Morning All,
I wasn't sure whether to post this in the Painting & Weathering section however as it's about painting a 7mm model I guess there's a good chance of getting a response or two here.
Having recently made the conversion to O gauge I've been very busy gaining experience building up some rolling stock from the various models available. In my previous life modelling OO I bought everything RTR so the idea of building and painting everything is quite new to me and, I'm realising
Hello Alan, just seen this by chance as I'm a 4mm type actually.
I'm afraid I can't help regarding the actual colour of the LMS Bauxite, I'm just as reliant on others getting it right and copying their work, be it historical descriptions, memories, paint charts or whatever. It's not much use knowing the LMS paint specification (quoted, for example, in 'The LMS Wagon' by Ken Morgan and Bob Essery), since it is a mixture spec defining quantities of materials - eg Bauxite Paint (Undercoat) com