Having spent time filling, filing, sanding, filling, filing, sanding, filling, filing, sanding........
.... and and some more surface primer the yellow and blue paint were applied. The Yellow is standard Vallejo Model Air and the Blue is Railmatch acrylic.
However prior to applying the yellow and blue I experimented with some underpainting first to see what effect it would have.
A bit of an identity crisis as white and dark grey vertical streaks were applied.
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After drying the yellow was applied followed by the blue. This took about a week after allowing the yellow paint to dry prior to masking.
The Railmatch BR blue paint was thinned to a milk/single cream consistency with Vallejo thinners with a couple of drops of their airbrush flow improver. I understand Tamiya thinners also work with Railmatch acrylics.
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This shows the effect of the underpainting. The idea was to create a patchy worn finish. I also added a few patch paint repairs. For this I just added a darker blue to the railmatch blue.
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No 2 end.
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This end got knocked creating small indentations. Rather than fill and repaint them I just added some dark rust paint and turned them into rusting scratches.
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