Today I got some time to paint a few of my models which are in the queue for the air brush. The class 25 repaint is nearing completion and I have to say, I am hopeful of how this one might turn out!! The photographs show the model before the first bout of weathering, after application of a faded BR blue livery and transfers.
It is all coming together quite nicely. The model was separated, with the body and the bogies removed from the chassis. The bogies and chassis were merely weathered over the top of the factory finish, whilst the body was stripped and repainted.
The application of weathering on this project is going to be quite light. The pre-shading underneath the BR blue provides some perspective for the weathered finish, and I only intend to apply some frame dirt and weathered black to the body sides to portray a little bit of grime for a locomotive in service.
Sorry the photographs are not the best quality in the world, but hopefully they do provide an impression of what the locomotive will look like when finished. I will try to finish this project off next weekend, so hopefully a further update then of the final version.
Other projects are also progressing well, so hopefully it will not be too long before there is a finished BR blue class 08 on here too. This is being weathered at the same time and is only a couple of coast away from completion and there are a range of wagons nearly completed as well. Now I really must get on with some track laying and soldering so I have somewhere to run this stock!
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