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A few years ago, I purchased the Playmobil radio controlled bright red diesel/electric loco.

and For the last two years I have been deciding what livery to paint it into, the main two was GNER and National Express East Anglia.

The loco can be seen here last winter, after i painted on the yellow warning panels

NXEA by a long way, GNER never worked for me...

Then in August this year I remembered that Hornby/Humbrol had re-released the Authentic Railway Colours range...

So I decided to paint the loco into BR Diesel blue.

I made a start this week, and half the loco and cab ends have been painted, since the pic was taken I have given it another 2 coats... will take some pics of it outside on Sunday


Once the other side of the loco is done, i will need to purchase some gauge one Fox tranfers of the white BR double arrow logo...

Great stuff, better then either of the the other choices although I would have preffered GNER to NXEA, it was one of the few privertisation TOC's that got it right, even if only briefly

Wow that's looking cool! Perhaps cut out some big holes on the sides and fill in with mesh to look like radiators etc...?
Oh, and 2 smoke generators pointing diagonally out the top...

mhlr wrote:Wow that's looking cool!

My thoughts exactly

mhlr wrote:Perhaps cut out some big holes on the sides and fill in with mesh to look like radiators etc

We should do something on loco-improvement

<tongue in cheek>
If you're putting mesh in the radiators and smoke units in, why not go the whole hog and fit a Deltic sound unit??
</tongue in cheek>

Methinks it is going to look excellent.

haha, im basing it on a class 90 (so ok they didnt wear BR diesel blue livery....) so no smoke units

ive done other playmo loco repaints....

"Lilly" for example:

this diesel

Before:

and after

this steamer i turned into a tram:

b4

i have one of them in my loft

and after...


not sure weather to keep the side skirts on it tho?

get rid look better with out

this cattle van was originally bright green

the wagon on the right was bright blue... the wagon on the left i just aded wasp strips, got 2 other wagons like them they help make up the modern maintenance train for my two Piko 218 diseasls

I have got a third wagon like those which i have kept blue, weathered and it lives outside permantly....

(the track is laid on railway sleepers from Bure Valley Railway)