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4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:05 pm
by 60800
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:26 pm
by 2002EarlMarischal
Nice shots - thanks for sharing!
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:43 pm
by 60800
No problem
That's probably it for railway ventures this year, but I have a few things planned for next year to get some really special photos of certain locos.
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:09 am
by mick b
Excellent !!
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:07 pm
by S.A.C. Martin
Nice shot of the open cod's mouth. Heritage Painting did a magnificent job on Mallard: the garter blue is so much better than it was before.
Thanks for sharing Blackout. Nice work.
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:27 pm
by giner
How do you mean there, Simon, is this a slightly different shade of Garter Blue? Not sure how that can be, though. I'm presuming that the colour must have been taken from a single verified source at some point, and would think that that would be THE shade for evermore. In these days of digital colour matching there can't be any excuse for variance. Or can there, what do I know?
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:02 am
by S.A.C. Martin
giner wrote:How do you mean there, Simon, is this a slightly different shade of Garter Blue?
It is indeed a very different shade of blue to that carried before.
Not sure how that can be, though. I'm presuming that the colour must have been taken from a single verified source at some point, and would think that that would be THE shade for evermore. In these days of digital colour matching there can't be any excuse for variance. Or can there, what do I know?
Actually the paint when originally applied in its 80s repaint was described as "too dark" by contemporary sources. It hadn't helped that said paintwork had darkened with age.
The new coat applied is much closer to the original shade, I am told, and to be frank I believe it - the previous blue had a flatness to it, whereas there's a real depth of colour with the new paintwork.
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:33 am
by giner
Thanks, Simon. I hope she's still in this colour when i get over next summer, then.
Re: 4468's new coat - York 9/12/12
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:13 am
by S.A.C. Martin
giner wrote:Thanks, Simon. I hope she's still in this colour when i get over next summer, then.
Oh, she will be. Heritage Painting have done a terrific job: it'll last decades I would have thought, before the next "refreshment".