Over the past few days I have been getting on with finishing off a couple more projects, spraying locos into EWS livery.

first up was 67003 as seen in Newton Abbot in 1999 shortly after delivery.  This is a Lima model which has been detailed with my own etches for the grills, window frames and air horn grills.  (Along with a fully detailed chassis). There were some issues with the masking on the lower yellow stripe (I am hoping that I can get away with using thinners to remove it after the paint has dried else I will need to prime and respray the yellow).

once dry I will mask up the body side grills and paint black, paint the radiators grey before  reattaching the roof grill, and window frames (which were painted black off model).  Not a particularly useful loco, nor is it as good as the new Hornby release but one I wanted to finish it  given the massive amount of work that went into the etched grills.

i have also painted up 37057, the paint finish came out very well.  The only issue was the masking of the lower stripe which was cut far too think.  Unfortunately this is probably a live with it job, as I am not convinced a repair will work so well.  Hopefully after weathering tones down the brightness of the yellow it won’t be so noticeable...  Maybe something like this https://flic.kr/p/oBLBBY