Sunday 23 December 2012

56-Up... branching out into loco livery design

Back in the summer... or may have been earlier, its hard to recall, a railway mag ran a competition on behalf of a new railfreight company to design a livery for their newly-purchased class 56 locos.  Me and Amy thought we'd have a go, and so set to work...

Mine first, and relatively traditional- it played with the Union Flag motif- well, 2012 was Jubilee year, so it seemed to make sense.  It used the design of the Britannia Railways logo from the model village project, and I tried a variety of shades, settling on one quite light and colourful...



Amy went down a different route, deciding to go for the modern vinyl-type livery application, where any picture or photo could be used, and thought of having a nice eyecatching pic, in her case, going for shots from her 'Light Trails' project.



Naturally the competition ended and a far more conventional livery was chosen, but it was fun to try anyway.  I had thought about producing a model to see what the design was like in the real world, but found it far easier to have a bit of a meddle around with photoshop and mod a couple of pics I took of a Class 56 visiting the KWVR back in summer 2011.



Ben
Finally broken up from work for Christmas
In Yorkshire

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