Part 4 - Painting

The last part covers the work with painting and decalling.

Part 1 - Preparations 2002-12-05

Part 2 - Resizing the chassis 2003-01-03

Part 3 - Restart with new technique 2005-11-06

Part 4 - Painting 2005-12-01

Gallery - Photos of model and prototypes.

The unpainted bodies in the paint box

November 2005		Metal sidings - a new challenge
		The wagon sides of the Regina train has a polished metal finish, unlike all other models I have built. The trains usually is covered witj "normal" paint. To keep the original metal finish from the NS etched sheet I used this clear varnish made for bare metal. Typically used for car restauration. The finished was applied all over the model and even used as primer for the areas that later should be covered with paint.
Eastwood - Diamond Clear

Prototype for this single model
The Regina trains are operating all over Sweden in liveries from many local operators. The choice for the first model was easy. For this actual period, 2002-2005 "Tågkompaniet" operates the trains for "Tåg i Bergslagen" in this Region, north of lake Mälaren.		The model train will be painted as X51 nr 3255. It is named Sura-Pelle" after a local hockey legend from the sixties.


The trains has a turning point at Västerås station area, just a couple of hundred meters from my office. So several lunch hours were spent by photographing the different trains to get all details for the upcoming painting sessions. The red colors of the lining were mixed out of the following Humbrol colors: Red 19, Orange 18, brownish 9 and white 22.

	The painted bodies

Decals
The logos from "Tågkompaniet" and "Tåg i Bergslagen" was found on their homepages where they presented their graphical profiles with downloadable files in different formats. Based on the logos and the photos, I produced a drawing for a decal sheet. The drawing was made in Corel Draw an sent to a firm in Germany for printing on a Micro Dry printer.
	Above the complete decal sheet. To the left some details, logos and the doors The doors became much better as decals than when I tried to paint the tiny details.


	The model with all decals set.

Windows

	The windows and the thin etched wiper.
The windows are made of overhead foils that was tinted brown/black with a couple of thin layers with an airbrush. The side windows tinted with humbrol black and the front window with Tamiya X-19 smoke