Blue is the colour!

 It is a bit more on the 09 project with more painting. The various components were indercoated in a dark grey as described in a previous post.

Top colour choice was something that I had wondered about for sometime. The prototype on the Leighton Buzzard railway is a bright yellow which was not really what I was after for my version so to be different it was either green or blue in my mind. As you can see it was blue that won the day! I continued with that colour for the skips as well. Might as well look as though they are a fleet in corporate colours!

However the engine block did get painted green.

It was then time to start painting in some of the details on the loco and this is where you really find the craft of the 3D designer and the quality of the printing equipment. 

Despite painting in details the loco still looked like a slab of blue so to break this up I decided to paint the lower part under the footplate red. Some masking up set the area to be painted and would hopefully avoid any unsightly blurred edges - I was never much good at keeping in the lines with colouring books as a child! 

Rather then spray the red I brushed it so it was going to take two coats to get some colour to it. This is the first coat.

With a second coat applied the red looked much brighter and with the masking tape off there were only a couple of small areas where the blue had to be painted in.

It is beginning to take some character on but it is all too pristine and requires some weathering to make it look uncared for - just like me! That is a job for another day though whilst I lyt all this paint harden.