Finished today, in fact some of the paint is still wet. A Roundhouse Model live steam, 45mm gauge Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway 0-6-2T. The body is supplied in plain green with the remainder, apart from buffer beams, in plain black. Precision Paints supply the exact colour match so I was able to paint the valance, cylinders and smoke box saddle green. The superstructure is simply bolted to the running plate so it came off easily. A lot of the lining can be done using compasses offset from the adjacent edge so the execution is straightforward, there’s just a lot of it.
There is a good broadside photo of the engine in the C & M Railway book so I was able to copy it and print to scale. I cut out the name and garter in a strip and stuck it to the loco at the top of the side tank and then marked out the spacing of the letters along the previously dotted in upper and lower edges of the letters. I should have photographed that stage, so apologies.
I painted Atlantic’s sister engine, Argyll, in 2021. Same manufacturer but a slightly different body & chassis. This one is sprung, the other rigid but then it had black spoked wheels, which look better. Both models have lined buffer beams, which is incorrect, but the owner specified it.
The final photo of the mutton van, which is now with a satisfied owner.
I’ve also done a couple of these gauge 1 Southern Pacific Daylight car bodies -
Ian R