Ah Lawrence, you're a bad man.. could be a very interesting time if we ever meet in person 

whos the girl in the santas outfit  lol

Quote from: michael on June 09, 2011, 07:50:37 PM
my pics not as interesting to look at but...

looks great ! I'll try to make mine that good.
what paint did you use?
and the roof - black or dark grey?

completed cleaning and applied a coast of medium gray acrylic primer.


it looks pretty nice. Previous owner had painted the chassis dark green for some reason.

hi

the roof is a standard black. I painted most of the sides yellow,then put some 1mm masking tape down the side before spraying with a railmatch wcrc red.

I could understand the body being green(southern regoin) but the chassis! no idea, whatever you have done to it, it looks nicley weathered now, especially comparied to my shiny chassis!

That looks like a different coach now, shows what a mess can be made with a coat of paint, as well as how much difference a bit (a lot) of care can make.

Don't know why anyone would paint the chassis green, though.

ok, I'm still keen on that West Coast Rail crimson lake scheme, but I've just had another notion.
I'll admit I'm a bit infatuated with this NGF forum right now, 
so I might have to make this:
 

if you look around hard enough, you will find minitrix coaches in those colours. probably cost a bit though as there quite hard to find now!

If you are looking at doing a custom decal for that anyway it might be easierto spray the coach cream and then make decals for the entire lower side and top band, as you can't print white with a normal printer but you can use clear decal sheet on a whiteish background to get the right result.

Quote from: EtchedPixels on June 11, 2011, 07:54:31 PM
If you are looking at doing a custom decal for that anyway it might be easier to spray the coach cream and then make decals for the entire lower side and top band, as you can't print white with a normal printer but you can use clear decal sheet on a whiteish background to get the right result.

Ive never printed decals. but I have read that one can't print white.
so  -  like this?

(not this, Ill make a better one)

but also
what this?


should I be attempting to match the colors in this GIF, or are there genuine colors I should purchase?

Quote from: michael on June 11, 2011, 07:33:19 PM
if you look around hard enough,

what can be done over the interwebs, I assure you , I am doing .
So far, I found ezactly one,  in blue and cream, in Australia,  that has already been bid up over $15 - WTF?

I am no longer hoping to make a formation of these -  just a tricky novelty piece out of this one.
If I ever want Mk I coaching stock,  Ill buy new Farish ones.

just consulting my home made bible on all things model railway and as for the colours for crimson cream livery you want the following,

crimson: - Phoenix P116 coach crimson (gloss)

cream: - Phoenix P117 Coach cream (gloss)

roof: - Phoenix P131 BR Roof grey

number decels :- HMRS sheet 14

this is taken from "model rail" magazine so the decel sheet is probably for oo gauge. Model rail sadly has habit of ignoring n gauge modellers!

Quote from: Jonathan Clapp on June 11, 2011, 09:04:58 PM

Quote from: EtchedPixels on June 11, 2011, 07:54:31 PM
If you are looking at doing a custom decal for that anyway it might be easier to spray the coach cream and then make decals for the entire lower side and top band, as you can't print white with a normal printer but you can use clear decal sheet on a whiteish background to get the right result.

Ive never printed decals. but I have read that one can't print white.
so  -  like this?

(not this, Ill make a better one)

but also
what this?


should I be attempting to match the colors in this GIF, or are there genuine colors I should purchase?

I was thinking print a decal for the entire lower part of the side to go over the cream or creamish colour for the rest rather than try and match it up.

Quote from: EtchedPixels on June 11, 2011, 09:52:36 PM

Quote from: Jonathan Clapp on June 11, 2011, 09:04:58 PM

Quote from: EtchedPixels on June 11, 2011, 07:54:31 PM
If you are looking at doing a custom decal for that anyway it might be easier to spray the coach cream and then make decals for the entire lower side and top band, as you can't print white with a normal printer but you can use clear decal sheet on a whiteish background to get the right result.

Ive never printed decals. but I have read that one can't print white.
so  -  like this?

(not this, Ill make a better one)

but also
what this?


should I be attempting to match the colors in this GIF, or are there genuine colors I should purchase?

I was thinking print a decal for the entire lower part of the side to go over the cream or creamish colour for the rest rather than try and match it up.

yes , I understand,  that's how I tried to render it,  a red stripe the full length of the car with the lettering in white,
the white will actually print as transparent, is that right? so that if I have painted the lower half white,or 'coach cream' that will show through the letters?





Ill look into the Phoenix colors, thx Michael.

no probs mate.

As described above, your best bet is to paint the lower half white and do one big red transfer for the bottom with transparent letters. The letters will be so small that you may get away with just painting the whole thing coach cream and having the letters as cream.