Paint details for Conflats

This forum is for the discussion of the locomotives, motive power, and rolling stock of the LNER and its constituent companies.

Moderators: 52D, Tom F, Rlangham, Atlantic 3279, Blink Bonny, Saint Johnstoun, richard

Post Reply
drmditch

Paint details for Conflats

Post by drmditch »

I'm just in the final stages of building a Conflat V, to Dia 81.
There is a picture 'in-the-plastic' ....here.... .

Obviously, this will be a bauxite vehicle, but does anyone know what colours the decking and the location bars would have been painted?
(And whether they would have been distinguishable after a few years?)

Also, does anyone know of a picture with a Dia 81 with the wording 'CONFLAT V' ?
All the pictures in Tatlow for this vehicle have them labelled 'CONTAINER FLAT'.
jwealleans
LNER A4 4-6-2 'Streak'
Posts: 4208
Joined: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:46 am

Re: Paint details for Conflats

Post by jwealleans »

I don't know of any beside what's in Tatlow. I wonder whether the branding changed when they were rebuilt to D 108?
65447
LNER A4 4-6-2 'Streak'
Posts: 1743
Joined: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:44 pm
Location: Overlooking the GEML

Re: Paint details for Conflats

Post by 65447 »

I have one but, even cropped, it's too large to upload. Now that Microsoft has got rid of Paint it's not easy to resize it. I also have another looking down on the deck. If you PM me your e-mail address I'll send them to you.

Timber decking was left natural colour; brackets etc. were body colour as far as I can tell but the body colour is rather dark in the first image, verging on black?
John Palmer
GNSR D40 4-4-0
Posts: 249
Joined: Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:27 pm
Location: Somerset

Re: Paint details for Conflats

Post by John Palmer »

65447 wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:06 amNow that Microsoft has got rid of Paint it's not easy to resize it.
Have you tried Paint.net from http://www.getpaint.net/index.html? I find it perfectly satisfactory for such resizing and other image manipulation operations, so if you haven't already done so it may be worth taking a look.
User avatar
Cutter
LNER Thompson L1 2-6-4T
Posts: 76
Joined: Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:39 pm
Location: Massachusetts

Re: Paint details for Conflats

Post by Cutter »

Red tones in early black and white photos often come out very dark due to the way the colors were captured by the chemicals used.
JASd17
LNER A3 4-6-2
Posts: 1316
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:21 pm

Re: Paint details for Conflats

Post by JASd17 »

The decking will be natural wood, untreated. Any metal work will be body colour. As already suggested.

Thanks to your efforts drmditch, I now have 2 A-type containers for a couple of projects. Thanks to Atlantic3279 and Jonathan.

I am working on the steel container roof question. I have an idea of how this was, but no proof, yet. Certainly everything was built up from standard components.
John
Post Reply