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GWR Clerestory Coaches - Custom Detailed and Lined Hornby Models

Just before the pandemic arrived, I had begun a very long and time consuming project to detail my Hornby Great Western "clerestory" coaches. Hornby's models look nice, but have a very simplified two-tone color scheme which I sought to improve. These coaches have been made for decades, and have been modestly priced. Surely producing them in a more complex lined livery would only add to cost, and this factor coupled with the printing technology at the time these were releases, I can understand why Hornby perhaps never pursued higher detail on these models. Sifting through images of preserved GWR rolling stock and descriptions of liveries, I noticed many of the period coaches had "Indian red" window frames, and the panels were picked out either the brown of the lower coach body, or in black. Armed with a handful of photographs, some fine brushes, and my enamel paints, I went to work. Each coach side was done in stages: red windows, black lining and running boards, brass hardware. I would estimate each side took me about 3 hours to do completely freehand using a very fine brush. This makes about 6 hours per coach, about 30 total for the set of five, in just painting time alone. I also addressed the coach interiors to a degree. There are not (that I have found) available interiors for these model of coaches. As they are compartment coaches, and because the seat benches would not be visible from outside, I used some adhesive back red velvet sheets to create the compartment partitions. These are not very visible from outside the coach without direct light either, but the biggest thing they do is create the expected "shadows" inside the coach, letting the eye know there are partitions, and that the inside is not one large empty space. I also detailed the clerestory roof segments to look a little more prototypical, and blocked up the open "slits" in the clerestory for an appearance of opaque glass. Finally, I detailed the brake coach with a Modelu lamp and link coupling, and installed new metal wheelsets on all the coaches. Like with the GNR clerestory coaches I did up last year, this made an incredible improvement in the rolling performance of the coaches, and brought the center of gravity nice and low down. I'm overall pleased in how these turned out; it was a great project and a major upgrade.