Pics of repainted trains

[Anonymous]

Hope this works I tried shutterfly, now how do I use img. Thanks

[csxt30]

Nice pictures injuneer !!  Img is a little more drawn out. You would click on your picture in Shutterfly, making it large, then right click on properties. Highlight the URL in the properties & copy that. Then go to the forum & inside of these 2 brackets,[ ], put img. Now this is at the very beginning. Then paste your URL after that last bracket, ], then at the end of the URL you pasted, put a left bracket, [, then a diagonal, /, with img right after it, & then another right hand bracket after the img, ] . If I try to put it on here, it will try to link up so that's why I wrote it all out. I hope I explained it right, if not maybe someone else can correct me. The Copy paste method works for me now, so I don't use the img much.

Thanks, John    

[Anonymous]

The image code looks like this;

[img*]www.whatever[/img*]

just take out the *'s, I have to put them in there otherwise the code won't show up.

 BTW, those cars look great!  What decals did you use?  Brand, method etc.

[wrmcclellan]

Nice job injuneer!

[Anonymous]

I made the decals using a kit I got at Wal-mart. Testers puts it out, it comes with a small amount of paper, a mini CD and some spray to put over the paper after it's printed. There are some stock graphics on the CD but I just used a basic word program to do my lettering and you can paste any picture on you want. After applying the decals I sprayed the whole car with Testers dull coat.  On the locos I put the kids names where the numbers used to be on the cab and then made up a railroad name for the tender. I also used some narrow pin stripping tape to go around that. Had a lot of fun and the kids love it. They make a coating to go over decals that is supposed to make them go over ridges better but when I saw the price at the hobbie shop I shied away from that.

Jim

[jwse30]

That dragon boxcar is really neat. Good choice of colors and a neat idea for a load for it. I'm surprized it hasn't been done before by the manufacturers (perhaps it has?)

All the paint jobs look very nice, and it sounds like the opinions that matter most are positive.

 

Thanks for sharing,

 

J White

 

[Anonymous]

Jim -   

GREAT pics!!  Would love to see more of your layout.   The water feature is amazing!

Lisa

[laz 57]

NICE JOB INJUNEER, looks good.

laz57

[underworld]

Cool work! Nice to know that there is a place close by to get decal making supplies.

underworld

[Brutus]

Great work and I love the fantasy/sci-fi stuff, thanks for sharing!

[RR Redneck]

Intresting paint jobs.

[brianel027]

Injuneer, nice work. Those little DC powered steamers (though you could have the ones with the reverse unit in the tender) are pretty neat and have plenty of simple cast in detail which can be highlighted by painting - as you have done. I've also painted the visor above the cab window, added additional grab rails and handrails made out of brass, and added marker lights and a working headlight to mine. I've tried to add a smoke unit but haven't had any luck with making that work the way I want it to. I did have a Seuthe unit in one for about a year before it just burned out. I've had super duper luck with the Bachmann Smoke Units in buildings... many are now 5 years old. But getting the smoke to rise from the steam loco smoke stack is hard with these units. On one unit I made a larger metal smoke stack and placed the smoke unit up higher, but the smoke still went right along the top of the locomotive shell when moving.

Another tip for you... when you pull the loco apart you will notice there is plenty of space in the sheet metal frame housing where the motor and drive wheels are. I've packed this space full of lead automotive self-sticking tire weights, and these little locos become tremendous pullers. After adding the weight, they certainly pull better than any single motored diesel I have.

Another idea: I've taken these cheapie tank car bodies and contructed a totally new frame out of basswood and brass tubing that mimics the frame of a modern tank car. It's kind of cool and gives you the impression of having some modern looking trains that still look good on smaller layouts.

On cars where I've left the existing frame on the car, I make a basswood riser to raise the height a little bit of the tank shell - makes the tank car look bigger. And I use plastic black window screen material glued down to the wood and metal frame to mimic a treadplate surface, which also looks pretty cool.

[Jumijo]

Awesome repaints! I love this stuff!!

Jim