The Flying Scotsman

[Grandad]

Great pictures BK And how lucky that those three were all at York for your visit. I can't remember the quantities but a couple of weeks ago they published in The Mail how much paint and white spirit was used to get the Scotsman back to her formal livery. Many many gallons....but she is looking beautiful. Thanks again. I am hoping that one day she will find her way down to Kent.

[Horus]

Great stuff BK I always pay a visit when in the area and as you say its free so even better. You should also have seen another Pacific A4 class loco called 'Sir Nigel Gresley' usually in blue livery and named after the designer of the famouse Mallard Sir Nigel himself who also served his apprenticeship in the same place that I did

[LovelyLadyLux]

Cool photos BK! The trains definitely look more than pristine

@Grandad - what is white spirit? Undercoat? Polish?

[Horus]

LLL, white spirit is a paint thinners used in enamel gloss paints, similar to the old 'Turpentine' that decorators used and stunk to high heaven.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Okkkk - turpentine - yeah that smelly stuff. Ok got it - paint thinner.

[Kiya]

Okkkk - turpentine - yeah that smelly stuff. Ok got it - paint thinner.

Its also used to clean brushes after work with gloss paint

[Horus]

Many years ago my father would use Turpentine when painting, incidentally it is made from a plant (a bush), but it would smell the house out and it was expensive to manufacture. Later a product called 'Turpentine Substitute' came along which was cheaper and did not smell quite so strongly, it was also a manufactured product and not a vegetable derivative. This evolved into the 'White Spirit' we use today as a paint thinners and also as Kiya pointed out to clean brushes after using gloss paints, although nowadays many gloss paints are water soluble so just rinse out with clean water.

[Kiya]

I hated washing brushes after steeping in Turps it stank like hell

[Ruby Slippers]

Not to be confused with 'surgical spirit' LLL! I think you would know this better as 'alcohol rub'.