{"id":5664,"date":"2022-08-07T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T09:28:23","slug":"gladiator-j6-loco-chassis-painted-without-gumming-up-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5664","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 &#8211; Loco chassis painted, without gumming up the works&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wind dropped enough for a couple of short bursts of painting outside. This enabled me to get the chassis primed and then top coated.<br>I also did all the other little bits that I missed when doing the body and tender, fall plate, doors etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5665\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1-768x416.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1-500x271.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0005-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Brakes and other bits got a coat of paint too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2-1024x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2-1024x302.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2-300x89.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2-768x227.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2-500x148.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0001-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Loco Chassis Painted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before risking gumming up the motion I asked Warren Haywood and Tony Geary how they painted&nbsp;inside motion. Tony hand paints his and Warren sprays it. Warren did suggest that since the brief for this is weathered black rather than red to metal black it.&nbsp;Thinking this a good idea I had a go. I gave the chassis a liberal dose of acetone to hopefully remove all the oil then a liberal dose of Birchwood Casey Brass&nbsp;black. It kind of worked, the motion itself looked fine but the insides of the frames and motion plates etc. were quite patchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end I bit the bullet and lightly sprayed it with black etch primer. Thankfully it all still moves as it should but I did mask it before putting the final coat of the rest of the frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1-1024x650.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1-768x487.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1-473x300.jpg 473w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0004-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The motion still moves after a coat of paint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind dropped enough for a couple of short bursts of painting outside. This enabled me to get the chassis primed and then top coated.I also did all the other little bits that I missed when doing the body and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladiator-lner-br-j6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}