Once upon time there was this Castle Class...
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Once upon at time there was a Castle Class on a Layout thread, far, far, away - ANTB (A Nod to Brent to be precise)
An evil and cruel Weathering and renumbering outfit tried to turn her to the Darkside (well stripey brown if I'm totally honest)
Her owner sent out a distress call to the Malachite Green & Sunshine Yellow Hospital for Sick Bulleids, in the hope that she could be saved from the Darkside...
.. this is 5071 Spitfire's story of redemption and resurrection...
A before picture courtesy of gwrrob.
On receipt Spitfire was in need of intensive care and needed a clean to remove the weathering.
Unfortunately the Darkside had not followed the owners instructions or used the Jackson Evans plates he'd supplied and used poorly printed tampo ones instead.
Once as much of the weathering that could be removed was, I repaired and re-assembled Spitfire and re-applied the G cofa W to both sides of the tender.
Unfortunately due to the damage to the name plate plinths some thought was required into how to fix them.
In the meantime I sealed the newly applied tender lettering with satin varnish (after a sufficient drying time - 24 hours+ )
A new set of nameplates arrived from Fox Transfers and I proceeded to repair the plinths and fit the new nameplates.
Reborn Spitfire awaits return to the paintshop.
All re-weathered and waiting her return to ANTB
Till next time TBG
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