" they would be better suited to what the original donor kit should be painted in"You put into words what was in my mind but I could not express so eloquently :)
So, being done with metallic colors, I advanced to Mr. Ford's Filosophy: You can have any colour you want, as long as it is black.
So, black it is!
It was really nice... for a classic locomotive!
Soooooooooo.....nope, not yet!
At this point I was kind of fed up with painting this thing over and over again, but then I remembered
somebody had mentioned Chris Fosse.
Mmmmm...interesting idea. Let's give it a try!
What can go wrong, right? :)
Maskol was the name, and painting was the game.
After a while, everything was masked
Them some paint on top of it:
And then, after removing the maskol...
I confess that getting a totally crap result like that was not part of the plan
So, after a brief period of loudly expressing some negative feelings about Humbrol and Maskol,
I decided to strip everything off and start from scratch again.
To be continued....eventually