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Made a fair bit more progress today.
Both of the buffers are in primer, and I am literally just about to go out and give one of them its second coat. One is hanging under my bed to dry in what is a warmer environment than the garage!
The coupling rod I started spraying yesterday is now primed, and is also in my room drying.
I have spent what seems an age in getting the paint off of the smokebox casting. I have nearly finished this, and will apply Nitromors to the dummy rivets on the smokebox door hinges as the wire wheel in my Dremel can't get around them!
The smokebox is being painted in Hammerite BBQ paint, as I have started to join the way of thinking that most smokeboxes on the full size do become a very dull and dry matt colour (you only need look at 319 at Pulborough). The combustion chamber will also be painted in this. |
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Spokesmann
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I agree with you about the smokebox finish!
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Thanks Mike 
For those who don't know what I mean by the matt finish on locos, here's a pic of 319 at Pulborough.
Yours truly is driving, of course! Picture copyright of C. English.
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Spokesmann
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I have some pictures of the Kings in services, they were alway kept in top condition, even right to the end, but I have noticed that some of the colour images from the early 1960s always seemed to show spotless paintwork with a vert matt finish to the black smokebox area.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like you are driving the Mamod RS3a set Si 
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As Victor's chassis needs running in, I have partially re-assembled the Jane.
At present she certainly wouldn't look out of place at an ugly bug ball.
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I quite like it like that. It looks very industrial 
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Not ugly, but pratical and purposeful
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