{"id":3808,"date":"2022-05-06T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngtrains.com\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:23:54","slug":"murder-of-a-garratt-colour-me-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngtrains.com\/blog\/murder-of-a-garratt-colour-me-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Of a Garratt – Colour Me Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder Of a Garratt Pt3 – Colour Me Red<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>I<\/strong><\/span>t\u2019s been way too long since I reported progress with the Garratt and a long time since there was anything to report. Just as the first lockdown was looming as Covid got away from London our local hospital had a policy of no admissions & no surgery as it prepared for what was to come. I made the strategically dodgy move of winding up in hospital as an emergency admission and two days later having surgery on the grounds it was the quickest way to get rid of me.<\/p>\n

T<\/strong><\/span>he result was that I missed the impact of most of the first Covid lockdown as I was being otherwise unable to go out.\u00a0 Recovery has taken a long time with all manner of side effects and a real blow to my mental health at the turn of last year. Being a one man band, Self Employed, Sole Trader I was cunningly positioned to avoid any of the various help schemes offered. As I was able to very slowly return to work in a limited fashion priority had to be given to business recovery, filling orders and making the retail stock.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I<\/strong><\/span>t has taken ages to get to the point where I have the combination of the time, ability and desire to build models and if my heart isn’t in it the results won’t be what I want to achieve.<\/p>\n

A<\/strong><\/span>nyway, enough of that. We left the saga with the tanks having their livery and lining applied by decal and I am really pleased with the way that they came out. The front tank has had the trough style water filler added as a 3D print.<\/p>\n

T<\/strong><\/span>here are decals for parts of the cab but the boiler is going to need painting but what colour?<\/p>\n

F<\/span><\/strong>or a start I am not a fan of the \u201cit must be the right colour because the label on the bottle says it’s #138 red\u201d idea. Believe me, paint colours don\u2019t always work when scaled. I have a Blanche model painted with paint from the same tin that painted the real one and its doesn\u2019t look right because the volume of it isn\u2019t the same and therefore the way it reacts with the light is different.<\/p>\n

T<\/span><\/strong>here is colour matching to do that starts and continues…..<\/p>\n