Examples of GSWR / GSR / CIE paint for locomotives

[jhb171achill]

Good evening all

I have had a lengthy phone call tonight with Roderick of the excellent 00 Works, who as most will know is planning a launch of a RTR J15.

After several previous conversations over the livery, I took some more photos of my grandfather's model, ninety years old at the moment. This was a coarse-scale 00 gauge model, but the photos are to show the grey paint which is original. Before photographing it in daylight, I took the precaution of checking that the paint hadn't faded or become discoloured as old paint can. The test proved positive, as they say, by filing away gently at a small section on the tender.

So - this is what the GSWR replaced their lined black with, starting around 1915-8, and which the GSR and CIE continued with unaltered until the end of steam. I'm posting this for general interest as well as for Roderick's information - I can confirm that he has gone the IRM-style extraordinary lengths to ensure accuracy in all areas, a difficult thing with a long-lived cl;ass with so many examples - so these locos will be eagerly awaited.

I'm sure I don't need to add that like any new model, it will come as it would have looked "out of the paint shop"; buyers can weather down - as the prototype would have had - to whatever extent preferred. The grey was known to darken in time, usually as a result of a combination of rare cleaning, big intervals between repaints, dirt and oily rags used for cleaning.

Exact matching with colour card size will follow. It is - rightly - OO Works' intention to get this historically important (if dull!) livery properly right.

The pictures follow earlier postings of mine, of the same engine in different light, including artificial.

Edited June 20, 2018 by jhb171achill

[popeye]

That colour looks just right.

I ordered a black J15 but i have changed this to the grey and i will then cover it in dirt with very very little grey showing through.

[murrayec]

Hi JHB

I love that little loco, it's simplicity is its quality

Eoin

Edited June 20, 2018 by murrayec

[GSR 800]

11 minutes ago, murrayec said:

Hi JHB

I love that little loco, it's simplicity is its quality

Eopin

Agreed.

Many would overlook such a loco, but her importance for modelling Irish steam cannot be understated.

[jhb171achill]

He also made two stationary steam engines, and started on a locomotive (only boiler & cylinders); the standard of workmanship on the latter was exceptional, and he parts moved very smoothly. He was an excellent wood-caver and turner too. 

He built a model also of a GSWR convertible ("soft-top") goods van, to a scale of about an inch and a quarter to the foot. It remains in actual GSWR paint.

Apart from the above model (which he made as a toy for my father about 1920-ish), I don't have any of the other stuff, which a relative has. So at least it survives!

It would be my hope that some day it can all be displayed alongside Maedb in Cultra.

Edited June 20, 2018 by jhb171achill