---
type: Article
title: Ruston Hornsby painted
description: On the way to completion of the Ruston Hornsby project.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2006-10-01-ruston-hornsby-painted/
tags: [Shorticles, Modelling]
timestamp: 2006-10-01
---

I spent some time over the weekend getting my old SimAir compressor out of storage, been meaning to do this for quite a while, and rescuing my airbrushes from the loft. I spilt a little oil from the compressor and it absolutley reeked and I got told off. Having tested everythingto make sure it was OK I mixed up some acrylics to the shade of green I wanted for the Ruston and thinned it with cellulose thinners, dropped it into the airbrush with a pipette and spent the next hour spraying and masking out. It was great fun. 

A bit of hand brushing for details and the intial wethering on the loco was followed by painting the driver. I covered the lot in clear acrylic spray varnish which is hard enough to prevent the knocks chipping the paint but it is glossy so I need to run a quick matt varnish over it but I will probably wait until I have finished the weathering.

[I will get a photo up soon](/short-articles/2006-10-02-ruston-hornsby-painted-photo/). The engine will be on Loxley Barton this weekend at the Croydon MRC show.

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