How To Restore The Popular Hornby OO Gauge 4 Wheel Coaches - Tutorial Tuesday Episode 25 

Great job, just shows what can be achieved with a small budget and a little effort!

Thank you for another great video, I always look forward to these.

Great work guys. Loco and coaches look fab.

Great job!! A beautiful set!!! Cheers, Onno.

Nice work gents, love the 4 wheel coaches, just right for our 6 x4 layout. Thanks for the ideas and sharing.

Brilliant job.

A great restoration! I used the same black spray on my dapol pug kit ☺️

Hi there, very interesting 4 wheelers🎉

Thank you for your amazing videos. I'm starting a layout and I get many ideas from you. I'm particularly pleased that you don't care about the reality of what trains run along other trains. It gives me incentive to do what I want to do.

Hi great to see people out there not sticking to any regimented rules with there trains and stock. Great to see thank you.

I have four 4-wheel coaches in different liveries one in LNER teak, one in MR Crimson, one in CR White and maroon and one in GWR chocolate and cream. (You'll see these make an appearance in some of my videos when I get round to making them)

I use an inexpensive pair of neoprene gloves from the hardware store when spray painting.

Years late!! But a pro tip for spray painting, hook a wire thru the part, and dangle it , rotate it in front of the can. Working on the lid of a wheelie outside is more convenient than in the long grass.

Nice informative video. Thanks

Great video as always.Anybody can go out and spend a fortune on new Loco's and Rolling Stock,but you get more enjoyment out of repairing and making older things work again.Keep up the great work.

ive been looking for a video like this about this coach for a long time! Thanks! P.S. A good way to fill in the coach paneling so it looks really professional is to water down the paint just a little bit, and work it into the corners with a very small brush

Great video once again mate. I like the way you refurbished those coaches to look like new and I mean what I say here. I have a couple of tips to share when painting models. I use a pack of those peg clamps that are available in poundland as that will hold the part firmly in place when you paint as the force of the spraypaint will knock the part over. When painting the lining on the carriages. Just use a wee bit of trimmed masking tape to make a smooth edge if you are fussy about accuracy. Personally I am happy with the finish as long as it looks right to me as I am not a professional modeller and I learn via trial and error :). Keep up the great videos mate All the best Ash.

I would have used spray paint for all but the details, but I can't argue with your budget and results. Looks great!

If you spray the coach an orange colour with small, light patches of orange brown and yellow-orange, followed by thinned down brown artists oil paint you can get a really stunning teak effect.

Paint pens are available in various colors, including metallic. They often simplify the handwork in this kind of project. Pleasing outcome with those three items.

Certainly very thought provoking give some of the lunatic prices I’ve seen. Though I fell under the siren spell of Hornby’s industrial Peckett saddle tanks, I bought two!

I have an LMS four wheeler which I bought rather cheaply a number of years ago and somehow has had the lining misprinted by a couple of mm on one side. So this video has given me a few ideas to fix this poor old coach.

Great tutorial.. I would like to have seen the train one too. Hope to pick that up sometime.

Hi Mike & Douglas, really great job on two very tatty looking coaches, and a great job on the loco well done, keep up the great work you are doing. Regards George...

As an alternative to a fine brush when you paint details like the gold-stripes, you can take a toothpick or something like that and chewing one end a little bit flexible and use it instead of a brush. Its way better for details.

I want to fine me some cheap priced hornby Annie and clarabel coaches or maybe some normal hornby coaches so my upgraded bachmann thomas can have some coaches, and while yes bachmann has Annie and clarabel all ready I just prefer the realistic look of the hornby ones but hopefully I can find some like you did but in slightly better condition but anyways nice video, also 10 cents for two of em (5 + 5 = 10 so it's 10 all together) is a brilliant absolutely amazing price that is just unbeatable! If only I could get those for 10 cents 🤣

They look great, let's face it in real life carriages have multiple levels of paint, great job

Excellent work, and a good result. I've gotta couple of those knocking around in need of a spruce up, (well they are blue and don't really fit my GWR collection), but you've inspired me to have a go at absorbing them into Gods Wonderful Railway. Whats more I've always been a bit disapointed that Hornby didn't do a brake version. I have a spare Ratio brake 4 wheeler built from a kit, but as its got a longer wheelbase that the hornby ones its just don't look right. But I wonder if I can make one into a brake third by filling in some windows in one end of the coach and making few other minor detail alterations. Also I am gonna try dry brushing the lining over the raised moulding after a bit of a mild black wash to see how that works. It may take me a while to get around to it as life is busy at the mo, but I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks again for the informative, instructional and inspirational vids. Jon PS - Doug. You should 'go goth' , then black finger nails will be a fashion statement and not a problem ;)

well done,this saves having to pay high prices for rolling stock.the 0-4-0 locos are good.i have an lswr engine that shunts.bought for under 17 pounds.

