[Slater's GWR dia. C10 clerestory coach]

I have a couple of these to build, very useful article thank you. One query: with the 'all brown' livery, were the droplights and window bolections painted reddish/mahogany colour as per the two-tone livery?

Steve

[Slater's GWR dia. C10 clerestory coach]

The comments on how the undercoat affects the top colour interests me; I have always primed my metal locos with rattle can grey primer followed by the chosen topcoat, in my case GWR green, either pre or post 1928. Recently I modified a pair of ex-Mainline 57xx pannier bodies to early1920's condition which required stripping off the paint to reveal matt black plastic. Acting on advice from colleagues on the Scalefour forum, I didn't use primer, and applied two coats of Precision GWR pre-1928 green direct to the plastic. This green (which is noticably darker than the later shade) looks decidedly deep compared to locos primed with grey when viewed in natural light. I'm wondering, (because GWR pre 1928 looks to contain quite a lot of red in its makeup and is quite a 'brownish' shade of green), if it would be better using red oxide primer for this deeper green colour?

[Slater's GWR dia. C10 clerestory coach]

Thanks, good to know the range is in safe hands! hopefully re-issued soon.🤞

 

[Slater's GWR dia. C10 clerestory coach]

Mikkel, great build! and thanks for the detailed step by step images. I'm interested to know who will be re-introducing the Slaters kits? will it be Slaters themselves or Coopercraft who, I believe, took over marketing their 4mm range.

 

Steve 

[Painting coach panels]

I am about to try the Vallejo paints on my panelled stock. It looks like you painted the upper beading brown as for the lower panels when in fact the GWR painted its upper beading black. Try using a black 1mm marker pen to colour the beading before painting the panels.

 

Steve