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Hornby Class 60 Colas Rail Freight. Step 1 - The Plan.

Entry posted by Mick Bonwick in Weathering October 26, 2020

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Something a little more modern, just for a change.

My reference library doesn't contain any photographs of this locomotive in this livery, so I looked through one of Strathwood's "Looking Back" series and found a Transrail liveried example that was depicted in a fairly well used but cleaned state. Sides and roof looked fairly clean, but the underparts were not.

The tools and materials list:

Iwata Eclipse SBS airbrush - not a large volume of paint to be used, but fairly close work to be required around the bogies.

Wide flat shader, filbert and rigger brushes.

Humbrol Matt Black, Matt Leather and Lining Orange for the main grime application.

MIG Productions Black Smoke, Dark Mud and Track Brown pigments.

MIG Productions Dark Wash.

Airbrushed paint to be applied to the underparts but with a little overspray allowed onto the body sides. Small areas to be given a thin treatment of Dark Wash. Pigments to be applied to the silencer, grilles and some roof panels.

Edited October 26, 2020 by Mick Bonwick