Hornby Dublo Deltic paint question ?

[cypherman]

Hi all.

I have just bought a H/D Crepello Deltic in very good condition. But the light green bottom colour is a bit chipped. Can any one tell what is the best paint match to sort this out.

Thanks

[Silverfox17]

When I did mine it was a full repaint so used Presicion diesel light green but no idea if it matched.  I have also used a colour called dead flesh which is a war games type paint which looked good. 

[john new]

As a long term H/Dublo fan, and operator of an H/D exhibition layout (currently pending a full rebuild) if it is only chipped I recommend leaving it as it is, the lived in look is authentic. 

[cypherman]

Hi all,

This is it. You can see along the bottom edge of the body it is lightly chipped and scuffed. if you think I should leave it as is I will

[Steamport Southport]

Yeah. I would leave it.

 

Looks "right for it's time" if you get my meaning.

 

 

 

Jason

[Silverfox17]

I would leave that too.

 

Garry

[Dubloseven]

I wouldn't do anything with it either. The odd imperfection adds to the charm. In fact it looks like you've got a very good example there.

 

Cliff.

 

[Il Grifone]

I'd leave well alone too. It won't show on the underside anyway.

Dublo paint was applied rather generously, so it is difficult to build up a sufficiently thick paint layer. Unless this is done, the chip still shows.

 

It's always recommended not to touch in small chips on near mint models as it would devalue the item. I don't see the logic myself, but....

Edited December 30, 2020 by Il Grifone

[sagaguy]

Check out Railmatch 302,lower bodyside green.

 

                           Ray.

[MikeCW]

New Year's Greetings to All (from the Southern Hemisphere).

 

I endorse the recommendations to leave "Crepello" as it is.  It certainly looks to be in very good original condition for a model approaching 60 years old. Another reason for leaving well alone is the difficulty of matching Hornby-Dublo's lower body side colour - at least I found it difficult when I converted a play-worn 2-rail Co-Co to 3-rail and repainted it as a Deltic. (At the outset I should state that I know little about early BR diesel locomotives.)

 

My first attempt at painting the band around the lower body was with Precision "Pale Lime Green", borrowed from a friend.  It soon became obvious that I had applied the wrong colour.  A knowledgeable friend advised me that Pale Lime Green was correct for Hymeks and others but was not the right colour for the Deltics, and that I should be painting the lower body Sherwood Green, a more olive shade. The Hornby-Dublo colour, as far as I can ascertain from the different colour renditions in photographs of "Crepello" and "St Paddy", looks like an in-between shade - odd as the Binns Road team usually got their colour matches pretty close to the real thing.

 

In the end I mixed my own paint, basing the shade on photographs of the restored D9015, which at least makes my Deltic  "correct" for some period of its life.  I like Garry's reference to "Dead Flesh" as an option!

 

You may notice in the photos that I didn't pick out the side window frames in silver-grey.  I decided that this risked ruining an  otherwise acceptable paint finish. 

 

 

[Silverfox17]

Beautiful job Mike. 

 

Garry 

[BernardTPM]

From reading contemporary accounts (Modern Railways, March 1962) it seems both the Deltics and Hymeks originally had the same colour which was said to be 'too yellow'. Certainly some Deltics later had a less bright green skirt. Not sure about Hymeks.

[Il Grifone]

I did mine* in a sort of lime green based on the Dublo colour/ imagination. It has to be redone as the masking tape pulled off a chip of the light green when I did the dark green. One day....

 

* A tatty Dublo Class 5, remotored with Lima Deltic bogies  . (Not 100% successful - when I do the repaint....) The original chassis was pinched and fitted with a better body acquired later.