warren haywood

Fantastic Peter

I will be painting your Duchess very soon

Hi Warren,

 

Are you able to confirm what the paint mix colour code was please - your supplier will have needed to have determined this to mix it?

 

As I suspect you are aware,there are various possible systems that they might have used; they might have either "RAL" in front of a number, "BS" in front of a number, simply a number or (and this is most likely) a mix of numbers and letters.  

 

I have reached the conclusion that Precision's crimson lake has darkened and have thus decided to procure my own and I also prefer cellulose paint so can get it in this format as a result.  My problem is getting a match although red in reality is not a particularly colourfast colour, so it will have changed over time on the prototype.

 

 

Mark, unfortunately there is nothing in the RAL or British standard range that comes close to what is perceived as Midland/LMS red.

You will need to take a swatch of your own colour to specialist car paint shop (not Halfords;-). They will have swatches of maroons and reds where you should be able to find one that’s close. A good paint mixer will be able to do this by sight although he may have a little gadget that can break down the colours used.

I can’t give you a code as Ian Rathbone got mine for me as we have a customer who collects LMS vehicles and uses both of us to paint them and therefore we had to maintain continuity.

I’ve recently bought some Precission gloss enamel for lining and touching in and don’t see that it’s gone dark although I can’t comment on the dull version if that’s what you use.

Cheers Warren

 

 

 

 

Mark

Absolutely beautiful Single Warren! What paints do you use for the main colour and the lining?

Cheers

Simon

Hi Simon

It’s cellulose matched to Precission Midland Chrimson Lake

The lining is humbrol 69 with som red and a touch of green added to give darker yellow which I think sits well.

Was that black GCR 4-6-0 on display at S4N last year? If so it was breathtakingly good - every bit as good as the photo makes it look.

That loco is 7mm so probably not but I do have a couple of P4 Black GCR locos coming soon

Fantastic work as usual.

 

Could I ask what you used for the body colour for the NBR Intermediate?

 

I really like the GC locos as well. My great uncle was the regular driver of Butler Henderson when it was allocated to  Mexborough shed during WW2.

It’s basically a 50/50 mix of deep bronze green and GWR chocolate brown. These two colours mixed together were identical to swatch li borrowed from Paul Moore which came via the NBR society.

More photos of the Johnson Single please! Full Midland livery beautifully executed is a joy to behold! Inspirational to say the least...

And finally a pair of fantastic Ivatt GNR 0-6-0 locos in 4mm scale built by Geoff Tiffany

Not sure how the NBR loco got in twice, here are a few more

Not posted for a good while so here goes, a few commissions completed over the past year or so

Hi all

Just to clarify, I no longer do the weathering for Tower other than when I paint a loco or coach for them which I still do. The weathering service has always been a basic job, but at £25 really does represent good value.

Cheers Warren

I have been lucky enough to paint models by all 3 Gents mentioned and also Dikitriki. There work is fantastic, but looking st your build Peter it is in the same league, and your in West Yorks so that's an even bigger plus :-)

WOW!  I take my hat off to anyone who attempts the SECR Livery.

Please can I ask what sort of paint you used?

Many thanks,

Dave.

It's cellulose deep Brunswick green. The NRM have painted 737 in that colour and as it's a model of the preserved loco well.........

Thought you might like this one, a D although it's 7mm. I've just finished painting it

I can answer that, the loco was supplied for painting without wheels or rods. The cylinders are on so these were painted gloss black and the rest of the chasis a dirty dark grey brown. The valve gear was on and as this model is the be weathered I didn't bother with masking or scraping so they are in the same dirty colour as the rest of the chasis.

Once Martyn has worked his magic they will look like dirty oily rods

Couple of weeks on hols next week then I will be getting on with it :-)

We are talking about the Nelson I'm guessing

Recently completed the paint on this M7 for Finney7 display model

Just had a peek at the 47XX mate, very nice even if it is GWR, but wouldn't have expected anything else.

Hi Simon,

Anything that needs lining should always be painted gloss whatever the scale.

This can then be taken down with the varnish. For varnishing over enamel I have tried lots of methods but if you are going to use a polyeurathane varnish by far the best is Ronseal hardglaze (gloss) with Phoenix precision matting agent added. By varying the amounts of the matting agent the glossiness or flatness can be adjusted to your own preference. The problem with Matt and satin varnish as bought is that it's quite inconsistent and also has quite a grainy texture.

Another excellent method, which I now use exclusively is to use a gloss cellulose lacquer. This works over enamel but the mix must be sprayed at quite a high pressure with just a waft of lacquer coming out of the airbrush. Practice is he key but the final finish far exceeds any varnished model.

Hope this helps

Warren

Loving this, 2mm scale, wow

Hope it's going to be in full London Livery, now that will be the ultimate micro paint job :-)

Built by David Hill of Gladiator models, described earlier

Unfortunately I didn't take any of it, just another BR lined green one and I have loads of pictures of that livery. I will email the owner and see if he can take a couple of shots.

Martyn, if you think that anything on the model will Make the painting easier than leave it off or make it removable, springs infront of splashers and rear pipe stands at back of tender are the most obvious ones.

Just painted one of these in lined BR green, lovely little model,

Only one little tip as far as I was concerned was ro leave the little lamp brackets beside the left hand splasher off until after painting if you are going for a lined loco as they get in the way of the pen and make the job a bit awkward.

Just discovered that nos 9-17 where fully lined so that's sorted that

No worries Sandy, looks pretty spot on to me,

Quick question for you, I have a small Ben to paint,would it have carried Drummond fully lined livery or were they built later in the plain green? My customer likes them lined so it maybe needs LMS red if the latter is the case.

Ok, to even out the Crimson lake bias, here are a couple of Princesses. These amazing models were built by Nick Dunhill a couple of years ago and I had the pleasure of painting them, Tony Wright took the pictures