gauge 1 LMS 2P 4-4-0 live steam loco

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just thought some of you guys might like to see the finished 2P loco i was building. heres a pic when in gloss black and transfers, and one after a light coat of dirty black. who would have left it as gloss?.... also a vid of it running round my little track at youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9TmqZu4YE    or type in  " gauge 1 LMS 2P 4-4-0 live steam loco " and you should find it. must get stuck into the bodywork of my duchess now. the tricky bit, boiler casing etc. bfn... martin.
 

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Excellent job and the "austerity" paint job is highly authentic. Almost makes me sorry that I focus on narrow gauge .... well, almost completely on narrow gauge ... :-\
 
I love it....

Dirty black. can I ask if this is a product or how you achieved it. I have a model recently built i want to look like that!!

Thanks, ian
 
thank you for kind words everyone, i wanted the loco to look like the scruffy weathered ones that used to be on the somerset and dorset railway. for several years i have collected lots of different matt blacks and blended them with greys and primers trying to get it right but never really succeeding. luckily, i found a tin of "dirty black" made by phoenix precision paints No. P981 at a recent G1 show and knew it was just what i had been looking for. just over seven quid for a 50ml tin, enough for a couple of locos as i thin it 50/50 with white spirit. best way is to spray gloss first then apply transfers then some light coats of the dirty stuff to "knock back" the transfers, literally like a layer of grime. i overdid it on the previous loco, a 7F and had to do the tender again, better this time tho. you could then spray some matt varnish i suppose, but i did that before on a green loco with polyurethane varnish and it went brown when the loco heated up! have now repainted it southern black.... martin....
 
She looks lovely in her muck, just like the ones at Millhouses shed prior to them being withdrawn.
 
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