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I know Canadian Pacific definitely got painted blue in preservation, but I'm fairly sure that the SVR painted West country class 34027 "Taw Valley" into purple, not Can Pac Ian

That's turned out really nicely, well done Ian 😀

The blue to my eyes looks like it has a slight purple tinge to it 🤔 Ian 😀

Thanks I totally agree, built for a purpose 😀

Think I'm calling the loco finished as of now, just got to decide if and how I'm going to do a display scene or just a nice piece of polished wood 🤔 Will use the time finishing Truro to decide. Just a couple of quick pics here to show for now, but there will be more in the gallery when I decide how to display it. Ian 😀

I know that the cladding on the firebox under the running plates is definitely black, but I thought that the boiler barrel cladding was green all the way round, but I'm not 100% sure on that, but even if it was green it would soon appear black as it wouldn't be kept to the same standard as what is visible from the platforms etc. Ian

Glad they had a great day, weather was quite nice at times today 😀 Nice to see when people leave Happy Thanks for letting me know Ian 😀

A day down the GCR today making a start on a 1/1 scale kit of Ivatt 46521, spent the day prepping and painting small parts ready for when the frames arrive back hopefully next week, this is one of our 2 shipping containers full of removed parts, the other has a lot more stuff as it has no work bench in it. Also a shot of the superb quality of hand painting young Alex in the shed achieves on a regular basis. The subject is 12" to the foot scale boiler cladding off Britannia class 70013 Oliver Cromwell in Brunswick green 😀

Spent today at the GCR working in the shed and 92214 was sat on the shed apron, so I took the opportunity to take a few shots to remind me what I am aiming for 😀 Also a shot of the smokebox later type step as @PeterB pointed out, it is one without the extra leg as i thought 👍 Ian

Thanks 😀 I've got some LP18 so I might try it over a white primer to see if that lightens it up a bit. I don't really want to get a load of paints in that I'm never going to use. I've looked at various "real" pictures of Truro and the frames seem to vary from a darkish red to a dark brown depending on lighting etc, so I'm not going to get too hung up about it as long as it looks right (ish) Time to break out the plastic spoons and play I suppose 😀 I ramberthaving Truro at the GCR years ago and firing it, but I haven't got any pics and can't really remember anything about it Ian

Quick question here about paint I know we had a discussion about Brunswick green on one of the Evening star builds, and I'm ok with that Any suggestions or alternatives to "Truros" framing colour, which Airfix have listed as Brick red My usual paints of choice are usually Tamiya acrylics or their LP range, looking through the charts I'm thinking XF9 Hull red or LP18 Dull red would be ok, but both seem a bit too brown to my eyes from some of the pics I've seen of the engine, or am I just overthinking it 🤔 Ian

Looking really good there, the time and effort spent completing of all the lining has paid off Rather you than me though, it looks very time consuming and fiddly Ian

I've got the studio27 transkit with resin, PE and white metal for Sennas Lotus 98t and a Tamiya 99t for the rest of the donor parts. You can apparently cut / chop and fill the hell out of a 99t to make a 98t, but it's a long and quite awkward job to make it look decent from what I've read. So I thought I'd give it a go with resin Ian

I tried to make mine workable, but soon gave up and glued it all in place Ian 😀

Hi Pete, no you're not wrong, only the inside of the frames should be red, signal red the same as the buffer beams, the outside faces should be black Ian