discussion My first commissioned build Dapol 440 City class City of Truro.

[peterairfix]

Just finished my first commissioned build and I am pleased with the build.
Done in between main builds.
Pics taken with flash on and off.

 

[scottie3158]

Nicely done.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Nice build of a famous loco, first train timed at 100mph in May 1904....

 

[spanner570]

Tidy build Pete. Nice one.... :thumb2:

 

[Jim R]

Hi Pete
Very nice. The recipient will be pleased with that.
Jim

 

[SimonT]

Evening Peter,

If someone is paying you to do this you may wish to consider the following:

painting the tops of all the springs black on the side of the chassis rails

It also seems devoid of orange coach lines

The front buffers look to be taking a bit of a nosedive but that could just be the angle of the photo

 

[peterairfix]

If someone is paying you to do this you may wish to consider the following:

The person I am doing this for did not want a top quality build as it's going to be on a club layout out the a sort of crowd filler as he has all of my loco builds so I know that he will be happy.

 

[skinflint]

Peter, what make and colour number is the copper paint which you have used for the chimney and steam dome? It looks a very realistic shade and I would like to buy a pot for my future builds.
Thanks, Tony

 

[peterairfix]

I did try ammo mig 199 copper but as I was brushing I found it a bit to watery so I used tamiya xf-6 copper which was better.

 

[skinflint]

Thanks Peter, Tamiya brand are good.

Nice locomotive build.

Tony