A4s in Silver-Grey and Apple Green (digital re-liveries)

For those of you interested in my digital re-liveries, here are two further renditions of the Gresley A4 in silver-grey (No 2509 Silver Link) and apple green (No 4486 Merlin)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6211007452/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6208059163/in/photostream/

Explore all my railway liveries at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/collections/72157626362153038/

Thanks for your interest

 

I do think an A4 in apple green looks rather attractive

 

IMHO the "silver" livery applied to the first four A4s was simply the best livery to ever have been applied to a steam loco.

 

I'm a little confused, some colour pics I see of Silver Link are a glossy silver, but I also have seen photos with a white and grey livery. Is this related to how the photo was take or an actual historical difference?

From what I read, there were two variations on the apple green livery. Originally the smokeboxes were painted black, but later on they were painted partly green, similar to the later liveries.

 

The colour variation of the "silver" will be due largely to the variations of the colour film at the time.

 

This one from the same site is cheeky..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6208259473/in/photostream/

 

Funnily I always imagined that if BR had maintained steam into the 70s and 80s as originally envisaged, they would have painted them black, with the double arrow on the tender/tank side, with perhaps yellow buffer-beams. I always thought that the most likely.

 

I'd love to know how Garry does this, and how long each picture takes to produce?

 

Thanks to everyone for your interest. All my work is prepared in Photoshop. Much of it could have been done in a more basic package but it would have taken longer. Some of my Photoshop-specific techniques can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/sets/72157626293140254/

How long it takes depends on what I'm starting with, what I want to produce and what compromises I'm willing to accept. The first version of an image can take anywhere between 30 minutes and several hours; subsequent versions can usually be completed in a fraction of the time. To make the initial investment in time worthwhile, I usually aim for about four livery variations from each image. Compromises include things like simplifying lining on steam locomotives, whilst retaining the ability to upgrade the image later.

I'd like to expand my railway collection but am very short on suitable base images and would be very pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help. There are some technical specifications in the techniques collection above (under 'guidance for contributors') but they're not set in stone - simply send me an email in the first instance (garryluck@yahoo.com).

 

Thanks Garry, fascinating stuff. Love your work, keep 'em coming!

 

Nice picture but I'm afraid the air brake pipes and steam heat connection on the front are a dead give-away that actually that is a picture of 60007 / 4498! You might like to send to the editor of the SNGLPT magazine chime@sirnigelgresley.org.uk…

 

It's only a 'dead give-away' IF the author was trying to pass the images off as the real thing - which he clearly wasn't.