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Get the paints out ' Rule #1

There are quite a few photos online that appear to have been taken in the 60's showing yellow axle boxes.

I added them to several of my locos.

Having had "Britannia haul us on our "posh day out" she certainly has the yellow axle boxes now:



I found this thread on a preservation forum with the first pic in black and white, with Britannia looking very new, and it look like maybe she has them, but subsequent pics with her being dirty its hard to say: https://www.national-preservation.com/t ... s.1024309/

certainly a case for rule 1 depending on your preference

I did try painting the axel box covers - and the red line, but was not happy with the final result, so managed to wipe it all off. I used enamel paint, whereas I might have been better off with acrylic. I will have another go. The red line was easy to apply using a fine tipped red marker pen.

A quick update on the point wiring/control panel. The actual set-up is fairly straightforward ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x83OdB_ENE&t=8s ), but I have been using DCC Concepts triple wire (red,black and green), which in the demo video looks ideal, but it is not a "soft" wire, so tends to put a strain on all connections - I am thinking of re-doing some of it using conventional wire - using the triple wire is a lot tidier - slow progress .

Looks amazing, particularly the axel boxes.