The colour rendering in the attached image, taken in evening light boosted by halogen kitchen lighting, is disappointing, but I'm actually quite pleased with the real result of the the first coat of my teak-tinted satin varnish on the carriage body. It isn't all the way there yet, but I'm fairly optimistic that a second coat will produce a very near match to the "teak" on the older, completed Barnum model in the top of the view. The hue of the brown seems to be heading the right way.
I've also done more to the interior, guided by notes in Dow's "Great Central" Vol3. The partitions, the table tops and the seat ends/frames are now in a shade that is an attempt to suggest varnished mahogany, mostly a mixture of Humbrol gloss 10 dark brown and Humbrol gloss 20 dark red, with a lesser amount of Precision teak added too (more so for the table tops). All rather vague ratios and most un-scientific...
The (winter?) seat upholstery is a sort of dusky/dusty pink, or brownish pink, created with an initial 2:1 mixture of Humbrol 153 (some sort of red) and Humbrol 187 'dark stone', with small additions of gloss 20 dark red and very little black. The final colour is not massively different from the Halfords red primer coat, just a bit less red. I had originally tried dry stippling a buff, beige or stone colour over the red primer to suggest some sort of floral pattern in a generally dull red-brown overall tone, like many an old-fashioned settee, but that promised to take ages and initial results did not impress me, so I thought I'd just mix the colours together. I doubt that it will show much in darker interior of the fully assembled coach anyway.
Dow also mentioned possible alternative Rattan seats for summer in the Barnums. The seats in my older Barnums are that sort of beige colour, and the table tops teak brown which I now think may be wrong. I'll have to decide later whether I can be bothered to darken the table tops, even if I leave the seats alone.
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