Noakesy123
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Hornby Caledonian 0-4-0 repaintRight, here goes my first attempt at a loco repaint, i decided I'd start with something not worth alot, so i settled on my Caledonian 0-4-0 that i'd recieved for free, and had managed to damage the paint on!
The poor thing started like this:
It was then sprayed completely black to cover the blue, and then sprayed green after the black had almost completely dried. It currently looks like this:
Next step is to paint in the smokebox, bac roof, and underframe black again (couldnt find any masking tape, so they had to go green when I sprayed it!)
More to come soon!
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poliss
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Nice smooth paint job. Mine always looks like porridge.
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RetroGoth
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Did you use a spraying chamber (or whatever it's called), am thinking of putting one together.
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Even older tom
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Glad you went for green Thomas, otherwise it might have looked like a Dave clone! 
Good bit of spray painting. Don't be impatient before you start painting the black - let the sprayed coat 'cure' for a day or two.
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Camborner
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So hang on, three members have now modified these little engines:
Domino, my white one with outside cylinders;
Daft Dave;
And this latest one. Do we need to start open days to show off all our efforts?
Looking fantastic Noakesy, much higher quality painting than anything I've done. Should look a treat when it's finished.
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Noakesy123
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thanks everyone!
For paint I can highly recommend the railmatch sprays! I left the loco to dry over night, and when i got home today I painted in the black, the red bufferbeam, and metal finishing touches.
Here is the result:
RetroGoth: I did use a spray chamber, in the form of a cardboard box in the garage, with the loco sitting on the top of a cut-in-half water bottle, as seen in the pics in my previous post.
thanks again for the comments,
Thomas.
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Teleman
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Nice work there Thomas .
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upnick
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Good paintjob Thomas 
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Even older tom
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Good stuff Thomas... but now for the critique that might be of use on the next one you do!
Sand off the old transfers before you do the re-spray. You can still see the raised numbers which mars the overall finish. They aren't difficult to remove if you gently rub with a pan scourer (the plastic type stuff, not the wire mess type) and give the body a good wash before you spray.
Are you going to try and line it in 0.5 mm yellow? (JOKE! )
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Noakesy123
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yeah, The numbers are a bit of a let down, i didnt think about them until after the paint had been sprayed, and i was too lazy to sand it back and re-do it. I have a cunning plan though.... The BR emblems (when i get them) will go over the top of the numbers, hopefully hiding them!
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Stufiley
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I would use T-cut on a cotton but to remove numbers. You can then easily see how much to remove and its very gentle.
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Noakesy123
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Thanks for the tip, will certainly use that next time! Not sure what the next victim is going to be... Will probably only be a renumber though...
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