Painting locomotives without (much) paint.
As we all know, one of the great attractions of the pre grouping period is the wondeful colour schemes carried by locomotives....however that attraction can wane somewhat when actually faced with reproducing it on a model! I am building an LBSCR layout in 0 gauge, set in the 1890's, which means Stroudley livery on all the engines. That gives me a problem, because I can't paint and line well enough to do it myself, and I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me. Catch 22!
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I've begun painting/decorating 'Dieppe' built from a kit by Mike Waldron. Here's the real loco:
She's a beauty!
My model is pretty bare because all the fittings have to be added later, including the rows of rivets which I'll do using Archer's transfers. Mike's 7mm kits don't have castings so they'll have to be sourced from wherever I can find them.
Here is the loco in primer:
On this one, rather than spraying the whole thing black I'm going to brush paint the black a
