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Butch - Painting

First things first, whilst the boiler was away with an experience model engineer from the Northampton Model Engineering Club, I set about stripping that awful paint job.

With plenty of protection for skin, hands, eyes etc, I set about the various parts of the loco with Nitromorse. This was slow and very messy process. However the eventual results were well worth the effort.

After everything was stripped back to brass the slow process of repainting started.

I had decided to paint the loco in lined BR black although from the limited research I've carried out this class of loco never made it in to BR ownership being scrapped by the L.M.S.

Phoenix Precision Paints provided the necessary etching primer, satin black, gloss varnish and plenty of thinners.

The photos above show the tanks, cab, running boards and associated smaller items in etching primer. I used a Badger air brush connected to a small air compressor. I found that a pressure of 15PSI seemed to produce the best results.

Shown above, the boiler cladding prior to gloss varnish being applied. The completed smoke box with cleaned up hand rails and completed running board after the varnish top coat has been applied.