patriot chassis- the wheel spacings and sizes are pretty much a dead match for the Sam Fays. I then had to remove a large amount of material from the underside and inside of the boiler to get it to fit right, but managed it eventually.
So, as of tonight, this is what I have...
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