I've started painting my A1 Models freelance diesel.
First of all I treated the bare brass with Carrs Metal Black, which didn't take very well, then gave it a coat of Phoenix Precision aerosol etch primer (I prefer not to put etch primer through my airbrush). After that had dried thoroughly I undercoated the model with Revel acrylic white;
Note that the base for the orange beacon has been glued to the roof, after the etch primer and before the white undercoat. Etch primer can affect some plastics.
The 'handle' is a wooden clothes peg, used back to front so that the handle part grips the inside of the bonnet and the gripping part is the handle.
I had a bit of a disaster - I managed to bend the side window pillars inwards picking the model up. Hopefully it won't look too bad once glazed..
Next job is to paint the loco yellow.
I'm trying to finish off my A1 Models/RT Models Ruston 48DS;
The main body colour is Revel Aqua Color Bronze Green and the frames are Phoenix Precision Dirty Black, which I'll also use for the roof. The roof will be sprayed but the frames are just brushed, to save me a lot of extra masking.
My A1 Models Hunslet is a bit of a disappointment;
I sprayed the bufferbeams first then masked them off, along with the radiator grill (which I didn't want clogging with excess paint), before applying the main body colour. I used Citadel 'Enchanted Blue', after the first coat was dry I mixed a little white into the blue and went over the loco again, hoping to achieve a faded finish. I'm not convinced that this has worked well, and after the paint dried I noticed that there are 'shadows' above the left side bonnet top handrails which can be seen in the first photo.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one now, the options are to finish it off and see what it looks like (some heavy weathering might help), give it another light coat, or completely strip the paint off and start again.
My yellow 48DS has been weathered, I faded the paint with light coats of white then light grey applied with the airbrush, and used some Games Workshop inks to pick out the bonnet side detail and add some fuel spills around the filler cap;
Still needs glazing though.
Paul.
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