LBSCR Early Horsebox

[Jon Nazareth]

Jamie,
Yes, I'm more happy with rattle cans but having the equipment, I ought to give it a go but preceded by lots of tests.

On another note, my thoughts are turning to numbering, lettering and dry print transfers. I've done some reading and it seems that the horsebox lettering is un shaded so too will be the open carriage truck.
There will, at some time, be a passenger brake and a first but I'm not sure of the make up of the letters et al. I'm almost certain that it will be shaded gold. More reading is required .

Jon

 

[ianlbsc]

Hi Jon
I am drawing up the lettering etc for the Brighton Circle and possibly the HMRS, see attached.
I can resize for you whenever so you can either make your own or use as a painting guide?
Cheers
Ian

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Ian
That is absolutely brilliant. I'm also painting the OCT and will need the lettering for that. Where do we go from here?

Jon

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Ian
At some point, I'll need the numbers, lettering and Garters for the Craven 1st and the Craven Passenger Brake. Are you doing these too?

Jon

 

[ianlbsc]

Jon
If it is Stroudley period or later, I am doing the artwork and can obviously send it to you at G3 for a one off.
Cheers
Ian

 

[ianlbsc]

As like this

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Ian
Yes, it's Stroudley but early Stroudley.

Jon

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Here are a couple of pictures showing the horsebox with a coat of primer. I didn't want to remove it from it's painting 'stick' as the paint was still soft. Not very good pictures, I suspect because the camera was picking up on the light coming through the window. Although, I managed a fairly decent one of the side, I couldn't seem to get a decent one showing the steps.

Jon

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Yesterday afternoon, I decided to put a top coat on the horsebox. On inspection, the primer was absolutely perfect, not an imbedded foreign body nor a run anywhere. By the time that I'd managed to set everything up, I hadn't noticed how far the time had advanced in fact, didn't realise until I'd finished. As I mentioned above, the primer coat was perfect and before commencing spraying, I'd gone over the horsebox with a brush and even with air only to make quite sure that the surface was clean. Where these little b-----s come from I never know but as soon as spraying had started 'things' appeared on the surface. Too late to stop now and so, I just kept going. The box was clamped by it's painting stick in a vice and left overnight in the outside workshop. I hadn't bargained for the drop in temperature that we had last night and on inspection this morning, the paint had not exactly bloomed but it had lost the eggshell finish that I had expected to see. However, on certain areas where there was a thicker build up of paint, the paint had reverted to gloss. It's not very bad and difficult to see in the photos. The main areas are where there is applied detail as in the beading. Something else to live with as I won't be attempting any remedial works. Fate works in mysterious ways, however, and because the paint has lost it's sheen, the foreign bodies don't show up! . That's something, I suppose. Next job is to refit the brake gear et al and then that will be another one for the stable.

Jon

P.S. The glossy parts show up in the picture of the end best.

 

[Jon Nazareth]

Well, for what it's worth, here it is finished. It would have been nice if the painting had come out better but that's the way it goes. Apologies for the ill fitting roof (I hadn't pushed it on far enough) and the fingerprints (which is dust from the sanded roof). I corrected both before taking the last pictures.

Jon

P.S. Frosted slide glass in the horses compartment and slide glass in the groom's compartment who looks surprisingly like Hercule Poirot, to me anyway.

 

[jamiepage]

Jon,
That's a smashing looking model.
Very well done.
Jamie
ps The internal shot of the groom is great fun and really excellent. A superbly atmospheric portrait.

 

[geoff_nicholls]

As Jamie says smashing, but M. Poirot would never have been that close to any animal, it could be Detective Inspector Colbeck, the Railway Detective, under cover...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Or Dr Watson.......

Very good model Jon . It's nice to see the LBSC.