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This is a humble effort--very humble. It doesn't even come close to the beautiful pieces of craft that so many people here pull off. It might be useful to someone though.
My wife and I have a small layout that runs mostly east coast, mostly 1:29. I've always liked the B&O blue and gray, and when I got set of Aristo B&O heavyweights I decided to repaint my (SP) Pacific to match. On the advice of Davy Cormack I went with Badger B&O Royal Blue, which is an excellent match.
Trying to spray it with a preval sprayer turned out to be a disaster, a long story, and I had to quickly back and fill and ended up painting it with a brush, getting much worse results than I'd hoped. But it's blue and it passes, I think, the 10 foot test. I didn't try to make it accurate--partly I ran out of paint, and partly I wanted to see if I liked keeping the white stripe on the side.
I sprayed it with Krylon semi gloss, to see if I'd like the look. I kind of do, although it's a bit toy-trainish. I think it'd be effective to dull it down in some places while leaving it glossy in the places most likely to be washed. It need some weathering, which I have no idea how to do. The stripe, if I keep it, should be gray, not white
My wife and I have a small layout that runs mostly east coast, mostly 1:29. I've always liked the B&O blue and gray, and when I got set of Aristo B&O heavyweights I decided to repaint my (SP) Pacific to match. On the advice of Davy Cormack I went with Badger B&O Royal Blue, which is an excellent match.
Trying to spray it with a preval sprayer turned out to be a disaster, a long story, and I had to quickly back and fill and ended up painting it with a brush, getting much worse results than I'd hoped. But it's blue and it passes, I think, the 10 foot test. I didn't try to make it accurate--partly I ran out of paint, and partly I wanted to see if I liked keeping the white stripe on the side.
I sprayed it with Krylon semi gloss, to see if I'd like the look. I kind of do, although it's a bit toy-trainish. I think it'd be effective to dull it down in some places while leaving it glossy in the places most likely to be washed. It need some weathering, which I have no idea how to do. The stripe, if I keep it, should be gray, not white