Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements (part 5)
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Well despite the constant demands of the real world, I have managed to get a little time to spend on the more important things in life MY TRAINS (of course if the Domestic Overlord is reading this, I meant my trains are the second most important thing in my life 
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Anyway a while back, I managed to get a Duchess locomotive at a bargain price from evil bay, which was in a terrible BR Green livery. Even though Foster Street is a secondary line, I thought I could find some justification in running one on the layout (I need to find a good excuse I have 4 now), but there was no way I could justify having one in BR livery.
While the body was covered in paint stripper, I got to work on improving the tender, just by removing the moulded coal and replacing with some real stuff.
That's when I had the idea to paint the locomotive into post war black, as I despite my love of crimson locomotives I have a soft spot for this livery, and to make it worst I thought I would attempt a "semi".
It was at this stage in the process that everything stopped, that is until yesterday when I decided to start the lining process. Even though this livery was supposed to be a simple livery, in N gauge it is still a challenge, so progress is slow, all I have to do is line the cylinders and the tender and that's one side complete, easy or what 
The I can apply her number and name, and for the moment I think she might end up as City of London? What do you think?
As ever until the next time, Happy Modelling
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