What to do with a Duchess? - Not a Streamlined one!
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Well while the industrial accident investigators are still to allow the Price locomotive works to re-open, I have been doing some thinking. In the collection I have a total of 6 Duchess locomotives.
Four of which I am pretty happy with, they still need a few little tweaks but they represent locomotives in the following conditions.
1 x In original build condition pre-smoke deflectors (crimson).
1 x Smoke deflector fitted (crimson).
2 x Semi-condition (post war lines black)
That leaves me with 2 examples that have been pretty much untouched apart from their mechanisms having a good service and clean.
So the question is what to do with the remaining two? One is in crimson just needs a little finishing if I can decide on her identity, the other is in the original terrible Farish lined black (the one with the yellow/greenish lining) so really is overdue for a repaint.
Without creating a Streamlined example (its on my to-do list but not for a good while yet) how do I add a little interest to the fleet, obviously being an LMS modeller they will never see a drop of that terrible green paint applied to them, but what to do?
Should I go down the wartime plain black livery, with a good application of grime? do I paint one in works grey? or do I try and represent an example pulling an ex-stream liner tender?
For the stream lined tender option I can remember seeing relevant photo's in some of my reference books, but I cannot remember which ones, but the good news is it gives me an excuse to read my books again, if you have any suggestions I would be grateful to hear them.
In the meantime as ever Happy Modelling 
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