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There are so many detail posts on the progress of ‘Quintus’, here are two photos of the model as now built.
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Four months on, I have got the painting of the ex-NER H2 underway.
When I bought the kit I was in two minds whether to build it as an H2 or as some kind of freelance variant with an open cab. After the experience of ‘River Pant’ I settled on an H2, to represent a visiting locomotive. This would get a pro paint job in lined NER livery.
When the build got underway I realised the kit will not build any of the three NER prototypes. There were variations in sandboxes, steps, brakes and tanks, and the kit provides a permutation which doesn’t quite match up with any of them. So I decided it is best for me to imagine I am building a fictional fourth member of the class.
Such a loco clearly never ran on the NER, and this gives me a free hand with the livery. Logically it might be black to match up with ‘Blackwater’ and ‘Heybridge’, but I think an Oxford blue will suit the loco so this is what I have done.
Body primed (U-Pol Acid #8), then masked for body colour.
The sides didn't receive enough paint so I masked them again and topped them up.
The cling film is my own idea though I expect other people are already using it.
Masked to brush paint the running boards.
The red inside the cab is my undercoat for the scrumbling used by the NER.
This operation has consumed ten consecutive days:
0 primer (20th February)
1 brush acrylic (Vallejo) inside cab and onto buffer beams
2 mask
3 spray blue enamel (Precision)
4 mask, spray more blue enamel (Precision)
5 wait
6 wait
7 mask, spray black acrylic (Tamiya)
8 wait (probably unnecessary)
9 mask, brush detail areas (Vallejo)
My use of enamel followed by acrylic came about because I already had the paint. I haven’t had any problems with the different chemistries reacting with each other, but I did take a few days off to let things cure.