When I do any spray painting I always wear desposable rubber surgical gloves, just saves having to wash me hand later.

I was given 9 of these in GWR livery. I cleaned and left 3 in this livery, another 3 were painted in LMS crimson and the final 3 have just been painted in SR green. I have 0-4-0 locos for the GWR and LMS carriages but still need a suitable loco for the SR coaches. I discovered the problem with grease et al when painting the LMS ones. But like you I'm pleased with the result, although I haven't added any lining, etc. They should add some extra alternatives for running once the small layout is complete. This fits in with my mantra of NOT buying new - just too expensive!

Another great vid. Thanks. Have you tried removing the paint from your nails with acetone (nail polish remover). By the way: I meant that seriously this time

if painting lighter colours, such as on the detailing use a light primer , then paint the inset detail before you apply the brown top coat you will get a far better finish and as long as your very careful with the brush following the moulded lines ( use a fine brush so you don't get paint inside the line, then if your really ambitious you can pick out further detail in what ever colour you want and if your budget can stretch to it give the coach body a clear coat varnish and you have a suitable font programme, that you can print onto self adhesive clear plastic and a craft knife you can make up numbers and even a crest/ company name to finish it off before giving it the final coat ,

I've always wondered why hornby never made a brake coach for these. Great video

Would reccomend thinning the paint with a small amount of water, you'll get a much smoother finish in 2 thin coats. (unfortunatley the humbrol acrylics aren't great anyway, i'd reccomend vallejo, games workshop or army painter in a pinch)

Try nail varnish remover to get rid of the paint. I was also going to suggest gloves :)

I've got two of each of these carriages, they won't have faces on once I need them 👍🏻

I have the Annie and clarabel from the Thomas line . And I am gunna do something with them

This was a version helpful video. I recently bought a Hornby thomas locomotive, and I am very pleased with it. Along with a Bachmann thomas express coach, I found earlier this year. Though the two of the buffers are missing, do you have any advice on how to replace those. The couplings are there, but missing a buffer on each end is a nuisance. Thank you again, for a great channel.

you can attach the parts for painting to a stick using a blob of blu tack

its quite a funny coincidence that i stumbled onto this video while waiting for a OO scale coach that I was custom painting to dry

I tell you what IS a good safe for skin liquid that will pretty much tear off most paints off models. Dettol Anti-septic liquid. Just leave the body submerged in the liquid for a few hours and it takes the paint clean off, that being said you may have to wash some remnants off with a toothbrush and some fairy liquid. Just be mindful of various plastics that go into it for certain amounts of time over a day..>!

incredible....Were there faces on the end of those coaches..Ie Annie and Clarabel ?? If so how did you disguise them please...Great Job...Cheers..Ade

Use Citadel Chaos Black Primer £8 a can but dries in a matter of seconds and gives a nice matte finish

Another great and very interesting video. I have a couple of 4 wheel coaches in reasonable condition that I picked up for £10.00 I thought I was doing well with those but £0.50 each!!!!!! wow!!!!

I always paint stuff by hand and with a good ole' fashioned brush. If you are gonna spray paint stuff, wear gloves when doing that.

Try gloves next time 😂 but great video - well done and thank you

How about painting those coaches into Pre-Grouping liveries? You could also make some of them into luggage and brake coaches, too.

What paint do you use

Poor Annie and Clarabel. x(

get a cheap pair of gloves for spraying and do light coats like you said

I’ve still got that Lima AC Class 87 if you want it.

For those who are looking through the comments, I recommend buying yourself some vinyl gloves if you'll be spraying or airbrushing your models quite often.

Is the livery salmon and brown.

gwr livery reversed.