
Here’s a tip: don’t plan to spray things outside without checking the weather, and especially wind direction, first. Still, it was a learning experience and fortunately I was wearing a grey top anyway.
Now the fun can start. The vans will be different along variations of the styles seen in the mock up. I’m having second thoughts about the “photo” finish: it may be a bit too garish although I remain hopeful I can reduce that with sufficient weathering.
The wood wagons will go through a more complex process than the vans because they would get a proper beating in life, so they’ll get a base coat of brown to represent “rust” and then successive layers of matt varnish, hair spray and finally the top colour; and as one of the wagons is supposed to be “refurbished” it will probably be green instead of the usual dark grey.
This should give the impression the Körschtalbahn has a maintenance programme. Or at least had a maintenance programme at some point in its history…