· hi gents, big thank you for the replies, if all goes to plan ill get the psu friday / saturday. · special low-melt solders (not from halfords) are also available for white metal kits etc. · i am currently restoring an old class 31 loco and would like to finish it in the br grey livery as seen on railfreight r2754: Thank you, mike. · personally ive always assembled my 009/h0e locos and then sprayed with halfords grey primer and then painted on the final colours carefully using a brush. · id use something like 1200 grit wet and dry from halfords. Can anyone tell me ballpark colour matches for the roof grey and the main body grey? If abrasives are new to you the higher the number the finer the grit, its actually the number of grains per inch. Must remember to call into halfords for some pin stripe decal for the track lines on the mimic board. Would also recommend the use of a carbon-fibre pen for cleaning the metal in advance. · just a heads up for you all ive spent the last few years doing a lot of purchasing through my local model shop in upton-upon-severn en thought it would be wise to give you all a heads up on it. Cheers (ill get a picture of its current state up later) Can anybody recommend a varnish suitable for spraying onto an ex hornby class 91? If i can then get one point wired just as a test ill be happy as the others should be straight forward. Dont buy the primer that fills small imperfections, cant remember what they actually call it, but you will lose detailing if you use it. He does do other things in the shop (very similar to halfords) ive … I use mainly revell aqua, tamiya, vallejo, humbrol and humbrol rail colour acrylics but given other manufactures codes i could find a match (names or bs numbers … Doing it in parts assumes that the various parts it can be divided into are all actually … It has been sprayed with halfords car paint and will have home made (laser printed) transfers on it. Halfords grey car primer also works well as a base for humbrol enamels. Painting white metal by essex2visuvesi » tue 5:31 pm b308 wrote: Its not the biggest of shops but if you are after a good price and a very friendly service he is the chap to see! · get guys, im almost at the stage with my model now that i need to varnish it. · and as stuart said, a very thin coat of halfords primer first.
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· hi gents, big thank you for the replies, if all goes to plan ill get the psu friday / saturday. · special low-melt solders...
