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Midnight Hour, and the latest addition to the charter rake has just been lined and numbered.

Repainted BR Maroon from NSE, the coach is based on the SRPS Mk2a 5412. Since my aim is for a 'generic' rake, I have not gone to the trouble of trying to get SRPS decals. Strange to think that, or so my research suggest, this coach is the only Maroon Mk2a TSO in mainline service. Others are either Mk2s or in different liveries!

 

Here's the prototype:

http://oliverashmole.fotopic.net/p53073681.html

 

and here's the newly outshopped model, awaiting final varnishing, picking out of bogie details and touching up (and gluing in) of the window frames, adding the OHL flashes and picking out ETH sockets in orange. Hand painted with thinned Railmatch 306 ontop of primer (with old paint sanded down with fine grade sandpaper).

Painting the window frames was NOT FUN - very time consuming.

 

 

General view - the flash has shown me where touch ups needed

 

 

End of the coach. OHL flashes to be added after varnishing (reflecting the 'sticker' nature of the real items). I've left the end doors their natural fibreglass colour, rather than painting them off white as per the real 5412 - I couldn't crack the glazing out, didn't fancy masking small glass (even with liquid masking), and actually quite like the green - very 1960s!

 

 

5412 and 99348. I don't quite understand the discrepancy in colour, given the two coaches were painted from the same jar of paint - its either variation in the amount of thinner I added, or the current absence of varnish on the Mk2

 

 

 

More pics once she's finished, hopefully in natural light.

 

Next project will be a further Mk1 Pullman (99352). The overall rake will, in prototype terms, be a mix of SRPS and WCRC stock. With the Mk2, the rake is 11 vehicles (mainly near off shelf Mk1s) plus the NRM support coach!

 

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