kintbury jon Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Evening all, One job I have been meaning to do for a while is repainting a Bachmann mark 2a rake, changing the blue to a lighter shade. Whilst I agree that a handful were painted with the darker shade of blue, the majority carried the lighter blue right until the end. Getting hold of coaches hasn't been easy, I currently have 3 TSO's and have recently taken delivery of a couple of cheap Hattons BFKs. Plan is to have a rake of 7, I have a couple of blue/grey TSOs that I will use until I can source another couple in NSE. Thanks to information from Temeraire, armed with a can of Ford Monza blue, I have attempted to spray one of the TSOs. The results are shown below and also compared with RTR Mk1, Mk2 and class 50 to compare. Yes there is a little bleeding which I will sort out but I am pretty happy with the outcome. It's interesting to see how much more yellow, the white on the mark 2 is compared to the mark 1. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 Decided to go for it with the other four coaches. A few issues but nothing that can't be sorted out. First two photos after three coats of blue but before correcting. Second two show the after effects of a cotton bud, kebab stick, some white spirit and a sheet of kitchen towel! Will sort out the other issues by adding some white paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 after a lot of concentration, I have hand painted the window frames. A very tedious job but it needed to be done. Have also touched up a few areas of white paint - not the greatest match but it will do. Very pleased with the outcome and hopefully have another couple of TSOs on their way! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep101 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Is the paint a standard ford colour like the sort you can pick up at halfords? I've got some nse stuff to paint sits could workout well keep up the good work jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 Cheers Dave. Yes it is from Halfords - about £6 a can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 nice looking coaches there, good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallmodelspares Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 cool coaches love the nse and swt version of it as well. colour on the coach matched the lima 50 pretty well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiket4 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Coaches look great think i might have to pop along to halfords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 after a lot of concentration, I have hand painted the window frames. A very tedious job but it needed to be done. Have also touched up a few areas of white paint - not the greatest match but it will do. Very pleased with the outcome and hopefully have another couple of TSOs on their way! Did you do any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted October 27, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2018 Really nice work, I think a can of that Halfords blue will go on my shopping list the next time they do their 3 for 2 on paint. I only have the one NSE mk2a left after selling most of my 80s coaches, but I want to use it in a local dmu replacement service and it certainly needs to be in the early NSE blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 nice work any more? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 Sorry for late reply. In the end I did 7. 5 TSO and 3 BFK. Typically Bachmann then brought out the lighter shade of blue on their mark 2 coaches but I have stuck with my rake which are currently sat in a yard behind 47715! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 On 17/11/2018 at 08:29, kintbury jon said: Sorry for late reply. In the end I did 7. 5 TSO and 3 BFK. Typically Bachmann then brought out the lighter shade of blue on their mark 2 coaches but I have stuck with my rake which are currently sat in a yard behind 47715! All my coaches seem to be slightly different shades, but looking at photos so were the prototypes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted June 19, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2019 Shades of NSE blue did vary considerably. I always preferred the look of the lighter blue. I read somewhere that it was particularly prone to fading from sunlight and hence the adoption of the darker blue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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